Shashank Shekhar lab

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If you're at #Dros26 and are interested in how cells change shape & move during morphogenesis & how different classic cadherins influence different cell behaviors, check out the talk by @saraheclark.bsky.social in Cell Biology: Cytoskeleton, Organelles, & Trafficking II Sat 9:15 🧪

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Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian will deliver Emory's 2026 Commencement address on May 11.

He also will receive an honorary doctor of humane letters degree during the 181th ceremony, in recognition of his exceptional contributions to business and society. More ➡️ https://bit.ly/4suA0NT

Light, camera and action! BPS 2026. @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social

Huge news for Dr. Shekhar, and for us. Congratulations 🎉

Thank you so much Mark!!

Thank you Kai!

Incredibly honored for the Early Career Award in Mechanobiology by the Biophysical Society.

@biophysicalsoc.bsky.social @emoryuniversity.bsky.social @emorycollege.bsky.social @emorybiochemistry.bsky.social

Excited to share that I’ve been invited to speak at the New & Notable Symposium at the Biophysical Society (BPS) 2026 Annual Meeting! @emoryuniversity.bsky.social @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social

Congrats 🐸

Cytoplasmic crowding acts as a porous medium reducing macromolecule diffusion | PNAS Intracellular transport of macromolecules is crucial for the proper functioning of most cellular processes. Although intracellular crowding is know...

Happy to highlight our collaborative work from our @ijmonod.bsky.social team with @destriano.bsky.social, B. Goyeau and M. Chabanon.
Cytoplasmic crowding acts as a porous medium that hinders macromolecular diffusivity.
Plus: a clever way to measure cell volume.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Mark your calendars, the Signaling by Adhesion Receptors GRC is June 7 - 12, 2026. We have a terrific program that balances developmental biology, cell polarity, and adhesion and signaling.

Please spread the word!

www.grc.org/signaling-by...

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Go Alex!!

I am beyond excited to announce that the Bisson Lab has a new home!!! Starting January 2026, I will join the Biology Department at Indiana University Bloomington as Associate Professor with tenure.

I am actively recruiting scientists across all levels. More in our website: bissonlab.com/join

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🚨 POSTDOC OPENING 🚨
NIH-funded Bio-Fluid Mechanics Postdoc in my lab @univmiami.bsky.social
Hofstenia miamia | cilia-driven flows | behavior & neuroscience
Collab w/ Mansi Srivastava @harvard.edu
🕒 Start: Jan–Feb 2026
⏳ 1 yr, renewable | Email me ASAP!
#Postdoc #Biophysics #FluidDynamics

Can biological tissues "learn"? Our new preprint shows that epithelial tissues exhibit emergent behaviors akin to unsupervised learning. Local tension remodeling allows cell networks to store long-range memory and program global elasticity properties.

Read more here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Target cell cortical tension regulates macrophage trogocytosis - Nature Cell Biology Cornell et al. show that target cells with low cortical tension induce macrophages to preferentially trogocytose, or engulf in small fragments, whereas target cells with high cortical tension tend tow...

How does a macrophage decide to eat or simply nibble? Check out our latest paper! You can also read this nice review. Congrats Caitlin for leading this amazing work!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Gosh, tonight's going down to 21 in Atlanta - I thought that was bad!

Having been to cold cold Philly for ASCB truly helped me appreciate the south Mark!!

The Reck-Peterson lab at Weill Cornell Medicine is seeking a technician or staff scientist to work on Aspergillus projects. Broad background in fungal biology and techniques required. Bioinformatics skills preferred. Find out more at: reckpetersonlab.org.

Interested in cell adhesion, evolution of multicellularity, or developing tools for emerging marine models?

My lab at UM is hiring a postdoc, and the application is now open:
🔗 tinyurl.com/28jvu4aa

If you know anyone looking for a postdoc, please pass this along!

📢 Deadline approaching fast 📢
to submit an abstract for the great cytoskeleton extravaganza!

Yay!! Congratulations Will!!

Exactly Mark, I was so grateful to be back down south in Atlanta today and leave the cold behind in Philly!

#LivingArchitectures
We put cells and cytoskeleton filaments on the architecture of the musée d'Orsay.
www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/agenda/ev...
Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab adapted their protocols to illustrate the questions that keep them awake at night.
-> Two shows on the 24th and 25th of January.

So cool! A small step for musée d'orsay, a giant leap for cytoskeleton! 😁

Ah okay mine was for the study section. But they also have a new council date in there too.

Hi Erin, I found my updated dates in eRA Commons.

On the role of phase separation in the biogenesis of membraneless compartments | The EMBO Journal EMBO Press is an editorially independent publishing platform for the development of EMBO scientific publications.

This alternative view of “condensate” biogenesis is compatible with everything that LLPS claims for itself, including the apparent liquid-like behavior that people a bit ignorant of dynamics find so exciting. I explained this here

www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....