Hip hip hurray - we have a new doctor in the house. Congratulations Dr @cbrannon.bsky.social that was a spectacular defense; so many fun stories all tied together in an hour. Also, the same week Charlotte’s big paper on information bottlenecks in ciliary flocks got accepted in Nature Physics.

Postdoctoral researcher @isaacsiuwong.bsky.social in the @hymanlab.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de is 2026 Grass Fellow @grassfoundation.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social. 🎉 He will pursue his project “Dancing diatoms as a proto-neural model” at MBL for 14 weeks. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Isaac Siu-Shing Wong is MBL 2026 Grass Fellow

MPI-CBG postdoctoral researcher joins Marine Biological Laboratory, working in the Grass Laboratory for research project.

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Condensates are powerful ways to break symmetry and cells do remarkable things with them. Here we show that in a multinucleate fungus, a condensate regulates translation of a cyclin and a formin in distinct locations. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

RNA-specific local translation is patterned by condensates for multinucleate cell growth - Nature Cell Biology

Geisterfer, Jalihal et al. show spatially distinct effects of Whi3 condensates on target translation in Ashbya syncytia. In vitro, translation is enriched at condensate–solute interfaces but repressed...

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I am very excited to share our pre-print that was just released on the bioRxiv entitled "Biomolecular Condensates Dictate the Folding Landscape of Proteins" doi.org/10.64898/202... Very grateful for @jerelleaj.bsky.social and the members of the Joseph Group for their support on this project! (1/4)

Very happy to announce that a small part of my bird data, collected on a transect along the Elbe river, got successfully 'published' online.:) hymanlab.org/blog/2025/-c...

Welcome Safal!!, now the most amazing @safalfold.bsky.social is on bluesky🐙🦀🌊

Huge congrats to DOCTOR @rnadavid.bsky.social for successfully defending! Amazing presentation 💙

“Cellular Olympics” our catalog of freeky ultra fast cellular superhero’s is freely available “Ann Rev of microbiology” www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... This is a compilation of world’s fastest single cell organisms - enjoy this buffet of rare delightful protists with mind bending speeds. 🧪

ufhealth.org/news/2025/st... Again, amazing work from Sayour Lab! Congrats to @adamgrippin.bsky.social and all others involved!

Study finds COVID-19 mRNA vaccine sparks immune response to fight cancer - UF Health

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Patients with advanced lung or skin cancer who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy drugs lived…

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Our new preprint reveals that 🪰's Cnn and 🪱's SPD-5 both form condensates in vitro, but assemble via divergent mechanisms in vivo. We show how phosphorylation unlocks Cnn’s autoinhibited scaffold and identify conserved features in 🚶‍♂️'s CDK5RAP2.

bioRxiv Cell Biology@biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Structural insights into mitotic-centrosome assembly https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.03.680336v1

Did you know tiny algae can "skate" within Arctic sea ice? ⛸️ Our new study in @pnas.org reveals the secret life of ice diatoms: they are actively gliding to navigate the ice! This adds a new dimension to the sea ice ecosystem, revealing an active, dynamic ecological niche. @prakashlab.bsky.social

My first research project in grad school was working on understanding the self assembly dynamics of the Sayour Lab’s vaccine. Elias is genuinely one of the nicest, most enthusiastic individuals I have ever worked with. Hector (the first author) is also absolutely amazing!

Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦@deonandan.bsky.social · last yr.

Five years ago, a very close relative died of a glioblastoma brain tumor at the age of 13. Today would have been his 19th birthday. And now comes news that an mRNA vaccine is being trialed to treat this very (incurable) malady. Fingers crossed. mbi.ufl.edu/2024/05/01/v...

#StressBreak Lotus flowers are blooming again in Kashmir’s historically largest lake, having been freed from the grasp of underwater silt that strangled them for 3 decades. www.goodnewsnetwork.org/lotus-flower...

Joy and Relief as Lotus Flowers Bloom Again in Kashmiri Lake After Three Decades

"Lotus stem connects our food to the land … now that it’s back, we’re preparing dishes the way our grandmothers did: slow, simple,

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Dear MBL alumni (that's you!), What's your favorite MBL memory? Share with #MyMBLMoment to enter our giveaway. A winner will be randomly chosen at the end of the month! #MyMBLMoment

We're thrilled to announce the largest private gift in our 137-year history: a $25 million unrestricted donation from MBL Whitman Scientist Mark Terasaki. His extraordinary generosity will bolster our renowned research and education programs. 🔬 Learn more: bit.ly/452WL1m

MBL Announces Largest Ever Gift for Its Renowned Biological Education and Research Programs | Marine Biological Laboratory

Cell Biology Researcher Mark Terasaki’s $25 Million Unrestricted Gift Will Support Operations and Infrastructure Contact: Samantha Cummis scummis@mbl.edu; 973.800.4119

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Exciting news! Our latest paper reveals that Spd-2 (CEP192) recruits Polo & Aurora A to build two scaffolds—Polo-dependent Cnn (for strength) & Aurora A–dependent TACC (for protein concentration)—crucial for centrosome assembly in Drosophila. #CellBiology #Centrosome www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Centrioles generate two scaffolds with distinct biophysical properties to build mitotic centrosomes

Spd-2 organizes the assembly of two distinct centriole-scaffolds to build mitotic centrosomes in Drosophila.

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