Definitely the weirdest package I opened this year. Hopefully there will be no other contenders...

Mark Peifer (He, him)@peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 2w ago

Today's winning Biology All email--in fact this is a contender for best this year

Happy Monday! There is just ONE WEEK left to get our early registration fee for this year's Triangle Cytoskeleton Meeting. Do you ever think about the mechanical forces generated by the actin cytoskeleton? Dr. Matthew Tyska's lab uses Journal cover worthy microscopy to understand these questions!

Have you ever wondered how cells protect their nuclei from damage while squeezing through tightly packed tissues? @septinlab.bsky.social at the University of Virginia have! Dr. Elias Spiliotis will share how septin filaments anchor and protect nuclei during migration at TCM 2026! (1/3)

Registration for the 2026 Triangle Cytoskeleton Meeting is NOW OPEN! Our meeting will be Monday, September 21st at the Friday Center on UNC-Chapel Hill Campus. Please fill out the Google Form below and register through the UNC Event Registration page to attend. forms.gle/zcMoubS2mavp...

Mark your calendars for this year's Triangle Cytoskeleton Meeting! This meeting had a huge influence on me as a trainee in fostering my love of not only the cytoskeleton but the community that attends this meeting. Let's look forward to another great meeting!

Triangle Cytoskeleton Meeting@tricytomeet.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Triangle Cytoskeleton Meeting is back again for our 13th annual meeting! We are excited to announce this years meeting will be held at the William and Ida Friday Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on September 21st. Registration will open July 13th! #cytoskeleton

Congratulations, Maik! 🎉 I am proud to have been a part of the foundation for your research, and I'm so excited to continue following your discoveries and achievements.

Maik Bischoff@maikbischoff.bsky.social · 7mo ago

1/10 I am truly honored to receive the Hilde Mangold Award from @gfeev.bsky.social! Mangold’s classic transplantation experiments transformed developmental biology and our understanding of self-organization. I am grateful to be associated with this legacy!

So excited to share this as a new junior PI: My brand-new lab website! 🎉🪰🌀 www.bischofflab.com Please pass it on to young, motivated researchers looking for PhD positions 😊 And for the #FluorescenceFriday community: don’t miss the SciArt Gallery! #CellBio #DevBio #PhDjob #PhDposition #Science

Exciting work and very beautiful images! Congratulations, Naveen! 🎉

Naveen Chana@naveenchana.bsky.social · 11mo ago

My first (and first-author) paper investigating how Arabidopsis AUGMIN8 interacts with microtubules is now available online in @cytoskeljournal.bsky.social! I'm incredibly grateful to have performed this work as an undergrad and postbac in Sidney Shaw's lab at IUB. doi.org/10.1002/cm.7...

My entry for today’s #FluorescenceFriday: a pupal #Drosophila testis with muscles expressing 🔵 lifeact & 🔴 RFP-nls Honored & grateful to receive an honorable mention at @healthcare.nikon.com Nikon Small World 🌍🔬✨ 🔗 www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20... #NikonSmallWorld #Microscopy #ScienceArt

www.ascb.org/society-news... It's official now 😁 Big thanks again to @ascbiology.bsky.social & MBoC

Maik Bischoff@maikbischoff.bsky.social · last yr.

Exciting news — I am super honored to receive the 2025 MBoC Early Career Paper Award 🎉 My very first award 😊 www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/... Couldn’t imagine a better send-off as I just wrapped up my postdoc at UNC and get ready to start a lab in Münster this fall 😃

@tricytomeet.bsky.social continued with a lively poster session. I particularly liked the presentation by Naveen Chana, about work in Sid Shaw's IU lab on the plant augmin complex & microtubule regulation. She's now a PhD student in Joe Kieber's lab at UNC trianglecytoskeleton.com/2025-meeting...

This is an airyscan confocal movie of mitochondria (white) moving around in a mouse astrocyte. Actin filaments are in orange and microtubules are in blue.

This is an awesome opportunity to write letters to middle school students across the US to chat about real science careers and your path. Please join me in my first year signing up! It's 4 letters spread across the school year. Registration closes next week, and there's 3,200 students signed up!

For STEM Professionals - Letters to a Pre-Scientist

Pen Pal Program Overview We encourage STEM Professionals of all kinds to get involved with Letters to a Pre-Scientist! STEM professionals send and receive letters throughout a school year from ...

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1/3 Excited to see my #microscopy collage featured in the first issue of 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐢𝐫𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞—a beautiful, hand-crafted non-profit magazine. Thanks so much for including my work! Check out PaperAirplane.pub, for a small donation to support refugees and immigrants! #SciArt #SciComm #DevBio #CellBio

Also thrilled that Gabrielle Neyman ( #UNC News), with help from #AAAS, wrote an awesome press release about our new paper that’s accessible to non-scientists! Huge thanks to Gabrielle and AAAS for helping share our work with the world! 🙏 #SciComm #Science www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Organ sculpting cells may hold clues to how cancer spreads

A new study from scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reveals that the cells shaping our organs may be far more mobile and coordinated than once believed. 

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Our new paper uncovering the role of Plexin/Semaphorin signaling in collective cell migration using testis nascent myotubes in flies is out! This work is from my time with @peiferlabunc.bsky.social led by @maikbischoff.bsky.social. As always, I am so thankful and proud to be a part of this story!

Plexin/Semaphorin antagonism orchestrates collective cell migration and organ sculpting by regulating epithelial-mesenchymal balance

An axon guidance factor restricts gap growth in a non-neuronal migrating cell sheet, allowing organ sculpting.

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1/14 “Epithelial” & “Mesenchymal” aren’t binary categories—they form a spectrum, or better yet, a multidimensional space. This becomes especially clear in collective cell migration, which often depends on a finely tuned degree of “mesenchymal-ness”. #cellbio #devbio #cellmigration

I escaped poverty because I am a scientist. And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation. A 🧵:

We just released and uploaded a new version of *Mastodon*, the large-scale tracking and track-editing framework for large, multi-view images. Mastodon is available via Fiji, via a dedicated update site. mastodon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/do... Below is a thread that survey some of the novelties ⏬️

This project will hold a special place for me as my introduction and gateway into falling in love with cell and molecular biology. This was in part due to Maik Bischoff's and Mark Peifer's contagious passion, and in part due to this amazing model system. With that said... look at these weird testes!

Maik Bischoff@maikbischoff.bsky.social · 2y ago

Wow! We got the cover! #MBOC #ASCB #CellBio So proud of #TeamTestis. Screening <270 lines for shape defects was a huge team effort! I created this collage from the team’s images from the past 2 years! Depth-color-coded with Fiji. Inspired by late 19th century lithographic animal illustrations.

Everything's packed and ready for an exciting #GordonConference on Directed #CellMigration in Lucca, Italy! Thrilled (and a little nervous) to give my first-ever talk at a GRC! 🔬🛫 🇮🇹 #Science #Cellbio

Almost 2/3 of Americans with #Alzheimer are women. Sexism plays a big role in access to resources for cognitive health. Women born in the state with the highest structural sexism showed memory decline like that of those who were 9 years older. alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 2y ago

New study finds that women born in the most sexist U.S. states experienced faster memory decline in later years compared to women born in the least sexist states. The difference was equivalent to nine years of cognitive aging.

@emily-mcparland.bsky.social, @noahgurley.bsky.social, Kevin Slep, @peiferlabunc.bsky.social and colleagues dissect the differential roles of the dual Ras-association domains of Drosophila Canoe in linking cell junctions to the cytoskeleton. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

The birth of fruit fly's central nervous system imaged with multicolor #adaptive #lightsheet microscopy. The microscope self-aligns to a signal that appears during imaging. www.nature.com/articles/nbt...

We learn in school about the distinctive shapes of each of our body’s organs, but how did that arise? Organs self-assemble, as individual cells change shape and move in coordinated ways, sometimes with multiple cell /tissue types shaping one another 1/n 🧪

105 cool microscopists in this starter pack, but I know there are more out there! I want to find more 45 to complete the list, can you help me? 🤓🔬 go.bsky.app/Aaf8sKT