Dyche Mullins et al.

‘Fire amoeba’ survives in hotter conditions than any other complex cell The single-celled organism can grow at 63 °C, a record for eukaryotic life.

The Incindiamoeba preprint is out and getting great press! (featuring one of Natalie Petek's HOTTT movies) Congratulations to Beryl Rappaport (@hbrappap.bsky.social) and everyone else who made this happen (including @samjlord.bsky.social and @skruberk.bsky.social). Super-fun collaboration!

So grateful to all collaborators on this huge effort!
@mullinslab.bsky.social at UCSF with Natalie Petek, @samjlord.bsky.social, and @skruberk.bsky.social now at Gonzaga with Ethan MacVicar for microscopy & motility analyses

Simon saying "Is there a Latin word for 'engine'?" reminds me a bit of the story of George Bush declaring derisively that "the French have no word for entrepreneur."

Smokey and the Bandit III !!! Mercifully, I had forgotten that that was even a thing. Looking back at the trailer gave me shivers of embarrassment. It was as if a zombie Ed Wood had been brought back from the grave to direct an episode of The Dukes of Hazard -- but not in a good way.

Same

Preprint alert! I’m publishing my last paper from my postdoc work on archaeal cell biology, with @mullinslab.bsky.social, @archaellum.bsky.social, @samjlord.bsky.social, @marleenvw.bsky.social, @arghya93.bsky.social, and more great folks (thread below with more details)

Membrane-associated polymerases deliver most of the actin subunits to a lamellipodial network https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.24.645090v1

Wizards (1977). I will always have a soft spot for this gleefully demented psychedelic romp. Plus, it is Mark Hamill's first film.

You beat me to it.

Q: What's wrong with these plots?

A: Pooling cell-level measurements across multiple runs conceals experimental reproducibility.

Read more in JCB (with @fritzlaylin.bsky.social @katrinavelle.bsky.social & Dyche Mullins): rupress.org/jcb/article/...

Boo! Heading off to cancel my NYT subscription

A long time ago, in an actin based galaxy far, far away...
#MicroscopyMonday #cytoskeleton #actin

TLDR: reminder @mullinslab.bsky.social and I are hosting the “extreme cell biology” session at @ascbiology.bsky.social next Monday!