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Briggs Group @briggsgroup.bsky.social · 2d

The mechanistic basis of cargo selection during Golgi maturation. From Rebecca Taylor, @katciazynska.bsky.social, @jggkaufman.bsky.social & @grigorytagiltsev.bsky.social at @mpibiochem.bsky.social with David Owen and Sean Munro's group @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social | www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The mechanistic basis of cargo selection during Golgi maturation

Resident proteins of the Golgi recycle in vesicles and the protein GOLPH3 enables the COPI vesicle coat to accomplish this.

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Lisa Heinke @lisaheinke.bsky.social · 7d

Many thanks to Sean (@cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social) for writing this Journal Club for us!

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology @natrevmcb.nature.com · 7d

New Online! The advent of confocal laser scanning microscopy in biological research

The advent of confocal laser scanning microscopy in biological research

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, Published online: 01 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41580-025-00905-5The advent of laser-scanning confocal microscopy revolutionized cell biology, offering unprecedented resolution and depth and enabling scientists to visualize cellular structures in 3D.

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ECDO European Cell Death Organisation @ecdoorg.bsky.social · 8d

🎉 Just 1 week to go until #ECDO2025 in Berlin!

This will be an exciting meeting featuring a fantastic lineup of speakers.

🧬 This year, we’ll dive deep into the crosstalk between different types of cell death in health and disease.

📍 We can’t wait to welcome you! 7-10 Oct!!!

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Lisa Heinke @lisaheinke.bsky.social · 8d

Check out this new Roadmap, a fantastic team effort by a consortium of ER researchers. Glad we could provide the space for this synthesis, which came out of discussions at a fruitful meeting, see below:

Ishier Raote @ishier.bsky.social · 8d

ER exit sites are dynamic ER subdomains that integrate signals, reshape membranes and steer secretion. Twelve groups in the field came together to map their diversity, regulation, unanswered questions and future directions.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Towards a unified framework for the function of endoplasmic reticulum exit sites - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Endoplasmic reticulum exit sites (ERES) are specialized ER subdomains that regulate the export of secreted cargo. This Roadmap explores how ERES integrate biochemical and mechanical signals to coordinate trafficking and proposes a multidisciplinary strategy to investigate their function, including in disease.

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Lisa Heinke @lisaheinke.bsky.social · 13d

Cool article alert! Check out our futuristic Viewpoint below 🔮

And big thank you again to our fortune tellers, linked in the thread below 🥳

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology @natrevmcb.nature.com · 13d

Our cover indicates that while we celebrate the past we're looking ahead to the future - with the help of a Viewpoint!

13 researchers offer a glimpse of what their research field might look like in 2050 🔮

👉 go.nature.com/4neNdYU

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Lisa Heinke @lisaheinke.bsky.social · 15d

Are you excited?? Because I am!

25 years ago I was 10 and had just started secondary school yet our journal was already covering groundbreaking science, long before I'd even heard of molecular cell biology 🧐
Safe to say I'm fairly familiar with it now 🤭

Enjoy our issue!!!!!!!!!!!

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology @natrevmcb.nature.com · 15d

Hello Bluesky! We're celebrating ✨25th years of NRMCB✨ with our October Issue - out now!

It offers a glimpse into our journal's scope - cell death, enhancers, cell cycle, migration, transposable elements, membrane contact sites & AI!

go.nature.com/4nJUz6w

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Lisa Heinke @lisaheinke.bsky.social · 29d

Great to see this out, it's always nice to see the work of early-career researchers featured! Thanks for putting me in touch with Chems and Emma :)

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Zoher Gueroui 🦠🔬 @zgueroui.bsky.social · 29d

Big Thanks @lisaheinke.bsky.social and Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology @natrevmcb.nature.com for the opportunity for our students, Chems and Emma, to write a Tools of the Trade piece on our recently published ControLD technique.

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology @natrevmcb.nature.com · Aug 3

ICYMI: New Online! Condensate-mediated intracellular organelle sequestration

Condensate-mediated intracellular organelle sequestration

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, Published online: 31 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41580-025-00880-xIn this Tools of the Trade article, Pasquier and Amari (Gueroui lab) describe the development of ControLD, which allows the intracellular sequestration of organelles through condensate formation, enabling the control of inter-organelle communication.

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Lisa Heinke @lisaheinke.bsky.social · Aug 16

Looking forward to this conference on my home turf in a couple of months!

ECDO European Cell Death Organisation @ecdoorg.bsky.social · Aug 16

Register to the ECDO-2025 in Berlin!!!

Registration is on a first come, first served basis, so we highly recommend securing your spot as soon as possible.
Join us in Berlin for an unforgettable event.

We can’t wait to welcome you to ECDO-2025! 🌍🎓

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Lisa Heinke @lisaheinke.bsky.social · Aug 13

That's acceptable (unless the verb is "unleashing", which is not acceptable) 🤭

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Lisa Heinke @lisaheinke.bsky.social · Aug 13

A good rule of thumb when it comes to deciding a title for your Review/Research article is the Harry Potter test as I like to call it.

Does your title fit into the scheme of "Harry Potter and..."? Then you know it's not a good scientific title.

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Sadaf Shadan @sshadan.bsky.social · Jul 24

Plant NLR receptors mediate pathogen resistance, and so their engineering could lead to crops with broader pathogen specificity and so broader disease resistance. @nature, authors report one such attempt achieving resistance to several potyviruses. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

& shorturl.at/932j7

Remodelling autoactive NLRs for broad-spectrum immunity in plants - Nature

Cleavage by pathogen-derived proteases of an engineered chimeric protein activates its plant immune receptor component, enabling broad-spectrum resistance to pathogens in plants.

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Lisa Heinke @lisaheinke.bsky.social · Jul 13

As an editor I have blasted primer sequences in the past in an attempt to confirm my paper mill suspicions… it’s a shame this is necessary at all but editors and scientists alike are grateful for referees that take the time! 🙏

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Tugce Aktas @aktast.bsky.social · Jun 30

We wrote a review on Transposable Elements (TEs) and almost all aspects of TE silencing and their roles in biological processes & disease.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of transposable elements and their roles in development and disease - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Transposable elements (TEs) comprise nearly half of the human genome. This Review discusses transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms that repress TE activity, how TEs escape this suppressio...

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Alejandro Montenegro @aemonten.bsky.social · Jun 30

Precisely.

Which is why if a funder wants to require a version to be made open, it should be the preprint, as it is the only version that is *directly* and solely the work of the fundee.

ck.journalology.com/posts/journa...

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Lisa Heinke @lisaheinke.bsky.social · Jun 25

My pleasure completely, great study and beautiful wing disc images 😊

Benjamin Boumard @bboumard.bsky.social · Jun 25

Thanks a lot @lisaheinke.bsky.social for highlighting in @natrevmcb.nature.com our recently published article:
Good neighbors do share nucleotides 😇🪰🧬!
www.cell.com/developmenta...
@cp-devcell.bsky.social @bardinlab.bsky.social

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Ryohei Thomas Nakano (Hokudai) @luckystrike1984.bsky.social · Jun 6

Hey my fellow Germans! I wasn't aware, but there is an AvH-JSPP postdoc fellowship, dedicated to German citizens aiming to do their postdoc in Japan. It covers salary + travel to Japan + startup for your life in Japan. Let me know if you are interested!
www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/apply/spo...

JSPS Research Fellowship

The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellowship supports you as a highly qualified postdoc from Germany in conducting your research in Japan – regardless of discipline.

www.humboldt-foundation.de

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Barbara Marte @barbmarte.bsky.social · Jun 3

a great opportunity to join Nature Metabolism as an Associate or Senior editor
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Associate or Senior Editor Nature Metabolism

Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor Nature Metabolism Location: New York, Beijing or Shanghai Application Deadline: June 10th, 2025 About Springer Nature Group Springer Nature opens the doors to dis...

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Yoshi Ichikawa @ichikawa-lab.bsky.social · May 26

We were thrilled to welcome Dr. Lisa Heinke @lisaheinke.bsky.social, a Senior Editor at Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, to Fudan University! She gave a fantastic talk on the editorial process and career paths as a scientific editor! Thank you, Lisa!

A photo taken in front of the School of Life Sciences building.

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Lisa Heinke @lisaheinke.bsky.social · May 16

Our meeting at beautiful Dushu Lake near Suzhou ended yesterday after many great talks. I really enjoyed learning about cell death and immunity pathways associated with it!

Now I’m on my way to Fudan University for a lab visit and seminar, kindly hosted by @ichikawa-lab.bsky.social 🙌🏻

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Lisa Heinke @lisaheinke.bsky.social · May 13

Xing has recently summarised recent insights on gasdermin pore formation for us @natrevmcb.nature.com, check out his article here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mechanistic insights into gasdermin-mediated pyroptosis - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Activation of gasdermins (GSDMs) in response to infection or cell damage triggers membrane pore formation, leading to pyroptotic cell death. This Review discusses recent molecular and structural insig...

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Lisa Heinke @lisaheinke.bsky.social · May 13

Yesterday was my first day in Shanghai and I was lucky to enjoy a great visit to the Shanghai Institute of Immunity and Infection (by Chinese Academy of Science). Thank you to Xing Liu for being a wonderful host and ensuring a smooth trip for me 🙌🏻

In front of the Shanghai Institute for immunity and infection with Xing Liu

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Jean Nakhle @jeannakhle.bsky.social · May 8

We're hiring 📢

The Research Cross-Journal Editorial Team @natureportfolio.nature.com has not one, but TWO openings for Associate or Senior Editors in Life Sciences.

If you fancy a career in editorial, we'd love to hear from you 😀

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NordenLab @nordenlab.bsky.social · May 8

Yes, that is me, for those who did not yet know. This was not planned but I am very happy to go 'home' even though I will miss a lot about Portugal. If you still want to visit, hurry, otherwise see you in Cambridge. If you want to know more contact me directly.
www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-care...

Dr Caren Norden appointed Darwin Professor of Animal Embryology at PDN | Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience

Dr Caren Norden has been appointed Darwin Professor of Animal Embryology, joining the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience in the School of Biological Sciences, from April 2026. Her ...

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Lisa Heinke @lisaheinke.bsky.social · Apr 27

Toxic friendships be like

“let’s run 25km on Sunday”

- “ok”

(My longest run ever and my first partial trail run!)

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