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Michael Way

@drmichaelway.bsky.social

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Cell Biologist working at Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk - Cytoskeleton, Arp2/3 iso-complexes, Signalling and Vaccinia Virus. Editor-in chief Journal Cell Science - @jcellsci.bsky.social - comments are my own opinion

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Michael Way @drmichaelway.bsky.social · Dec 14

Last tweet on X.....Echo & The Bunnymen - "In Bluer Skies"
youtube.com/watch?v=8MKo...
As the lyrics say - What needs must be, I realized, I'm walking out, From blackened skies.......What needs have been, You'll realize, I've found myself, In bluer skies
....Come find me
@drmichaelway.bsky.social

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Niall Geoghegan @niallgeoghegan.bsky.social · 4d

Love this

Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social · 19d

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

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Dave Barry @david-j-barry.bsky.social · 5d

I forgot that I had this made. As a prototype that never went into full production, it's the only one in existence and, therefore, highly desirable.

Let's start the bidding at £1,809, £1 for every day since the very first CBIAS.

For an extra 50%, you can have it signed by @martinjones.bsky.social.

Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium 2024 Commemorative Mug

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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 6d

Motivated graduates with backgrounds in biological or biomedical sciences, physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering and/or computer science are invited to apply to our 4-year fully funded PhD programme.

Apply by 05 November 2025

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...

PhD students

Our PhD programme attracts the brightest scientific minds and is an opportunity for talented people to embark on their career in biomedical research.

www.crick.ac.uk

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Michael Way @drmichaelway.bsky.social · 6d

Thinking we should make some monoclonal antibodies so wondering what experiences people have had with different companies, as it's not going to be cheap so want to get our moneys worth?

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Michael Way @drmichaelway.bsky.social · 13d

my high school music...totally brilliant....uk music at its best during such a creative time

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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 13d

kids! science heroes! axolotls! (cuter story than the headline suggests) ꒰(˶• ᴗ •˶)꒱
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

When your research donor is 6 — Harvard Gazette

First-grader raises $1,000 for axolotl research, meets her scientist hero — and maybe gets taste of what she wants to do when she grows up

news.harvard.edu

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Michael Way @drmichaelway.bsky.social · 16d

More reviewers means more headache right! @jcellsci.bsky.social we now only use 2 reviewers - this speeds up the time to the decision process, which we all want!

Michael Way @drmichaelway.bsky.social · 16d

Now isn't this just the best reason to accept to review JCS papers as well as our sister journals Development, Biology Open, DMM and J Experimental Biology!

Seema Grewal @seemagrewal.bsky.social · 19d

Huge thanks to all of our peer reviewers! Thanks to your efforts, we’ve helped to restore and preserve over 10,000 trees in ancient woodland! 🌳
#PeerReviewWeek
#PRW2025
#notforprofit
#ForestofBiologists

The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 19d

In our Forest of Biologists we fund the restoration and preservation of ancient woodland and dedicate these trees to our peer reviewers.

There are now over 10,000 trees for peer reviews!

Thank you to all our peer reviewers. Find out more:
forest.biologists.com

#PRW2025 @peerreviewweek.bsky.social

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Saikat's_Lab@CSIR-CCMB @sc-lab.bsky.social · 22d

Congratulations @drmichaelway.bsky.social , Carolyn and @tianyang22.bsky.social for the wonderful work. Happy to see that this is similar to our observations @natsmb.nature.com bit.ly/41T60R2 . Happy that both the independent studies came out together.

Activation of Arp2/3 complex by a SPIN90 dimer in linear actin-filament nucleation - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

Francis et al. used cryo-electron microscopy to show how a SPIN90 dimer activates the metazoan Arp2/3 complex to nucleate linear actin filaments for unidirectional and bidirectional growth, forming po...

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Michael Way @drmichaelway.bsky.social · 22d

And now for something completely different @tianyang22.bsky.social & #YanCao uncover of how SPIN90 dimers activate Arp2/3 to nucleate bidirectional linear actin filaments. Great collaboration with @romet-jegou-lab.bsky.social & @carolynmoores1.bsky.social #Cryo-EM #Arp2/3 rdcu.be/eGoH4

Arp2/3-mediated bidirectional actin assembly by SPIN90 dimers

Nature Structural & Molecular Biology - Liu et al. show that SPIN90 dimerizes and binds two Arp2/3 complexes to nucleate two bidirectional actin filaments and the dimerization domain is...

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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 23d

Registration is open for our Imaging Cell Dynamics meeting.
Organised by @franbottanelli.bsky.social, @guijacquemet.bsky.social, @drmichaelway.bsky.social & Giulia Zanetti, the meeting will focus on the interface between cell biology and imaging.
For more info: www.biologists.com/meetings/jcs...

Journal of Cell Science Meeting 2026 Imaging Cell Dynamics
Date: 11 – 14 May 2026 Venue: Montanyà Hotel, Catalonia, Spain
Register now Early-bird deadline: 16 January 2026
Image of a cell showing the nucleus and the cytoskeleton

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Liz Kurtz @liz-kurtz.bsky.social · 25d

When you had quals & published your first paper!✨behind✨SO PROUD to share we published our first piece of the CasL story!! journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... The scaffold protein CasL restrains membrane blebbing and promotes T cell migration | Journal of Cell Science | The Company of Biologists

The scaffold protein CasL restrains membrane blebbing and promotes T cell migration

Highlighted Article: The scaffold CasL restricts membrane blebbing by controlling the balance of actin polymerization and myosin contractility during integrin-dependent T cell migration.

journals.biologists.com

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Shashank Shekhar lab @sshekhr.bsky.social · Aug 29

📢📢Hiring 2 Research Assistants & 2 Postdocs at Emory University in Atlanta to study cytoskeletal biophysics/biochemistry. Please RT.

RAs: great for recent bachelor's/master's in Physics/Bio/Chem/Biochem. Email CV and interests to [email protected].

More info: www.shekharlab.org

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Maitreyi Das @daslabpombe.com · Aug 29

Our latest is now available @jcellsci.bsky.social. The final research article from Bethany Campbell's thesis work. Endocytic patch dynamics are differentially regulated at distinct cell sites in fission yeast.
doi.org/10.1242/jcs....

Endocytic patch dynamics are differentially regulated at distinct cell sites in fission yeast

Endocytosis promotes polarity and growth in eukaryotes. In Schizosaccharomyces pombe fission yeast, endocytosis occurs at the polarized cell ends and division site and at the non-polarized cell sides....

doi.org

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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · Aug 28

Call for papers: Cell Biology of the Nucleus

We invite you to submit your latest research to our special issue: Cell Biology of the Nucleus, guest edited by @abbybuch.bsky.social alongside JCS Editor Megan King @luskinglab.bsky.social.
Deadline: 3 November
journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/nu...

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Michael Way @drmichaelway.bsky.social · Aug 27

It's a great course with amazying world leaders as teachers!

Institut Pasteur Education @pasteuredu.bsky.social · Aug 27

🚨 Molecular Biology of the Cell – Pasteur Course 🧬

This 4-week course explores the molecular mechanisms of cellular life — from vesicular trafficking and cell division to autophagy, host-pathogen interactions, and tumor invasion.

🕰️Application deadline: Sept 15,2025

👉 Apply: bit.ly/47celmj

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Charlotte Kirchhelle @ckirchhelle.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thrilled to share our latest work: how plants control growth through activation of a surface-specific growth programme. Thanks @zoenv.bsky.social, @nathan-german.bsky.social and the other coauthors for all the hard work! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Plant cells at the organ surface use mechanical cues to activate a specific growth control programme

During morphogenesis of multicellular organs, cells acquire distinct identities that meet specific functional requirements. Epidermal identity is widely considered essential for plant morphogenesis du...

www.biorxiv.org

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Michael Way @drmichaelway.bsky.social · Aug 26

Seeing proofs makes a paper seem more real as posting on BioRxiv although the right and important thing to do does somehow diminish the excitement of the process at the journals......of course it might just be me who thinks this but its important for knowing when you want to celebrate a paper!

Michael Way @drmichaelway.bsky.social · Aug 20

💥 Another Cryo-ET study from the Way lab by ‪@miguel-virus-cells.bsky.social‬ in collaboration with Rosenthal lab @crick.ac.uk‬ examining Vaccinia virus egress 😀👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

In situ cryo-electron tomography of vaccinia virus exit from infected cells

Poxvirus-infected cells release newly assembled virions via Golgi-mediated envelopment and subsequent exocytosis at the plasma membrane, prior to cell lysis. Here, we used cryo-electron tomography and...

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Michael Way @drmichaelway.bsky.social · Aug 15

Clearly, Crick group leaders are passionate about everything not just science!

Katharina Schmack @kathaschmack.bsky.social · Aug 15

Tomato tasting!

Four images — a lone ripe tomato on a plant; its wedges arranged neatly on a plate with oil and vinegar; me about to eat one with exaggerated anticipation; me afterwards, eyes closed, in solemn reflection.

Michael Way @drmichaelway.bsky.social · Aug 11

Congrats to everyone including JCS @jcellsci.bsky.social Editor Megan King @luskinglab.bsky.social & Editorial Advisory Board members Dennis Discher, Miho Iijima, James Olzmann @olzmannlab.bsky.social, Kristen Verhey @kjverhey1.bsky.social‬ for becoming ASCB fellows ‬
www.ascb.org/society-news...

Fourteen Visionary Scientists Named 2025 ASCB Fellows - ASCB

The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) is proud to announce the election of 14 outstanding scientists as 2025 ASCB Fellows—a prestigious honor recognizing their exceptional contributions to cell...

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Denis Duboule @denisduboule.bsky.social · Jul 23

Ozzy Osbourne 😟 In Zurich 2016. 'The End' Tour, already 🤘

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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · Jul 22

Yasss!! #Lionesses

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Abby Buchwalter @abbybuch.bsky.social · Jul 22

Another paper bluetorial! Today: how does the spatial location of genes influence their function? (1/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The nuclear periphery confers repression on H3K9me2-marked genes and transposons to shape cell fate - Nature Cell Biology

Marin et al. report the role of lamin proteins and the lamin B receptor (LBR) in chromatin positioning at the nuclear periphery. Knockout of all lamins and LBR in mouse embryonic stem cells leads to h...

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Julia Pfanzelter @juliapfanzelter.bsky.social · Jul 20

Here is what I have been up to in the lab of @stephangrill.bsky.social together with @neipel.bsky.social and many others.
Intrigued by avian left right symmetry breaking we found that a tissue-scale active torque drives chiral flow and requires mechanical coupling to the underlying tissue.

Jonas Neipel @neipel.bsky.social · Jul 20

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I am excited to finally share our work on avian left/right symmetry breaking with you. We reveal a tissue-scale active torque dipole generated at the Hensen’s node, thanks to crazy experiments by Julia @juliapfanzelter.bsky.social and some analysis by me.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

An active torque dipole across tissue layers drives avian left-right symmetry breaking

Unlike in mice, frogs, and fish, left-right (L/R) body axis formation in avian embryos does not arise from the chiral beat of cilia. Instead, a counter-clockwise tissue rotation around Hensen′ node, t...

doi.org

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