An ongoing collection of places, ideas and people I run into during the practice of science
Scientific journal publishing research, overview and commentary across all of biology. All of it!
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/home
Part of CellPress @cellpress.bsky.social
Postdoc in Ahmad (Mo) Khalil's lab at Harvard University / Boston University. Synthetic multicellularity | Understanding and engineering multicellularity via synthetic biology and experimental evolution.
Molecular Biologist (aemonten.github.io) 丨Chief Editor @ CSH Protocols (cshprotocols.cshlp.org) 丨Head of the Integrity in Publishing Group at CSHL Press 丨Chair "Molecular Biosystems Conference" (molbiosystems.com) 丨(Oxford) Comma King 丨Central Dogma Police
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Scientist. Co-founder/CEO @ Arcadia Science. Board @ Astera and The Navigation Fund. Texan in CA.
Virginie Hamel & Paul Guichard Lab at University of Geneva
#cryoEM/ET❄️ and #UExM ⚗️ #ExpansionMicroscopy #TeamTomo
Genève, Suisse 🇨🇭
https://mocel.unige.ch/research-groups/guichard-hamel/overv
Drosophila germline with JR Huynh and choanoflagellates bridges with T Brunet.
Weirdo loving weirdos and weird things
Cnidarian Regeneration, Development and Evolution Lab, led by Chiara Sinigaglia & Lucas Leclère, cnidevolab.com
at the LBDV (Laboratoire de Biologie du Développement de Villefranche-sur-mer)
Developmental biologist, CNRS researcher, working on embryogenesis
Exploring the interplay between gene regulation and tissue-tissue interactions in stem cell-based embryo models.
Medical faculty of the University of Heidelberg, Aulehla group @EMBL Heidelberg 🎏
Studying the tiny forces that shape life 🔬 || Postdoc with @xaviertrepat.bsky.social , @maitrejl.bsky.social lab alumna.
(she/her) PhDing on jellyfish regeneration.
Finds tidbits of joy in random long walks and ice-creams!
Cell adhesion, cytoskeletal regulation, Wnt signaling & wherever science leads us + wildflowers & my own idiosyncratic views. First gen college grad
Diversity, equity & Inclusion are core American Values
https://peiferlab.web.unc.edu
Drosophila developmental biologist. Cell signaling. Proteomics. Professor at UMass Boston.
Group leader at MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh. Interdisciplinary research on disease #epigenetics. Part-time solo dad. Occasional music and climbing.
https://institute-genetics-cancer.ed.ac.uk/research/research-groups-a-z/sproul-group
Drosophila development and models of human disease focussed on kinases, metabolism and cell signaling. Prof at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Grew up in Baltimore, MD. Lab website: verheyenlab.weebly.com
Mundus sine caesaribus
Marine ecologist at large, owner of a dog that is large, and largely trying to understand what is going on.
Assistant Professor at University of Texas at San Antonio. Study evolution/regulation of selfish genes. Manage two labs. Research lab🔬🧪🧬🖥️ with some ease but the other lab 🐶🐾 is un-manageable!
https://www.anti-sense.org/
PhD candidate | AHA Predoc Fellow | Studying metabolism and development in the Tennessen Lab at IU Bloomington | She is into dancing and Drosophila 💃🏽🎶🎙️👩🏽🔬🔬
Associate Prof at Northumbria U, looking at Droso learning, memory, neuropeptides, play.
BSc Biology || PhD Neuroscience || Postdoc with Andrew Lin @andrewclin.bsky.social at University of Sheffield @sheffielduni.bsky.social || Drosophila, aging, learning and memory, neurobiology. Host: linktr.ee/quitecurious bit.ly/ArielFrame_GoogleScholar
Professor of Biophysics -
@ISTAustria Using physics to understand biological questions, such as how embryos grow!
Interested in multicellular physical biology in developmental and reproductive biology, PI at the Mechanobiology Institute/Department of Physiology, National University of Singapore 🇸🇬🇯🇵
zookeeper to two tiny humans, professor, cell herder, bioelectrician, 'professional' storyteller, and waterbears just because. see us at:
cohenlab.princeton.edu
Curious about Cells, Art, Music & More
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Developmental biologist ✨ EMBO Postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley, previously PhD at University of Cambridge, RA at University of Sheffield
https://laracbusby8.github.io
Using my first brain to study plasticity of both first and second brains in http://hobertlab.org http://hhmi.org @Columbia | @UMich & @IISERPune alum | (he/him)
PhD (physics) at UC San Diego. ex- IIT Madras. Biophysics, dynamical systems and developmental biology.
Website : sreejithsanthosh.github.io
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), founded in 1888, is an international center for research & education in biology & ecology in Woods Hole, MA. An affiliate of the University of Chicago. www.mbl.edu
Developmental biologist. Studying how developing nerves, neural circuits, and muscles interact to give rise to complex behaviour. Also, I am interested and involved in science, technology, and innovation policy.
At the Stowers Institute, great minds are at work seeking to understand the function & behavior of living organisms, paving the way for future medical advances. Celebrating 25 years of discovery. #Stowers25
Developmental biologist investigating the emergence of patterns in diverse embryos. Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield 🐊 🦈 🐥
https://linktr.ee/rorylcooper
4th-year PhD in Jean-Léon Maître @maitrejl.bsky.social and Stéphanie Descroix labs, Institut Curie | @mblscience.bsky.social EmbryoCourse24 |Embryo mechanics, Microfluidics & Microscopy | Morphogenesis enthusiast | ⛵🌊🔬
Origin of major clades, ontogeny & evolution of form, evo+devo+paleo — Dept of Geosciences at Princeton University
opinionated mouse geneticist and professor at emory
judicious user of reply-all
#DevBio Lab at NorthwesternU Studying Pluripotency, Neural Crest Stem Cells and the Evolution of Vertebrates. Recovering Former Dept. Chair, Diversity Advocate. Past President Society for Developmental Biology.
I lead a Washington University lab focused on regulation of brain development and using stem cell, organoid and mouse models to study its disruption in neurodevelopmental disorders. Views are my own. https://sites.wustl.edu/krolllab
We are the Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life (PoL) at TUD Dresden University of Technology @tudresden.bsky.social @dfg.de.
Our goal is to unravel the principles underlying the organization of living matter.
https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de
The Betz Lab is interested in the mechanics of cellular systems especially concerning cancer progression, collective cell migration and cell fate decision.
Ass. Prof. Of Neural MorphoGenomics @DMLS, Uni Zurich. •4D tissue morphogenesis •Human organoids •Developmental biology •Evolution of tissue mechanics. Previous @ETH @mpicbg @DBS-TIFR
https://akankshajain2022.github.io/AkankshaJain.github.io/
Junior Group Leader - Friedrich Miescher Institute @FMIScience / We are interested in imaging how cells compute growth cues via metabolism / former postdoc @Greco Lab, Yale / PhD @Jitu Mayor Lab NCBS, India
Mechanobiology. In Job Market 🕵️♂️. Brillouin🔬advocate. Senior postdoc@Prevedel Lab-EMBL Heidelberg. Alumni Maria Leptin (EMBL) & Nick Brown (Gurdon Institute). https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3041-2503
Clinical senior lecturer/group leader, Queen Mary University of London
Cellular decision making
Co-founder & CSO @ArcadiaScience. Head of Open Science @AsteraInstitute. Immigrant. she/her
Still post frequently on X (@PracheeAC)
PostDoc, Kruse lab at UNIGE, working on active living matter and tissue mechanics.
Former PhD at Curie institute on cell & tissue mechanics.
Physicist having a go at biology, EMBO postdoctoral fellow @UCL in the Mao group, @EMBL alumna
PhD student at IBDM and DyNaMO, Marseille
We explore how cells stick together and fall apart..focussing on how cell-cell adhesion, apoptotic extrusion and tissue mechanics regulate epithelial homeostasis 🧫🔬
@AlphaYap’s lab at IMB, Brisbane
The European Molecular Biology Laboratory drives visionary basic research and technology development in the life sciences. www.embl.org
PI studying nutritional biology at RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research & visiting associate professor in Kyoto University. Interested in Drosophila genetics, amino acid, nutrient, microbiota, metabolism, ageing, lifespan, and many others
Postdoc in the Roska Lab at IOB Basel
Previously PhD in the Hiiragi Lab @EMBL @HubrechtInstitute
Assistant Professor, Tish Cancer Institute @Mount Sinai. Colorectal Cancer. Oncofetal reprogramming. Views are my own. "By land and by sea, Carthage will rise again"
https://profiles.mountsinai.org/slim-mzoughi
Ph.D.(Pharm. Sci.)
Research interests: Medicinal Chemistry, Hit to Lead, Lead optimisation, Deveropment of the nobel synthetic methods for APIs.
Disease areas of interest: Infectious Diseases, Opioids, CNS.
Osaka, Kobe, Iwate, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Onomichi
👩💻 genomics, infectious diseases, parasites, bile duct cancer, scicomm, creative stuff 🎨. Alumni @ MWIT, U of Bristol, U of Cambridge/Wellcome Sanger Institute, MBL Biology of Parasitism. Now in Thailand @ MDKKU & Cholangiocarcinoma Research Institute
Post-doc doing research on gene therapy at the Tokyo University, previously worked on arboviral infections.
FocalPlane is a community site for anyone with an interest in microscopy. Hosted by Journal of Cell Science (@jcellsci.bsky.social) and The Company of Biologists (@biologists.bsky.social).
https://focalplane.biologists.com/
Journal of Cell Science (JCS) publishes cutting-edge science encompassing all aspects of cell biology. JCS is a community journal published by The Company of Biologists (@biologists.bsky.social), a not-for-profit organisation. #cellbiology #cellbio
Not-for-profit publisher of Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open. Host of community sites the Node, preLights and FocalPlane. Supporting biologists and inspiring biology.
A preprint highlights service run by the biological community and supported by The Company of Biologists (@biologists.bsky.social).
Julia & stats.
Love Probabilities but bad at it.
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Mastodon: @Arthigs@fosstodon.org
1st year of Phd in active learning/computer vision
Doctoral Researcher in @ivaskalab.bsky.social 🇫🇮 | BS-MS from IISER, Pune 🇮🇳 | Cancer, Cells and Mitochondria | Badminton and cricket!
Chief Scientist RIKEN PRI, Assoc Prof Univ Tokyo Department of Physics, Institute for Physics of Intelligence. Biophysics, noneq statphys. https://noneq-biophys.riken.jp/
The Night Science Podcast explores the creative scientific process, with your hosts Itai Yanai (@itaiyanai.bsky.social) and Martin Lercher.
https://nightscience.buzzsprout.com/
http://youtube.com/@NightSciencePodcast
Cell biologist at i3S - University of Porto
Associate Professor - Faculty of Medicine of Porto
At the crossroads between nuclear mechanics and cell division.
https://integrativenucleus.weebly.com/
Everything microtubules, movement, and microscopy. Melanoma research focus. ARC Future Fellow, lab head University of Queensland #CatsOfAcademia advoCATe. UCSF Wittmann lab alumni.
Research engineer and core facility manager at the Institut Pasteur
https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/image-analysis-hub/
Everything #TrackMate #Mastodon-sc (the tool to track lineages in microscopy videos, not the social networks etc).
Views are my own
Prof. Cancer Biophysics at University of Sheffield.
Investigating Nuclear Myosin, Nuclear Organisation and Mechanobiology in Cancer with single molecule Biophysics
Web: Toseland-lab.com
Husband - Dad of 2 - Scientist 🇨🇱 Chilean expat.
I love to study how cells walk & talk.
PI of the @cellcommlab.bsky.social
#CellMigration #CellComm #calciumsignaling #organelles 🧪🔬
How do organs form from cells to tissue? Zebrafish and organoids; live imaging; quantitative biology; theory. Comments by Caren Norden
Scripps Research Professor. HHMI Investigator. Nobel Prize Physiology or Medicine 2021. Opinions are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.
Stem cell and mechanobiologist at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Biomedicine and University of Helsinki
cytoskeleton self-organization / shape, patterns and symmetry / minimal and artificial cells / biophysics teacher @ ESPCI ParisTech
www.cytomorpholab.com
Physics of Embryonic Self-Organization and Morphogenesis. Tweets by Otger Campàs (Professor, Chair of Tissue Dynamics and Director
at the Physics of Life Excellence Cluster of TU Dresden)
We study lamins and nuclear mechanobiology. Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering. Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology. Cornell University. https://lammerding.wicmb.cornell.edu/
Cell division and morphognesis
minclab.fr
We study pathogen, cell & tissue mechanobiology in cardiac diseases and cancers ~ Team from Cameroon, Eswatini, South Africa & Uganda.
mechanobiology.uct.ac.za
Mechanics and Dynamics of Eptihelia
Epithelial Junction Remodeling and Fate Acquisition in #Drosophila and xenopus @Xenbase
at @IGDRennes, #devbio, @DrosDGR, #Génétique, #Rennes
Actin cytoskeleton-associated machines that produce and sense force in adhesion and migration.
CNRS researcher, Group leader, Head of Cell Bio dept at https://www.i2bc.paris-saclay.fr
https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=tOHuSNMAAAAJ&hl=fr
Sir Henry Wellcome fellow studying macrophage migration and mechanobiology @UCL. BSc Biochemistry @Bristol. PhD Cancer Biology @CRUK Scotland Institute. 🏴
Cell lover by day, takeaway lover by night.
https://hoanganhle2602.wixsite.com/cellsandtheirwonders
Interdisciplinary cell biologist fascinated by (extra)cellular mechanobiology in (patho)physiology. Lecturer, Department of Biomedical Engineering @University of Strathclyde & CeMi. Tweets about science & other stuff in which I engage. Views are my own.
PhD candidate @Gloerich lab @UMCU, studying the role of mechanical forces in epithelial homeostasis. Fascinated by the interplay between mechanics, stem cells and signaling.
aneeshsathe.com
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#1 molecular motor,
cytoskeletal motors, cytoskeletal filaments, filament dynamics, cell migration, mechanobiology, morphogenesis
Cell Biologist, Nuclear Envelope, Allen Distinguished Investigator, co-Director of PREP. Associate Dean of Research. Views are my own.
Professor@UNSW - Materials Science & Engineering, Chemistry, Bioengineering | 💕biomaterials, biofabrication, cell and tissue engineering, organoids, morphogenesis, mechanobiology | He/Him | 🌀 kilianlab.com
Associate Scientist @SanfordResearch| #ECM-Engineering #ImmuneCancer-Engineering|Women's Health|Co-founder Cellatrix|she/her/ella 🇪🇸🇺🇲
Cell biologist @INSERM @Sorbonne_Univ_, clathrin, dynamin, neuromuscular diseases, electron microscopy, metal replicas #CLEM
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