Have a look at my latest Research Highlight below, highlighting an article by @sferronovick.bsky.social and colleagues, which found an interesting role for a COPII protein in autophagy 👀 Original article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Coupling of cargo to the autophagy receptor is a critical step in ER-phagy

The lipid composition of the ER regulates the ability of Lst1/SEC24C to couple cargo to an autophagy receptor.

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Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology@natrevmcb.nature.com · 2mo ago

New Online! COPII meets autophagy at the ER membrane

New Online! COPII meets autophagy at the ER membrane

COPII meets autophagy at the ER membrane

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, Published online: 30 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41580-026-00997-7This study shows that neutral lipids regulate endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane curvature and bendability during ER-phagy, and finds that a COPII protein helps couple ER cargo to the autophagy receptor.

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The YEN Image Competition is accepting entries until the 10 June! Please share with your fellow imaging and science art enthusiasts! 🔬🖌️ Submit your entry via form or email (check poster for details).

Delighted to announce the posting of our latest preprint, which links stress-induced relocalisation of multiple organelles by dynein to adaptive changes in gene expression in the nucleus (1/n) 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Check out my newest Research highlight on work by @brugueslab.bsky.social on how the cytoplasm of early embryos retains its partitioning prior to cellularisation - and what workarounds different species have developed against an inherent cytoskeletal instability!

Brugues Lab@brugueslab.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Really nice highlight of our recent paper on cytoplasmic partitioning by physical instabilities!

Really nice highlight of our recent paper on cytoplasmic partitioning by physical instabilities!

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology@natrevmcb.nature.com · 6mo ago

New Online! Overcoming cytoskeleton instability in the early embryo

Such a pleasure to share our commentary on #UFMylation client diversity published in @natrevmcb.nature.com. Thanks to @lisaheinke.bsky.social for the opportunity to write it, reviewers for their peer review contribution, and members of our lab for discussions. Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚀 New journal alert! We are Communications AI and Computing: an open access space from @natureportfolio.nature.com for research in AI, ML, and computational science. Now open for submissions! www.nature.com/commsaicomp/ #AI #ML #OpenAccess #ComputationalScience #NaturePortfolio #Research

Take a look at our newest Tools of the Trade article on how to decode ubiquitin signals using UbiREAD! 👇

Leo Kiss@leokiss.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Have a look at this Tools of the Trade Article I wrote for @natrevmcb.nature.com on decoding #ubiquitin signals inside cells using UbiREAD! Many thanks to @lisaheinke.bsky.social for the opportunity to write this TotT!

I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉 @karalmckinley.bsky.social We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice. We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵

Induction of menstruation in mice reveals the regulation of menstrual shedding

During menstruation, an inner layer of the endometrium is selectively shed, while an outer, progenitor-containing layer is preserved to support repeated regeneration. Progress in understanding this co...

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The mechanistic basis of cargo selection during Golgi maturation. From Rebecca Taylor, @katciazynska.bsky.social, @jggkaufman.bsky.social & @grigorytagiltsev.bsky.social at @mpibiochem.bsky.social with David Owen and Sean Munro's group @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social | www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The mechanistic basis of cargo selection during Golgi maturation

Resident proteins of the Golgi recycle in vesicles and the protein GOLPH3 enables the COPI vesicle coat to accomplish this.

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Many thanks to Sean (@cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social) for writing this Journal Club for us!

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology@natrevmcb.nature.com · 11mo ago

New Online! The advent of confocal laser scanning microscopy in biological research

🎉 Just 1 week to go until #ECDO2025 in Berlin! This will be an exciting meeting featuring a fantastic lineup of speakers. 🧬 This year, we’ll dive deep into the crosstalk between different types of cell death in health and disease. 📍 We can’t wait to welcome you! 7-10 Oct!!!

Check out this new Roadmap, a fantastic team effort by a consortium of ER researchers. Glad we could provide the space for this synthesis, which came out of discussions at a fruitful meeting, see below:

Ishier Raote@ishier.bsky.social · 11mo ago

ER exit sites are dynamic ER subdomains that integrate signals, reshape membranes and steer secretion. Twelve groups in the field came together to map their diversity, regulation, unanswered questions and future directions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cool article alert! Check out our futuristic Viewpoint below 🔮 And big thank you again to our fortune tellers, linked in the thread below 🥳

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology@natrevmcb.nature.com · 12mo ago

Our cover indicates that while we celebrate the past we're looking ahead to the future - with the help of a Viewpoint! 13 researchers offer a glimpse of what their research field might look like in 2050 🔮 👉 go.nature.com/4neNdYU

Are you excited?? Because I am! 25 years ago I was 10 and had just started secondary school yet our journal was already covering groundbreaking science, long before I'd even heard of molecular cell biology 🧐 Safe to say I'm fairly familiar with it now 🤭 Enjoy our issue!!!!!!!!!!!

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology@natrevmcb.nature.com · 12mo ago

Hello Bluesky! We're celebrating ✨25th years of NRMCB✨ with our October Issue - out now! It offers a glimpse into our journal's scope - cell death, enhancers, cell cycle, migration, transposable elements, membrane contact sites & AI! go.nature.com/4nJUz6w

Big Thanks @lisaheinke.bsky.social and Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology @natrevmcb.nature.com for the opportunity for our students, Chems and Emma, to write a Tools of the Trade piece on our recently published ControLD technique.

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology@natrevmcb.nature.com · last yr.

ICYMI: New Online! Condensate-mediated intracellular organelle sequestration

Looking forward to this conference on my home turf in a couple of months!

ECDO European Cell Death Organisation @ecdoorg.bsky.social · last yr.

Register to the ECDO-2025 in Berlin!!! Registration is on a first come, first served basis, so we highly recommend securing your spot as soon as possible. Join us in Berlin for an unforgettable event. We can’t wait to welcome you to ECDO-2025! 🌍🎓

A good rule of thumb when it comes to deciding a title for your Review/Research article is the Harry Potter test as I like to call it. Does your title fit into the scheme of "Harry Potter and..."? Then you know it's not a good scientific title.

Plant NLR receptors mediate pathogen resistance, and so their engineering could lead to crops with broader pathogen specificity and so broader disease resistance. @nature, authors report one such attempt achieving resistance to several potyviruses. www.nature.com/articles/s41... & shorturl.at/932j7

Remodelling autoactive NLRs for broad-spectrum immunity in plants - Nature

Cleavage by pathogen-derived proteases of an engineered chimeric protein activates its plant immune receptor component, enabling broad-spectrum resistance to pathogens in plants.

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We wrote a review on Transposable Elements (TEs) and almost all aspects of TE silencing and their roles in biological processes & disease. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of transposable elements and their roles in development and disease - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Transposable elements (TEs) comprise nearly half of the human genome. This Review discusses transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms that repress TE activity, how TEs escape this suppressio...

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Precisely. Which is why if a funder wants to require a version to be made open, it should be the preprint, as it is the only version that is *directly* and solely the work of the fundee. ck.journalology.com/posts/journa...

My pleasure completely, great study and beautiful wing disc images 😊

Benjamin Boumard@bboumard.bsky.social · last yr.

Thanks a lot @lisaheinke.bsky.social for highlighting in @natrevmcb.nature.com our recently published article: Good neighbors do share nucleotides 😇🪰🧬! www.cell.com/developmenta... @cp-devcell.bsky.social @bardinlab.bsky.social

Hey my fellow Germans! I wasn't aware, but there is an AvH-JSPP postdoc fellowship, dedicated to German citizens aiming to do their postdoc in Japan. It covers salary + travel to Japan + startup for your life in Japan. Let me know if you are interested! www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/apply/spo...

JSPS Research Fellowship

The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellowship supports you as a highly qualified postdoc from Germany in conducting your research in Japan – regardless of discipline.

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a great opportunity to join Nature Metabolism as an Associate or Senior editor springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

Associate or Senior Editor Nature Metabolism

Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor Nature Metabolism Location: New York, Beijing or Shanghai Application Deadline: June 10th, 2025 About Springer Nature Group Springer Nature opens the doors to dis...

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We were thrilled to welcome Dr. Lisa Heinke @lisaheinke.bsky.social, a Senior Editor at Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, to Fudan University! She gave a fantastic talk on the editorial process and career paths as a scientific editor! Thank you, Lisa!

Lisa Heinke@lisaheinke.bsky.social · last yr.

Our meeting at beautiful Dushu Lake near Suzhou ended yesterday after many great talks. I really enjoyed learning about cell death and immunity pathways associated with it! Now I’m on my way to Fudan University for a lab visit and seminar, kindly hosted by @ichikawa-lab.bsky.social 🙌🏻

Our meeting at beautiful Dushu Lake near Suzhou ended yesterday after many great talks. I really enjoyed learning about cell death and immunity pathways associated with it! Now I’m on my way to Fudan University for a lab visit and seminar, kindly hosted by @ichikawa-lab.bsky.social 🙌🏻

Yesterday was my first day in Shanghai and I was lucky to enjoy a great visit to the Shanghai Institute of Immunity and Infection (by Chinese Academy of Science). Thank you to Xing Liu for being a wonderful host and ensuring a smooth trip for me 🙌🏻

We're hiring 📢 The Research Cross-Journal Editorial Team @natureportfolio.nature.com has not one, but TWO openings for Associate or Senior Editors in Life Sciences. If you fancy a career in editorial, we'd love to hear from you 😀

Yes, that is me, for those who did not yet know. This was not planned but I am very happy to go 'home' even though I will miss a lot about Portugal. If you still want to visit, hurry, otherwise see you in Cambridge. If you want to know more contact me directly. www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-care...