Legendary myosin researcher Jim Sellers retires after many years of making significant contributions to the field and being an unfailingly generous to colleagues - alway sharing materials, insights and wisdom. A symposium honoring Jim will be held in Sept. www.nhlbi.nih.gov/events/2026/...
Scientific Symposium Honoring Dr. James R. Sellers
Retirement symposium honoring Dr. James R. Sellers’ contributions to myosin studies. Leading scientists in the field will be present.
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Congratulation @gaellel.bsky.social for the crystal medal ! So well deserved, you've been transformative for the democratisation of image analysis and deep learning. www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/talents/c...
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CNRS@cnrs.fr · last mo.#TalentsCNRS 🏅 Le CNRS décerne ses médailles de cristal et cristal collectif 2026, récompensant des femmes et des hommes ayant contribué à l’avancée des savoirs et à l’excellence de la recherche française. Félicitations 👏 👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/actualite... 👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/actualite...
so well deserved!!! she rocks !! Bravo Gaelle !
Jean-Yves Tinevez@jytinevez.bsky.social · last mo.Congratulations to superstar and awesome colleague Gaëlle Letort @gaellel.bsky.social, bioimage analyst extraordinaire for THE CRYSTAL MEDAL OF THE CNRS 2026!!! 🥳🎉🕺🦄🥳 We work with amazing people www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/personne/...
Bringing together science & art, @manuelthery.bsky.social & the CytoMorpho lab describe their project on how cells adapt their shape to their environment using the Musée d’Orsay as their template! The full performance was presented over two nights at the museum earlier this year. #sciart #cellbio
Living Architectures - FocalPlane
Living Architectures - Case studies
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Is there a size limit for cells ? How can cells replicate inside the architecture of their environment? Why do cells self-destroy ? This 15-minute movie vimeo.com/1173229237 shows our 2026 edition of the Living Architectures project at the @museeorsay.bsky.social
Aga Kendrick and I are co-chairing a session, “Intracellular Transport Logistics across Scales” at #CellBio2026, December 12-16, in San Diego this year! 🔬🌞 Abstract deadline for talks is JUNE 9. To be considered for our session, select “Cytoskeleton and Motility” as a topic area. See you there!
📢 Institut Jacques Monod Seminar 📅 June 12th 📍 Institut Jacques Monod Invited by the @romet-jegou-lab.bsky.social Lab, @lblanchoin.bsky.social and @manuelthery.bsky.social will present the IJM seminar "The self-renewing cell: how actin networks are built, sized, and dismantled " ➡️ buff.ly/T8li591
Interdisciplinary course on Artificial Cells next fall in Paris. Registrations are open : www.edu.bio.ens.psl.eu/spip.php?art... For masters, PhD students and postdocs. Every wednesday, 5 to 7 PM, @espciparispsl.bsky.social from September to December. See below for the list of great teachers!
Nice 🧵, lovely movies. Now published advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... from the group of @lauraschaedel.bsky.social
Kinesin‐Induced Buckling Reveals the Limits of Microtubule Self‐Repair
This study shows that kinesin-driven buckling induces extensive microtubule lattice damage that often exceeds intrinsic self-repair and leads to filament failure. While curvature, motor motility, and...
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Shweta Nandakumar@bucklingmt.bsky.social · 11mo agoDespite their high rigidity, microtubules (MTs) dynamically bend and buckle in cells. MT-self repair is inherent to their metastable nature, but it remains unclear whether just inherent repair mechanisms are sufficient to maintain MT integrity🧵 (1/9) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We will have the pleasure of welcoming @manuelthery.bsky.social from @cea.fr to Luminy, Marseille as a keynote speaker. 🕧 Friday 17th April 2026, 11:30, Amphi 12 🔬 From Morphogenesis to Space Partitioning by Microtubules and Motors Save the date! 🙌
🧫 Et si la science devenait une œuvre d’art ? Au @museeorsay.bsky.social, des images de cellules observées au microscope deviennent une performance visuelle pour faire sortir la biologie du laboratoire et révéler l’architecture du vivant. 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNQM...
Les cellules s'exposent au Musée d'Orsay | Reportage CNRS
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CNRS@cnrs.fr · 5mo agoAu Musée d’Orsay, des chercheurs ont transformé des images de cellules observées au microscope en une performance visuelle monumentale. Mais comment fait-on pour projeter des filaments minuscules à l’échelle d’une nef ? Et quels secrets ces images révèlent-elles sur l’organisation du vivant ?
How does a cell move when it carries cargo larger than its own organelles? Excited to share our findings: cells can mechanoadapt their force architecture to move oversized cargo Watch the bulky parasite (red) within an immune cell squeezing through a tiny pore www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/6
Last days to apply this position in our group! Do join us in this great Institute @crg.eu, with great colleagues, and help shaping the science and culture of our lab!
Monica Bettencourt-Dias@monicabettencourt.bsky.social · 7mo ago📣 Please spread: we’re hiring a Lab Manager! It is a critical position in our new lab. As our lab moves to Barcelona and joins the @crg.eu, we’re looking for a Lab Manager to help build the lab and set the lab atmosphere. 🔗 Apply here 👉 recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...
Updating a 56 year-old JCB paper with digitized videos from 16 mm film 😍. Well done first author Tom Pollard!!
Journal of Cell Biology@jcb.org · 6mo ago#Addendum to 1970 paper, “CYTOPLASMIC FILAMENTS OF AMOEBA PROTEUS: I. The Role of Filaments in Consistency Changes and Movement,” includes eight video sequences originally recorded on 16-mm films. No technology was available at the time to include this data. 🎞️ rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Actin
A few seconds of eternity: From microscope to museum❣️ It was truly delightful to be part of this project, celebrating life as a continuous dance of creation, collapse, and renewal. 🔄 Kudos to @manuelthery.bsky.social @lblanchoin.bsky.social #cytomorpholab members, and @museeorsay.bsky.social
Huge congrats to @manuelthery.bsky.social and all the Cytomorpho lab. The "Living Architectures" performance at @museeorsay.bsky.social was breathtakingly beautiful
#LivingArchitectures Congratulations @manuelthery.bsky.social @lblanchoin.bsky.social and all Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab for their poetic vision of the microscopic level.
#Addendum to 1970 paper, “CYTOPLASMIC FILAMENTS OF AMOEBA PROTEUS: I. The Role of Filaments in Consistency Changes and Movement,” includes eight video sequences originally recorded on 16-mm films. No technology was available at the time to include this data. 🎞️ rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Actin
Author Tom Pollard: “I hope readers will enjoy movies from our 1970 JCB paper showing dramatic cytoplasmic movements in cell-free extracts. Electron micrographs in the paper related these movements to the assembly of actin filaments. This addendum is a tribute to my very generous mentor Sus Ito.”
#art 🎨 | Quand l’art devient expérimental & que chaque spectateur devient 🧑🔬. A l'occasion du spectacle 'Architectures vivantes’ du @museeorsay.bsky.social qui aura lieu les 24 et 25 janvier prochains, @manuelthery.bsky.social, directeur scientifique du projet revient sur cette expérimentation en 📽️
"Perhaps the most exciting place to be is just beyond the trend: informed by it but not confined by it."
Alexis Lomakin, Ph.D.@alexis-lomakin.bsky.social · 7mo ago
📣 #Job alert! Looking to establish your own independent research in cell biology, development or evo-devo? The @cnrs.fr is recruiting 7 scientists in that area of research. Here are updated unofficial guidelines. Reach out to members of the committee if you have questions c3n-cn.fr/section-24-w...
Section 24 – External Competition – Coordination des instances du Comité National
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CNRS@cnrs.fr · 8mo ago#JointheCNRS 🫵 Want to push the boundaries of science? The CNRS is recruiting passionate researchers (F/M)! The campaign runs until January 12, 2026. 👉 carrieres.cnrs.fr/en/external-... #Recruitment #CNRS #Innovation #Research #Icicarecrute
#Communiqué 🗞️ En 2026, pour célébrer ses 40 ans, le @museeorsay.bsky.social devient un véritable théâtre du vivant. Deux soirées dans la Nef plongeront le public dans un spectacle immersif au coeur des dynamiques cellulaires donnant vie à l’architecture de la gare. 👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/un...
#RejoignezleCNRS 🫵 Envie de repousser les limites de la science ? Le #CNRS recrute des chercheurs (F/H) passionnés. 📅 Concours ouverts jusqu’au 12 janvier 2026. Candidatez dès maintenant ! 👉 carrieres.cnrs.fr/concours-ext... #Recrutement #Innovation #Recherche #Icicarecrute
#LivingArchitectures We put cells and cytoskeleton filaments on the architecture of the musée d'Orsay. www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/agenda/ev... Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab adapted their protocols to illustrate the questions that keep them awake at night. -> Two shows on the 24th and 25th of January.
Today, our animation synthesizing decades of research on actin-mediated endocytosis in budding yeast was published: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... The result of a fantastic Iwasa-Drubin lab collaboration. @margotriggi.bsky.social @jiwasa.bsky.social movie.biologists.com/video/10.124...
I'm heading to ASCB in Philadelphia this year and If you'd like to chat about your research, please get in touch and we can schedule a time to meet.
“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. 🧪
⚡Ready to grow and be inspired as a scientist? We’re looking for a *PhD student* to join our lab at @crg.eu in Barcelona and explore how cells self-organize, uncovering life’s inner design💡 We offer strong mentoring, cutting-edge science, and a vibrant international team🌍 Check the link below!
Perspective from Richard McIntosh describing the history of research on #microtubule polymerization in terms of the ideas, technologies, and observations that have emerged as countless researchers have studied the dynamics of these essential cytoskeletal polymers. rupress.org/jcb/article/...
