A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her)

This is something that should be in the profile section- I’ve spent so much time refilling those dates every year. 😔

Hey ARC DPers with career interruptions- take a "print screen" of what you enter in your career interruptions boxes- seems like the ARC will never make this info roll over so do your future self a favour if it's a complicated set of dates 😭 (yes I have it saved elsewhere) @arc-tracker.bsky.social

Yay!!!

Screenshot of tweet from the ARC saying they’ll announce DECRA and LIEF outcomes on Tuesday 25th Nov.

ARC says they’ll announce DECRA and LIEF outcomes tomorrow (Tuesday 25th Nov).

In recent times these announcements have been around 11am Canberra time. With 2 schemes on the same day, I assume they’ll announce one of them later in the day (probably DECRA first).

I don’t know how they did it but someone found actual footage of @davidbryantlab.bsky.social and I on the dance for at the 2005 Cell contact and adhesion GRC.

YouTube video by CSHL Leading Strand CSHL Keynote, Dr. Anna Akhmanova, Utrecht University

"The ins and outs of microtubule regulation in centrioles and cilia"
CSHL Keynote, Dr. Anna Akhmanova, Utrecht University
CSHL Leading Strand
youtu.be/X0nm0xGjwOQ?...

Postdoctoral Positions in Protein Engineering Post a job in 3min, or find thousands of job offers like this one at jobRxiv!

We got a large Helmholtz Bioengineering grant with Oliver Daumke, Artur Yakimovich, Alina Bazarova, and Dietrich Ruess to use protein design to target cancer.

Five open postdoctoral positions in Generative AI & Protein Engineering. Share & apply!

jobrxiv.org/job/max-delb...

Is this like ‘I love lamp’ ?

We just released a new major version of TrackMate (v8), the cell and organelle tracking plugin of Fiji.

It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:

1/ Clare M. Waterman is a cell biologist who has worked on understanding the role of the cytoskeleton in cell migration.

There's not long left for you to submit your abstract for Signalling Circuits in Cancer!

If your research falls into any of these categories, don't miss your opportunity to be included in this new conference topic.

eacr.org/conference/s...

It has to be any day now….we’re waiting on a LIEF. I feel your pain.

In preparation for Australian #grant season announcements this week… #NHMRC #ARC

It’s incredibly disappointing considering the strength in using multiple references to support a statement. It helps readers in the search for supporting information to craft their ideas too.

I contacted the first author. They were very sweet about it. I do understand that flurry at the end trying to get proofs ready. They went from 5 supporting references to 1. It happened to be the incorrect one for what they claimed. Odd over sight- guessing they didn’t read the other paper closely.

Hot tip- when you remove references from your pre print for publication in journals that limit references- make sure the ones you cite *actually* support what you’re referencing…..

Dang, hard disagree. The best papers to write and read are works of art, not merely a list of data and statements.

Don’t let LLMs take this away too, for gods sake.

a bunch of balloons are flying in the sky . ALT: a bunch of balloons are flying in the sky .

I have some BIG NEWS to share today!

Today I begin my next adventure as

Chief Editor of Nature Biomedical Engineering!!

(a thread) @natmethods.nature.com @natbiomedeng.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com

How I recovered from a collaboration gone wrong After learning “how quickly ‘we’ can turn wicked,” this researcher reshaped his approach

How I recovered from a collaboration gone wrong www.science.org/content/arti...

It’s the algorithm here. Makes us work for the dopamine hits. 😂

Are you a postdoc or Asst. Prof on the job market? Check out our listing and consider applying! The search is very broad and it’s in a great department, location, university! Even with the crazy schedule that comes with being a PI- I love my job @ucdavis.bsky.social @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social!

SIGLEC12 mediates plasma membrane rupture during necroptotic cell death - Nature CRISPR–Cas9-based genome-wide screening shows that SIGLEC12 mediates plasma membrane rupture in cells undergoing necroptosis, possibly through a human-specific mechanism, indicating its potential as a therapeutic target.

Nature research paper: SIGLEC12 mediates plasma membrane rupture during necroptotic cell death

go.nature.com/4hSSG5Q

Kinesin-1-driven microtubule sliding helps pancreatic β cells reorganise their cytoskeleton in response to glucose.
buff.ly/r3BlzFj

Peiyao Fan, Yang Chen et al. @pku1898.bsky.social show that tubular ER extends into retraction fibers and #migrasomes through #microtubule-dependent ER extension and ER-plasma membrane contact sites in migrating cells. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

#ER_literature #Migration #Organelles

I love to see the endoplasmic reticulum (ER, cyan) hitchhiking over microtubules (MTs, orange).

Also the membrane dynamics are lovely.

It's been a while, but here we are for a late #fluorescencefriday with some #microscopy
#scicomm #scisky @cellcommlab.bsky.social focalplane.bsky.social 🧪🔬

#Tubulin regulates stability and localization of STMN2 by binding preferentially to its soluble form, say Xiang Deng, Timothy Mitchison and colleagues @harvardmed.bsky.social: rupress.org/jcb/article/...

#ProteinHomeostasis #Neuroscience #Biochemistry #Cytoskeleton #Neurodegeneration #ALS

Microtubules provide a mechanical link for YAP/TAZ signalling Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, Published online: 05 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41580-025-00929-xA study finds that mechanical activation leads to microtubule rearrangement, facilitating the proteasomal degradation of an inhibitor of YAP/TAZ, thus promoting YAP/TAZ nuclear translocation.

ICYMI: New Online! Microtubules provide a mechanical link for YAP/TAZ signalling

Trying to catch up on some missed work on the weekend. Phoebe is not helping. #CatsOfAcademia #AustralianMist

Microtubule forces drive nuclear damage in LMNA cardiomyopathy - Nature Cardiovascular Research Amiad Pavlov, Heffler, et al. demonstrate that stress transmitted to the cardiomyocyte nucleus by the microtubule cage drives LMNA-associated cardiomyopathy and may represent a promising therapeutic t...

Research | Amiad Pavlov, Heffler et al. demonstrate that stress transmitted to the cardiomyocyte nucleus by the microtubule cage drives LMNA-associated cardiomyopathy and may represent a promising therapeutic target.

doi.org/10.1038/s441...

rdcu.be/eOeTA

@charlesdcox.bsky.social defining what makes a ‘Piezo fanatic’ at #MechBio2025 #AusMB 👉 @ardemp.bskyverified.social ‘s commitment #STEM (it is a bit kettle-Pot really 😂 ).