An evolutionarily conserved, short linear actin filament-binding motif (SFM), present in >100 proteins. Great collaboration with the Windhorst and Marlovits labs. Happy to have contributed, by using macrophage podosomes as a readout. Publication in Nat Cell Biol: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Celebrating Philippe’s enormous scientific legacy. A sad occasion, but also a deeply touching homecoming and reunion.

Philippe Bastiaens Memorial Symposium @MPI Dortmund

Original image from 2011 of what I just had seen under the microscope when I ran into @oliverrocks.bsky.social’s office to show him. Turned out he’d observed this too, had no idea what it was either, but was just as stunned and curious as I was. This is how it all started... /1

Oliver Rocks@oliverrocks.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Check out our new release on BioRxiv co-lead by @pm-mueller.bsky.social 👉 rb.gy/lnrizk special🙏 to Severine Kunz #MDC @leventallab.bsky.social @andimicroscopy.bsky.social @ewerslab.bsky.social and Kedar Narayan @NCI CCR VolumeEM Are the days of discovering new cellular structures over?? /1

Check out our new release on BioRxiv co-lead by @pm-mueller.bsky.social 👉 rb.gy/lnrizk special🙏 to Severine Kunz #MDC @leventallab.bsky.social @andimicroscopy.bsky.social @ewerslab.bsky.social and Kedar Narayan @NCI CCR VolumeEM Are the days of discovering new cellular structures over?? /1