A few seconds of eternity: From microscope to museum❣️ It was truly delightful to be part of this project, celebrating life as a continuous dance of creation, collapse, and renewal. 🔄 Kudos to @manuelthery.bsky.social @lblanchoin.bsky.social #cytomorpholab members, and @museeorsay.bsky.social

#LivingArchitectures We put cells and cytoskeleton filaments on the architecture of the musée d'Orsay. www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/agenda/ev... Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab adapted their protocols to illustrate the questions that keep them awake at night. -> Two shows on the 24th and 25th of January.

@ghinabadih.bsky.social 's paper on cell chirality is now out : www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🥳

Contractile forces direct the chiral swirling of minimal cell collectives | PNAS

Chirality is a conserved biological feature with critical implications in tissue morphogenesis and embryonic development. In culture, multicellular...

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From random gliding to ordered patterns. The movie starts with microtubules gliding on a minus-end directed molecular motor. Then, @bhagyanaths.bsky.social added a plus-end directed motor (magenta) to induce this polarity sorting and ordering process. more details here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

It's the time of the year when I make a Christmas themed experiment to celebrate another year gone by: this year, a micropatterned branched actin network with myosin, aka a Christmarp(2/3) tree, doing weird stuff. Happy holidays Bluesky! 🥳🥳🥳

What better way to kick-start bsky account than sharing this stunning image!!! Self-organisation might be a bit hidden, but definitely have plenty of stories to tell about cells 👀 @manuelthery.bsky.social Congrats Clo and @asciortino.bsky.social et al… thnq Alex for illustration idea… #Microtubules

Knock knock…It’s finally here!!! Check out the full thread : Microtubules do like to sort things out. It’s amazing to be a part of the project with @manuelthery.bsky.social @lblanchoin.bsky.social Clo @asciortino.bsky.social JFJ Alex Jérémie and Sudipta. Full story @pnas.org #microtubules #kinesin

Force balance of opposing diffusive motors generates polarity-sorted microtubule patterns | PNAS

The internal organization of cells is largely determined by the architecture and orientation of the microtubule network. Microtubules serve as pola...

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Manuel Thery@manuelthery.bsky.social · 2y ago

Mix two motors of opposite polarity with microtubules and they will partition space ! Microtubules will get organized in polar and active barriers, sorting the two motors in separated domains, leading to the emergence of a new type of patterns. #morphogenesis doi.org/10.1073/pnas... (1/n)