3 weeks left to submit your abstracts! ⏳ Please share with colleagues and group members 📢 This is a great opportunity to discuss and share your latest work with the AFM and SPM community. 🚨 Submit before 10th April www.rms.org.uk/rms-event-ca...

Great to see this work now out: doi.org/10.1002/anie... Here are some of the fantastic HS-AFM movies of DNA origami strand displacement dynamics 🎬 It was a pleasure collaborating and contributing to this work led by Chalmers Chau, Paolo Actis and Christoph Wälti.

Happy Birthday #AFM! To celebrate the first description of the atomic force microscope (AFM) in Physical Review Letters, we spoke to our longstanding honorary member Christoph Gerber, who, together with Carl Quate and Gerd Binnig, invented this groundbreaking instrument. @unibas.ch bit.ly/4raqCOm

Christoph Gerber — a life devoted to the nanosciences

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📢 AFM & SPM Meeting 2026 | 📍Leeds, UK | 📅 23–25 June Excited to share the confirmed speaker list so far for the RMS AFM & SPM Meeting 2026, taking place in Leeds this summer. More info and registration: www.rms.org.uk/rms-event-ca... @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social #AFM #SPM

📢 Interested in #chromosomes 🧬 & #archaea thriving at the edge of life? PhD project in York,UK on how archaea pass on their genome to daughter cells.Friendly supervisors: me, @steve-quinn-lab.bsky.social & @georgerheath.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 📅 January 7, 2026 Please RP🙏thx!

Join us in Leeds next Summer for: AFM & SPM 2026 Co-organised with Lekshmi Kailas, Kristina Rusimova, Samuel Jarvis and Jess Cole from the Royal Microscopical Society. #AFM #SPM #Microscopy

Exciting work led by @nano-chalmers.bsky.social delivered in collaboration with @georgerheath.bsky.social introducing a rationally designed DNA origami system for the multiplexed detection of miRNA in crude RNA extracts via nanopore sensing.

Squeeze more out of your AFM images with NanoLocz v1.3 💪 Download the updated version here: github.com/George-R-Hea...

Excited to report our latest research on new “molecular glues” that specifically lock the BRCC36 isopeptidase complex (BRISC) in an autoinhibited state and reduce interferon signalling. This first-of-its-kind approach could reshape how we target large deubiquitylase (DUB) complexes. rdcu.be/edRwF

What a contribution this article is to the bioAFM community. 👍👍👍 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #AFM

A structural biology compatible file format for atomic force microscopy - Nature Communications

Here, the authors developed a pipeline to transform AFM data into 3D-density files for cross-methodology structural biology analysis. Combined with molecular dynamics flexible fitting, the approach yi...

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The abstract submissions deadline for #mmc2025 has been extended! Submit your abstract by *Friday 28 February* and join our impressive line-up of speakers! rms.org.uk/resource/mmc... @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social @bioimaginguk.bsky.social @yorkbioimaging.bsky.social @micro-au.bsky.social

📢Abstract submissions deadline for #mmc2025 is *tomorrow* (14 February). Don't miss the chance to present your work at Europe's largest #microscopy and #imaging event taking place this year! Abstract submissions: mmc-series.org.uk/conference/a... @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social

📢 New round of PhD studentships. Open to applicants worldwide. 📅 Deadline 14th March www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #microsky #archaeasky #chromosome 🧬🧬🧬 @steve-quinn-lab.bsky.social @georgerheath.bsky.social Join us in beautiful York, UK!

Life pushed to extremes: probing the mechanisms of chromosome segregation in thermophilic Archaea at University of York on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Life pushed to extremes: probing the mechanisms of chromosome segregation in thermophilic Archaea at University of York, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Check out the latest work on RCD-1 from our lab: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats to my labmates! 👏 #AFM #RCD-1

Mechanisms of RCD-1 pore formation and membrane bending - Nature Communications

The mechanism of RCD-1 regulated cell death in fungal cells is unknown. Here, the authors use AFM to uncover two mechanisms by which RCD-1 proteins form pores in lipid membranes, and discover a membra...

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Postdoc Varun Gupta will be presenting some great AFM in the 1st session of the Linz Winter Workshop this weekend ⛷️👏

👋👋 Hi everyone! The Astbury Centre is now on Bluesky. Follow along for updates about exciting Astbury Centre science. For now, we have put together a starter pack of members of the Astbury Centre community.

15th January is the abstract deadline for the upcoming #AFMBioMed2025 in #Barcelona! New formats, events… I wouldn’t miss it—save the date #April2025!

Proud to be part of this paper published in @naturecomms.bsky.social. Using high-speed AFM, we have visualized the real-time translocation of substrate polypeptide by the single molecule of SecYEG-SecA!!! Please check this amazing video taken by high-speed AFM!!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Please share, we have #PhD opportunities for anyone interested in filming the #Biophysics of life at the nanoscale. Full details at: heath-afm-lab.github.io/positions/ Projects based around developing and applying High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy methods to understand molecular dynamics.

📢 Interested in chromosomes and microbes thriving at the edge of life?PhD project in York-UK on chromosome segregation in #Archaea. Supervised by me, @Steve Quinn & @georgerheath.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Open to Applicants Worldwide! 📅 January 6, 2025 #microsky #archaeasky

AFM starter pack. Sorry if I missed anyone, relatively small numbers at the moment. Please share, nominate others/yourself (any career stage). I will also try to add incoming new users regularly. go.bsky.app/MSz2t33

First attempt in a (loosely defined) Single-Molecule Biophysics starter pack. Please share and (self-) nominate. go.bsky.app/CteFZM5

Now out in NSMB for those who missed our biorxiv back in 2023.. bacterial ESCRT-III-like #Vipp1 forms dynamic spiral filaments on membrane! Spirals are springs that drive 3D ring formation in the spiral centre! 😵‍💫 wonderful collaboration with Adai Colom’s lab and @rouxlab.bsky.social rdcu.be/dZSPQ

Delighted to welcome @eddierollins.bsky.social to the group as a new postdoc! Eddie brings a wealth of expertise in bioAFM and will be applying his skills to develop high-speed AFM methods to better understand protein dynamics and interactions.

Real time view of High Speed AFM data capture at 35fps. This is a 20nm x 20nm area showing an annexin V trimer rotating within a lattice. (Data from 2022) #AFM #microscopy

NanoLocz: Image analysis platform for AFM, high-speed AFM and localization AFM https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.23.568405v1

NanoLocz: Image analysis platform for AFM, high-speed AFM and localization AFM https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.23.568405v1

NanoLocz is an open-source computer program designed for high-throughput automatic processing and si

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