New preprint out!
In this study, we introduce NanoFLex, a strategy that combines #HaloTag variants with #nanobodies -based immunolabeling to enable rapid, OneStep-IF #lifetime #multiplexing. Possible due to SmartSecondaries fused to #HaloTag from @nanotag.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
2nd- or 3rd-year PhD student? Applications for @hhmi-science.bsky.social's #GilliamFellows Program open 9/1! Robust dissertation support, an incredible community of scientists, tailored professional development (for you *and* your faculty thesis advisor), & so much more. Bookmark bit.ly/4qQArRh!
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You are finishing your PhD and looking to continue in science?
The Martin lab @biology-unige.bsky.social has an open postdoctoral position in cell biology to study cell-cell fusion. For more information, please consult mocel.unige.ch/research-gro....
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Léa Marpeaux, Claire Baudouin, Gregory Emery @emery-lab.bsky.social and colleagues @umontreal.ca identify an apical supracellular actin network in epithelial cells that acts as a long-range force transmission device.
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🔬🔦In our latest ‘Imaging spotlight’ Estibaliz Gómez de Mariscal @gomez-mariscal.bsky.social & Mario Del Rosario @mariodelr.bsky.social tell us all about PhototFiTT, the framework they developed for measuring phototoxicity in live-cell fluorescence imaging.
focalplane.biologists.com/2026/03/02/i...
Apply to become a Preprint Editor Development
We are inviting experienced researchers to apply to become Preprint Editors, a new type of editorial role responsible for handling our 'In preprints' articles and forging links with preprint literature. #prepints
Learn more and apply before 30 March 2026:
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We had covered the history of traction force microscopy (TFM) earlier:
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But what about applying TFM into more physiologically relevant systems, such as those in 3D?
I am @barrasa-fano.bsky.social and I'll be your guide through this thread on #3DTractionForceMicroscopy.
One week left to register to the Bioimage Analysis with AI course in Pasteur!
This June, 1 - 5.
I give a bit more details in the thread below
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Have you produced beautiful images as part of your cell biology research?
Then enter our image competition!
bscb.org/competitions...
Deadline 31st March
Check out last year's winner 'Brainbow' by Alvaro Castano
🔬🔴Join us for the 9th Danish Bioimaging Symposium on May 7-8 at the Danish Cancer Institute
Don’t miss it!. Registration is now Open!
The symposium will emphasize advancing cancer research through imaging technologies.
Sections: Image Analysis, Microscope Techniques and Scientific Cancer research.
Our latest preprint list is up on FocalPlane.
This list is focussed on new tools and techniques in imaging. Let us know if you have any recommendations for us to add.
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Join us next Tuesday for the next @dgz.bsky.social workshop on #trafficking and EVs! Spread the word please!
20.02.2026 14:25 — 👍 17 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 4Cell body getting taken for a ride in this early stage neuron. Microtubules🔵 and Actin🟣 labeled and imaged for 16hr on a Zeiss LSM880. Happy #FluorescenceFriday
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We are happy to announce the start of the MechanoBioTalks – Mechanics, Materials and Living Matter an initiative organized by GreenTE young researchers. The aim of the webinars is to bring together researchers interested in biomechanics, biophysics and biology.
Register here: green-te.nl/activities/
Looking forward to hear what you find.
Good luck
2nd postdoc job alert in the Crick Institute in London. Project will examine the role of motors & the cytoskeleton (actin, septins and microtubules) during vaccinia virus egress using biochemical, structural & cellular approaches + live cell imaging. spread the word.
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Very nice imaging !
It seems that some areas of the brain are somehow depleted of microglia.
Is that correct? And if so, who takes over the immunosurveillance in those regions?
Not something you see in textbooks very often: tripolar mitosis.
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Our #preprint list is up on FocalPlane. This list focusses on the latest tools in bioimage analysis.
Let us know if you have any recommendations to add to our list.
focalplane.biologists.com/2026/02/06/m...
"The microtubule GTP-tubulin cap size is modulated during cell division" is now available on @biorxivpreprint! This video by Anna Cassidy shows the tips of growing microtubules (EB1) and DNA (histone 2B) during metaphase. #Cellbiology
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
The next @bioimagingna.bsky.social @canadabioimaging.bsky.social Nanoscopy (previously STED) User Group meeting is on 12 February from 12 pm ET. The group welcomes researchers at all levels for an open discussion on nanoscopy methods.
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After 15 years as Editor-in-chief (EiC), Michael Way @drmichaelway.bsky.social will be stepping down at the end of 2026 & we are seeking feedback from the cell biology community as part of the consultation process for appointing a new EiC.
We'd love to hear from you: www.surveymonkey.com/r/GZCC9F9
#FluorescenceFriday
Jost, Schweizer et al. @ Cuello lab found that a mutation linked to aortic aneurysmas led to distorted actin #cytoskeleton in VSMCs #mechanobiology
New collab @cellcommlab.bsky.social by @jboixcampos.bsky.social🔥
Full www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#microscopy #cell 🧪🔬
JCS snapshot - Tracking coordinated cellular dynamics in time-lapse microscopy with ARCOS.px
@macdobry.bsky.social presents the key findings from their recent JCS paper with @bgraedel.bsky.social and colleagues @olivierpertz.bsky.social.
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#Addendum to 1970 paper, “CYTOPLASMIC FILAMENTS OF AMOEBA PROTEUS: I. The Role of Filaments in Consistency Changes and Movement,” includes eight video sequences originally recorded on 16-mm films. No technology was available at the time to include this data. 🎞️ rupress.org/jcb/article/...
#Actin
Very hot from the press !
Almost every topic we work in:
#IonChannels #Leukocytes #CalciumSignaling
T cell response depends on target-cell stifness to drive Piezo1- Orai1 membrane channels activation, softening of tumours prevents this response.
Full www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org
Wow !!! Congratulations to @manuelthery.bsky.social and all the Cytomorpho lab !!
This is the Living architectures at the top of the top !!
I wished I was there to see it in live...
Proud to have contributed with a tiny part of one of the previous versions.
🚨 We are hiring TWO postdocs to join the Cell Migration Lab (cellmig.org) 🇫🇮 as part of the new Centre of Excellence in Immune–Endothelial Interfaces (IMMENs).
Join us to decode immune regulation & develop next-gen imaging tools! 🧪🔬
Details in thread 🧵👇
#ScienceSky #Postdoc #AcademicJobs Please RT🫶
Skin cell volume regulates their terminal differentiation
📷 Sebastiaan Zijl et al @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
in @jcellsci.bsky.social
➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026... with Lux Fatimathas
Interested in cell-cell communication and microscopy? We are searching for a motivated postdoctoral researcher to join Münster! Please Apply! @uni-muenster.de
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