1/6 Extremely happy to share my PhD work is out on bioRxiv! We discovered that microtubules deform mitotic centrosomes. When we removed them, the SPD-5 scaffold became denser but didn't lose material. This suggests it's an elastically deformable solid! This only happens in mitosis.

Oliver W. Paulin, J\'ulia Garcia-Baucells, Luise Zieger, Sebastian Aland, Alexander Dammermann, David Zwicker: Active viscoelastic condensates provide controllable mechanical anchor points https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14591 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.14591 https://arxiv.org/html/2506.14591