I am delighted to share our latest paper on mycomembrane protein assembly which came out last week in @pnas.org This was a fantastic collaboration between my former colleague, Elizabeth (#Betsy) Hart, and my first PhD student, Dieuwertje (#Didi) de Bruin. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... (1/n)

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

If you are in Paris, don’t miss Chloe’s talk 👇👇For all aficionados of mechanics, cell bio and developmental biology, her work has it all 🤩

Institut Jacques Monod@ijmonod.bsky.social · 2w ago

📢 Institut Jacques Monod Seminar 📅 October, 2 📍Institut Jacques Monod Invited by the @spinalorga.bsky.social Lab, @chloeroffay.bsky.social will present an Institut Jacques Monod seminar on the theme "Uncovering the forces driving fate and form of amnion in human gastrula models" ➡️ buff.ly/XdWQi6B

When a fish sees the world move, it immediately swims with it. This is the optomotor response: a visual reflex found across animals that helps us maintain our position and orientation as our surroundings appear to drift. 🐟👀

Our description of fire amoeba, 𝘐𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘦𝘣𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴, is now online at Cell! Thanks @oliverio.bsky.social and amazing team for questioning the limits of eukaryotes! 🔥 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes

The amoeba Incendiamoeba cascadensis demonstrates that eukaryotic life can withstand temperatures beyond what was thought possible and sheds light on molecular strategies for survival in extreme heat.

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#lipidtime: It's a lipid universe. Today in Nature we publish the Lipid Brain Atlas, the first map of membrane lipid composition across the entire mouse brain, a layer of organisation that cell-type and transcript maps had left out. #lipidomics #neuroscience #BrainAtlas

NeMo is finally out! 🐟 We present our new method to peel cellular layers and extract their nematics. If you're wondering what a fish has to do with curved nematics, check out the thread and the publication 👀👇🏼 arxiv.org/html/2609.12...

Must admit, ever since I was a kid, I’ve dreamt of seeing microscopy images of #protists in @lemonde.fr Today, protists are everywhere, and several images were taken by the team. And seeing #ichthyosporeans there too?! 🥹 One step closer to showcasing the beauty of the invisible microbial world. 🔬✨

Le Monde@lemonde.fr · 3w ago

Plongée dans le monde fascinant de micro-organismes unicellulaires doués d’intelligence

Pour percer en sciences humaines, mieux vaut s'appeler Irène, Claire, Martin ou François que Dylan, Mickael, Mauricette ou Jeannine. Petite exploration des données de Cairn, et un 🧵 méthodo…

New paper out: Plasma membrane order maps functional diversity in immune cells We showed how biophysical state of the membranes correlates with the activity of immune cells such as migration and killing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Plasma membrane order maps functional diversity in immune cells - Nature Chemical Biology

Cells undergo membrane remodeling in response to the environment to perform specific functions. Now, a cytometry-based method with immune cell biomarker analysis captures variations in plasma membrane...

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Don’t miss the second webinar in our new series on cell migration, featuring talks from @ankita13jha.bsky.social, @raphclement.bsky.social and @katrinavelle.bsky.social. 🗓️Thursday 17 September at 15:00 BST For more info and to register: focalplane.biologists.com/2026/09/03/f...

FocalPlane features... cell migration webinar 2 - FocalPlane

FocalPlane features... cell migration webinar 2 - News

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Today, the last day of the #FLIM-FCS course at @helsinki.fi with great lectures from @mhakala.bsky.social and Maria Trulsson from @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social. I got to experiment with an old projector lying around!!

A new project called Posters.science is proposing that online perusal could help raise the visibility and utility of the lowly poster—and be accessible to any researcher, even those who couldn’t attend a conference. https://scim.ag/3Tl8hmU

Conference posters could garner a wider audience, thanks to a new online platform

The staple format also warrants a deeper rethink, some researchers say

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📢One week to go! Join us on Thursday 17 September at 15:00 BST (UTC+1) for our webinar on new models for studying cell migration, hosted by @pjsaez.bsky.social & @valeriaventurini.bsky.social. You’ll hear talks from @ankita13jha.bsky.social, @raphclement.bsky.social and @katrinavelle.bsky.social.

FocalPlane features... cell migration webinar 2 - FocalPlane

FocalPlane features... cell migration webinar 2 - News

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1/3 A few snapshots from the past intense days at the University of Helsinki for our FLIM and FCS course! We combined lectures, hands-on microscopy and analysis with plenty of questions and discussion. A fantastic group of researchers to learn with. 🔬 #FLIM #FCS #Microscopy

A beautiful spotlight on our recent work on the polarity maintenance in bleb-based motility in metastatic cancer cells by @vickysanzmoreno.bsky.social and Dipanwita Das is published in Developmental Cell.

Rembert, N., Dedenon, M., Roux, A., & Dessalles, C. A. (2026). Nematic order in cellular tissues: a standardized framework and anomalous defect dynamics. Biophysics. #EpithelialMechanics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#Ceramide mediates cell-to-cell ER stress transmission by modulating #membrane fluidity. From Yazhen Huo, Likun Wang and colleagues (Institute of Biophysics, Beijing): rupress.org/jcb/article/... 📕 From our #Lipid and #Membrane collection: rupress.org/jcb/collecti... #EMBOLipidCode

Even with all the advancements in automated cell tracking getting us to 90%+ accuracy...that's still a lot of broken tracks over long movies! Our brains are pretty good at this so I made Vizsla 🐕, a little @napari.org plugin, to help you fix your tracks manually. 👉 pypi.org/project/napa...

Exciting news! Our @erc.europa.eu StG project ARCHAEAOLOGY got funded 🎉 We’ll combine cryoET/EM, ExM & spatial omics to explore the subcellular organization of Asgard archaea. Job ads coming soon! 🦠 ❄️ 🔬 #TeamTomo #ArchaeaSky #MicroSky

EMBL@embl.org · last mo.

Congratulations to @florianwollweber.bsky.social, the recently appointed Group Leader at EMBL Grenoble, who received an ERC Starting Grant worth approximately €2 million to investigate the origins of eukaryotic cell complexity. bit.ly/4gNwEBk

www.nature.com/articles/s41... The membrane-to-cortex distance regulates mDia1 activity to control cortical mechanics

The membrane-to-cortex distance regulates mDia1 activity to control cortical mechanics - Nature Communications

The surface of mammalian cells is a multi-layered composite structure. The authors combine advanced biophysical methods with cryo-electron tomography to identify the gap between the membrane and the a...

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Cuando estés triste, recuerda que hay una diminuta proteína llamada kinesina esforzándose al máximo para mantenerte con vida. Recorre el interior de tus células llevando de un lugar a otro los materiales que necesitan para seguir funcionando.

I am very happy and grateful to be one of the new awardees of the ERC #StartingGrant (@erc.europa.eu) ! 🎉 In EvoSelf, we will study how tissue mechanochemical feedbacks evolve during tumor progression, and how these changes influence tumor growth, metastasis, and relapse.

@lara-kruger.bsky.social congratulations 🎉🎉🎉🎉

@cperez-gonzalez.bsky.social congratulations 🎉🎉🎉🎉

We are excited to invite you to the second webinar in our cell migration series. In this webinar, we focus on new models for studying cell migration with talks from @ankita13jha.bsky.social, @raphclement.bsky.social & @katrinavelle.bsky.social. More info⤵️: focalplane.biologists.com/2026/09/03/f...

New paper from the lab! We developed a self-organizing bovine muscle and blood vessel-like network from ES cells, bringing us one step closer to creating structured cultured beef steak! 🥩🔬 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 Choanoflagellates reorganize their global cytoskeletal architecture within seconds to explore confined microspaces. This is the main PhD work of the amazing @maitefreired.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A tread 🧵⬇️

Rapid repurposing of microvillar content drives a flagellate-to-amoeboid switch in the closest relative of animals

Animal cells extensively remodel their cytoskeleton during differentiation and can notably switch between two major motility modes: flagellum-based swimming and actin-based crawling. We previously sho...

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Great speakers, great science, great location = great meeting! EMBO workshop Forces across scale April 27-30, 2027 in Porto. meetings.embo.org/event/27-for...

📣Paris Cytoskeleton Day - Registrations are open! 📅 November, 24th 📍Institut Jacques Monod Abstract submission closes on 2 November Registration closes on 16 November 🔗 pcd2026.sciencesconf.org