CellComM Lab

#CellMigration for #FluorescenceFriday 🧪🔬 If a metastatic #cancer cell is offered 2 paths it decides very fast, bc it does matter where it goes... OTOH, if a non-cancer #cell is offered 2 options it takes some time to explore and decide. More in the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 One week left to submit your abstract! 📢 More info here: pcd2026.sciencesconf.org

Calling all rising undergrad juniors & seniors: 9 weeks, mentorship from top scientists, up to $15K stipend to support "the most incredible" summer research experience. Want to learn more? Register for our live, #CechFellows webinar 10/26, 4pm ET! ➡️ bit.ly/4zKhIM8 | Program page: bit.ly/4dRWYJZ 🧪

Intrinsic3D, a new imaging approach that allows researchers to image entire cells + tissues in 3D at single-molecule resolution, making large-volume super-resolution imaging faster & easier. @kanishka03.bsky.social covers work #StJohnstonLab - #preLight ⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/highlights/f...

We are hiring an AI@HHMI Program Manager to help run HHMI's $500M AI initiative: projects, budgets, staffing, recruiting, events, outreach. Advanced degree, program management experience, fluent with AI tools and effective without them 😉. Work with me! hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

Immune cells don't only interact with the ECM, they also interact with surrounding cells in tissue as they migrate. This video gives me so much joy because there is just so much biology here to be discovered. Sticky cells! Here, immune cells are 🔴, ectodermal cells are ⚪. Happy #FluorescenceFriday

Laith Bahlouli, Marc Edwards and colleagues identify atypical PI3Ks as specialised regulators of signal attenuation, cAMP relay organization and membrane uptake in Dictyostelium. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

New paper by Harshath Amal @harshath.bsky.social shows how TGF-β signaling controls epithelial permeability by regulating actomyosin contractility and adhesion. Surprisingly, elevated adhesion can maintain barrier integrity independently of contractility tinyurl.com/ywenrexy @jcellsci.bsky.social

Are you curious about theoretical and quantitative approaches to understanding living systems? Then you should not miss out on #EESTCBio! 🧬 Submit your abstract by 13 Apr to explore how biology can be understood, not just measured: s.embl.org/ees27-06-bl

Tomorrow, new MSc students start their program I'll make them play the classic "spot the differences"👇🏽, bc The North remembers...& The Mad Microscopy Gang #TMMG too I'll try to follow @cilialab.bsky.social & @aaandmoore.bsky.social to keep my chill & not start ranting #microscopy #AI #AIslop🧪🔬

Microscopy images are scientific evidence, and that image processing must be transparent and faithful to the underlying biology. Reinforce those standards, especially now-insist Nikon uphold them. #NikonSWiM2026 Read the letter: tinyurl.com/OpenLetterSW... Add your name: forms.gle/TyGRELnCxq5z...

We have a position open in our core facility in the @pasteur.fr . Please share it and / or apply! forum.image.sc/t/research-e...

Localized optogenetic microtubule severing in osteosarcoma cells by recruiting katanin (magenta) to microtubules (cyan).

BREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”

Looking for a PhD? @crick.ac.uk PhD applications for next year are open. 4 year program with lots of outstanding projects on offer. If you are interested in viral host interactions, cytoskeleton, cell bio, live cell imaging - see Way lab project + video. plz repost www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...

Register FREE to watch this online today from 11am (BST)! Great meeting packed with talks from RMS award-winners, our Early Career Competition and updates from our RMS Committees 🙂 🔬 Register now: https://ow.ly/o4Yq50ZQtNK

Call for abstracts: the UK Cell Motility Club is back! Keynote speaker : Caren Norden 🐠 Fantastic early career talk opportunity and lovely community! Register here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/zNNCMfD5jF

While we’ve heard that watching cell blebs (like watching larva lamps) can be relaxing, we think that @ankita13jha.bsky.social’s talk from our #CellMigration webinar will leave you feeling excited about #science & running to your #microscope! Full video @ focalplane.biologists.com/2026/09/25/f...

Microglia monitor and protect neuronal function through specialized somatic purinergic junctions | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

While #NikonSmallWorldInMotion has been quiet over #CiliaGate, the story has broken mainstream media here in the UK just in time for #PCDAwarenessMonth www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just released the napari-clusters-plotter 0.11.0 github.com/BiAPoL/napar..., a little passion-project of mine for interactive exploration of datasets and attached features in @napari.org Two cool things to take note of 👇

Are you looking for a postdoc exploring the cell biology of development, defining how cells change shape and move? Do you want to develop a research program & teaching skills preparing you for a position at a college or small University? Our new NIH grant will support those goals 1/n Please share

Looking for a faculty position combining research in fundamental cell and molecular biology with therapeutic discovery? Join our amazing faculty at the @weillinstitute.bsky.social at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32657 Apply by Nov. 15! Please share!

#Mechanobiology rules! Today, it's not only Chile's independence day🇨🇱😋 ...but also Sara Wickström @sarawickstrom.bsky.social is getting the Körber Prize 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 for being a "curiosity's junkie" 😂 Of note, Kate photobombing is top @katemiro.bsky.social @focalplane.bsky.social @koerber-ip.bsky.social

🔬🧪 We're hiring postdocs&engineers at Institut de la Vision in AMAZING Paris 🇫🇷!! Join a dynamic team working at the nexus of retina developmental biology, spatial omics & advanced imaging Ambitious science in a supportive & young inclusive team 🚀 DM me for more info & please share 🙏 #academicsky

APPLICATIONS OPEN‼️ Volume Microscopy: from Array Tomography to PFIB SEM is a new course that will introduce participants into a dynamic area of technology development. Photo credit: Kristina D. Micheva 🔗 More info here: go.mbl.edu/vm

Wanna see blebs dancing & new models of #CellMigration? Join us tomorrow to see the great talks from @ankita13jha.bsky.social, @raphclement.bsky.social & @katrinavelle.bsky.social Thu 17 Sep. at 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST Register: focalplane.biologists.com/2026/09/03/f... @focalplane.bsky.social

A Review in Nature Metabolism defines seven hallmarks of skeletal muscle homeostasis, providing a unifying framework for understanding, measuring and preserving muscle health. go.nature.com/4h3kZOU #medsky 🧪

Your research + one completely different discipline. What are you choosing? 👀 We asked a few scientists and got some interesting answers. At #HFSP, crossing disciplinary boundaries is part of what makes frontier science possible. 🤝 What's your ideal collaboration? 🧪 #sts

Very happy to share my postdoc paper is out now in @natcellbio.nature.com titled "Tissue flow acts as a guidance cue for immune cell polarization and directional migration". If you love imaging and immune cells, this is for you! #microscopymonday www.nature.com/articles/s41... A 🧵: 1/n

📢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.

This is why we love #CellMigratuon ! This beautiful story is now out, very interesting role for RhoA and also the cover, Neutrophils on the 'Rho'ad Congrats to all authors, especially to former colleagues and friends Full @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🗓️SAVE THE DATE The BSCB 2027 Spring Meeting ‘Life in Motion – Cells, Genes and Beyond’ will take place on 19-22 April in London Organised together with @gensocuk.bsky.social

📣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

Postdoc position available - deadline in 2 weeks! Exciting 3-yr BBSRC project studying cell biology of Wnt signaling: advanced imaging, genome editing and embryology. Apply now! Join Matthias Krause and Karen Liu labs. @karenjliu.bsky.social @wntuk.bsky.social www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/155745-...

#Mastodon, the Command Center for Large-Scale Lineage-Tracing Microscopy Datasets, is finally heading for publication (well, let's see). To #cite or not to cite shall no longer be the question 🙃, because the #preprint. Software is available in every #Fiji near you. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

It’s #preprint list time! This week we focus on new research in bioimage analysis. Let us know if you have any suggestions for us to add to our list. focalplane.biologists.com/2026/09/04/m...

#Throwback 🧪 COMMENT | Often forgotten but essential: long-chain acyl-CoAs in metabolic control NJ Færgeman

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...

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...

Another year is gone & I grow old and proud of the work of my team @cellcommlab.bsky.social To celebrate the 6th labversary, we did the best we can do: we submitted...now to cross fingers & to press F5. OK, to celebrate we also had pizza as tradition dictates ;) #CellMigration & pizza lovers 🧪🔬

Collaborative work w/ Beile Gao and team in Guangzhou & collaborators in the US @natmicrobiol.nature.com this week. Combining phylogenetics, structural biology and bioinformatics to explore new structures around the flagellar motor and their evolutionary origins. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 JOB ALERT! 📢 I am recruiting a 30-month postdoc to work on modelling the vision of trilobites @hfspo.bsky.social ! If you like 3D data, fossils, and functional morphology, this is the one for you! 📆Deadline 27. Aug Pls contact me with any Qs and share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Bile acid retention in efferocytic #macrophages shapes their inflammatory status during #cholangitis. New study from Amirah Al Jawazneh, Imke Liebold, Stephanie Leyk, Lidia Bosurgi (Universitätsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf) et al.: rupress.org/jem/article/... @pjsaez.bsky.social #inflammation

Bringing together science & art, @manuelthery.bsky.social & the CytoMorpho lab describe their project on how cells adapt their shape to their environment using the Musée d’Orsay as their template! The full performance was presented over two nights at the museum earlier this year. #sciart #cellbio

Al Jawazneh, Liebold, Leyk, Bosurgi et al. show that engulfment of bile acid–loaded hepatic parenchymal cells results in the transfer of bile acids to phagocytic #macrophages, altering their inflammatory profile. rupress.org/jem/article/... @pjsaez.bsky.social #Inflammation #Cholangitis

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A control cell going through cell division with normal membrane blebs (top) and a cell we messed with (bottom). Both were videoed through a DIC microscope. #CellBiology www.molbiolcell.org/doi/full/10....

Voting is now open in our image competition with #ELMI2026. Thanks to everyone that entered the competition, we received so many wonderful entries. Voting closes on 18 June, the penultimate day of #ELMI2026 @ppbioimaging.bsky.social. focalplane.biologists.com/2026/06/08/f...

1 week to start🔥 New @focalplane.bsky.social webinar series focused on #CellMigration, register & join us▶️, it will be fun! pls spread the word, in the next one, ECRs could apply to show their work ;) ▶️ to register: focalplane.biologists.com/2026/05/29/n... @dgz.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social

📣 BNMI2026 symposium - do not miss the opportunity to apply for fellowship to cover symposium costs! 📍 Levi Summit & Hotel Panorama, Levi, Finland 🇫🇮 📅 23/24–27.11.2026 ⏳BNMI fellowship DL June 26 📜Abstract submission DL July 1 ⏳Registration DL July 17 🔗More info eurobioimaging.fi/FiAM/bnmi2026/