ZechLab

Many congratulations again! Very well deserved

Keen about High Performance Computing & #imageanalysis? Search for #75 at #ELMI2025 this evening @sebastianmunck.bsky.social‬ @makaefer.bsky.social

👋 Are you looking for a postdoc position? Do you think microtubules are fascinating? Then we might have the job for you! 2-year funded postdoc to join our lab!
👉 deadline 20/06
👇 check it out

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Cover page of the University of Liverpool, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences Strategy 2025-2031 document. The page is black and features a multi-channel microscope image of a mouse embryonic kidney stained for ureteric bud (cyan & yellow) and lumen (magenta). The kidney is surrounded by yellow spots which served as fiduciary markers during lightsheet imaging and give the impression of a starry sky.

The @livunihls.bsky.social has published their strategy 2025-2031. We cannot get past the cover page though: stunning image taken by our very own image analyst @makaefer.bsky.social before she became the image analyst. @livuni-livsrf.bsky.social @bwilm.bsky.social @raphavisses.bsky.social

Figure showing that MMP in mesendoderm cells is dependent on integrin activation state and signalling.

Gustavo Pacheco, Douglas DeSimone and colleagues discover that mitochondrial membrane potential is spatially regulated in collectively migrating tissue by integrin adhesion and signalling in leader row cells.

journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

#JCSMitoSI #Mitochondria

Don't miss the First UK Zebrafish Meeting @lsiexeter.bsky.social in Exeter, sponsored by @brukercorporation.bsky.social @brukerspatial.bsky.social al.bsky.social! 🐠 Join us Sept 10 - 12. Early bird registration closes soon! Secure your spot. www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins...

Interphase cell morphology defines the mode, symmetry, and outcome of mitosis During tissue formation, dynamic cell shape changes drive morphogenesis while asymmetric divisions create cellular diversity. We found that the shifts in cell morphology that shape tissues could conco...

My first post on Bluesky! Very excited to share our work just published in @science.org. We find that “Interphase cell morphology defines the mode, symmetry, and outcome of mitosis” - in angiogenesis and other tissues! www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1... www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Cartoon of techniques to apply one-dimensional, in-plane or volumetric cell compression in vitro.

In their Review, Laura Faure, Valeria Venturini @valeriaventurini.bsky.social and Pere Roca-Cusachs discuss the biological contexts of cell mechanical compression, the associated mechanisms and the experimental systems engineered to compress cells in vitro.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Interested in how cells respond when squeezed? Check the review paper just published by Laura Faure, @valeriaventurini.bsky.social and myself on this. Really thorough and clear revision by Laura and Valeria!

Aymen al-Rawi posing with the Node's polaroid frame. The text on the frame reads "#ECR #CircadianRhythm #MassSpec #MRC_LMB"

It's the last day of #biologists100! We'll be sharing more photos of people posing with our polaroid frame.

Aymen al-Rawi @aymen-alrawi.bsky.social is the @bscb-official.bsky.social postdoc rep and organised the #ECR session at Biologists @ 100. His key words are #CircadianRhythm #MassSpec #MRC_LMB

Picture of easels displaying microscopy images.

If you are attending #biologists100, you can now visit our image gallery with @the-node.bsky.social in the exhibition hall and vote for your favourite image.
If you are not at the conference, you can still vote in our poll on FocalPlane: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/03/11/v...

Come and check out our stand at #biologists100 with a chance to enter our mystery prize draw!

@biologists.bsky.social @emilyxlucas.bsky.social @harrietasmith.bsky.social

Congratulations to our 2025 Raff PhD medal winner @impeiyee.bsky.social from @liverpooluni.bsky.social

bscb.org/bscb-phd-awa...

#biologists100 conference is underway celebrating 100 years of @biologists.bsky.social

Congratulations @helenweavers.bsky.social

2025 Women in Cell Biology Early Career medal winner

We are expanding the London Cell Motility Club
cytoskeleton.wixsite.com/londoncellmo...
into a UK wide Cell Motility Club: our first symposium will be on Friday, June 13th, 2025, to provide an interdisciplinary forum including mechanobiology, cytoskeleton, tissue morphogenesis, and cell migration.

Really excited to be in Liverpool to celebrate 100 years of CoB @biologists.bsky.social ! Amazing science, great community of cell and dev biologists and lots of fun! @bscb-official.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social #biologists100

Sustainable travel incentives Find out more about the incentives available for travel to Biologists @ 100 Travelled by train? Claim up to £150 for international train journeys Tell us how you made your travel to the conference more sustainable. £700 sustainable travel blog prize. 100yearsconference.biologists.com/sustainability

Don’t forget about the available incentives for travel to our Biologists @ 100 conference: Up to £150 for international train journeys and a prize of £700 in our sustainable travel blog competition.

Find out more at 100yearsconference.biologists.com/sustainability
#biologists100

We are looking for a doctoral candidate to join the lab! If you are interested in working with human breast tissue samples straight from the clinic and do not fear large data sets, this might just be your dream project ☺️ Apply now ⬇️
ats.talentadore.com/apply/vaitos...
📸 @oonapaavolainen.bsky.social

Advertisement banner giving details for the Cell Discoverer 7 user group meeting at the University of Liverpool 24-25 April 2025. The meeting will include research presentations, analysis workflow insights, roundtable discussions and collaborative applications.

Whoop The first #CD7 User Group Meeting happening next month in Liverpool. Please register with the link below. Looking forward to welcoming you all to Liverpool, the city of culture, history, music and microscopy.
www.zeiss.co.uk/microscopy/l...

#Microscopy #HighThroughput #Robotics #ImageAnalysis

Intrinsic electrical activity drives small-cell lung cancer progression - Nature Electrical excitability in neuroendocrine SCLC cells promotes tumour progression through action potential firing, increasing ATP demand and oxidative phosphorylation dependency, whereas non-neuroendoc...

"Intrinsic electrical activity drives small-cell lung cancer progression"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My first post on this forum! 😄

I am happy to share that our #openaccess review on the #molecular mechanisms of #actin filament polymerization and dissasembly is now online @cp-trendscellbio.bsky.social

www.cell.com/trends/cell-...

Big thanks to my amazing colleagues in Dortmund

About Details of the Microtubule meeting.

A date for your diaries! The Microtubule meeting UK 2025 will take place on the 12th May in Edinburgh. Registration will open very soon. biology.ed.ac.uk/microtubule

Poster and Q

One week left to submit an abstract for the @biologists.bsky.social 100 meeting incorporating the @bscb-official.bsky.social & @bsdb.bsky.social annual meetings in Liverpool in March!

Don't miss out on an amazing lineup of invited speakers - scan the QR code for the full list

ICYMI: Still a bit of time to get your abstract in for the @biologists.bsky.social 100 conference 24-27th March in Liverpool, incorporating both the annual @bsdb.bsky.social & @bscb-official.bsky.social meetings! Support grants available - apply to BSDB by Jan 10 bsdb.org/membership/

Our friend makes custom rugs, and so my wife sent her one of our structure images and she made it from that. This was the original (it was quite lucky as PyMOL crashed rendering it so the colours are really distinct).

Many congratulations! That’s great news

This is going to be a great meeting! Don’t miss it 👌

This week's #FluorescenceFriday
is in celebration of the work completed by
@milancollins.bsky.social
(@zech-lab.bsky.social)- as he defended his PhD this week!

The image attached is from a live-cell movie we generated together...