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Fran Bottanelli @franbottanelli.bsky.social · 3d

5 yo discovered Labubus 😭

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Fran Bottanelli @franbottanelli.bsky.social · 6d

My time at Yale was fantastic! You will for sure have amazing colleagues! Apply!

Yale Cell Biology @yalecellbiology.bsky.social · Sep 4

We're hiring new faculty! Looking for talented scientists that are interested in pushing the boundaries of Cell Biology. Please spread the word!

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Al Jord Lab @aljordlab.bsky.social · 8d

🔴✨ Exciting opportunity : we're hiring a PhD student! ✨🔴

👉 Don't hesitate to apply or spread the word!

⏰ Deadline 30th November 2025

ℹ️ More information and application : www.crg.eu/en/content/t...

@crg.eu @prbb.org

Centre for Genomic Regulation Website

www.crg.eu

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Fran Bottanelli @franbottanelli.bsky.social · 9d

Sorry Nadja :) named spelt wrong… Italian autocorrect @nadjahuempf.bsky.social

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Fran Bottanelli @franbottanelli.bsky.social · 9d

Fantastic work by Nadia and co in the @ewerslab.bsky.social on recapitulating the dynamics of cytokinesis with #ExM!

Nadja M. Hümpfer @nadjahuempf.bsky.social · 10d

Now out on bioRxiv. 🥳My research on #cytokinesis, averaging thousands of #ExM images🔬, creating a dynamic atlas of cytokinesis 🦠⏳. Here's an animated sneak peek of what we found. Better resolution on bioRxiv😄 #PSFoftheGIF

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Fran Bottanelli @franbottanelli.bsky.social · 15d

Who didn’t tell me he was coming to Berlin?

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Markus Deserno @markusdeserno.bsky.social · 15d

Major cool membrane conference coming up next week! The Biomembrane Days 2025, organized by an amazing team from the MPI for Colloids and Interface Science @mpici.bsky.social: Rumy Dimova (@dimovalab.bsky.social), Helge Ewers, and Thomas Weikl. I'm so very much looking forward to attending! 🤩 🧪

Biomembrane Days 2025

Membranes form the intricately shaped compartments of life. The Biomembrane Days are a triannual workshop that highlights recent advances in understanding the morphology and molecular organization of ...

events.mpikg.mpg.de

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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

Lots of illustrated trees. A sample image taken from the Forest of Biologists website.

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David Solecki @so-lets-kilab70.bsky.social · 16d

Field notes from a weekend PI at the #microscope: vesicle cargo lanes lighting up in real time like @FedEx. This is the ML1N PX domain in a fibroblast. Hot damn, there’s mind-blowing action under the surface of cells: this video shows 2 min of time 🤯 #Cellbio #MicroscopyMonday #SciArt #SciComm

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Fran Bottanelli @franbottanelli.bsky.social · 16d

Very cool! Which PI is this? I see early-late endosomes but also lots of smaller endosomes!

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Felix Campelo @felixmendu.bsky.social · 16d

🧵 I've been meaning to write a #Skytorial on our recently posted prepring in which we show evidence that the Golgi 🥞 is a mechanoresponsive organelle. Extracellular mechanical forces also tune Golgi export capacity! 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Mechanical forces stimulate Golgi export

Human cells face a wide range of external mechanical stimuli that vary with cell type, state, and pathological conditions. The rapidly growing field of mechanobiology investigates how cells sense and ...

www.biorxiv.org

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Felix Campelo @felixmendu.bsky.social · 16d

This is already This Thursday (25th September)! Join us at the @focalplane.bsky.social features #MembraneTrafficking for lots of amazing microscopy and interesting membrane biology! @franbottanelli.bsky.social @ishier.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social

Felix Campelo @felixmendu.bsky.social · 22d

Next Thursday Sept 25 (4-6pm CET) we have our first #FocalPlaneFeatures together with our #membranetrafficking community! Thanks to all who submitted such exciting abstracts. The final program is out, featuring a keynote by Gillian Griffiths. Register here: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/09/16/f...

FocalPlane features... membrane trafficking
Thursday 25 September, 15:00 -17:00 BST (UTC+1)
Chaired by Francesca Bottanelli, Felix Campelo and Ishier Raote
Nick Ader (UNC Greensboro)
Keep it together! Mechanisms of membrane maintenance and biogenesis
Hannes Maib (University of Sheffield)
Multiplex and super resolution imaging of phosphoinositide conversion during receptor trafficking
Mónica Quiñones-Frías (Brandeis University)
Loss of ER-Shaping protein Atlastin causes synaptic ER stress and membrane trafficking defects
Keynote speaker
Gillian Griffiths (Yale University)
Unexpected membrane dynamics in T cells

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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 16d

Join us this Thursday for our mini-symposium with the membrane trafficking webinar series
Featuring talks from @nickader.bsky.social, @maiblab.bsky.social and Mónica Quiñones-Frías, and a keynote lecture from Gillian Griffiths @griffithslab.bsky.social.
focalplane.biologists.com/2025/09/16/f...

FocalPlane features... membrane trafficking - FocalPlane

FocalPlane features... membrane trafficking - News

focalplane.biologists.com

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Avital Rodal @rodallab.bsky.social · 21d

Come see Mónica, who is on the job market! This is a really cool story using beatiful imaging to reveal unexpected properties of the presynaptic ER.

Felix Campelo @felixmendu.bsky.social · 22d

Next Thursday Sept 25 (4-6pm CET) we have our first #FocalPlaneFeatures together with our #membranetrafficking community! Thanks to all who submitted such exciting abstracts. The final program is out, featuring a keynote by Gillian Griffiths. Register here: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/09/16/f...

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Felix Campelo @felixmendu.bsky.social · 22d

Next Thursday Sept 25 (4-6pm CET) we have our first #FocalPlaneFeatures together with our #membranetrafficking community! Thanks to all who submitted such exciting abstracts. The final program is out, featuring a keynote by Gillian Griffiths. Register here: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/09/16/f...

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Fran Bottanelli @franbottanelli.bsky.social · 22d

My first time! Need to find collaborators here ahahh! Send me an email before you leave I can def share my favorites 🤩

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Fran Bottanelli @franbottanelli.bsky.social · 22d

DEF not putting my whole body on this one if you see what I mean…

Fran Bottanelli @franbottanelli.bsky.social · 22d

634 m!!!! Impressive! The top deck is at 450 m

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Fran Bottanelli @franbottanelli.bsky.social · 22d

And after a much needed stop at the fish market off to the 2nd tower! Tokyo tower! Not as tall but more impressive than the Skytree IMO #FraninJapan

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Fran Bottanelli @franbottanelli.bsky.social · 22d

What a fascinating country! It is so relaxing compared to the European chaos

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Fran Bottanelli @franbottanelli.bsky.social · 22d

Ahahaha

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Fran Bottanelli @franbottanelli.bsky.social · 22d

„Almost“

Fran Bottanelli @franbottanelli.bsky.social · 22d

No way I am stepping on there

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Fran Bottanelli @franbottanelli.bsky.social · 22d

451 m up above Tokyo!

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Fran Bottanelli @franbottanelli.bsky.social · 23d

I am absolutely in love with Japan! After a day of comfort food and nursing my jet lag I decided to continue on my „highest towers in the world“ bucket list 🤩 #FraninJapan

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