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Liz Kurtz
@liz-kurtz.bsky.social
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PhD student in the Roy Lab at SUNY Upstate studying T cell migration 🤩 special interests are microscopy and mechanobiology 🏃‍♀️
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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.
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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · Jul 28
Liz Kurtz @liz-kurtz.bsky.social, Nathan Roy and colleagues find that the scaffold protein CasL restrains membrane blebbing and promotes T cell migration.
Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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Jupiter Algorta @jupiteralgorta.bsky.social · May 6
If you're curious about how cells make decisions in complex environments, and how mathematical models can capture such behaviour, our preprint is now live!
Check it out here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Investigating Local Negative Feedback of Rac Activity by Mathematical Models and Cell Motility Simulations
For polarization and directed migration, cells use a combination of local positive feedback and long-range inhibition. We have previously used mathematical models to show the ability of this core…
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Jupiter Algorta @jupiteralgorta.bsky.social · May 6
Check this fascinating footage: a neutrophil navigating towards a micropipette. These cells can not only navigate complex, noisy environments, but also rapidly reorient to new cues. Curious about how they do it? Keep reading!
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Debraj Ghose @debrajghose.bsky.social · May 5
We found that cells use emergent collective memory—arising from simple chemical reactions—to outperform physical limits of detecting chemical gradients. Curious how? 1/n

8 min talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7XH...

bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#biophysics #cellbiology
Local collective memory from ratiometric signaling outperforms cellular gradient sensing limits
YouTube video by Debraj Shubham Ghose
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Rebecca Ann Jones @rebannjones.bsky.social · May 6
What governs where DNA replication begins in human cells? Here, we show that origins of replication in human DNA are epigenetically specified and that crucially, this epigenetic mark is required for both DNA replication and cell proliferation! @narjournal.bsky.social academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
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Pablo J. Sáez @pjsaez.bsky.social · Apr 11
Join us for this @dgz.bsky.social seminar online with very cool talks about the Cell biology of the immune system

There will be of course some #CellMigration of leukocytes ;)

Speakers: @liz-kurtz.bsky.social, #ZahraaA, @labliston.bsky.social and #StefanU
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DGZ.bsky.social @dgz.bsky.social · Apr 11
The next #DGZ Focus Workshop on #CellBiology of the #ImmuneSystem will take place on April 29, organized by @pjsaez.bsky.social & Evi Kiermaier – join us! 🧑‍🔬🧑‍🔬🧬
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Liz Kurtz @liz-kurtz.bsky.social · Jan 21
And some tattoos to remember the visit by 💕 🇮🇹🇮🇹
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Liz Kurtz @liz-kurtz.bsky.social · Jan 21
SO much art 😍
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Liz Kurtz @liz-kurtz.bsky.social · Jan 21
Had an AMAZING time this past week at GRC for Directed Cell Migration!! Met and reconnected with so many amazing people and got to see some incredible art at the same time 💕💕 was honored with the opportunity to present my work on CasL in T cell migration as well, I’m floating back to lab this week 😂
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