Calling all postdocs! Applications are open for Dept. of Molecular Biosciences 3rd Trailblazers Postdoctoral Symposium @utaustin.bsky.social. Come to Austin, meet your peers, showcase your work. Application is easy and all expenses are paid! Spread the word!
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Cells can hunt prey, solve mazes, and learn from past experience. Does this mean they can think, at some level? Find out more at our upcoming session on "Cell Behavior and Cognition" at the ASCB/EMBO #cellbio2025 meeting, Saturday 1-3 pm rm 115.
Presenting at #cellbio2025 this week? Please post your presentation info here on Bluesky so we can like and share!
SAVE THE DATE! Stoked to organize the 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting with @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, @lowelab.bsky.social, and Shelbi Russell. Come learn about Biomedicine, Biomechanics, and the Biosphere, August 24-28, 2026. Registration dates, etc., coming soon! Please RT
Most Nature papers are published in Current Biology
Non-canonical cytokinesis driven by mechanical uncoupling via nematic flows and adhesion-based invagination https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.15.682552v1
My latest column for @chemistryworld.com looks at a wonderful recent paper showing how condensates in cells can act as integrators of contextual information.
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This x1000.
And I think there is a huge amount that scientists can learn from the creative world. The work I'm proudest of has used very creative solutions to problems - I think that seeing creating a painting on the same level as writing a paper is an important part of that
New perspective in @jcb.org by @maikbischoff.bsky.social & @mayorlab.bsky.social about how mesenchymal cells use contact-dependent rules to generate swarm-like behaviors, patterns & organ forms. rupress.org/jcb/article/...
#CellBio #CellMigration #Morphogenesis #Development #Science
All genes have the same function:
- Template gene products.
The products are diverse. Their functions are complex and incompletely characterized.
OK--fluorescent protein friends. We want an antibody to TagRFP that works in immunofluorescence. Any suggestions? Re-post please
Learn more and register for the upcoming Stanford.Berkeley.UCSF Next Generation Faculty Symposium on 9/10/25: czbiohub.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
This goes for scientific manuscripts, too, you know—what if we read them outside a “find the mistakes” mindset? 🧪
🪱 C. elegans (Nematode). Every cell counts, literally. C. elegans has a fully mapped cell lineage from egg to adult. Key for understanding cell fate specification, apoptosis, nervous system wiring, aging, and stem cell regulation. Image taken by Swagata Dey #ModelMonday
💫NEW: Das, @fabianspill.bsky.social & co combine intracellular cartography and biophysical modelling to reveal how edge curvature governs endoplasmic reticulum (ER) morphology, showing that curvature-dependent ER reorganization directs distinct modes of epithelial cell migration.
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How does tissue mechanics drive the evolutionary diversity of forms/morphology we see around us?
Our views and review of literature on the importance of studying forms, and more
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July in preprints, the CellBio edition, is out now on the preLights website.
Thanks to Girish Kale, Matthew Davies, Barbora Knotkova and Sristilekha Nath for their contributions.
Have a look:
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#PrePrints #Publishing #Biology #Research #CellBio #PreLights
Cells can form patterns within themselves just like embryos do. How? Connie Yan's new preprint shows how the anterior-posterior cytoskeleton pattern in Stentor is dictated by regionalized scaffolding proteins
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A Summer reading recommendation: new primer in @dev-journal.bsky.social explains how dynamical systems theory unlocks the logic of developmental patterning
Everything from bistable switches & oscillators to phase portraits & more with Python code to explore
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🧪Please check out my new article! It details the Molecular Revolution in Biology
🧪the oft over-looked, but I’d argue the most important development in the history of the life sciences
🧪It is fully narrated as well by the author.
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Artwork by David Goodsell CC-BY-4.0license
🍹Kletter et al. show that cell state-specific cytoplasmic density controls spindle architecture and scaling in neural differentiation, suggesting that the physical properties of the cytoplasm are a determinant in #organelle size control.
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Quote for a 63x objective. The objective is $12,784. The tariff is $1,661.92
Zeiss 63x objective
We need a new microscope objective. A $1.6k tariff for something that you can hold in your hand and that is only manufactured in Germany
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
A twitter post explaining how you can “save PNGs to birds” by converting a drawing of a bird into a spectrogram then playing it to a starling who sung it back, reproducing the PNG.
Can’t wait to introduce bird-based storage into my backup system
I just updated this list! It is only for those looking for postdoc positions, but if enough PIs who are recruiting are interested, I can make a separate starter pack for them.
There is still room to add more early career biologists looking for postdocs, we have 28 on here as of me posting this!
Figure 1 (D-G) Visualization of the sparse-grid discretization of the ECS at ≈60% epiboly.
Mind the pores: studying morphogen gradients
Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from Justina Stark, Rohit Krishnan Harish, Ivo Sbalzarini @mosaicgroup.bsky.social and Michael Brand @tudresden.bsky.social:
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Society for Developmental Biology logo Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series SDB Postdoc Members -- Apply Today Application Deadline August 1, 2025 QR Code to EBH Seminar website
#DevBio #Postdocs! Abstracts are being accepted for speakers in the 2025-2026 Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series. SDB postdoctoral members are eligible to apply. Deadline: August 1. #SDBPostdocSeminar bit.ly/3x1ptgb
Moo Deng the pygmy hippo prancing in her enclosure with long green grass on her head like a crown.
Happy Birthday to the Queen - Moo Deng
So cool!!
