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Kay Schink

@kschink.bsky.social

Cell Biologist interested in membrane trafficking, phosphoinositides, macropinosomes and fancy microscopes. Associate Professor, UiO

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Our article on how to use micropatterned presynapses-on-glass is out in its final form in the latest issue of the Journal of Neuroscience @sfnjournals.bsky.social: www.jneurosci.org/content/46/8...
The cover went to the special section on social neuroscience, so here's our #notthecover attempt

25.02.2026 22:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 96    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

You still have 3 days to apply to the postdoc positions available in my lab ๐Ÿ˜€
๐Ÿ”ฌCome and work with us ๐Ÿ”ฌ

20.02.2026 17:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 21    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The abstract submission deadline for our upcoming 'Imaging Cell Dynamics' meeting is this Friday. We still have a few places remaining so apply now to secure your spot!

Find out more at:
www.biologists.com/meetings/jcs...

#imaging #microscopy #cellbiology

11.02.2026 16:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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An mTurquoise2-Based Glucose Biosensor Glucose is an important substrate for organisms to acquire energy needed for cellular growth. Despite the importance of this metabolite, single-cell information at a fast time-scale about the dynamics...

Great to see this officially out: An mTurquoise2-Based Glucose Biosensor - works in yeast & mammalian cells and is compatible with FLIM: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

03.02.2026 21:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 69    ๐Ÿ” 23    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

๐Ÿ”ตmTurquoise2-based glucose biosensors TINGL and THINGL from @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social and the Teusink Lab!
Find the plasmids here: www.addgene.org/browse/artic...

12.02.2026 21:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'd argue that a bit more careful public messaging is in order. Not taking anything away from the authors, but lipid regulation of EGFR has been described: "Regulation of human EGF receptor by lipids" by @lipid.bsky.social in 2011. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

10.02.2026 12:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Amazing science on beautiful Spetses ๐Ÿคฉ

10.02.2026 14:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Janna Saarela succeeds Oliver Billker as new Speaker of the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine | Nordic Embl Partners

We are delighted to announce that Janna Saarela, Director of @ncmbm.bsky.social, has been appointed as the new Speaker of the @nordicembl.bsky.social!
Read about her priorities and vision here๐Ÿ‘‰https://tinyurl.com/yc3ytvez
@embl.org @dandrite.bsky.social @mimsumea.bsky.social @fimm-uh.bsky.social

09.02.2026 08:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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We have two funded postdoctoral positions available. Topics encompass:

-Next gen light-sheet fluorescence microscopy instrumentation

-Structured illumination microscopy and other approaches to extend the resolution limit.

-Nonlinear microscopy combined with adaptive optics / phase conjugation

27.01.2026 22:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 51    ๐Ÿ” 25    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Join us at CSHL for Quantitative Imaging: From Acquisition to Analysisโ€”two weeks of advanced imaging, analysis, and hands-on labs with cutting-edge microscopes and open source software!
๐Ÿ“… April 6โ€“21, 2026
๐Ÿ“ Applications due Friday Jan 30, 2026

27.01.2026 16:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Club Exo Endo - Exocytose Endocytose Le Club Exocytose-Endocytose est une association ร  but non lucratif, sans financement ni cotisation. Il rassemble prรจs de 340 chercheurs, enseignants ou รฉtudiants travaillant dans des domaines variรฉs ...

๐Ÿš€ Young scientists, this is your moment!
๐Ÿ† If you defended your PhD thesis in 2025 in areas like membrane dynamics, intracellular trafficking, exocytosis/endocytosis or microscopy, donโ€™t miss out!
๐Ÿ‘ค Application is quick and easy!
๐Ÿ‘‰ exoendo.org/en/the-endo-...

โณ Deadline: 16 February 2026

26.01.2026 09:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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CELL MIGRATION LAB We study cell migration in health and disease

๐Ÿšจ We are hiring TWO postdocs to join the Cell Migration Lab (cellmig.org) ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ as part of the new Centre of Excellence in Immuneโ€“Endothelial Interfaces (IMMENs).
Join us to decode immune regulation & develop next-gen imaging tools! ๐Ÿงช๐Ÿ”ฌ
Details in thread ๐Ÿงต๐Ÿ‘‡
#ScienceSky #Postdoc #AcademicJobs Please RT๐Ÿซถ

21.01.2026 07:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 71    ๐Ÿ” 65    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

Iโ€™ll soon share a call for a postdoc at Institut Jacques Monod (Paris) on fundamental mechanisms of membrane traffic and protein/collagen secretion in health and disease. Please get in touch if interested.

23.01.2026 10:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Laboratory Engineer (Senior), in Advanced Imaging, 1.5.2026-31.12.2028

๐Ÿšจ Job Alert! ๐Ÿšจ

We have an opening at our Microscopy Core Facility in Turku ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ.
If you love imaging ๐Ÿ”ฌ and helping scientists succeed, we want you! ๐Ÿ‘‡

abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index...

#Microscopy #ScienceJobs #CoreFacility #Imaging
@turkubioscience.bsky.social

15.01.2026 14:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 48    ๐Ÿ” 74    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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GitHub - TheDeanLab/navigate: navigate - open source light-sheet microscope controls navigate - open source light-sheet microscope controls - TheDeanLab/navigate

Navigate can now run entirely with ASI's Tiger Controller, eliminating the NI data acquisition board altogether, simplifying the optoelectronics, and providing deterministic frame-to-frame operation. Documentation coming soon... github.com/TheDeanLab/n...

20.01.2026 12:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I will be recruiting two postdocs early next year.
- One image analyst
- one biologist interested in working on lymphatics!

Reach out if you are interested ๐Ÿ‘

21.12.2025 08:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 54    ๐Ÿ” 43    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

We also tried it recently and indeed, it blinks nicely without any smelly buffers or extra stuff added. Makes SMLM sample preparation a breeze. I hope soon new additional colors will be discovered, apart from the far red.

22.12.2025 11:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Centre of Excellence in Immune - Endothelial Interfaces (IMMENs) | University of Helsinki The overarching aim of IMMENs, a Research Council of Finland funded Centre of Excellence, is to understand how local immune responses are regulated at the lymphatic endothelium-immune cell interface.

I am delighted to introduce our new Centre of Excellence in Immune-Endothelial Interfaces (IMMENs) funded by the Research Council of Finland.

www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...

I will be recruiting two postdocs early next year. One image analyst and one biologist interested in working on lymphatics!

19.12.2025 12:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 36    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Are you interested in cytoskeleton and looking for a postdoc position? I will be advertising positions in the new year but happy to chat in person if you are attending ASCB @ascbiology.bsky.social in Philadelphia. Just drop me a line.

04.12.2025 08:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 34    ๐Ÿ” 33    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
04.12.2025 10:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ERC-Plus: jackpot science or missed chance to fix academia? My reflections on ERC-Plus, Europeโ€™s newest ultra-competitive research grant and what it tells us about the academic culture weโ€™reโ€ฆ

I just published: ERC-Plus: jackpot science or missed chance to fix academia?

My reflections on ERC-Plus, Europeโ€™s newest ultra-competitive research grant and what it tells us about the academic culture weโ€™re building.

medium.com/p/erc-plus-j...

03.12.2025 11:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 100    ๐Ÿ” 62    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12
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#membrane seminars are back this THURSDAY for a super session with @dr-downes.bsky.social from the @giuliazanetti.bsky.social lab and Xin Zhou from the Ikonen lab! @felixmendu.bsky.social @ishier.bsky.social

03.12.2025 11:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Worth about 200Mโ‚ฌ = 150 ERC StG!

Not convinced this is a good move for Europe research!

28.11.2025 19:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Your periodic reminder that science is not done by a few selected "stars scientists". Science is done by hundred of thousands. Siloed money mean a few flashy discoveries and a lot of waste. Want to change things? Make funding accessible and stop funding calls with less than 2% success rate.

29.11.2025 10:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 208    ๐Ÿ” 74    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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We just released a new major version of TrackMate (v8), the cell and organelle tracking plugin of Fiji.

It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:

20.11.2025 11:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 182    ๐Ÿ” 76    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
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โ€ข you donโ€™t care about publishing in our crappy predatory journal
@andrewplested.bsky.social would have enjoyed this

20.11.2025 18:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Interview with Sandra Iden โ€“ President of the German Society for Cell Biology ABSTRACT. Sandra Iden is Professor and Chair of Cell and Developmental Biology at Saarland University in Homburg, Germany. Her research focuses on cellโ€“cell communication in epithelial tissue homeosta...

Recent interview for @jcellsci.bsky.social. Thx for important services JCS & @biologists.bsky.social provide to the cell science community. Glad we could share aspects on #50yearDGZ @dgz.bsky.social, @dfg.de @hetcci.bsky.social SPP2493, #CGBM & my great team @uni-saarland.de

shorturl.at/rCQg5

16.10.2025 06:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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We present multi-immersion Oblique Plane microscope (miOPM), a light-sheet platform that can be adapted to a wide range of applications, from sensitive live cell imaging to imaging organs and cleared tissues.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

06.10.2025 17:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 123    ๐Ÿ” 44    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Plasma membrane labelling efficiency, internalization and partitioning of functionalized fluorescent lipids as a function of lipid structure Labeling the plasma membrane for advanced imaging remains a significant challenge. For time-lapse live cell imaging, probe internalization and photobleaching are major limitations affecting most membr...

New paper out! Would you like to fluorescently label the plasma membrane in live, fixed or permeabilized cells? I tested different lipid structures and labelling approaches to decide what makes a good membrane labelling probe for such imaging experiments!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

13.05.2025 12:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 71    ๐Ÿ” 18    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Out today in @nature.com: Together with the Honigmann, Shevchenko, Drobot and Hof labs, we present a general workflow for imaging the localization and transport of individual lipids in cells and mapping their metabolism.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

21.08.2025 05:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 345    ๐Ÿ” 130    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 31    ๐Ÿ“Œ 23