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Ankita Jha @ankita13jha.bsky.social · 10d

If anyone ever wants to brush up on a lot of cell migration concepts don't forget we have several wonderful scientists who have given talks previously in cell migration seminars. I find it so comforting to go look at old videos, maybe someone else who will do as well!!
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Cell Migration Seminars

Cell Migration Seminars every Tuesday at 16:00 BST.

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Siân Culley @superresolusian.bsky.social · 9d

BioImage analysis friends - King's are recruiting for a full-time, permanent facility position! Come and work with fun microscopes and fun people (and me!) - please share! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/126345-...

Bioimage Analysis Specialist | King's College London

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Migle Gabrielaite @mgabrielaite.bsky.social · 14d

Next, at #EYSF2025 @reviewcommons.org is presented by @saramonaco-rc.bsky.social. It’s journal-agnostic, concentrates on science only and can save time as the peer-reviewed preprints can easily be resubmitted. How great would it be if we could ditch publishing and switch to reviewed preprints?

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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 9d

I’m not sure as a community we **truely** acknowledged how powerful the #CellMigrationSeminarSeries series was at keeping us connected at such an uncertain time. Thank-you @ankita13jha.bsky.social @adamshellard.bsky.social @drjenmitchell.bsky.social & @simplythebex.bsky.social

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Daniel J. Cohen (Princeton) @djcohen.bsky.social · 21d

SCHEPHERD--the bioelectric cell herding platform built for YOU. Single cells, monolayers, organoids--this herds them all + new tricks. Plz try it-- we will *give* you parts! Teaser here of a steering a single cell. GS Yubin Lin's lifeblood with J. Yodh on piano; Celeste R. and Paul K. Thread 1/N

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Karen J Liu @karenjliu.bsky.social · Aug 5

Dev biologists! 3-yr postdoc position at King's, collaboration with Trizzino lab @marcotrizzino.bsky.social modelling CHD3 neural crest. We are looking for postdocs with mad embryology skills @the-node.bsky.social #developmental @ccrb27.bsky.social

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Postdoctoral Research Associate: Modelling Neural Crest Anomalies (mouse/human) - the Node

The Liu lab is looking for a postdoc with a love of embryos and developmental biology! This post is part of an MRC-funded collaboration between Karen Liu’s lab at King’s College London and Marco Trizz...

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Christophe Le Clainche @actin-paris-saclay.bsky.social · Aug 6

🎓 My team is seeking a PhD student in Biochemistry & Cell Biology at I2BC, Paris-Saclay!
🔬 Study cytoskeletal signaling in collective cell migration
🌍 Fully funded, 3 yrs | 📍 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
🗓️ Apply by Aug 22 via the following link:
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

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stramerlab.bsky.social @stramerlab.bsky.social · Jul 28

Drosophila as a model system to understand #collagen IV-related genetic disease. Learn how fly genetics and exploding brain tissue can inform on #ECM defects and pathological mechanisms. Team effort led by a very talented recent PhD graduate, Angus Nichols. doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...

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Rockefeller University Press @rupress.org · Jul 16

In new @jcb.org study from Muziyue Wu et al. @oweinerlab.bsky.social, in vivo biochemistry sheds new light on how the WAVE complex templates the characteristic shape of lamellipodial protrusions. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

#Cytoskeleton #Actin #Migration #Motility #Biophysics

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Matthias Krause @matthias-krause.bsky.social · Jul 17

Congratulations, Jez!!

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Juan Martin Serrano @juanmartin-serrano.bsky.social · Jul 16

I am so proud of @jezcarlton.bsky.social . What a magnificent inaugural lecture, many congratulations Professor Carlton!

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Anh Hoang Le, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @anhhle2702.bsky.social · Jul 8

OMG, this is such a cool paper from Patrick Caswell's lab. They express Rab25-mCherry-GFP-nanobody in cells, microinject GFP-magnetic particles, then use a magnet to pull Rab25 to the plasma membrane to show that it can trigger actin protrusions! I want this system.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Live-cell magnetic manipulation of recycling endosomes reveals their direct effect on actin protrusions to promote invasive migration

Repositioning of Rab25 vesicles containing formin and integrin cargos to the cell periphery promotes protrusion formation.

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Matthias Krause @matthias-krause.bsky.social · Jul 8

Manuscript from our lab on BioRxiv: We provide mechanistic insights that NHSL1 promotes Fast endophilin mediated carrier formation via both endophilin and Ena/VASP proteins thereby may facilitate membrane bending and Ena/VASP mediated actin polymerisation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Nance-Horan Syndrome-like 1 interacts with endophilin and Ena/VASP proteins to promote fast endophilin-mediated endocytosis

Endocytosis is crucial for various physiological processes, facilitating the uptake of membrane proteins and extracellular material. Fast endophilin-mediated endocytosis (FEME), driven by endophilin A (EndoA), enables clathrin-independent, ligand-induced receptor uptake at the leading edge of cells. Whilst F-actin polymerisation is essential for FEME, how actin dynamics are regulated at sites of FEME is unknown. NHSL1, a member of the Nance-Horan Syndrome protein family, localises to the leading edge of cells, where it regulates migration, and to vesicular puncta, where its function is undetermined. Here, we show that NHSL1 and its uncharacterised family member NHSL2 co-localise and engage in direct, multivalent interactions with EndoA. NHSL1 also binds Ena/VASP proteins, a family of actin elongators. NHSL1 promotes FEME in cells and its interactions with EndoA and Ena/VASP proteins are required for this function. Thus, NHSL1 may cooperate with EndoA and Ena/VASP proteins to control membrane invagination and actin polymerisation, thereby mediating FEME. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest.

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Matthias Krause @matthias-krause.bsky.social · Jul 4

Interested in applying for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoc Fellowship? Contact me for exciting postdoc projects in neural crest or cancer cell migration, endocytosis, advanced imaging at King’s College London. [email protected]
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Postdoctoral Fellowships

The information provided on this page is a summary of the main rules and requirements for Postdoctoral Fellowships (PFs) and who can apply for them.

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Matthias Krause @matthias-krause.bsky.social · Jul 2

New from our lab: We identify NHSL3 as a lamellipodial Ena/VASP and Scar/WAVE complex interacting protein binding the latter with a unique mode of interaction and inhibiting Arp2/3 complex activity but unexpectantly promoting mesenchymal cell migration efficiency. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

NHSL3 interacts with Ena/VASP proteins and the Scar/WAVE complex and promotes cell migration

Tight control of mesenchymal cell migration is important for embryonic development and its deregulation causes disease. It is driven by lamellipodia protrusion, the leading edge of the migrating cell....

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Xavier Trepat @xaviertrepat.bsky.social · Nov 20

Pre-announcing the EMBO/EMBL symposium "Mechanobiology Across the Tree of Life", Heidelberg, 9-12 June 2026. It is still very very far away, but save the date 🗓️. With Alba Diz-Munoz, @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social , Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social, Enrique Rojas.
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Mechanobiology across the tree of life

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Triangle Cytoskeleton Meeting @tricytomeet.bsky.social · Jul 8

🚨 Registration Now Open! 🚨

Join us for the 2025 Triangle Cytoskeleton Meeting on Sept. 15 at Trent Semans Center!

Speakers:
🔬 Dr. Kris DeMali
🧫 Dr. Rae Cho
🧬 Dr. Stefanie Redemann

Showcase your research, exchange ideas, and connect with the Cytoskeleton community!

Register now! 💻

#TCM2025

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Felix Campelo @felixmendu.bsky.social · Jul 4

Announcing a new @embo.org Workshop on "Intracellular mechanics and organelle mechanobiology" that we are organizing with Michael Krieg and Verena Ruprecht at @icfo.eu (Barcelona) on 16-20 February, 2026. Please, repost and spread the word! 🙏 #EMBOmechanobio

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Intracellular mechanics and organelle mechanobiology

Mechanobiology is an interdisciplinary field that emerges at the cross-section of biology, physics and engineering. It aims to understand how living cells, tissues and animals sense and respond to me…

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Matthias Krause @matthias-krause.bsky.social · Jul 4

Interested in applying for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoc Fellowship? Contact me for exciting postdoc projects in neural crest or cancer cell migration, endocytosis, advanced imaging at King’s College London. [email protected]
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...

Postdoctoral Fellowships

The information provided on this page is a summary of the main rules and requirements for Postdoctoral Fellowships (PFs) and who can apply for them.

marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu

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Matthias Krause @matthias-krause.bsky.social · Dec 5

New manuscript from our lab: Fast Endophilin Mediated Endocytosis (FEME), facilitates ligand induced endocytosis of a variety of receptors at the leading edge of migrating cells. The mechanism behind how FEME priming patches form is emerging.

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Matthias Krause @matthias-krause.bsky.social · Mar 17

Another new manuscript from our lab and excellent collaboration with the Bear lab @coronin.bsky.social: The Scar/WAVE complex promotes mesenchymal cell migration through Arp2/3 mediated lamellipodia protrusion.

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Matthias Krause @matthias-krause.bsky.social · Jul 2

New from our lab: We identify NHSL3 as a lamellipodial Ena/VASP and Scar/WAVE complex interacting protein binding the latter with a unique mode of interaction and inhibiting Arp2/3 complex activity but unexpectantly promoting mesenchymal cell migration efficiency. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

NHSL3 interacts with Ena/VASP proteins and the Scar/WAVE complex and promotes cell migration

Tight control of mesenchymal cell migration is important for embryonic development and its deregulation causes disease. It is driven by lamellipodia protrusion, the leading edge of the migrating cell....

www.biorxiv.org

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Robert Insall @robinsall.bsky.social · Jul 1

All three kids degreed up & off for gainful employment now...

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Guillaume Jacquemet @guijacquemet.bsky.social · Jul 1

- A postdoc to work on cancer extravasation (4-year project).
- A postdoc help in completing Filopodia-related lab projects (2-year).
- Multiple Marie Curie postdoc positions that will open in the fall.
- We will open a 5-year position to cover my teaching (70% research and 30% teaching).

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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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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