Reena Kumari

🎨 Artwork © Reena Kumari | ISTA

📸 Superresolution Microscopy Image © Reena Kumari, Isabelle Mayer, Michael Sixt | ISTA

Inspiration often arrives when we least expect it. For ISTA scientist @reenak.bsky.social​, it sparked while she and her colleagues captured actin filaments under the microscope. The result is not only a beautiful art piece but also a glimpse into the cellular architecture that shapes life.

🚨 PhD Position Available 🚨
I’m recruiting a PhD student to join my lab at the Multiscale Imaging Centre (MIC), Münster, Germany.

www.bischofflab.com/jobs

Fully funded ✅
#Cellbio #Morphogenesis #Microscopy
#Drosophila #PhD
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We are very happy to share our latest work exploring the role of newly synthetized integrin-α5 using RUSH. We found that a subset goes to the PM via unconventional secretion! Big thanks to all involved! Read more at doi.org/10.1083/jcb.... @mathildemathieu.bsky.social @martina-lerche.bsky.social

Lerche, Mathieu, @johannaivaska.bsky.social @ivaskalab.bsky.social et al. reveal that newly synthesized #integrins can bypass the Golgi to be actively delivered to specific plasma membrane regions, where they enhance cell protrusion and #adhesion. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

Nice!! Looking forward to see you tomorrow @istaresearch.bsky.social

Interested in cell migration yet bored of the canonical translocation modes? 😴 Don’t worry — we @nordenlab.bsky.social with @aiopticalbiolab.bsky.social have multipolar migration back in stock! No need to follow the other cells: extend long protrusions and roam more freely🪼 in the crowded brain.

- A postdoc to work on cancer extravasation (4-year project).
- A postdoc help in completing Filopodia-related lab projects (2-year).
- Multiple Marie Curie postdoc positions that will open in the fall.
- We will open a 5-year position to cover my teaching (70% research and 30% teaching).

RCF winter call results: funding decisions in biosciences, health and environmental research The Research Council of Finland’s Scientific Council for Biosciences, Health and the Environment has granted funding for 38 Academy Research Fellowships, 12 Clinical Researchers and 76 Academy P...

I'm grateful for the Research Council of Finland for granting me the Academy Research fellowship! After getting over the shock I will soon move back to Finland to start as a group leader at the Institute of Biotechnology @helsinki.fi. Looking for a PhD student soon! www.aka.fi/en/about-us/...

Hot from the press for #CellMigration + #Nucleus aficionados

Karling @helenweavers.bsky.social lab show *in vivo* how immune cell adapt quickly to confined microenvironments during motility.

Live-cell imaging, image analysis, #Drosophila !

Full @emboreports.org
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That’s great! Congratulations, and all the best for the new chapter:)

Mitochondria consist of networks of cylindrical tubes, right? Not necessarily! - in our new preprint, @gavsturm.bsky.social investigates how mitochondria transiently adopt a beads-on-a-string morphology

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Foldscope for farmers: Years of work by Dr. Mooventhan Palanisamy working as a Senior Scientist, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) at Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) at the grassroots level. @TeamFoldscope

microcosmos.foldscope.com/author/2294

Single-molecule orientation-localization microscopy: Applications and approaches | Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics | Cambridge Core Single-molecule orientation-localization microscopy: Applications and approaches - Volume 57

Some microscopy reading 🔬📰 Single-molecule orientation-localization microscopy: Applications and approaches www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#fluorescencefriday #macrophages on nano-ridges stained for actin. Imaged with Zeiss Elyra 7
#actin #cytoskeleton #microscopy #cellbiology

Mix two motors of opposite polarity with microtubules and they will partition space !
Microtubules will get organized in polar and active barriers, sorting the two motors in separated domains, leading to the emergence of a new type of patterns.
#morphogenesis
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Ivaska cell adhesion and cancer Lab Integrins, matrix, motility and mechanotransduction in cancer

Introductory post on 🦋! We're a research group headed by Prof. Johanna Ivaska interested in understanding how integrins contribute to every step of cancer progression. We're located at the Turku Bioscience Center in Turku, Finland! Find out more about us and our interests here: ivaskalab.utu.fi

Extracellular matrix-dependent regulation of Septin 7 in focal adhesions promotes mechanosensing and functional response in fibroblasts Fibroblasts are adherent cells that maintain tissue homeostasis by sensing and responding to the extracellular matrix (ECM). Focal adhesions (FAs) lin…

Extracellular matrix-dependent regulation of Septin 7 in focal adhesions promotes mechanosensing and functional response in fibroblasts
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Front page of our lab website https://peiferlab.web.unc.edu

In the aftermath of last weeks disaster I exited social media for a week. Today I came back here to find to my delight that the reassembly of science twitter has dramatically accelerated. Welcome/hello to the nearly 500 people who followed me in the last 6 days-we can make this a place for science!!