Exciting week: 2-day meeting of our Dutch synthetic cell community, BaSyC and EVOLF, hosted by Nico Claassens at WUR.

Structure and Function of the Cytoskeleton The cytoskeleton, a dynamic and intricate network of protein filaments, is found within the cytoplasm of all cells, from bacteria and archaea to complex eukaryotes. This essential cellular component …

Learn all things #cytoskeleton #research in an interdisciplinary environment at EMBO Workshop "Structure and Function of the Cytoskeleton" in Paris, FR, 7–10 April 2026.

Deadline: 20 December 2025

https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-cytoskeleton
#EMBOCytoskeletalFunction #EMBOevents #conference 🧪

And we begin our day with the incredible @gijsjekoenderink.bsky.social !!

Charu Sharma from the Koenderingk and Dekker labs now presenting. #BiomembraneDays2025

Charu Sharma from the group of Gijsje Koenderink and @ceesdekker.bsky.social is now showing how to drive dynaminA-assisted division of minimal cells
#BiomembraneDays25

The actin-binding/-bundling protein #anillin can also interact with microtubules to crosslink the two types of filaments and slide them along each other
@marileend.bsky.social @gijsjekoenderink.bsky.social and colleagues
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

New: Pasolli, Meiring, Akhmanova et al. @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social describe tools to acutely relocate #vimentin intermediate filaments by inducibly coupling them to microtubule motors. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

@joycemeiri.bsky.social @gijsjekoenderink.bsky.social
#Technology #Cytoskeleton

📢 Institut Jacques Monod Lecture

📅 July 11th
📍 Institut Jacques Monod

Next week, Gijsje Konderick ( @gijsjekoenderink.bsky.social‬ ‬ ), will give the Institut Jacques Monod Lecture "How cytoskeletal crosstalk makes cells strong"

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Onze EVOLF community groeit flink, zie bv deze foto van ons overleg gisteren

#EvolvingLIfeFromNonlife

Upcoming seminar by Gijsje Koenderink: How cytoskeletal crosstalk makes cells strong at Institut Jacques Monod, Friday 11 July 2025 at 11:45. More info

Genetically encoded reporters of actin filament organization in living cells and tissues Tailoring genetic fusions of widely used actin localization reporters by constraining the mobility of the fluorescent proteins allows measurements of actin filament organization in living cells and ti...

Genetically encoded reporters of actin filament organization in living cells and tissues: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Terrific work by Anouk van der Net and Iain Muntz in my lab with Zaid Rahman and Ankur Bordoloi from the lab of my great collaborator Pouyan Boukany!

Check out our iScience article on how epithelial-to-mesenchymal (EMT) and unjamming transitions drive cancer invasion, focusing on matrix confinement, vimentin, and MMP1 in spheroid invasion and cell-ECM interactions.

📖 Read more: 🔗 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Actin and vimentin jointly control cell viscoelasticity and compression stiffening The mechanical properties of cells are governed by the cytoskeleton, a dynamic network of actin filaments, intermediate filaments, and microtubules. Understanding the individual and collective mechani...

Check out this beautiful quantitative study of cell mechanics, led by James Conboy, in collaboration with Fred MacKintosh & Pouyan Boukany! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...