After the success of our 2023 Imaging Cell Dynamics conference, we’ll be hosting a second #JCSImaging meeting in 2026, organised by @franbottanelli.bsky.social, @guijacquemet.bsky.social‬, @drmichaelway.bsky.social‬ & Giulia Zanetti. To register your interest: www.biologists.com/meetings/jcs...

@rashmi-priya.bsky.social from @crick.ac.uk is awarded the 2026 BSCB Women in Cell Biology Medal at #DynamicCellVI by @viji-draviam.bsky.social Rashmi delivered a fascinating medal talk about her research on cell and tissue mechanics during heart development.

We're super excited to share MissAlignment: a new ML-based approach to reference-free tilt series alignment, spearheaded by @martenchaillet.bsky.social. We think it's going to make your cryo-ET life a lot better. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Code: github.com/warpem/miss-... 🧶 Thread:

Fantastic talk from our 2026 Postdoc ECR Medal Winner @giuliapaci.bsky.social from @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at #DynamicCellVI explaining her research on the role of 3D epithelial topology in developmental patterning Congratulations Giulia 👏👏

Great to be here in Reading for Dynamic Cell VI, organised jointly by our friends at the Biochemical Society and the British Society for Cell Biology 🙂 Come and chat with us about the benefits of RMS membership and our range of activities in support of #microscopy 🔬

aPKC substrate targeting mechanisms - Shona Ellison from @crick.ac.uk presented their role in cell polarity at the #DynamicCellVI meeting of @bscb-official.bsky.social and @biochemsoc.bsky.social

@bscb-official.bsky.social Beautiful Cryo-ET talk by Kashish Singh on cytoplasmic lattices in mammalian embryos from @mrclmb.ac.uk at the #DynamicCellVI conference

Fantastic keynote talk by David Barford @mrclmb.ac.uk on kinetochore structure at #DynamicCellVI

The abstract deadline has been extended to 16 March 2026 for Dynamic Cell VI, the annual meeting of the British Society for Cell Biology, with the Biochemical Society. biochemistry.org/events-and-training/events-calendar/dynamic-cell-vi/ Travel grants are available for BSCB members.

If you are at #CellBio25 @ascbiology.bsky.social and would like to hear our work on kinetochore and centromeric truncating variants, join the session on organelle dynamics (Room108 Monday 4pm).

It was an awesome day of Aurora and MPS1 discussion! Good luck with the fabulous discoveries!

Carlos Conde@carlos-conde.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Great seminar by Viji @viji-draviam.bsky.social at @i3suporto.bsky.social and very insightful discussions. Always a pleasure to host colleagues and brainstorm!

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

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Wonderful work by @viji-draviam.bsky.social and team. Congratulations on the publication! We're honored to be cited in your work—exciting to see our contributions supporting cutting-edge research. Looking forward to following your continued discoveries!

Viji Draviam@viji-draviam.bsky.social · 12mo ago

FRAP-SR (60 nm) reveals subcompartments within DNA damage repair foci in live cells. FRAP in the Super-resolution regime is likely to transform many other fields of cell biology: www.cell.com/cell-reports.... Thanks to @rappopto.bsky.social, @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social and @ukri.org for support.

FRAP-SR (60 nm) reveals subcompartments within DNA damage repair foci in live cells. FRAP in the Super-resolution regime is likely to transform many other fields of cell biology: www.cell.com/cell-reports.... Thanks to @rappopto.bsky.social, @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social and @ukri.org for support.

Fluorescence recovery in the super-resolution regime reveals subcompartments of 53BP1 foci

Wu et al. exploit 60 nm lateral resolution of diSIM/SIM2-processed super-resolution (SR) images to develop FRAP in the SR regime, which reveals distinct types of DNA-damage-repair-associated 53BP1 foc...

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Viji Draviam on X: "Chengchen Wu presented FRAP-SR at the #mmc2025 workshop on “Optogenetics in the SR regime’. Thanks to @RoyalMicroSoc for offering the opportunity to host the workshop. https://t.co/R3eReHbn0y" / X

Chengchen Wu presented FRAP-SR at the #mmc2025 workshop on “Optogenetics in the SR regime’. Thanks to @RoyalMicroSoc for offering the opportunity to host the workshop. https://t.co/R3eReHbn0y

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Join us at hashtag#mmc2025 on the 3rd of July at our community meeting with the Royal Microscopical Society on 'Optogenetics in the SR regime'. Details here: www.mmc-series.org.uk/meetings-fea...

With the @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social, we are hosting a community meeting: "Optogenetics in the Super-resolution regime" at the Microscience Microscopy Congress (mmc2025) on the 3rd of July (Manchester, UK). More here: www.mmc-series.org.uk/meetings-fea...

Very happy (and frankly relieved) to see this paper finally out in peer-reviewed form. (Preprint was posted in August 2021, but this is the world we live in now). rdcu.be/erMk6

Crossover patterning through condensation and coarsening of pro-crossover factors

Nature Cell Biology - Zhang et al. provide evidence that, during meiosis, recombination proteins assemble into active droplets, the coarsening of which partially explains the phenomenon of...

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Still thinking about my great experience at #Biologists100 — from my flash talk and poster, to the ECR session and insightful main talks, and all the chats in between! Big thanks to @biologists.bsky.social & @bscb-official.bsky.social for the opportunity! 📸 Full post and photos on my LinkedIn

A noncanonical role for dynein in controlling microtubule growth in mitosis, as shown previously in interphase. More here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Dynein synergises with EB1 to facilitate cortex-microtubule encounter and proper spindle positioning in metaphase. Thanks to the funder @ukri.org

'Science is an investment' - long term and for all. Very glad to see extra funds towards scientific excellence!

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"Science is an investment. We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world." — President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷

FRAP-in-SR for dynamic studies at 60nm resolution!! If you explore cell cycle, DNA damage or 53BP1, here are new tools for live-cell microscopy: a fruitful collaboration with @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social for SIM2/diSIM and @rappopto.bsky.social for localised FRAP www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

FRAP-in-SR: Fluorescence recovery in the Super-Resolution regime reveals subcompartments of 53BP1 foci

We combine Lattice Structured Illumination Microscopy (diSIM/SIM2 with ~60 nm resolution), Lattice Light-sheet microscopy and Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching (FRAP) to explore 53BP1 dynamic...

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We are sponsoring the Scottish Cell Biology Meeting on 18th Sept. Save the date!

Maria Leptin @erc.europa.eu discussing the importance of large infrastructures for biology @bscb-official.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social annual meetings with Jim Murray and Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz and Nick Hopwood.

Helen Skaer wins the Waddington medal 2025 at the @bscb-official.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social annual meetings.

Beautiful talk on Centriole and Centrosome assembly principles by Jordan Raff at the @bscb-official.bsky.social annual meeting

Helen receiving her medal at #biologists100 from @viji-draviam.bsky.social

What a view for #biologists100 the drinks reception

#biologists100 conference is underway celebrating 100 years of @biologists.bsky.social