🧠tenure-track position on #neurodev in @neuromarseille.bsky.social 👉our team at @ibdm.bsky.social is eligible to host a candidate. Do not hesitate to contact me before the end of August! neuro-marseille.org/en/blog/juni...

Junior Group leader Position – NeuroDevelopment | NeuroMarseille

Call for Expression of Interest Registration on the Odyssée website will be open from July 23 to September 7 The NeuroMarseille Institute brings together 7 neuroscience laboratories, encompassing more

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Sign up now for the EMBO Workshop "Organelle dynamics in health and disease: Bridging molecules to organisms" in #Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 12–14 October 2026. Deadline: 15 July 2026 https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-organelle-dynamics #EMBOOrganelleDynamics #LifeSciences #meeting #EMBOevents 🧪

The EMBO Workshop "#Centrosomes: From fundamentals to diseases" in #Lausanne, Switzerland, 1–4 September 2026 will highlight the advances in the field of centrosome #research. Register now! Deadline: 1 June https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-centrosomes #EMBOCentrosomes #EMBOevents #conference 🧪

Internship / MSc for #engineering, #photoswitch & #optogenetics fans: Like LEDs, soldering, simple PCBs and optics? Join the Thorn-Seshold lab at @tudresden.bsky.social & help build next-gen light engines for #photopharmacology & cellular control. PIs please repost! @poldresden.bsky.social

The EMBO Lab Leadership for #Postdocs online course running 16–18 June still has places open. Three days on the people side of running research: - interpersonal skills - tools for your development - clearer communication Sign up here: www.embolableadership.org/course/embol... #EMBOLabLead

Looking forward to an exciting @sfb1348.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de seminar with Alexander Ludwig (Nanyang Technological University Singapore) on May 7, 2026. He will speak about “Birth of a Lumen: Multiscale Imaging Reveals a Novel Mechanism of Apical Domain Initiation”. Everyone's welcome!

Excited to announce our new study (w/ @maxkrummel.bsky.social) published today @nature.com: Macrophages “hold our living identities” by taking tiny bites from living cells and presenting this information to CD8 T cells. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #immunology #cellbiology @immunox.bsky.social

Submicrometre sampling of living cells by macrophages - Nature

Macrophages can sample antigens from living cells through a trogocytosis-like mechanism that routes ingested material away from degradation, a finding that delineates a previously unknown pathway...

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Our most recent paper "Divergent Rickettsia species exhibit distinct mechanisms of actin-based motility" is now out in @jcb.org! Check it out here: rupress.org/jcb/article/...

The first Nature Conference on fluorescence microscopy is open for registration. The conference will highlight key areas in fluorescence microscopy, with sessions on super resolution techniques, mesoscale & intravital imaging & AI-driven developments natureconferences.streamgo.live/next-generat...

Next-Generation Fluorescence Microscopy

Organized by Tsinghua University, Nature Photonics, Nature, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Biotechnology and Nature Communications. The conference will highlight key areas in fluorescence micro...

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🚀 Are you planning to secure funding to start your own research group? (e.g. ERC, Emmy Noether, etc). 👨‍🔬Physics of Life can host you, and offers numerous benefits! We are launching a new Program to host and support third-party funded junior groups. Check out the details here: tud.link/xayd8s

How does a cell move when it carries cargo larger than its own organelles? Excited to share our findings: cells can mechanoadapt their force architecture to move oversized cargo Watch the bulky parasite (red) within an immune cell squeezing through a tiny pore www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/6

Just back from the annual meeting of the @dfg.de priority program #SPP2332 on "Physics of Parasitism", this time at the Robert Koch Institute at Berlin. So many great talks and discussions! Already looking forward to next year's meeting at Hamburg👍

Excited to share our latest #review on how the mechanobiology of the nucleus impacts immune cell function, including #NETosis, #migration, and #differentiation. doi.org/10.1080/1949... This was a fantastic collaborative effort with @hawa-racine.bsky.social, along with Sarah & Janina from our lab!

Nuclear mechanobiology rules immune cells’ functions: from differentiation to cell trafficking and pathogen killing

The immune system functions within tissue microenvironments of mechanical and geometrical constraints. Within these constraints, immune cells must rapidly move and execute effector functions to reg...

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We thank all team members, collaborators, and funding partners for a productive year 2025! In 2026, we look forward to new exciting findings on the mechanobiology of cells and their organelles at the interface of cell biology, biophysics, material science, and immunology. All the best for 2026!

Dynamic cellular interfaces reloaded!🎉 Happy and excited to receive extended funding @sfb1348.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de @mpi-muenster.bsky.social and to push our collaborative science forward in the next 4 years! Big thanks @dfg.de, reviewers, and everyone else involved for the continued support!

Thanks to @katemiro.bsky.social , Megan King, Verena Ruprecht & @lammerdinglab.bsky.social for organising the very first meeting on the “Mechanobiology of the Nucleus” #MBNSRC @faseborg.bsky.social and for the invitation to present our discoveries. The conference was fantastic!

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End of an incredible meeting — Mechanobiology of the Cell Nucleus #MBNSRC. So proud of my PhD student @leamayeur.bsky.social for winning the Best Early Career Researcher Presentation Award! 🏆👏

Register for the Dynamic Cell VI conference, Reading, UK, April 2026! This conference focusses on all aspects of cell dynamics, co-organised by @bscb-official.bsky.social and @biochemsoc.bsky.social with @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social and the Chinese Society for Cell Biology. bit.ly/Dynamic-Cell-VI

Learn all things #cytoskeleton #research in an interdisciplinary environment at EMBO Workshop "Structure and Function of the Cytoskeleton" in Paris, FR, 7–10 April 2026. Deadline: 20 December 2025 https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-cytoskeleton #EMBOCytoskeletalFunction #EMBOevents #conference 🧪

Structure and Function of the Cytoskeleton

The cytoskeleton, a dynamic and intricate network of protein filaments, is found within the cytoplasm of all cells, from bacteria and archaea to complex eukaryotes. This essential cellular component …

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Want to apply for an EMBO Postdoctoral #Fellowship? 🧪 Here are tips from the EMBO Fellowship Committee: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY7c... #LifeSciences #grant #funding

How to apply for an EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship: Tips from the Committee

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Thank you for the fantastic organisation of the conference and for assembling this excellent scientific program with numerous great poster sessions. I am already looking forward to the next CellMech conference in two years!

CellMech2025@cellmech2025.bsky.social · 10mo ago

And now our keynote speaker Jorg Renkawitz will share how mechanics and the microenvironment regulate immune cell behaviour. @renkawitzteam.bsky.social #cellmech2025

How do #stemcells integrate information to coordinate fate decisions? Delighted to finally see our work showing how growth factors regulate the mechano-osmotic state of the #nucleus and #chromatin to control #pluripotency exit out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... see 🧵 👇

Mechano-osmotic signals control chromatin state and fate transitions in pluripotent stem cells - Nature Cell Biology

McCreery, Stubb et al. show that mechano-osmotic changes in the nucleus induce general transcriptional repression and prime chromatin for cell fate transitions by relieving repression of specific differentiation genes.

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Announcing a new @embo.org Workshop on "Intracellular mechanics and organelle mechanobiology" that we are organizing with Michael Krieg and Verena Ruprecht at @icfo.eu (Barcelona) on 16-20 February, 2026. Please, repost and spread the word! 🙏 #EMBOmechanobio meetings.embo.org/event/26-org...

Intracellular mechanics and organelle mechanobiology

Mechanobiology is an interdisciplinary field that emerges at the cross-section of biology, physics and engineering. It aims to understand how living cells, tissues and animals sense and respond to me…

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Can pressure gradients persist over long timescales in animal cells? We induced intracellular pressure gradients and examined the resulting flows in single cells. We reveal surprisingly long lasting pressure gradients. More here: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Congrats to @errricpeterman.bsky.social on leading our latest paper now published in @jcellsci.bsky.social ! Eric found multiple roles for microtubules in tissue-resident macrophage homeostasis and function -- including in helping macrophages navigate around epithelial obstacles during wound repair👇

Eric Peterman@errricpeterman.bsky.social · 11mo ago

now online! check out our work describing roles for microtubules in tissue-resident macrophages during directed cell migration. thanks to @jcellsci.bsky.social for a stress-free publication process journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

SCHEPHERD--the bioelectric cell herding platform built for YOU. Single cells, monolayers, organoids--this herds them all + new tricks. Plz try it-- we will *give* you parts! Teaser here of a steering a single cell. GS Yubin Lin's lifeblood with J. Yodh on piano; Celeste R. and Paul K. Thread 1/N

bioRxivpreprint@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 11mo ago

SCHEPHERD: A universal platform for high-throughput, high-resolution, and programmable control of cell behavior through bioelectric stimulation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.16.674226v1

To expand the Fast & Fair peer review experiment to more subject areas, we are inviting our community members to join the Biology Open peer reviewer pool. Your participation and commitment are key to the success of this initiative. Apply at bit.ly/428Cszt #fastandfairpeerreview

Final call to register and submit abstracts for the @faseborg.bsky.social conference on the Mechanobiology of the Cell Nucleus (#MBNSRC) to be considered for platform presentations. The conference takes place in Melbourne, FL, Oct. 26-30, 2025. See more info at: events.faseb.org/event/Mechan...

How can cells self-organize rapidly into complex patterns during development? Let’s explore a powerful and underappreciated mechanism: Directed Cell Migration (DCM). Preprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1101/2025... 👇Thread 🧵(1/11)

Our Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route is now open for applications, providing a fast-track option for attracting mid-career researchers looking to relocate to the UK from overseas, providing up to £4m over a five-year period. #RSGrants

🚨 New EMBO Practical Course! Ultrastructure Expansion Microscopy: From Cells to Tissue 🔬 📅 20–24 Apr 2026 | 📍 EMBL Heidelberg Co-organised with @banterlegroup.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social 💡 Register your interest to get notified when registration opens: 🔗 www.embl.org/about/info/c...