In the 40th anniversary of atomic force microscopy, the 16th AFMBioMed summer school started in Marseille with a beautiful overview of these 40 years by one of the pioneers, Manfred Radmacher. @dynamo-lab.bsky.social @insermpacacorse.bsky.social @univ-amu.fr

Spatial memory in tissue architecture: how a transient extracellular scaffold propagates positional information #aECM #Celegans @plos.org 🙏to talented Sophie Mazzoli @ciml.bsky.social @centuri-ls.bsky.social @univ-amu.fr & great collaborations @dynamo-lab.bsky.social @meera-sundaram.bsky.social 🧵👇

📣 The Journal of Microscopy is pleased to announce a new special issue dedicated to 40 years of Atomic Force Microscopy! With this special issue we aim to look forward to how the technique will grow over the next forty years, where new capabilities are emerging and where future challenges lie.

Our new work is out! HS-AFM × MD -->> new insights into multivalent TF–ribosome interactions. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Multivalent Interactions between Chaperone and Ribosome-Nascent Chain Complex Revealed by High-Speed AFM and MD Simulations

Trigger Factor (TF) is a primary ATP-independent molecular chaperone in bacteria that engages nascent polypeptide chains emerging from the ribosomal exit tunnel to assist their folding. However, the r...

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The CENTURI PhD Call 2026 is still ongoing. Applications are open until the end of the month, on January 28th! Visit centuri-livingsystems.org/recruitment/ to apply. #PHD #CENTURI

CENTURI - Turing Centre for Living Systems@centuri-ls.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🔬 The CENTURI PhD Call 2026 is now open! Join an interdisciplinary community in Marseille at the interface of bio, physics, maths and computer science. Apply here: centuri-livingsystems.org/recruitment/ #PhD #CENTURI

A new community-driven lab handbook for reducing conflict and creating more positive and equitable work environments gets strong support from a survey of 200 researchers. buff.ly/K7CGFLV

🔬 #Mifobio2025 @felixrico.bsky.social's lecture is online ! 🎤 "Mechanical mapping by atomic force microscopy. From cells and tissues" 📹 👉 youtu.be/4X8LiAKMsKg #AtomicForceMicroscopy

Felix RICO : mechanical mapping by atomic force microscopy. From cells and tissues.

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This week, we had a wonderful consortium meeting of the XXL project @agencerecherche.bsky.social in the iconic Cité Radieuse by Le Corbusier in Marseille, thanks to our awesome coordinator Mauro Modesti.

🦠 A new study reveals how poroelasticity—fluid flow through interstitial spaces—bridges tissue architecture and mechanics, offering new insight into organ behavior and disease progression. 🔗 Journal of Biosciences: bit.ly/3WJWsF1. @yogiboi.bsky.social @felixrico.bsky.social

DyNaMo was at the Fête de la Science this October... Thanks to all the participants ( @ismahene-mes.bsky.social @yfok.bsky.social @yogiboi.bsky.social ). @insermpacacorse.bsky.social #FDSSUD #FDS2025

Happy to share our commentary "Length and time scales bridge poroelasticity and tissue architecture" in collaboration with Ramray Bhat from IISC Bangalore rdcu.be/eMJp1 @yogiboi.bsky.social @dynamo-lab.bsky.social

What's behind that dune? #mifobio2025

The next generation of microscopists gets organised around the Young scientist network GDR Imabio @gdr-imabio-ysn.bsky.social #mifobio2025 @gdrimabio.bsky.social

Just arrived in Bayonne! Excited to meet the crowd of #Mifobio2025 @gdrimabio.bsky.social

Direct single-molecule detection and super-resolution imaging with a low-cost portable smartphone-based microscope www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Direct single-molecule detection and super-resolution imaging with a low-cost portable smartphone-based microscope - Nature Communications

Loretan and colleagues present a low-cost smartphone-based microscope capable of detecting single-molecule fluorescence. This approach opens doors to personalised and widely distributed applications in diagnostics, biosensing, and science education.

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Let's explore the #Mifobio2025 programme ! 👉 "Focus On” : “Molecular interaction and Mechanosensing using Atomic Force Microscopy” ✨ We are delighted to welcome @felixrico.bsky.social 🎤 Lecture : Mechanical mapping by atomic force microscopy. From cells and tissues. 👉 imabio-cnrs.fr #GDRimabio

🔬For 22 years, we have been organizing #Mifobio "Functional Microscopy for Biology" the @cnrs.fr thematic school. 🎓 Courses, Seminars, Round Tables, Workshops. The overall theme concerns #biological_imaging in its most interdisciplinary aspects. 👉 Program: imabio-cnrs.fr #GDRImaBio #Mifobio2025

I am very sad after learning that Jochen Guck passed away. We have lost a giant. Jochen, I will really miss you.

Crossing the beautiful British countryside on my way to Sheffield for the 15th #AFMBioMed summer school organised by @alicepyne.bsky.social and Jamie Hobbs. All the way by train from Marseille 🤓🚂 @dynamo-lab.bsky.social afmbiomed.org/summer-schoo...

The #25EngLife conference is over and it was great, including the talks by @sarawickstrom.bsky.social, @bladoux.bsky.social and @routierlab.bsky.social. Many thanks to @stefandiezlab.bsky.social and the other organizers🙏🏻

Excellent talks and excellent discussions at #25EngLife with @ismahene-mes.bsky.social 😊

Congratulations to the poster prize winners of the #25EngLife Thank you again for the organisation. It's been a fantastic meeting!

Closing #25EngLife with the beautiful work on Shaping organs through plant tissue mechanics by @routierlab.bsky.social Very smart image/data analysis!

Great work by @bernaozkale.bsky.social on nano robotic microgels for mechanically guiding stem cells differentiation #25EngLife

Fantastic work presented by Lucia Baldauf from @gcharras.bsky.social on force sensors for living tissues 🤯 Looking forward to the upcoming ... #25EngLife

Last day of #25EngLife starts with a beautiful story by Sergi Garcia-Manyes

We close the day at #25EngLife with an inspiring talk by @frankschnorrer.bsky.social Titin rules!

Continuing with an injustement talk by @bladoux.bsky.social on scribe nematics of muscle cells #25EngLife

Nice ouverture of the afternoon session by @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social on "Living tensions" #25EngLife

The second day of #24EngLife starts with Matthias Rief on the RNA/Roquin and integrin/talon/kindlin interactions