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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 13h

🚨 TLM Online Seminar Series - TODAY 16:00 UK
Pablo Sáez: "Decision-making during cell migration"

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 TLM Online Seminar Series - 08.10.25 | 16:00 UK
Pablo Sáez: "Decision-making during cell migration"

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Poster with a picture of the speaker, Pablo Saez, advertising his talk: Decision Making during cell migrations. Abstract: Moving cells navigate inside living tissues often encountering obstacles and junctions, where their path branches into alternative directions of migration. This is the case of cells moving on top or within blood vessels, which often bifurcate into branches. Cells have diverse migratory strategies that differentially rely on the adhesion to the substrate. Cells that undergo mesenchymal migration are highly dependent on the adhesion to the substrate, and when facing bifurcations are forced to coordinate the adhesion and detachment of the competing branches. Recent studies showed how the decision is made -to keep or retract a branch and choose a new direction- when there is bias: open versus dead-end, differences in pressure, presence/absence of a chemoattractant. However, much less is know about how cells decide a new direction when the decision is unbiased. Similarly, it is poorly understood how migrating cells coordinate membrane dynamics during branching to maintain a good trade-off between microenvironmental exploration and migratory efficiency. Here, we use in vitro live-cell imaging using different levels of complexity, and advanced image analysis to analyze the response of migrating cells when facing symmetric junctions, and extreme branching when cells simultaneously face several bifurcations. We found that actin and membrane dynamics play a key role to choose a new direction path in both cases i) when cells face a single junction (Ron et al. 2024), and ii) when cells exhibit high levels of branching because they face several junctions at the same time (Liu et al.). In addition, we found that migrating immune cells have a fine tune regulation of branching in order to coordinate surveillance and migration. These results shed light on the mechanisms by which cells resolve unbiased junctions and branching during cell migration.

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 7d

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 7d

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Eileen Furlong @eileen-furlong.bsky.social · Jul 30

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Michalis Averof @michalis-averof.bsky.social · Sep 2

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Jonatan Alvelid @jonatanalvelid.bsky.social · Sep 2

Excited to share my postdoc work from the Eggeling lab in Jena (@leibnizipht.bsky.social, #FSUJena, #KTHuniversity) on bringing smart microscopy to super-resolution MINFLUX: event-triggered MINFLUX microscopy.

Demonstrative schematics and example timeline of event-triggered MINFLUX microscopy.

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · Aug 22

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · Jul 25

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · Jul 25

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · Jul 25

Thank you to everyone who has supported TLM talks. We will be back in Ocotber with some new exciting talks. We have plans to incorporate short talks by students and postdocs, fill out this form to express your interest forms.gle/34vMwQNVGnvm....
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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · Jul 9

📢Happening today at 4pm UK time!

Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · Jul 1

🚨Next week, Wed 09/07 | 16:00 UK - Online Seminar🚨

"Feedback between morphogen signalling and tissue architecture drives robust developmental patterning" by Dr Zena Hadjivasiliou.

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · Jul 8

🚨 Join us tomorrow for this really exciting talk on the interplay between morphogen signalling and tissue organization! 🚨

Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · Jul 1

🚨Next week, Wed 09/07 | 16:00 UK - Online Seminar🚨

"Feedback between morphogen signalling and tissue architecture drives robust developmental patterning" by Dr Zena Hadjivasiliou.

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · Jul 1

🚨Next week, Wed 09/07 | 16:00 UK - Online Seminar🚨

"Feedback between morphogen signalling and tissue architecture drives robust developmental patterning" by Dr Zena Hadjivasiliou.

To attend online please register to our 📧 for the zoom link: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · Jun 25

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · Jun 23

🚨Our next seminar on, Wed 25/06 | 16:00 UK - online by Karen Kasza from @Columbia. Join us online🚨📝for the zoom link: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · Jun 24

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · Jun 23

🚨Our next seminar on, Wed 25/06 | 16:00 UK - online by Karen Kasza from @Columbia. Join us online🚨📝for the zoom link: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · Jun 23

🚨Our next seminar on, Wed 25/06 | 16:00 UK - online by Karen Kasza from @Columbia. Join us online🚨📝for the zoom link: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · Jun 23

🚨Our next seminar on, Wed 25/06 | 16:00 UK - online by Karen Kasza from @Columbia. Join us online🚨📝for the zoom link: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · Jun 16

🚨Join us online for this talk hybrid format at 14:30 BST. Sign up to our mailing list for zoom links or DM us. For those in Cambridge join us in person at the Sainsbury Laboratory in collaboration with @cammorphoseries.bsky.social 🐁

Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · May 30

🚨Our next seminar on, Mon 16/05 | 14:30 UK - Hybrid Seminar in collaboration with @cammorphoseries.bsky.social at @slcuplants.bsky.social we have Chii Jou Chan from @mbisg.bsky.social Come join us in person if you are in Cambridge🚨📝for the zoom link: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...

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Cambridge Morphogenesis Seminar Series @cammorphoseries.bsky.social · Jun 13

We are excited to co-host Chii Jou Chan’s talk with @tlmcambridge.bsky.social‬ next Monday at 14:30, which will be the last talk of the term. Hope to see many of you there!

Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · May 30

🚨Our next seminar on, Mon 16/05 | 14:30 UK - Hybrid Seminar in collaboration with @cammorphoseries.bsky.social at @slcuplants.bsky.social we have Chii Jou Chan from @mbisg.bsky.social Come join us in person if you are in Cambridge🚨📝for the zoom link: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · May 30

🚨Our next seminar on, Mon 16/05 | 14:30 UK - Hybrid Seminar in collaboration with @cammorphoseries.bsky.social at @slcuplants.bsky.social we have Chii Jou Chan from @mbisg.bsky.social Come join us in person if you are in Cambridge🚨📝for the zoom link: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · May 23

🚨 TLM Online Seminar Series - 28.05.2025 | 16:00 UK
Xavier Salvatella: "Sequence-Encoded Determinants of Condensate Kinetic Stability"

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · May 27

🚨TLM SEMINAR TOMORROW: Subscribe now to receive the link before the talk!
“Sequence-Encoded Determinants of Condensate Kinetic Stability” - Dr. Xavier Salvatella from @irbbarcelona.org
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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · May 23

🚨 TLM Online Seminar Series - 28.05.2025 | 16:00 UK
Xavier Salvatella: "Sequence-Encoded Determinants of Condensate Kinetic Stability"

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · May 13

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