You're probably already doing science advocacy — you just might not call it that. Our new commentary (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) makes the case that every scientist has a role, and that advocacy takes many forms. Find and embrace yours! @natcellbio.nature.com @vfarm15.bsky.social

Every scientist has a role in advocacy - Nature Cell Biology

In this Comment, we call on scientists to share their stories. Through casual conversation or prepared presentations, with images or essays, scientists can advocate for their research and reach taxpay...

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Excited to share the newest piece of the puzzle of RNA properties in condensates! www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/... by newly minted Dr. Sierra Cole, published in MBoC condensates special issue

Sequence and structure of protein binding sites in RNA impact biomolecular condensates | Molecular Biology of the Cell

Biomolecular condensates are central to subcellular compartmentalization and RNA regulation. In the multinucleate fungus Ashbya gossypii, condensates composed of Whi3 protein and CLN3 mRNA help ensure...

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A wonderful write up of what motivates our work! madeforthis.duke.edu/stories/lear...

Learning the Secrets of Mega-Cells - Made for This: The Duke Campaign

BY ADRIANA V. DIFRANCO What do fungi in the forest and human placentas have in common? It sounds like a riddle, but it’s actually a fascinating biological conundrum. Fungi and placentas have two of th...

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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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@gladfelterlab.bsky.social kicking off the first SRC of 2026 with an amazing turnout at #PhaseTSRC. Special thanks to our organizers for their leadership in this brand-new conference topic, including lead organizer @umassmdlab.bsky.social

How can you tackle emerging questions in cellular organisation, adaptation, and robustness? Join #EESPhaseSeparation! 🧬🦠 Bringing together scientists from diverse fields to foster new discoveries in condensate biology. Submit your abstract by 10 Feb: s.embl.org/ees26-08-bl 📅 19 – 22 May 2026

Interested in the MBL Physiology Course in Woods Hole and want to learn more before you apply? Join myself and Cliff at our Virtual Open House TOMORROW 2–3 PM ET. You will hear what the course experience is like and get all your questions answered. Register/Join: princeton.zoom.us/j/97673682905

Marine Biological Laboratory@mblscience.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Interested in the MBL Physiology Course and want to learn more before you apply? Join our Virtual Open House on Tues, Jan 6, 2026 | 2–3 PM ET to meet the team, hear what the course experience is like, and get your questions answered. 🔗 Register/Join: https://go.mbl.edu/r5q

Fantastic ASCB so far! Haven’t even had time to live tweet with all the great talks and catching up with folks. Some science standouts to far have been the Planetary Cell Bio session organized by @gladfelterlab.bsky.social and @robinsall.bsky.social’s beautiful talk on cell migration

🌍 Heading to #CellBIO2025 meeting @embo.org @ascbiology.bsky.social ? Join us as we continue building Planetary Cell Biology, a cross scale field - from cells to biodiversity. Sunday, Dec 7 | 8:30–9:45 AM EST Curious? www.youtube.com/@Cells4Plane... 🌱 Join the community: forms.gle/AjQ6dVBL7QT5...

Cells for Planetary Health Community Registration Form

Following the “Integrating Cell and Planetary Scales to Address Climate Resilience” workshop held in Lisbon in April 2025, we’re launching a new community dedicated to bridging scientific disciplines ...

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#Lipid packing and local geometry influence #septin curvature sensing, say Brandy Curtis, Amy Gladfelter @gladfelterlab.bsky.social and colleagues @duke-university.bsky.social: rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Biochemistry #Cytoskeleton

Delighted to share the latest chapter in the mystery series on how septins sense membrane curvature. Grateful to reviewers for thoughtful critiques and @jcb.org for publishing our work! doi.org/10.1083/jcb....

Lipid packing and local geometry influence septin curvature sensing

Localization of the septin cytoskeleton is controlled by regulatory factors, membrane curvature, and charge. In this study, changes to lipid composition th

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Our paper on the spatial organization of nuclear paraspeckles is out in #PNAS! Excited to see what comes next from the teams of @shrinivaslab.bsky.social and @sneadlab.bsky.social at Northwestern! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2504778122

We are back! 🔬👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 Mark your calendars, TCM 2025 is happening September 15th at the Trent Semans Center! 🧠✨ Get ready for an incredible lineup of speakers including Dr. Kris DeMali, Dr. Rae Cho, and Dr. Stefanie Redemann. 🗓️ Registration opens July 7th, don’t miss out! #TCM2025

Discover the wonder of the fungi in this latest issue of Current Biology 🍄 www.cell.com/curbio/issue...

Start of 2025 @mblscience.bsky.social Physiology course! This is the second year of Amy @gladfelterlab.bsky.social and I co-Directing this absolutely amazing and life-changing course: www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

Amazing start to EMBO workshop Cells4Climate resilience>>https://meetings.embo.org/event/25-climate-resilience>>day 1 energy captured here youtu.be/KFRFSPHdjFM

🌍🔬 📣 Please spread the word! Join us! How can cell biology shape a more resilient planet? Virtual registration is still open for the EMBO Workshop on Cells 4 Climate Resilience → meetings.embo.org/event/25-cli... 🗓️ Deadline: April 11 🎥 Watch the teaser → youtu.be/8eMJ91udHDs @embo.org

What a wonderful time catching us with @meghanriddell.bsky.social in Charolette at the Society for Reproductive Investigation Annual Meeting!

Mónica Bettencourt-Dias @monicabettencourt.bsky.social, Amy Gladfelter @gladfelterlab.bsky.social, Gautam Dey @gautamdey.bsky.social Samara Reck-Peterson @samreckpeterson.bsky.social @cells4planethealth.bsky.social @embo.org share a call to action to apply the lens of #cellbio to climate challenges.

Cell biology meets climate resilience – a call to action

The molecular and cellular biology community has always been driven by a fascination with mechanisms – how proteins interact, how organelles communicate and how cells respond to stimuli. Yet one of th...

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Excited to share our first story on nuclear paraspeckles! Led by @sneadlab.bsky.social, this is the culmination of a ~4 year effort in collab. with @shrinivaslab.bsky.social. Can’t wait to see more paraspeckle stories from the future Snead Lab at Northwestern 🫧 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Immiscible proteins compete for RNA binding to order condensate layers

Biomolecular condensates mediate diverse and essential cellular functions by compartmentalizing biochemical pathways. Many condensates have internal subdomains with distinct compositional identities. ...

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The mysteries of septins continue to unfold in this study examining mechanisms of septin polymerization and assembly! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Cooperativity in septin polymerization is tunable by ionic strength and membrane adsorption

Cells employ cytoskeletal polymers to move, divide, and pass information inside and outside of the cell. Previous work on eukaryotic cytoskeletal elements such as actin, microtubules, and intermediate...

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We are excited to share our next installment of insights into how septins sense micron-scale curvature via detecting lipid packing! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Lipid packing and local geometry influence septin curvature sensing

Septins assemble into scaffolds that direct cell growth and morphology that are often localized to the plasma membrane. While septins preferentially bind convex membranes via amphipathic helices, thei...

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Change your life! Physiology course application deadline is extended to February 3rd! Apply now for a summer of discovery at MBL!

Marine Biological Laboratory@mblscience.bsky.social · 2y ago

🗣️ Physiologists, rejoice! Thought you missed the deadline for the 2025 Physiology course at MBL? Don't toss out that application draft—you can now apply through February 3. Read more: bit.ly/3BZSj9c #ScienceStartsHere

The deadline for @cells4planethealth.bsky.social has been extended to February 1st- register now! meetings.embo.org/event/25-cli...

Integrating cell and planetary scales to address climate resilience

The climate crisis is a multiscale problem that requires transdisciplinary expertise for understanding and engineering climate resilience. Cells are the first responders of the biosphere and yet cell…

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The deadline to apply for the MBL Physiology course is fast approaching, January 27th! Consider applying to this amazing, life-changing research discovery experience in Woods Hole! www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

Physiology: Modern Cell Biology Using Microscopic, Biochemical and Computational Approaches | Marine Biological Laboratory

This course is at the forefront of new tools — molecular, computational, biophysical — as it prepares students to tackle emerging biological questions.

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📢 Dive into topics like cell biology in changing environments, microbial ecology, and climate adaptation strategies for planet and human health at the EMBO Workshop in Lisbon! 🌱 🗓️ April 13–16, 2025 | Lisbon, Portugal Secure your spot: meetings.embo.org/event/25-cli... #CellBiology #PlanetaryHealth

Integrating cell and planetary scales to address climate resilience

The climate crisis is a multiscale problem that requires transdisciplinary expertise for understanding and engineering climate resilience. Cells are the first responders of the biosphere and yet cell…

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Two weeks left to apply for this year's Physiology Course! We are looking forward to another exciting summer 🔬🦑☀️

Marine Biological Laboratory@mblscience.bsky.social · 2y ago

🔔Upcoming deadline!🔔 January 27 is the last day to submit applications to the MBL's 2025 Physiology Course. This seven-week lab course has educated generations of leading biologists and fostered groundbreaking discoveries. Learn more: bit.ly/3BZSj9c #ScienceStartsHere

New work lead by graduate student Alex shows how concerned signaling networks can be modulated for distinct morphogenic programs even within the constraints of fungal budding! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Negative feedback equalizes polarity sites in a multi-budding yeast

Morphogenesis in fungi and animals is directed by polarization of small GTPases Cdc42 and Rac. In the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae competition between polarity patches results in one polariz...

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Thrilled to share our recent work on the power of RNA to encode physical information and how this can be embedded in the genetic code www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

RNA encodes physical information

Most amino acids are encoded by multiple codons, making the genetic code degenerate. Synonymous mutations affect protein translation and folding, but their impact on RNA itself is often neglected. We ...

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Excited to share the latest work from postdocs Ameya and Zach! We thought about how multinucleate cells are able to maintain N:C ratio, and found a condensate rheostat that regulates translation of cell cycle + growth mRNAs. Check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Condensates act as translation hubs to coordinate multinucleate cell growth

Coordination between growth and division is a fundamental feature of cells. In many syncytia, cell growth must couple with multiple nuclear divisions in one cytoplasm. In the fungus, Ashbya gossypii, ...

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