WORK: our Bionanoscience department at TU Delft is looking to hire an Assistant Professor in Biophysics of Living Systems. Apply! Deadline 30 July careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-As... RT=nice

Assistant Professor in Biophysics of Living Systems

Assistant Professor in Biophysics of Living Systems

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Is there a size limit for cells ? How can cells replicate inside the architecture of their environment? Why do cells self-destroy ? This 15-minute movie vimeo.com/1173229237 shows our 2026 edition of the Living Architectures project at the @museeorsay.bsky.social

Registration for the Cell Biology and Cancer course at Institut Curie is now open! Explore how biological forms emerge across scales, from intracellular organization to tissues. 📅 November 16th-20th, 2026 (Paris) ⏳ Deadline: September 10th, 2026 🔗 training.institut-curie.org/cours/biolog...

Ready for #CellLaVie2026? Program & registration are live! Join us Oct 21–23, 2026 at Institut Pasteur, Paris, for multidisciplinary cell biology, imaging, talks, posters & outreach, w/ Manuel Théry's behind-the-scenes look at the Musée d’Orsay video-mapping project. www.atoutcom.com/cell-la-vie/

The division Physics and Life of the French Physical Society (SFP) organizes its fourth annual meeting in Lyon, July 9th & 10th! Join us and register here: phys-life-2026.sciencesconf.org Abstract submission deadline: May 30th

I2BC is recruiting group leaders in several disciplines. Don’t miss the chance to launch your team at Paris-Saclay. Information : www.i2bc.paris-saclay.fr/wp-content/u... Applications and enquiries : call2026@i2bc.paris-saclay.fr Deadline: April 22, 2026

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Alexia Auffèves, la chercheuse funambule de la mécanique quantique

La directrice du laboratoire de recherche Majulab, à Singapour, ne cesse de créer des connexions entre scientifiques et investisseurs, que ce soit à Grenoble ou en Asie. Aussi férue de physique que de...

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You are finishing your PhD and looking to continue in science? The Martin lab @biology-unige.bsky.social has an open postdoctoral position in cell biology to study cell-cell fusion. For more information, please consult mocel.unige.ch/research-gro.... Thanks for reposting!

Cytoskeleton enthusiasts: join us for the Cytoskeletal Motors GRC, July 12-17, 2026, in Portland Maine. Abstracts submitted by April 5 will be considered for short talks. Please apply! bit.ly/4cWxvzj

Less than a week left for abstract submission for #EESMechanobiology - join us in this long-standing meeting on the mechanics of life.

EMBL Events@events.embl.org · 5mo ago

Submit your abstract for #EESMechanobiology and share your research with an international audience, contributing to an integrative understanding of mechanobiology across kingdoms. The submission deadline is 3 March: https://s.embl.org/ees26-06-bl 🗓️ 9 – 12 June 2026 📍 EMBL Heidelberg and Virtual

Excited to share this new work from Ana Raffaelli, in collaboration with Ewa Paluch's lab and involving several of my colleagues at Cyclana Bio. In this paper, we show that basement membrane mechanics instructs developmental signalling and fate patterning. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

PhD position in my lab!

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Actomyosin-dependent assembly of the mechanosensitive machinery from adherens junctions triggers actin polymerization and organization

In vitro reconstitution shows how mechanosensitive adherens junction proteins link actomyosin contractility to actin assembly.

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#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.

Check out #6 and #17 ... seeking to unravel the central mystery of immune recognition/response with some help from physics.

CENTURI - Turing Centre for Living Systems@centuri-ls.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🔬 The CENTURI PhD Call 2026 is now open! Join an interdisciplinary community in Marseille at the interface of bio, physics, maths and computer science. Apply here: centuri-livingsystems.org/recruitment/ #PhD #CENTURI

Congratulations to Celia Municio-Diaz in the lab for this new publication, showing that Cell Wall mechanosensors taken from distant yeast species can still function and detect forces in the foreign cell wall of fission yeast cells! @ijmonod.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social

bioRxiv Cell Biology@biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 8mo ago

A CROSS-SPECIES ANALYSIS OF CELL WALL MECHANOSENSORS https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.24.690177v1

interesting work revealing differences between evolutionary distant actins! "..... ADP-actin filaments depolymerize faster and are mechanically more flexible in Saccharomyces cerevisiae compared to Schizosaccharomyces pombe. " www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Rapid aging and disassembly of actin filaments from two evolutionary distant yeasts

Actin is an essential cytoskeletal protein that is extremely well conserved across the tree of life. Similarities and differences in the way actin from different species self-assembles into filaments ...

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is there a direct crosstalk between actin and vimentin intermediate filaments? Our work shows that vimentin promotes actin assembly by stabilizing ATP-subunits at the barbed end. Fantastic work done by @lilianpaty.bsky.social with @romet-jegou-lab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We hire! The CytoMorpho Lab is looking for an engineer with a background in cell and molecular biology to join our team in Paris. This is a 18-month contract position, but we're open to exploring long-term opportunities. More details here: cytomorpholab.com/index.php/jo...

MiFoBio, get ready for great speakers @ivatolic.bsky.social #Module 5 mechanobio

MiFoBio, get ready for great speakers @salaita.bsky.social #Module 5 m mechanobio

Which city is the best for Cytoskeleton research? Dresden? Barcelona? Cambridge ? Noooo ... you all know its Paris, right? 😎 Registering to the annual meeting on Friday 14th of November is now open: pcd2025.sciencesconf.org Keynote speeches by @carter-lab.bsky.social and Verena Ruprecht !

⚡️ Don’t forget that we’re looking for a Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Quantitative Cell Biology @ UniBern! 🔬 Bridge experiments + theory 📈 Tackle processes across scales 💡 Join our vibrant research community Deadline Oct 17 👉 shorturl.at/1Y1WP

Assistant Professor with tenure-track for Quantitative Cell Biology (80-100%) - Bern, Switzerland job with University of Bern, Institute of Cell Biology | 12840798

Assistant Professor with tenure-track for Quantitative Cell Biology (80-100%) at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

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Brand-new conference on collective behaviour! Join us to foster a community to study how interactions among the constituents trigger fascinating collective phenomena: biofilms, fish schools, tissue self-organisation, bird swarms & many more! Thanks to amazing speakers for helping us realise this!

EMBL Events@events.embl.org · 12mo ago

✨ How do bird flocks form or diseases emerge? Join the brand-new EMBO | EMBL Symposium #EESCollectivity and explore how collective behaviours arise from fundamental principles across biological systems 🧬🦠🐒 💻 s.embl.org/ees26-01-bl ✒️ Submit your abstract by 18 Nov

📣 Physics & Life 2025 - last month to register! 📅 October 2nd-3rd 📍Institut Jacques Monod, Buffon amphitheater Registration and abstract submission are open until September 5th 🔗 phys-life-2025.sciencesconf.org?lang=en @sfp-physique.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @upcite.bsky.social

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📣 Physics & Life 2025 📅 October 2nd-3rd 📍Institut Jacques Monod, Buffon amphitheater Registration and abstract submission are open until September 5th 🔗 phys-life-2025.sciencesconf.org?forward-acti... @sfp-physique.bsky.social

Few spots left on our @bcube-tud.bsky.social organised hashtag #Symposium: Engineering Life 2025: Origin and Function of Mechanical Forces in Biology ⚙️🧬 📆 September 1-3, 2025 📍 Steigenberger Hotel de Saxe, Dresden Register now (Deadline 31 July 2025): engineering-life-dresden.de

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 meetings.embo.org/event/26-org...

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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99 941 c'est le nombre actuel de signatures pour soutenir le Palais de la Découverte Un dernier effort et on a les 100 000 avant midi. www.change.org/p/sauvons-le...?

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Calling all meeting organizers… @biologists.bsky.social now have a calculator to estimate your event’s carbon footprint and to test various reduction scenarios. thenode.biologists.com/event-carbon...

Event carbon calculator - the Node

I am excited to announce the release of our event carbon calculator, our latest resource to support the creation of sustainable events. Estimate your

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Intermediate filaments join microtubules in the self-repair club! Great work with in vitro vimentin filaments from @cecileleduc.bsky.social @romet-jegou-lab.bsky.social et al. in @pnas.org: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Continuous self-repair protects vimentin intermediate filaments from fragmentation | PNAS

Intermediate filaments are key regulators of cell mechanics. Vimentin, a type of intermediate filament expressed in mesenchymal cells and involved ...

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