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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · Jul 9

They are a REMARKABLE supporter of scientists and the community. In addition to their five journals, they support dozens of scientific meetings each year, and provide travel grants and other support 2/n
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As a not-for-profit publisher, The Company of Biologists uses surplus income to benefit biology and the biological community. A key way in which we do this is through our grants, which support and encourage the sharing of knowledge throughout the community by facilitating international collaboration, event attendance and the organisation of scientific meetings, conferences and workshops.

We offer the following grants:

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In addition, the British Society for Developmental Biology, British Society for Cell Biology and the Society for Experimental Biology offer travel grants as part of the funding we give them.

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Marija Matejčić @marija-matejcic.bsky.social · Jul 4

Thank you, Mark! The Adhesion GRC was such a rich, beautiful conference, thank you for making it happen. It was an absolute honor to be able to present there.
The preprint for that story is out now: bsky.app/profile/mari...
and we continue digging deeper into the mechanisms.

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Marija Matejčić @marija-matejcic.bsky.social · Jul 4

Villus cells seem to be mechanically predisposed to extrude..
We're working hard to nail down these mechanisms, from the initial impulse for extrusion to its execution through out-of-plane #torque generation. More to come!

@xaviertrepat.bsky.social lab
@ibecbarcelona.eu
@embo.org LTFellowship

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Marija Matejčić @marija-matejcic.bsky.social · Jul 4

On cell extrusion in the #intestine!
After 80 years of observations, we finally took a deeper look thanks to 2D #organoids. We report:

3D #forces, #extrusion still only in the villus even without curvature, #lamellipodia generate 3D force.. and more. Have a look!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · Jul 1

Scientific collaborations come in many flavors & are fun because they expose you to new areas of science. That was definitely the case for this paper, out today. We were definitely in the passenger seat but it was fun to go along for the ride 1/n
rdcu.be/euiZB.

Emergence of cellular nematic order is a conserved feature of gastrulation in animal embryos

Nature Communications - The morphogenetic events that occur during gastrulation involve dramatic cell- and tissue-level changes. Here they show that propagation of nematic order, leading to...

rdcu.be

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Xavier Trepat @xaviertrepat.bsky.social · Jun 30

How to turn a layer of fibroblasts into a tulip 🌷?

Check out our new pre-print on shape-programmable living surfaces.

Led by @pauguillamat.bsky.social‬

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Marija Matejčić @marija-matejcic.bsky.social · Jun 14

Beautiful story from the Krndija lab, tackling the unexpected challenges of complex epithelia. They show side-effects (or are they?) of building an epithelium out of distinct cell types, with junctional fractures at the heterotypic interface.
Is there any reinforcement of 3CJunctions?

Denis Krndija @deniskrndija.bsky.social · Apr 6

🥳 Thrilled to share our lab's first preprint, led by our talented postdoc Justine Creff! 👩🏻‍🔬 We tackled a fundamental question: how the epithelium withstands mechanical stress at the interface of cells with distinct geometries and mechanics, such as enterocytes (E) and goblet cells (G) (1/9)

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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · Jun 13

... and a few minutes ago our Chart-Checklist came out in @natcellbio.nature.com 🥳🎉

Gift link for #TCTeAC:
rdcu.be/eqPpi

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

A checklist for designing and improving the visualization of scientific data - Nature Cell Biology

Creating clear and engaging scientific figures is crucial to communicate complex data. In this Comment, I condense principles from design, visual perception and data visualization research in a checkl...

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Marija Matejčić @marija-matejcic.bsky.social · Jun 8

Very useful thread from the best fan club @epimechfc.bsky.social on different (newish) image analysis software. Have a look, add the ones you use!
Is it time for a review article?

epithelial mechanics fan club @epimechfc.bsky.social · Jun 8

What do we see when looking at cells under the microscope? 👉Some are bigger than others, some are elongated and align with the neighbors & others seem to move. Cool, right? But wouldn't it be cooler to quantify these observations?

I'm @juliaeckert.bsky.social. Let's explore some analysis software!‬

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Marija Matejčić @marija-matejcic.bsky.social · May 3

All @mpi-cbg.de alumni, of course. I had forgotten the tag, with all the disbelief about US research funding dismantling.

It was such a pleasure to meet everyone again, after we've all scattered around the world to continue our work. We will continue to support each other, come what may.

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Marija Matejčić @marija-matejcic.bsky.social · Feb 18

It's been 2 mere months since the magnificent #CellBio24 @ascbiology.bsky.social @embo.org in San Diego and my first ever trip to the US. It's hard to believe the amount of chaos that's happened since then..

Throwback with @paulinastrzyz.bsky.social Karina Pombo-Garcia, Chris Schmied, Jeff Woodruff

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Marija Matejčić @marija-matejcic.bsky.social · Feb 11

We have a new #stopdoing #science meme, courtesy of Miquel Bosch Padros from the @xaviertrepat.bsky.social lab. Late for #mechanobiology Monday, but here to stay on your lab meme boards forever.

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Marija Matejčić @marija-matejcic.bsky.social · Feb 10

www.reddit.com/r/StopDoingS...

From the StopDoingScience community on Reddit: STOP DOING BIOLOGY

Explore this post and more from the StopDoingScience community

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Marija Matejčić @marija-matejcic.bsky.social · Feb 10

"Politics aside (ha! as if!)", I don't think these will ever get old for me, but they do shine extra bright these days.
"..." Stolen from @harmitmalik.bsky.social

#biology #stopdoing #science

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Robert Haase @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social · Jan 20

Please welcome @scadsai.bsky.social on bluesky! We at ScaDS.ai are a federally funded artificial intelligence research center with headquarters in Dresden and Leipzig, Germany!

ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig

ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig is a german competence center for research on AI, Big Data and Data Science. Find out more!

ScaDS.ai

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Marija Matejčić @marija-matejcic.bsky.social · Jan 15

Beautiful findings, showing that at a critical tissue density, YAP is heterogeneously expressed in intestinal cells, leading to all sorts of responses that help regeneration. Well done Connie @cschwayer.bsky.social and all ✨

Prisca Liberali @priscaliberali.bsky.social · Jan 15

A perfect start in the new year! 🌱 Regenerating tissues are just an amazing spatio temporal controlled process! Our new manuscript explores how cell heterogeneity and bistability orchestrate intestinal regeneration. 🧵 biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Cell heterogeneity and fate bistability drive tissue patterning during intestinal regeneration

Tissue regeneration relies on the ability of cells to undergo de novo patterning. While tissue patterning has been viewed as the transition from initially identical un-patterned cells to an arrangemen...

biorxiv.org

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Marija Matejčić @marija-matejcic.bsky.social · Dec 19

Thank you for coming to hear it, Paulina! 💕

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Marija Matejčić @marija-matejcic.bsky.social · Dec 9

See you in San Diego old and new friends! Join me and my talk in the organoid subgroup on Wednesday at 9:15 AM for a dive into the elements that drive intestinal cell extrusion. It's a very pretty, fundamental story ✨

American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · Nov 27

#CellBio2024, the joint meeting of ASCB and EMBO, will take place December 14-18, 2024, in San Diego, California. Join us to connect with scientists, present your research, and explore the latest advancements in cell biology science and technology.

www.ascb.org/cellbio2024/

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Marija Matejčić @marija-matejcic.bsky.social · Nov 29

I think this will be fun and very useful! Writing well is thinking well #devbiolwriteclub

John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · Nov 26

Attention! #devbiolwriteclub Bluesky Boot Camp starts December 2! I’ll be posting here daily to help working scientists develop their writing craft. And I’ll suffer alongside you while I try to finish my book proposal AND get two manuscripts out the door by year’s end. Who’s gonna join me?

a black and white drawing of a cat peeking out of a keyboard .

ALT: a black and white drawing of a cat peeking out of a keyboard .

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