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LinderLab @linderlab.bsky.social · Sep 2

Our paper on podosome regulation by myosins 1e/f is now online.
We introduce the concept of the podosome base, a region of plasma membrane-associated components 🔬
Cool collaboration with @renaudpoincloux.bsky.social‬ and Krendel labs
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · May 9

I'm up to 75 responses. I would be very thankful if you fill this out 😀

Median time to take it is 2.6 minutes. I promise it only takes significantly longer if you would like to leave me a rant about efforts that are a waste of time. Those make me laugh, though

Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · May 5

I'm writing a paper about marketing your shared resource (core) facility. We seek input on what people have tried and what did and didn't work.

If you work in a core facility and have tried to expand usership, please fill out this form. Only 9 questions!

harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management

Survey for shared research facilities (core facilities) on what marketing efforts they have tried.

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Eva de la Serna @sciencedoodles.bsky.social · Apr 22

New to bioimage analysis & Python? Want to quantify fluorescence microscopy images, explore segmentation & classification, & try colocalization analysis using Python?

If so, this course is for you! Apply by June 1st! 🔬💻https://iac.hms.harvard.edu/bobiac/2025

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · Apr 15

Moving obituary of David Stephens, "in many ways, the perfect academic" journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

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Shashank Shekhar lab @sshekhr.bsky.social · Apr 15

Thrilled to be featured in The New York Times! @nytimes.com

Fantastic piece by @jack-tamisiea.bsky.social on our discovery of the role of physical forces in evolution! With insightful comments from @wcratcliff.bsky.social!

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Apr 15

A follow-up to my quote of the day this morning:

A short Bluetorial about Vannevar Bush and his legacy

a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on

ALT: a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on

media.tenor.com

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Luke Lavis @rhodamine110.bsky.social · Mar 1

Hey #chemsky and beyond, with all that is going on, I am curious what expensive, high margin molecules we could provide to the community for free. What things do you use all the time, cost way too much, and would make a difference? Alexa Fluor 488 NHS? Other dyes? Other molecule?

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Valerie Horsley @valeriejhorsley.bsky.social · Feb 24

Please share:
@delauro.house.gov is cochair of the US House Congressional Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group.

They are looking for instances where the impoundment and restriction of NIH/NSF funds is having a negative impact. Submit examples here delauro.house.gov/constituent-...

2025 Federal Financial Assistance Freeze

On Monday, January 27th, 2025, President Trump issued an order to freeze virtually all of approved and legally required federal funding.

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Lucien Hinderling @lhinderling.bsky.social · Feb 23

PREPRINT OUT ✨ "hack" your microscope to work as a 3D printer! print micrometer sized features at cm scale. a method for easy and cheap microfabrication, with a focus on biological applications. THREAD ↓
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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kidneymyosin.bsky.social @kidneymyosin.bsky.social · Feb 18

Another open position is for an assistant orassociate professor in any area of cell or developmental biologyt; current strengths include cytoskeleton, mechanobiology, microscopy. Join a friendly department in the beautiful upstate NY; K99/R00 not required. bit.ly/CDBjob

Assistant/Associate Professor, Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, SUNY Upstate Medical University Syracuse, New York.

kidneymyosin.bsky.social @kidneymyosin.bsky.social · Feb 18

Reposting faculty job opportunities! Two Empire Innovations Scholar positions at the Assoc. Professor level are open in our dept (CellDevBio) and Biochem. Mol. Bio. dept. Seeking funded faculty w. interests in microscopy and related areas. Apply at bit.ly/UpstateEIP

Empire Innovations Program/Cluster Hire with the focus on Biological Imaging, Biosensors, Cell Dynamics Analysis, and Optogenetics Department of Cell & Developmental Biology and Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York.

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Christophe 🔬 L @christlet.bsky.social · Feb 9

And finally a funny trick for actin aficionados: label actin with different probes and use their differential staining properties to identify actin structures within cells: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Jan 26

Of these, 97 received funding from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) (with some also receiving funding from other institutes).

97/174 = 56% while NIGMS typically receives 7% of NIH budget.

3/n

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mehmet can uçar @mehmetcanucar.bsky.social · Jan 9

Self-generated gradients guide collective cell movement -but often different cell types must move together, e.g. in immune response.

We develop a theory of self-generated chemotaxis in mixed populations -are there optimal principles for this cooperation?🤔
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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kidneymyosin.bsky.social @kidneymyosin.bsky.social · Jan 24

Thank you for hosting our team and making this project a success! Here is a macrophage playing beach volleyball with IgG-coated beads, courtesy of Tyler Paul, Yoseph Loyd, and @scientistrachel.bsky.social !

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Teng-Leong Chew @scopeshifu.bsky.social · Jan 24

I am immensely excited and proud of the official launch of Imaging Southeast Asia (iSEA) yesterday. This is one of the fastest growing #microscopy communities I have witnessed across the globe! Check them out, and join at imagingsea.org 🧪

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kidneymyosin.bsky.social @kidneymyosin.bsky.social · Dec 9

#CellBio2024 - if you would like to learn more about our job posting for an established investigator with interests in microscopy, image analysis, optogenetics etc., feel free to reach out - I would be happy to chat at the meeting! bit.ly/UpstateEIP

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bioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · Nov 21

Optogenetic and chemical genetic tools for rapid repositioning of vimentin intermediate filaments https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.21.624725v1

Intermediate filaments (IFs) are a key component of the cytoskeleton, essential for regulating cell

www.biorxiv.org

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Vishal Mohanakrishnan @vishalmkrishnan.bsky.social · Nov 19

Bone remodeling is traditionally driven by osteoblasts and osteoclasts, but our study reveals a third essential player: "Type R capillaries". 🦴🔬😍

Excited to share my PhD work from Ralf H. Adams lab, now published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social Nature Cell Biology.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Volodya Gelfand; Northwestern University @vgelfand.bsky.social · Nov 20

A new microtubule end-binding protein (called EB-SUN) was discovered in Drosophila by Sun Kim, a graduate student in our lab together with Steve Rogers, a former graduate student, now on faculty in UNC.
www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...

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Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social · Nov 21

Nice work from Yasushi Okada and colleagues on the development of fluorescence lifetime biosensors for ATP, cAMP, citrate, and glucose using mTurquoise2
www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Construction, characterization, and validation of qmTQ2-ATP biosensor

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bioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · Nov 21

Anillin tunes contractility and regulates barrier function during Rho flare-mediated tight junction remodeling https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.20.624537v1

To preserve barrier function, cell-cell junctions must dynamically remodel during cell shape changes

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kidneymyosin.bsky.social @kidneymyosin.bsky.social · Nov 29

Lots of posters from SUNY Upstate Cell Dev Biology at #cellbio2023! Please stop by and talk to the presenters!

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