We are sponsoring the 2026 UK Cell Motility Club symposium: 🗓️ 17 December 2026, 10:00-19:00 📍King’s College London To find out more and register, visit: cytoskeleton.wixsite.com/londoncellmo... Thanks to @matthias-krause.bsky.social & @squeezycellslab.bsky.social for organising

🪲🪰 Our preprint is out! This was a team effort with @wolframponisch.bsky.social, @matthewabenton.bsky.social and Ewa Paluch. We asked whether Drosophila and Tribolium use the same cell behaviours to fold their embryos during gastrulation. 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Morphospace analysis reveals divergent cellular behaviours driving tissue internalisation during insect gastrulation

During gastrulation, embryonic epithelia undergo large-scale remodelling to internalise the mesoderm. Whether the cellular mechanisms underlying these tissue deformations are conserved across species ...

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Want to know more about nuclear adaptations in cell migration? Then check out our short review from our amazing PhD student You-Hsuan Liu : www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Syd Sattler@sydsat.bsky.social · last mo.

What if an embryo made immune cells before it finished building the tissue they usually come from? In our new preprint, we show that annual killifish embryos specify neutrophils before germ layers are fully resolved. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Huge thanks to my PI, @ohnolog.bsky.social ! 🧵

📢 We are looking for a Junior Group Leader to join us at @institutcurie.bsky.social! Having joined the department just over a year ago, I can honestly say that it is an exceptionally stimulating and supportive scientific environment, filled with outstanding colleagues — all in the heart of Paris.

We are thrilled to announce our new preprint from the wonderful @sorayavillaseca.bsky.social Ever wondered how cells squeeze through tiny spaces in embryos? Neural crest cells use Dynein to transport their nucleus along microtubules. Check out the preprint!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Hot from the #preprint Leukocyte + #CellMigration + physics = cool Microtubules enable torque-based steering during dendritic cell migration. Actomyosin contractility is required for noise-modulation strategy used by neutrophils. Full @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Torque-based immune cell chemotaxis in complex environments

Directed migration in chemical gradients is crucial to the immune response, yet how immune cells navigate complex tissues remains incompletely understood. Using in vitro migration assays and theoretic...

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Now (finally) #published @natcomms.nature.com: "A multi-tiered mechanical mechanism shapes the early neural plate" @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de A great collaboration of experiment and theory to explain the tissue flows shaping the #zebrafish neural plate! doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61303-1

Very excited to share our latest preprint! We looked at loss and gain of function, innervation, reinnervation, and in vivo axonal transport in a FUS-ALS mouse model! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @uclqsion.bsky.social @beccasimkin.bsky.social @andrewtosolini.bsky.social @frattalab.bsky.social

Esteban Hoijman@estebanhoijman.bsky.social · last yr.

How innate immunity starts? Early embryos eliminate bacterial infections by epithelial phagocytosis, a conserved process from zebrafish to human embryos. Check our story: www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

👋 Are you looking for a postdoc position? Do you think microtubules are fascinating? Then we might have the job for you! 2-year funded postdoc to join our lab! 👉 deadline 20/06 👇 check it out www.godinholab.com

This Friday, UK Cell Motility Club symposium in Cambridge, UK: exciting PhD student and Postdoc speaker line up! A few last minute spots available. Organised by @squeezycellslab.bsky.social and @matthias-krause.bsky.social cytoskeleton.wixsite.com/londoncellmo...

No plans for this Friday? Come join us at the UK Cell Motility Club, last chance to register cytoskeleton.wixsite.com/londoncellmo...

Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!

Very excited to share the first preprint from the lab: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... We investigated neural crest migration all the way from head to tail of the Zebrafish embryo and we found their nuclei suffer dramatic deformations. Want to know of they cope with feeling squeezed? 🐟🐠🐟

#CellBiology: “The centrosome is exposed to mechanical forces and can even break when cells move through narrow or complex environments,” says Renkawitz. #LMU researchers led by Jörg Renkawitz have discovered how these cells protect a sensitive organelle, the centrosome, from being destroyed.

Cell biology: how cells protect their centrosome against mechanical forces

When motile immune cells move through tissue, they are exposed to strong forces. Researchers at LMU have discovered how these cells protect a sensitive organelle, the centrosome, from being destroyed.

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