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Helen Matthews @helenkmatthews.bsky.social · 17h

Very sad news that Jochen Guck has died. A true pioneer of biophysics, he was an inspiration to me and so many others.

Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) @mpi-scienceoflight.bsky.social · 18h

With deep sadness, we share that Prof. Jochen Guck, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light passed away on October 3. His visionary work bridged physics and medicine. We have lost a brilliant scientist and dear friend.

mpl.mpg.de/news/article...
@fau.de

📸 Stephan Spangenberg

Professor Jochen Guck, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL), He headed the division “Cell Physics” at MPL and the Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin (MPZPM).

Helen Matthews @helenkmatthews.bsky.social · 8d

It's gone??!!

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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 16d

Do you know an outstanding cell biologist? Nominations are open for our 2026 medals:

🔬Hooke Medal for outstanding contribution in cell biology
👩‍🔬Women in Cell Biology medal
🧫 Postdoctoral Researcher medal
🔬Raff PhD medal award

Deadline 1st November

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Helen Matthews @helenkmatthews.bsky.social · 20d

Congratulations 🎉🎉 Very well deserved

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Alexis Barr @alexisbarr.bsky.social · 20d

@mariasecrier.bsky.social & I are looking for an enthusiastic & excellent data scientist for a 4-year postdoc to understand cell cycle dysregulation in cancer.

Deadline 15th October. Get in touch if you have any questions.

Please repost!

More details:
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Description

Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...

www.imperial.ac.uk

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Helen Matthews @helenkmatthews.bsky.social · 20d

Well done Bella 👏👏👏
#NECB2025 #proudPI

mcb-sheffield.bsky.social @mcb-sheffield.bsky.social · 20d

Amazing talk by Bella, from @helenkmatthews.bsky.social lab at #NECB2025

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Helen Matthews @helenkmatthews.bsky.social · 21d

Great talks this morning from all the @mcb-sheffield.bsky.social final year students including from our very own Rachel and Meg. It's amazing to see how all the projects have developed.

mcb-sheffield.bsky.social @mcb-sheffield.bsky.social · 21d

More fascinating talks this morning by our final year students Megan Poxon (@jasonkinglab.bsky.social & @helenkmatthews.bsky.social), Nada Alosaimi (C. Smythe lab), Zhe Bao (@erainerolab.bsky.social), @rlawson954.bsky.social @helenkmatthews.bsky.social) and Ashleigh Whelan (Wilson lab)

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Mark Morgan @mark-morgan.bsky.social · 26d

Less than a week to go, before the North England Cell Biology Forum in Liverpool #NECB-2025
We’re excited to be welcoming cell biologists, from across the North, to our amazing city.

The schedule is packed full of great science!

bit.ly/3Vh5dpg

Iconic Liverpool landmarks rendered using immunofluorescent cell images

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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 28d

Studying cancer evolution needs multi-region or single cell seq for phylogenetics, right? Amazingly (I think!) we found single-sample bulk methylation suffices, via analysis of "fluctuating methylation". In @nature.com today led by brilliant @calumgabbutt.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fluctuating DNA methylation tracks cancer evolution at clinical scale - Nature

Cancer evolutionary dynamics are quantitatively inferred using a method, EVOFLUx, applied to fluctuating DNA methylation.

www.nature.com

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Helen Matthews @helenkmatthews.bsky.social · 29d

Well done to our PhD student @rlawson954.bsky.social 👏

on giving a talk on her data on keratins and mitotic mechanics at the MBI-MPG conference at @mbisg.bsky.social in Singapore!

@mcb-sheffield.bsky.social

Mechanobiology Institute @mbisg.bsky.social · 29d

What happens to packed cells in a monolayer during mitosis? @rlawson954.bsky.social presented varying experiments investigating shape and force changes, cell-cell junctions, and mechanics in mitotic cells, suggesting important roles for keratin and desmosomes #MBIMPG2025 @helenkmatthews.bsky.social

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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · Sep 3

Our new collection offers cell biologists practical, expert-driven guidance and best practices in the design, execution, and analysis of experiments, and the subsequent communication of their results to their peers. 👉 rupress.org/jcb/collecti...

#Reproducibility

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Helen Matthews @helenkmatthews.bsky.social · Aug 22

Sad to say goodbye to our brilliant mRes student Alessia Atzori. Alessia has done fantastic work on the transcription factors that control cell motility (watch this space for future publications) and is heading to Newcastle for a PhD

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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · Aug 22

We are sponsoring the North of England Cell Biology Forum in Liverpool on 18th Sept

Register and submit your abstracts here:

markmorgan60.wixsite.com/necb2025

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Jan Lammerding - Lab @lammerdinglab.bsky.social · Aug 19

Interested in #mechanobiology of the cell nucleus? The submission deadline for the first ever FASEB Science Research Conference on the Mechanobiology of the Nucleus is August 31, 2025. Submit your abstract to be considered for a platform presentation.
#MBNSRC

events.faseb.org/event/Mechan...

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Giulia Paci @giuliapaci.bsky.social · Aug 11

Thrilled to share the first story from my postdoc! 🎉 A wonderful experiment + simulations collaboration. In the Drosophila wing, we find that 3D cell shapes affect signalling range and fine-tune developmental patterning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thread below ⬇️

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Helen Matthews @helenkmatthews.bsky.social · Jul 22

Wow, really? Feels like yesterday we were in the lab together

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Helen Matthews @helenkmatthews.bsky.social · Jul 22

Ditto! Eldest finished on Friday (on his 11th birthday). Not sure where that time went!

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Helen Matthews @helenkmatthews.bsky.social · Jul 2

Great talks by PhD students @isabelladavis00.bsky.social and Meg at the Sheffield Pancreatic Cancer Research Network meeting 👏

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Victoria Hart @vichart33.bsky.social · Jul 1

A beautiful day in the sunshine for our lovely lab summer social ☀️ @isabelladavis00.bsky.social @helenkmatthews.bsky.social @rlawson954.bsky.social

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Helen Matthews @helenkmatthews.bsky.social · Jul 1

Fantastic lab hike with @erainerolab.bsky.social yesterday. Included a much needed ice cream stop at Chatsworth House (bakewell tart flavoured ice cream 😋)

@mcb-sheffield.bsky.social

Group of smiling, hot people on a sunny day in front of a waterfall

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Victoria Hart @vichart33.bsky.social · Jun 24

Excited to be selected as a Social Media Contributor for Small G proteins in cellular signalling and disease 2025! 🧬

Follow along for insights into how these tiny but mighty proteins shape health and disease!

#BiochemEvent @BiochemSoc #SmallGProteins #CellBiology #SciComm

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@physicsoflifeuk @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social · Jun 25

Registration is now OPEN for the UK Physics of Life Summer School 2025 – 8–11 Sept at Durham University!

🔗 Book now: pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durham...
ℹ️ Info & programme: www.physicsoflife.org.uk/summer-schoo...
Wellcome Travel bursaries are available for LMICs

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Guillaume Jacquemet @guijacquemet.bsky.social · Jun 23

Are you looking for a postdoc?
I will be looking for 2-4 people after the summer to join the lab !!
Do not hesitate to reach out and disseminate !!

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Helen Matthews @helenkmatthews.bsky.social · Jun 23

Everyone in the lab is raving about Cellpose-SAM. Segmenting the previously unsegmentable across a range of different cell types and markers.

Marius Pachitariu @marius10p.bsky.social · May 3

🚀🔬🦠 Releasing 🤖Cellpose-SAM🤖, a cellular segmentation algorithm with superhuman generalization 🦸‍♀️. Try it now on 🤗 huggingface.co/spaces/mouse...

paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
w/ @computingnature.bsky.social 1/n

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Victoria Hart @vichart33.bsky.social · Jun 23

I am excited to share our new Sheffield Pancreatic Cancer Research Network website! Please check it out at... sites.google.com/sheffield.ac... @fohsheffield.bsky.social @mcb-sheffield.bsky.social

Sheffield Pancreatic Cancer Research Network

Meet the Team

sites.google.com

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