Well, now that my pipettes have been delivered, I guess I can announce that I am opening my own lab in Rome @UniRomaTre 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬🔬 funded by a FIS3 Starting Grant On active cytoskeleton stuff, of course !

To all biophysicists and biophysics lovers out there 🚨 @asciortino.bsky.social did it AGAIN 🔥 Check out his new preprint for a new way to think about how biological matter organizes: arxiv.org/pdf/2604.01057

Alfredo Sciortino@asciortino.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New preprint out: arxiv.org/pdf/2604.01057 Together with JF Joanny and Sudipta, we introduce a "new" kind of active phase separation inspired by experiments with motors and microtubules and based on transport of species along a polar "pump"! @manuelthery.bsky.social @lblanchoin.bsky.social

@ghinabadih.bsky.social and Laetitia Kurzawa from CytoMorphoLab concluded that "contractile forces direct the chiral swirling of cells".

The law of the jungle. Interactions of cells in a collective lead to global rotation. In 80% of the case HUVEC cells turn clockwise. How many cells does it take for this to happen?

@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...

pnas.org

Go right or left? A question that we encounter very often in our daily lives, and while our decision may sometimes be hindered by the fear of making a mistake, cells DO NOT HESITATE!!! They swirl with the confidence of someone who’s always RIGHT… or LEFT!!!

🔬 From JCB’s July issue (rupress.org/jcb/issue/22...): a PtK2 cell plated on a micropattern and injected with low doses of soluble actin (orange) and tubulin (blue) in order to generate speckles along the corresponding filaments. From @manuelthery.bsky.social group (rupress.org/jcb/article/...).

And it’s FINALLY OUT 🎉 The new work from Schaeffer, Théry and colleagues provides revolutionary insights into the processes underlying #centrosome positioning in adherent cells. Check out the article @jcb.org to unlock the full story behind these new results: hubs.la/Q03hQjdn0! @drs88.bsky.social

Journal of Cell Biology@jcb.org · last yr.

Unlike eggs & mitotic cells, in adherent interphasic cells the centrosome is NOT positioned by a balance of forces along #microtubules, but by cell shape organization around the #centrosome: rupress.org/jcb/article/... @lblanchoin.bsky.social @manuelthery.bsky.social @gelinmatthieu.bsky.social