If you are protist enthusiast early in your career and you want hands-on training in collecting and handling protists for all your research goals, please apply to join us in Roscoff for a week-long course this summer!
opbc.sciencesconf.org
If you are protist enthusiast early in your career and you want hands-on training in collecting and handling protists for all your research goals, please apply to join us in Roscoff for a week-long course this summer!
opbc.sciencesconf.org
The best stories are the personal ones. So before we get to the new preprint, stay awhile and listen
#MobileLabs #TREC
Excited to share our new preprint exploring how Paramecium achieves diverse flow functions, i.e. feeding and swimming, simultaneously. This work was spearheaded by our ExM expert, PhD student Daphne Laan @daphnelaan.bsky.social :
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
@embl.org at its best: collaborative, open, transformative, and just the right amount of crazy. Dreaming of mechanistic cell biology *in the natural environment*? Dream no more, rent the AML.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jepb...
#WeFreezeOnTheBeach #ProtistsOnSky π¦ ππ§ͺ
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24.02.2026 17:00 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
π¬ @eurobioimaging.bsky.socialΒ Spain is officially launched as the Spanish node (@eurobioimaging-es.bsky.social) of Europeβs leading #bioimaging infrastructure.
Proud to be part of it through our Advanced Digital Microscopy Facility!
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Mammalian cells form hibernating disomes akin to those in bacterial cells - but connected via ribosomal RNA
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
co-first with: @andschwarz.bsky.social
with: @lea-dietrich.bsky.social, @sgiando.bsky.social, @erin-schuman.bsky.social and many more
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#MolBio π§ͺ
Hey Bungo. I don't know if you figure it out but look at this one.
From this paper: shorturl.at/Og2tn
They identify this blue light receptor only in one the posterior flagelum!
This monday we had our monthly Sciences Club.
Here Cesar Bernat is showing his work on CHMP1A in mammalian cells in the @rouxlab.bsky.social !
#postdoclife
π¨ New preprint!
Together with @carobarisch.bsky.social lab, we investigated how intracellular compartmentalization shapes lipid acquisition in mycobacteria
Interestingly, deleting one FACL enzyme (FACL6) revealed striking compartment-dependent phenotypes π¬
Check it out: doi.org/10.64898/202...
Brain with puzzle overlay to show that our study provides missing pieces of the puzzle of human brain development by delivering the most comprehensive picture of hindbrain development to date. We have strived to go beyond just another multi-omics atlas to gain deep insights by: 1. Meticulously annotating cell clusters 2. Extracting regulatory programs in terms of coordinated gene sets and accessible regulatory elements 3. Using deep learning to identify regulatory syntax 4. Resolving context-specific TF activity
Excited to share our preprint on our new multi-omic atlas of human hindbrain development. Led by postdoc Piyush Joshi, in collaboration with @kaessmannlab.bsky.social and Pfister labs, our atlas represents the first comprehensive view of human hindbrain development. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
10.02.2026 07:04 β π 32 π 15 π¬ 2 π 0
Proud and excited to share our work with the community! Helen @helenfoster.bsky.social Foster et al. study how #cilia axonemes are built. π Don't miss the gorgeous and insightful movies by @margotriggi.bsky.social, they really show our discoveries in full action!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
I have a theory about how far spacex will get with either of these efforts www.wsj.com/science/spac...
09.02.2026 09:13 β π 131 π 22 π¬ 26 π 6
Hello epithelial mechanics fans!! Iβm Juanma @juanmagararc.bsky.social π I work on cell mechanics (see celldynamicslab.com) and use Flipper-TR FLIM to probe membrane biophysics in cells.
Join me on this tour about Flipper: what it measures, strengths, advice, cool case studies, and cute drawings!
Ever wanted to hold a cilium in your hand? π§¬β¨
Here is a look at how Iβm using CiliaBuilder in @UCSFChimeraX to generate accurate 3D prints of centrioles and cilia. Perfect for teaching or lab displays!
Watch the process: youtu.be/IKnnp3ovptQ #CryoEM #CellBio #ChimeraX
Love to explore the different stainings in the Human Protein Atlas @proteinatlas.bsky.social π
So beatiful cells over there! I strongly recommend you to play with it and find your favourite protein :)
#HumanProteinAtlas
Apply now! The 2026 call for the EMBO Installation Grants Programme is now open with a deadline of 15 April 12:00 midday CEST. π§ͺ
More information can be found here:
https://www.embo.org/funding/fellowships-grants-and-career-support/installation-grants/
#LifeSciences #research #funding
Please share!
My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th!
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
Cilia alert! Stoked to have the new paper from Juyeon Hong about a new domain at the extreme distal tip of motile cilia! (The EDT, y'all!) It's out now @natcomms.nature.com.
Check it out!
#cilia
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
So excited to share the preprint with the bulk of my PhD work in the Beach @myosincity.bsky.social and Oakes @pwoakes.bsky.social Labs at Loyola University Chicago! We investigate the structure, recruitment, and function of septin networks around the nucleus. A thread:
doi.org/10.64898/202...
Figure showing the comparison between spinning disk (SD) confocal, SIM and ExM when imaging Drosophila cemtrioles.
Emma Burns, Anastasia Amoiroglou, Gregory Rogers, Nasser Rusan and colleagues develop an expansion microscopy protocol for Drosophila cultured cells and tissues, which they use to dissect centriole biology.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Made it to the frontpage of SV EPFL website, and with a first student coming in 10 days, now I feel I officially kickstarted the new team! actu.epfl.ch/news/juan-ma...
20.01.2026 16:15 β π 16 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Don't miss the spotlight that @hiralshah.bsky.social wrote :D
20.01.2026 14:38 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Our new paper (with @biotay.bsky.social) is out and on the cover story of @currentbiology.bsky.social !!!! Veronika, a Carinthian mountain cow flexibly uses a βmulti-purpose toolβ to scratch herself. A video and more information will follow in the comments.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Ever wonder why some projects just work and others slowly eat your soul? In this paper by @urialonlab.bsky.social discuss the importance of choosing both interesting and actually doable ideas. Impact matters as well as feasibility!
14.01.2026 07:43 β π 6 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0
Exciting preprint from @franbottanelli.bsky.social and @annespang.bsky.social! ARF-1 regulates FERARI-mediated endosomal kiss-and-run recycling by controlling selective cargo loading into vesicles.
ARF-1 Coordinates Cargo Sorting at FERARI Endosomal Recycling Hubs
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
π π Amazing
13.01.2026 09:55 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
New preprint from the lab π: Ξ³-tubulin is a novel target of the tubulin autoregulation pathway! Previously thought to exclusively target Ξ±- and Ξ²-tubulin mRNAs, we show that the TTC5βSCAPERβCNOT11 axis also degrades Ξ³-tubulin mRNA, expanding the scope of this fundamental regulatory mechanism.
10.01.2026 11:17 β π 34 π 14 π¬ 2 π 0
This is the cover proposal I made for our recent paper!
Itβs Pyramimonas diskoicola β a very beautiful green flagellate and one of those cells that makes you stop and stare for a while.
I tried to capture its shape, symmetry, and general vibe :)
#FluorescenceFriday
#BioArt #SciArt
#Illustration
