Nadja M. Hümpfer

One on left is a black dog and above it the words “Reality”. Below it is “I chased a squirrel” One the right is a black dog and above it says “LinkedIn”. Below it says, Proud to announce that I effectively executed a rapid-response squirrel displacement strategy to mitigate potential yard intrusions. Humbled by the unwavering support of my family and local stakeholders. This experience reinforced the importance of vigilance, ownership, and continuous improvement. Looking forward to scaling this impact in future engagements.

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But what's the mechanism?

2nd postdoc job alert in the Crick Institute in London. Project will examine the role of motors & the cytoskeleton (actin, septins and microtubules) during vaccinia virus egress using biochemical, structural & cellular approaches + live cell imaging. spread the word.
crick.ac.uk/WayPostdoc20...

Figure S7 with panels A through UU

Wow this is a seriously serious supplementary figure from @cellpress.bsky.social today. Panels A through UU.

I get that Cell likes to minimize the number of supplementary figures. But is this really what is happening here?

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

#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.

Today, our animation synthesizing decades of research on actin-mediated endocytosis in budding yeast was published:
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

The result of a fantastic Iwasa-Drubin lab collaboration.

@margotriggi.bsky.social @jiwasa.bsky.social
movie.biologists.com/video/10.124...

MIT researchers have discovered how an immune system molecule triggers neurons in a specific brain circuit to shut down social behavior amid infection. picower.mit.edu/news/too-sic... @mitbcs.bsky.social #Neuroscience #behavior

Tomorrow is tomorrow

Yesterday 🫠

Great to see it published after hearing your talk in the Septin Community Meeting 👌🏽

Off to Dresden for my seminar tomorrow at @mpi-cbg.de kindly hosted by Sandra Scharaw. I can't wait to meet everyone and talk exciting science stuff 🔬🧪🧬. Presenting my Atlas of cytokinesis 😊 🌍🍬

Excited and humbled to receive the 3rd jury prize for the print of my live-cell imaging of cytokinesis with the @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LLS 7 at the AMBIO Symposium 🎇🤩😊

I tried an even harder example on Gemini Pro image generation and this is quite scary/amazing. I asked for a microscopy image of around 20 HeLa cells, GFP tagged 20% nuclear, 10% membrane, +1 nuclear staining, + overlap. Image below and prompt in the following post.

Is this a musical? 🤩

What do we see here, color channel-wise?

As a passionate septinologist, I constantly remind people that Septins are the 4th component of the cytoskeleton. Yet, I fail to know hardly anything about the 3rd... This looks so cool 😎 I want to read up on IFs immediately

A global screen for magnetically induced neuronal activity in the pigeon brain How animals detect the Earth’s magnetic field remains a mystery in sensory biology. Despite extensive behavioral evidence, the neural circuitry and molecular mechanisms responsible for magnetic sensin...

Scientists around former IMP group leader David Keays (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social show that #pigeons detect magnetic fields through their inner ear. Their discovery was now published in the journal @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
More: www.imp.ac.at/news/article...

What an honor and a pleasure to present my research at the 10 years AMBIO NIKON🔬 Core Facility Symposium 🎇 @Charité. Amazing science across the bench, scales, model systems, in health and disease. 🐀🦠🧫 Multiplexing and omics, data handling, and correlative approaches are at the forefront of medical 🔬

Happening today @ Charité Berlin. 10 years of AMBIO @nikonmicroanz.bsky.social Core Facility 🎉
Celebrate with this excellent speaker line up 👇🏽

We’re just innocent men

@dkfz.bsky.social

@mpi-nat.bsky.social

Ângela Gonçalves on stage of Falling Walls Science Summit presenting a comparison of the number of menstrual cycles in an average western woman and a paleolithic woman. Each additional year of cycling adds a 9.1% risk to endometrial cancer development.

It doesn't stop! 🤩 Session this morning includes major breakthrough of @afilimon.bsky.social on the importance of menstrual blood 🩸 as a marker to test for #endometriosis and the effect of menstrual cycle on cancer development in aging women. ❤️💪🏽🩸 Important work + well deserved winner! #FallingWalls

Shout-out to the spearheading researchers Tabea Marx and Christopher Thomas ✨

A still image of a video shown on screen that shows a follicle marked by individual cells' membrane (green), cell nuclei (magenta) and fluid inside the follicle (red). Melina Schuh on stage of the Falling Walls Science Summit presenting her group's research.

How do mammalian follicles expel and safe-guard the oocyte upon ovulation? Amazing talk by @schuhlab.bsky.social at the #FallingWalls #ScienceSummit25 on the live visualisation of ovulation 🔬🥚. Hyaluronic acid acts as a hydrogel to induce #expansion and increase pressure in the follicle. 🎉🤩

Great panel concluding an exciting day at the #ScienceSummit25 in Berlin. Moderated by @curiousdrgeorge.bsky.social and supported by @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social Biohub. "The human researcher and AI together will always outperform each other individually".👌🏽 And a shout-out to expansion microscopy 🔬🧫🦠

What a gem from @dudinlab.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social @centriolelab.bsky.social in Cell! Expansion microscopy atlas of >200 eukaryotes comparing cytoskeletal architectures revealing structures not seen before. Stunning visualisation! Exactly the kind of transformative cell biology we need.

"... As though innovation were a vending machine fueled by targeted investment rather than by the slow, uncertain and often serendipitous crawl of basic research." #unkürzbar

Reminds me of the graphics of MC Escher 😊

PhD Student – Structural Biology of Actin Filament Assemblies | Werken bij AVL

Are you excited to uncover the molecular mechanisms of actin filament assemblies that drive cell migration using cryo-EM?

Only 1.5 week to apply for this exciting PhD position in my newly established lab at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam: www.werkenbijavl.nl/vacatures/ph...