Check out #17 to help unravel one of the central mysteries in immunology: how, starting from a single bond between a receptor and an antigen, T cells can activate the whole cell and eventually the whole organism?
Point of no return: academic #funding is at a tipping point. When the effort and money spent applying for grants equals or exceeds the funding awarded, the system stops serving science and starts draining it. Time to rethink how we fund #research.
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The CENTURI PhD Call 2026 is still ongoing. Applications are open until the end of the month, on January 28th!
Visit centuri-livingsystems.org/recruitment/ to apply.
#PHD #CENTURI
"Unlike the EU, Israel does not maintain strict separation between civilian and military research, as its research ecosystem is structurally intertwined with its defence sector."
www.middleeasteye.net/news/israels...
Thrilled to share our recent work in
@emboreports.org that uncovered actin waves in lymphocytes, which rescue antigen receptor loss during immune response🎉🎉. Super thankful to DBT-Wellcome India Alliance, anrf india, Infosys, and MOE-STARS
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link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Thread below:
Who wants a hallucinating fridge?
Very true.
Must donate time and money because it is under attack (mostly from history-rewriting far right for now).
India celebrates National #MathematicsDay (NMD) on 22nd December to honor the birth anniversary of legendary Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. To mark this, the #iiserpune #ScienceActivityCentre has organised a talk (in Marathi)
youtube.com/live/_ET-xvN...
poke a finger in and push one over... the Africa-born pretend-engineer racist first.
Credit Pierre Dillard. Here is our review written years after Pierre went off to sell Mice to Men (and presumably also women. at Janvier Labs)
www.cell.com/biophysj/ful...
Some old unpublished images of LifeAct T cells spreading on various activating or non-activating surfaces.
Is it really true that intermediate filaments are condensates?
****PhD opportunity in Marseille : Physics of the immune system****
* How reaction-diffusion on a quasi-2D landscape determines the first steps of immune cell response*
*Membrane physics as the earliest amplifier of T Cell signal initiation:implications for health & disease*
Check out #6 and #17
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...
Today, on **November 27th, at 16:30 CET**,
Franziska Lautenschläger from the Universitat des Saarlandes, Germany, will give the next Immunobiophysics seminar:
"The cytoskeleton steering immune cell migration and circulating tumor cells"
Screenshot of Essay from Martin Schwartz on 'Why would anyone want to be a scientist'. An anniversary article from The Company of Biologists published in Journal of Cell Science. The first few lines are: It is difficult to fathom why anyone intelligent enough to be a scientist would actually choose to be one. Doing good science requires the utmost exertion of body, mind and spirit, yet is consistently filled with failure and rejection. But, strange even to myself, I not only don't question the unfavorable risk-to-reward ratio but consider myself astonishingly lucky to be a scientist. There are three fundamental pleasures that have sustained me through 50 years of this madness.
Why would anyone want to be a scientist?
Check out our new Essay from Martin Schwartz: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Check out #6 and #17 ... seeking to unravel the central mystery of immune recognition/response with some help from physics.
come and work with us in Marseille.
Lovely place, lovely people, lovely science.
🏄♂️☀️🚵♀️+👩🔬😎🕺 +🔬🧫🧪
*How reaction-diffusion on a quasi-2D landscape determines the first steps of immune cell response*
Check out #6 and #17 ... seeking to unravel the central mystery of immune recognition/response with some help from physics.
Meet Our Speakers – IBIAM 2025
We are delighted to announce our keynote speaker for the India BioImaging Annual Meeting 2025 (IBIAM, 2025)
Chaitanya Athale
Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India
Date: December 11–12, 2025
Venue: JSS AHER Mysuru, India
A True Limerick on T cell Traction
T cells push and force-dipoles form.
But that is not exactly the norm.
They may pull and let go,
or simply tiptoe.
Or they may pull, signal & transform.
If you want to know more, check out BIORXIV/2022/480084
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#CNRSNews📰 Plastic pollution worldwide is harmful to the environment and health, causing cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Yet recycling has its limits, and even boosts consumption. Scientists insist the only viable option is to stop plastic production
✨ 👩🔬 Toutes nos félicitations à @sophiecarenco.bsky.social du CINAM et Dorothea vom Bruch du CPPM qui sont lauréates des prix 2025 de @academiesciences.bsky.social !
@univ-amu.fr @cnrs.fr @cnrs-in2p3.bsky.social
www.provence-corse.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...
We are back!
*Immunobiophysics online seminars*
This Thursday with Mike Dustin.
Thrilled to announce Prof. Michael Dustin, University of Oxford, UK for the first presentation of the academic year:
"Hacking the immunological synapse with supported lipid bilayers and T cell engagers"
->October 30th at 16:30 CET (3:30 PM UTC)<-
Amazing life story!
Jochen, you left before we could play our promised Table-Tennis rematch at Les Houches. A great physicist and a wonderful human. You will be sorely missed by our community.
So sorry that you had to go so soon.
Fascinating story!
hmmm.... may be. but I would turn that around to Physicists and Mathematicians are wizards and Chemists and Biologists are witches. That makes some of us both. And yes about warlocks - very war-like too.
A homage to a beloved mentor...
"Tracing Erich Sackmann’s journey from liquid crystals to biological membranes" is now out in the special issue of BioPhysJ dedicated to Erich Sackmann.
Thank you Laurent, Laurent and Jacques (and Celine).
www.cell.com/biophysj/abs...
