journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... KATANIN is required for the formation of complete preprophase bands and subsequent division positioning in two asymmetric divisions of the maize stomatal complex
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Great collaboration with @bastinlab.bsky.social to image node cilia and assess in parallel ccdc40 function in mouse and trypanosome cilia.
Philippe Bastin's Lab@bastinlab.bsky.social · 2w agoThere is more than cilia beating in the establishment of left-right symmetry! Proud to have contributed to this beautiful study by Amaia Ochandorena Saa @meilhacsigolene.bsky.social where Thierry Blisnick imaged mouse node by SEM doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx6486 @pasteur.fr @institutimagine.bsky.social
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Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology Location: Beijing, Shanghai or Madrid, Hybrid Working Model Application Deadline: Aug 24th, 2026 About Springer Nature Spri...
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ADP-Bound States of Cytoplasmic Dynein: Cryo-electron Microscopy Reveals a Two-Step Post-Power-Stroke Transition and Roles of Regulatory ATPase Sites
Cytoplasmic dynein is essential for intracellular transport and cell division, and its dysfunction is implicated in severe neurological disorders. Its…
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When tension increases, the nucleus escapes. New paper out in @natphys.nature.com. Check out Tom's thread for a summary 👇
Tom Golde@tomgolde.bsky.social · 2w agoNew paper in @natphys.nature.com! We uncovered a stress adapation mechanism where keratin intermediate filaments in stretched epithelia undergo a supracellular bundling transition that uncages the nucleus. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @ibecbarcelona.eu, @upc.edu @qmul.bsky.social
Interested in a cross-scale understanding of #mechanobiology? Join the EMBO Workshop "Forces across scales" in Porto, Portugal, 27–30 April 2027. Deadline: 1 December 2026 https://meetings.embo.org/event/27-forces-scales #EMBOforces #EMBOevents 🧪
A molecular switch for coordinating kinesin and dynein transport of mitochondrial cargo | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A molecular switch for coordinating kinesin and dynein transport of mitochondrial cargo
The cellular distribution of mitochondria in response to stress and local energy needs is governed by the relative activities of the microtubule-based molecular motors kinesin and dynein. The mechanis...
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PLEASE SHARE! New job openings in my lab @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We have a broad interest into the mechanistic basis of how molecular complexes are rewired during cellular development in plants and during invasion by pathogens. 🌱🍄🔬 See details below 👇 #PlantSciJobs
We’re looking for a Reviews Editor to join the team. Joining an experienced & successful journal team, this is an exciting opportunity for a talented scientific editor to make a significant contribution to an important journal in the field of cell biology. www.biologists.com/about-us/wor...
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Paclitaxel induces NM2-dependent cellular contraction through GEF-H1 dissociation from microtubules and RhoA/ROCK activation in cancer cells
Paclitaxel induces NM2-dependent cellular contraction through GEF-H1 dissociation from microtubules and RhoA/ROCK activation in cancer cells
In this study, we have investigated the crosstalk between microtubule dynamics and actomyosin contractility in cancer cells treated with taxanes, which are chemotherapeutic agents used to treat solid ...
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Cell size reduction distinctly scales spindle elongation and chromosome segregation in C. elegans - Nature Communications
Embryos must adapt to decreasing cell size. Although chromosome segregation. dynamics in C. elegans remain largely invariant, spindle length scales with cell. size and can be recapitulated by only var...
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... E!ective elasticity and persistence of strain in active filament-motor assemblies
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Structural basis for alpha-actinin inhibition of cooperative cofilin binding to actin filaments
hiiii everyone! my department @zoology.ubc.ca is hiring an assistant professor in cell and developmental biology! deadline is october 1! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32408 // please share!!!!!
University of British Columbia, Department of Zoology
Job #AJO32408, Assistant Professor in Cell and Developmental Biology, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, CA
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A cell size-dependent competition between geometry and polarity governs nuclear and spindle positioning in early embryos: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
A cell size-dependent competition between geometry and polarity governs nuclear and spindle positioning in early embryos
By mapping centrosome position and orientation during early embryo development, Nommick et al. uncover a progressive apical shift and continuous planar alignment of centrosomes. They propose a size-sc...
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Spatiotemporal control of cortical centrin patterning by regionalized Sfi1 family scaffolding proteins in Stentor coeruleus: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Spatiotemporal control of cortical centrin patterning by regionalized Sfi1 family scaffolding proteins in Stentor coeruleus
Yan et al. show that regionalized Sfi1 proteins act as scaffolds that organize distinct cortical centrin structures in Stentor. Loss of Sfi1 disrupts oral regeneration and cell contractility, revealing a key mechanism by which a single cell establishes and rebuilds structural organization.
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Control of plant organ growth linked to cell division orientation in inner tissues: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Control of plant organ growth linked to cell division orientation in inner tissues
The rib zone (RZ) is a region of the shoot meristem that produces inner stem tissues. Yates et al. show that Arabidopsis 1aIQD genes restrict stem thickness by orienting cell divisions in the RZ, challenging the common assumption that plant organ growth is controlled by outer tissues.
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Super-resolution imaging reveals altered actin architecture at CAR-T cell immune synapses rupress.org/jcb/article/...
Super-resolution imaging reveals altered actin architecture at CAR-T cell immune synapses
Super-resolution imaging reveals that CAR-T cells assemble immunological synapses with distinct actin architectures, including reduced central clearance an
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✍️ The Guichet Lab published a new article 📖 mBio 📃 Fast and tortuous: extreme deformations and fast movements of the cell nucleus are driven by microtubules in the model fungus Podospora anserina 🔗 doi.org/10.1128/mbio...
Cilia alert! Last year Juyeon Hong described a new domain in 9+2 cilia called the EDT, the extreme distal tip. Now, she's found a new protein required for its assembly, but only in non-mammalian vertebrates. A cool evo-cell / protein evolution story in @cellreports.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2xvdskx6
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Mechanism of branched actin assembly at microtubule tips downstream of Adenomatous Polyposis Coli (APC) protein
A minimal physical model of adhesion-dependent protrusion explains confined haptotaxis and oscillatory cell migration www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Microtubule curling as an efficient readout to uncover fundamental concepts of axonal1cell biology and neurodegeneration HUGE paper from the Prokop group - "report [..] the functional loss of 105 genes.... using a standardised Drosophila primary neuron system" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The latest from the Treisman lab - An RPEL-based FRET biosensor for G-actin www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
i had long idly wondered about the origin of the name “Escherichia"
c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · last wk.The headlines are still covering the cyclosporiasis outbreak from lettuce, but let's talk about a different summer, long ago. The headlines in Bavaria would have called it "summer diarrhea" & it was killing babies. Enter our hero, Professor Theodor Escherich of the Julius Hospital, Würzburg.
Thrilled to share our latest work, led by @aryantaheri.bsky.social and Julia Peukes! Using cryo-EM and cryo-ET, we reveal how KIF21B’s distal tail engages multiple tubulin dimers along a protofilament, enabling persistent microtubule attachment and crosslinking. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
