Alison Kickuth

Learn about the incredible #zebrafish tools and imaging created by @brugueslab.bsky.social & @alisonkickuth.bsky.social 🐟

Our latest ‘Imaging spotlight’ is from Jan Brugués @brugueslab.bsky.social & Alison Kickuth @alisonkickuth.bsky.social where they discuss the microscopy & microrheology techniques that they used in their research dissecting the mechanics of cytokinesis.
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🎉Exciting new findings out in @nature.com today by the Brugués lab! @brugueslab.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de

👨‍🔬 The authors describe how physical instability of the cytoskeleton works with the cell cycle to drive organization in the embryo during early development

Read our press release: tud.link/kctu4s

Really excited to share our new paper in @nature.com! We uncovered how a physical instability of the cytoplasm coupled with the cell cycle drives cytoplasmic partitioning in early embryos #zebrafish #drosophila. Read more in this🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤩
@poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de

Thank you Swantje 😊

Thanks Jesse!

Thank you Stefano!

Thanks Lucia! 😊

Excited to share Alison's @alisonkickuth.bsky.social paper from the lab out in @nature.com this week! We uncovered how a mechanical ratchet mechanism drives cytokinesis in early #zebrafish embryos. Read more in this thread 🧵 and at www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤩
@poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de

Thanks a lot pavel!

🎉Exciting findings out today in Nature @nature.com from the PoL group of Jan Brugués @brugueslab.bsky.social! The authors describe a new mechanism driving cell division during early development in #zebrafish, fundamentally altering our view of the process.

Read the press release: tud.link/2s3bxj

Special thanks to @ursa-ursic.bsky.social who just joined Bluesky 🥳

Thanks Michael!! 😊

Really happy to see my PhD first-author paper published in @nature.com! I’m very grateful to have worked with such a great team. Huge thanks to Urša Uršič, Michael Staddon, and Jan Brugués, as well as the @brugueslab.bsky.social, and the @poldresden.bsky.social and @mpi-cbg.de community!

Thank you Alejandro!

I'll also miss Dresden very much and especially being part of the Brugues lab! It has been a great time :)

Another successful Brugues lab retreat. Starting out with a great art workshop! and ending in a group hug!

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Our call for PhD students within our International Max Planck Research School for Cell, Developmental and Systems Biology is open! Apply until October 28th. We are looking forward hearing from you! imprs.mpi-cbg.de

What a pleasure to collaborate with Laura #Schaedel and her team at @uni-saarland.de to study #microtubule damage and repair under mechanical load.

Mechanical forces drive evolutionary change A small tissue fold present in fruit fly embryos buffers mechanical stresses and may have evolved in response to mechanical forces.

Dresden researchers @paveltomancak.bsky.social @bruvellu.bsky.social, Carl Modes, @cuencam15.bsky.social ‬ & colleagues published in @nature.com that a tissue fold in fruit fly embryos buffers mechanical stresses & may have evolved in response to mechanical forces. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Patrick's paper is finally out, a label-free method to measure the composition of multicomponent biomolecular condensates!

Just started our @bcube-tud.bsky.social - organized Engineering Life 2025 #25EngLife conference in #Dresden! Excited to have everybody around!

The maturation process of oocytes remains paused for several years. Researchers from #UniKonstanz and @uni-goettingen.de have now found out which protein ensures this state is maintained over such a long period. Full story: https://t1p.de/nvejp

Very happy that the first article from my postdoc work in the Tomancak lab is now published @PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/.... We studied the self-organization of actin in aggregates made from Hydra cells. Thread below (1/9)

Thrilled to share our work using live imaging to understand how Epiblast (future embryo proper) and Primitive Endoderm (future extraembryonic tissues) cell fates segregate in the preimplantation mouse embryo. Gargantuan effort led by amazing @rpkimyip.bsky.social, David Denberg and Denis Faerberg!

Great news, congrats! 🥳

A picture of 3 rows of people on steps at the MRC LMB. From left to right - top row: Akaash, Vic, Lara - Middle row: Kerrie, Manu, Paddy - bottom row: Meg and Julie

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Join us to explore the molecular mechanisms of receptor sorting in endosomes.
Experience in protein expression/purification, cloning & cell culture desired 🧫🔬
Apply now 👉 www.nature.com/naturecareer...

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I successfully defended my PhD thesis this week! Thank you @brugueslab.bsky.social, @poldresden.bsky.social and @mpi-cbg.de for the great time over the last years!