Cytoskeleton enthusiasts: join us for the Cytoskeletal Motors GRC, July 12-17, 2026, in Portland Maine. Abstracts submitted by April 5 will be considered for short talks. Please apply!
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Less than a week left for abstract submission for #EESMechanobiology - join us in this long-standing meeting on the mechanics of life.

Excited to share this new work from Ana Raffaelli, in collaboration with Ewa Paluch's lab and involving several of my colleagues at Cyclana Bio. In this paper, we show that basement membrane mechanics instructs developmental signalling and fate patterning.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

PhD position in my lab!

Actomyosin-dependent assembly of the mechanosensitive machinery from adherens junctions triggers actin polymerization and organization In vitro reconstitution shows how mechanosensitive adherens junction proteins link actomyosin contractility to actin assembly.

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#LivingArchitectures
We put cells and cytoskeleton filaments on the architecture of the musée d'Orsay.
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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.

Check out #6 and #17 ... seeking to unravel the central mystery of immune recognition/response with some help from physics.

Congratulations to Celia Municio-Diaz in the lab for this new publication, showing that Cell Wall mechanosensors taken from distant yeast species can still function and detect forces in the foreign cell wall of fission yeast cells!

@ijmonod.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social

Rapid aging and disassembly of actin filaments from two evolutionary distant yeasts Actin is an essential cytoskeletal protein that is extremely well conserved across the tree of life. Similarities and differences in the way actin from different species self-assembles into filaments ...

interesting work revealing differences between evolutionary distant actins!

"..... ADP-actin filaments depolymerize faster and are mechanically more flexible in Saccharomyces cerevisiae compared to Schizosaccharomyces pombe. "

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is there a direct crosstalk between actin and vimentin intermediate filaments? Our work shows that vimentin promotes actin assembly by stabilizing ATP-subunits at the barbed end.
Fantastic work done by @lilianpaty.bsky.social with @romet-jegou-lab.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We hire!
The CytoMorpho Lab is looking for an engineer with a background in cell and molecular biology to join our team in Paris. This is a 18-month contract position, but we're open to exploring long-term opportunities.
More details here:
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MiFoBio, get ready for great speakers @ivatolic.bsky.social #Module 5 mechanobio

MiFoBio, get ready for great speakers @salaita.bsky.social #Module 5 m mechanobio

Which city is the best for Cytoskeleton research?
Dresden? Barcelona? Cambridge ? Noooo ... you all know its Paris, right? 😎
Registering to the annual meeting on Friday 14th of November is now open:
pcd2025.sciencesconf.org
Keynote speeches by @carter-lab.bsky.social and Verena Ruprecht !

Assistant Professor with tenure-track for Quantitative Cell Biology (80-100%) - Bern, Switzerland job with University of Bern, Institute of Cell Biology | 12840798 Assistant Professor with tenure-track for Quantitative Cell Biology (80-100%) at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

⚡️ Don’t forget that we’re looking for a Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Quantitative Cell Biology @ UniBern!

🔬 Bridge experiments + theory
📈 Tackle processes across scales
💡 Join our vibrant research community

Deadline Oct 17 👉 shorturl.at/1Y1WP

Brand-new conference on collective behaviour! Join us to foster a community to study how interactions among the constituents trigger fascinating collective phenomena: biofilms, fish schools, tissue self-organisation, bird swarms & many more!

Thanks to amazing speakers for helping us realise this!

📣 Physics & Life 2025 - last month to register!

📅 October 2nd-3rd
📍Institut Jacques Monod, Buffon amphitheater

Registration and abstract submission are open until September 5th
🔗 phys-life-2025.sciencesconf.org?lang=en

@sfp-physique.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @upcite.bsky.social

Few spots left on our @bcube-tud.bsky.social organised hashtag #Symposium:
Engineering Life 2025: Origin and Function of Mechanical Forces in Biology ⚙️🧬

📆 September 1-3, 2025
📍 Steigenberger Hotel de Saxe, Dresden

Register now (Deadline 31 July 2025): engineering-life-dresden.de

Intracellular mechanics and organelle mechanobiology Mechanobiology is an interdisciplinary field that emerges at the cross-section of biology, physics and engineering. It aims to understand how living cells, tissues and animals sense and respond to me…

Announcing a new @embo.org Workshop on "Intracellular mechanics and organelle mechanobiology" that we are organizing with Michael Krieg and Verena Ruprecht at @icfo.eu (Barcelona) on 16-20 February, 2026. Please, repost and spread the word! 🙏 #EMBOmechanobio

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Signez la pétition Sauvons le Palais de la découverte

99 941 c'est le nombre actuel de signatures pour soutenir le Palais de la Découverte
Un dernier effort et on a les 100 000 avant midi.

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Event carbon calculator - the Node I am excited to announce the release of our event carbon calculator, our latest resource to support the creation of sustainable events. Estimate your

Calling all meeting organizers… @biologists.bsky.social now have a calculator to estimate your event’s carbon footprint and to test various reduction scenarios.

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Continuous self-repair protects vimentin intermediate filaments from fragmentation | PNAS Intermediate filaments are key regulators of cell mechanics. Vimentin, a type of intermediate filament expressed in mesenchymal cells and involved ...

Intermediate filaments join microtubules in the self-repair club! Great work with in vitro vimentin filaments from @cecileleduc.bsky.social @romet-jegou-lab.bsky.social et al. in @pnas.org: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Thank you Christophe

Only one week left to register !

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Soft Matter and Living Systems (MC02), jointly supported by the Condensed Matter Division and the Physics & Life Sciences Division of SFP.
At the intersection of soft matter physics, biological and active matter, out-of-equilibrium systems, and the physics of living systems...

Congratulations! Beautiful work

Unique opportunity to join the CytoMorpho Lab (in Paris ❤️) as a postdoc to work on the self-organization and polarization of reconstituted networks made of microtubules, motors and actin filaments in vitro. Experience required.
Please Repost 🙏 thanks !

🔎 Looking to start a PhD in Sept 2025?
The Crick Institute spring round for PhD recruitment is open!
If you are interested in actin cytoskeleton and imaging 🔬 then check out my project on role of Arp2/3 iso-complexes in regulating invadopodia👇please RT

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Registration for the next GdR AQV days is now open until April 18th. The conference will take place in Sète - May 26th to 28th. aqv-days-2025.sciencesconf.org
There are many slots for oral communication. Come and join the French biophysics community!

Chikireddy, Romet-Lemonne, Jégou et al. @romet-jegou-lab.bsky.social investigate how the crosslinker fascin delays cofilin-induced #actin filament disassembly. https://buff.ly/3EBL34j

In #Mechanobiology 2025: https://buff.ly/3EK0uaq