Peter Lenart
@plenart.bsky.social
Group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany. #oocytes #cytoskeleton 🪼, ⭐️🐟, 🔬
We are hiring an #IT expert! Interested to join our department @mpi-nat.bsky.social in #Göttingen 🇩🇪 as Hardware Operations Technician (IT-Systemtechniker*in)? Please apply! 📩 #joboffer #job #openposition 🔗 www.mpinat.mpg.de/5292977/23-26 📅 Don't miss the application deadline: August 23, 2026
#ResultatScientifique🔎| Une étude révèle comment les forces mécaniques façonnent l’embryon précoce de C. elegans grâce à une nouvelle cartographie spatio-temporelle des tensions cellulaire ▶️ buff.ly/olJR46F 📕 @cp-devcell.bsky.social 🤝 @CNRS.fr
Cartographier les forces qui sculptent l’embryon
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The paper from my postdoc days @mblscience.bsky.social and @zakswartz.bsky.social Lab is available in @natcomms.nature.com. www.nature.com/articles/s41... With Beverly Naigles, @carsten-wolff.bsky.social and @danivoronov.bsky.social
Do you know an outstanding aquarist? We're hiring a Senior Aquarist to help run our cephalopod facility at Columbia University. Our team maintains a colony of 250+ cuttlefish, develops new husbandry techniques (inc transgenics) & studies cuttlefish camouflage and social behavior. 1/3 [Pls repost!]
National Egg Day celebrates the humble breakfast egg. But at the Marine Biological Laboratory, we’re taking a different spin and highlighting the eggs that help scientists better understand life itself.
Do you have all the answers? 😎 Apply as Data Scientist / Bioinformatician at our institute: 👇 www.mpinat.mpg.de/5238879/14-26
Monica Gobran showed that when CDK1 is partially inhibited, nuclear pores begin to disassemble, but the overall structure of the nuclear envelope remains intact, similar to closed mitosis. The spindle forms outside the nucleus. #SpindleCroatia2026
In Memoriam: R. Bruce Nicklas (1932-2025). Leocadia Paliulis commemorates the life of Dr. Nicklas who was a mentor, a polymath with a great sense of humor, and a link to the beginnings of chromosome research. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #CellDivision #Chromosomes
See also the great News&Views comment by Monica Gobran and @plenart.bsky.social - highlighting all three papers! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Mitotic entry: Bora takes Polo to Aurora, and gives them a hug - The EMBO Journal
The EMBO Journal - Cell division involves the complete reorganization of the cellular architecture, requiring precise coordination of cellular processes in space and time, but how does this control...
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very sad news. Peer Bork was one of the leaders of our field, a wonderful scientist, and he's much too young to be gone. www.embl.org/news/embl-an...
In remembrance of Peer Bork | EMBL
EMBL and its community are deeply saddened by the death of Peer Bork, the organisation’s Interim Director General.
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Yes, great work, I am so glad this is finally published! I hope it will be useful to many in the community.
Dorian X Leger@dorianleger.bsky.social · 8mo ago🔬 Excited to share this preprint of work at the Max Planck Inst. at @plenart.bsky.social We created an automated microscopy workflow for STED super-resolution imaging & used it to quantify nuclear pore complex density in cells at different stages of the cell cycle www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Anthony A. Hyman will become EMBL’s next Director General. He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999. www.embl.org/news/people-...
How do new centromeres evolve while staying compatible with the division machinery? Discover it in our new Nature paper! We show centromeres transition gradually via a mix of drift, selection, and sex, reaching new states that still work with the kinetochore. 👉 doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09779-1
Apply to join us! 🪼🪳🪱🐌
Nico Posnien@posnienlab.bsky.social · 9mo ago🧬 10 @dfg.de-funded PhD positions at @goettingen-campus.de 🧬 ❗Focus: Evolution of gene regulatory networks & Wnt signaling in emerging models (insects, snails, flatworms, cnidarians). 💻 Methods: 'Omics, Bioinformatics, CRISPR/RNAi & Imaging. 📌Start: June 2026. #EvoDevo #Genomics #Bioinformatics
📣 We are moving to Barcelona to join the amazing @crg.eu and explore how centrosomes & cilia work, evolve & respond to the environment. We are looking for PhD students www.crg.eu/en/content/t... Postdocs gimm.pt/jobs/postdoc... Other calls to open, also for an experienced lab manager. Get in touch!
Phosphoproteomic identification of Mos-MAPK targets in meiotic cell cycle and asymmetric #oocyte divisions. New study from Ivan Avilov, Peter Lenart (@plenart.bsky.social) and colleagues @maxplanck.de: rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Cytoskeleton #CellCycle #CellDivision #Physiology #Meiosis
Avilov, @plenart.bsky.social et al. @maxplanck.de used quantitative phosphoproteomics in #starfish #oocytes to identify downstream targets of the conserved Mos–MAPK pathway. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Cytoskeleton #CellCycle #CellDivision #Physiology
Our image of a sea squirt oozoid (Thalia democratica) was selected as an Image of Distinction in Nikon Small World. Imaged with the Flamingo microscope by @metteh-thorsager.bsky.social at @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social in Villefranche-sur-Mer. Salp sample courtesy of Alexandre Alie. nikonsmallworld.com/
Very excited that my final postdoctoral work is now online in Cell @cellpress.bsky.social. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Using 16 (!) cryo-EM structures, we uncovered how the three proteins coronin, cofilin and AIP1 work together to rapidly disassemble actin filaments.
See this? This = implanting mouse embryo. Usually this happens inside its mother and is invisible to us, but we can actually watch implantation ex vivo with the hope of understanding why implantation goes awry in embryos of older women. A 🧵...
So grateful for an amazing experience at BioMatter: From Cytoskeleton to Embryo, Arolla 2025. I loved sharing my work during my talk, was honored to receive the Best Poster Award, and had so many inspiring conversations with brilliant scientists. An unforgettable week in a truly beautiful place!
Three-Year Funded Postdoctoral Position to study organelle architecture in mammalian oocytes – Terret-Verlhac Lab, CIRB, Collège de France (Starting 2026). For more information, please contact: marie-helene.verlhac@college-de-france.fr
FINALLY! Challenging to publish but we believe it is an important discovery: rdcu.be/eATFz 💚 Thanks to the team @biswashere.bsky.social, Omar Muñoz, ✨Q✨ C. Hoege, B. Lorton, R. Nikolay @matthewkraushar.bsky.social @dshechter.bsky.social @gucklab.bsky.social @vasilyzaburdaev.bsky.social 💚
Conserved nucleocytoplasmic density homeostasis drives cellular organization across eukaryotes
Nature Communications - Cells can regulate their mass density. Here, the authors demonstrate how eukaryotes establish and maintain a lower density in the nucleus than in the cytoplasm via pressure...
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We're thrilled to announce the largest private gift in our 137-year history: a $25 million unrestricted donation from MBL Whitman Scientist Mark Terasaki. His extraordinary generosity will bolster our renowned research and education programs. 🔬 Learn more: bit.ly/452WL1m
MBL Announces Largest Ever Gift for Its Renowned Biological Education and Research Programs | Marine Biological Laboratory
Cell Biology Researcher Mark Terasaki’s $25 Million Unrestricted Gift Will Support Operations and Infrastructure Contact: Samantha Cummis scummis@mbl.edu; 973.800.4119
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🪼 How did the animal body plan evolve? This ‘fundamental’ study in Clytia sheds light on how Wnt3 coordinates both gene expression and planar cell polarity during axis formation, offering key insights into the origins of morphogenesis. buff.ly/e1Un958 #DevBio
Exciting news: our Board of Trustees has appointed @monicabettencourt.bsky.social as the CRG's new Director. Prof Bettencourt-Dias is expected to take up the post in 2026, replacing Dr. Luis Serrano, who will continue to maintain a research group at the institute. www.crg.eu/en/news/moni...
Update on group picture. “Clustered like chromosomes in metaphase - no cytoskeleton required, just a camera” @plenart.bsky.social @mpi-nat.bsky.social
From starfish to jellyfish to mammalian egg cells – watch the video (in German) to find out what awaits you at our “In the beginning was the egg” booth by @schuhlab.bsky.social & @plenart.bsky.social at the Night of Science @ndw-goe.bsky.social. #ndwgoe 📍1st floor @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social
