Last days to apply this position in our group! Do join us in this great Institute @crg.eu, with great colleagues, and help shaping the science and culture of our lab!
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Last days to apply this position in our group! Do join us in this great Institute @crg.eu, with great colleagues, and help shaping the science and culture of our lab!
Updating a 56 year-old JCB paper with digitized videos from 16 mm film 😍. Well done first author Tom Pollard!!
A few seconds of eternity: From microscope to museum❣️
It was truly delightful to be part of this project, celebrating life as a continuous dance of creation, collapse, and renewal. 🔄
Kudos to @manuelthery.bsky.social @lblanchoin.bsky.social #cytomorpholab members, and @museeorsay.bsky.social
Huge congrats to @manuelthery.bsky.social and all the Cytomorpho lab. The "Living Architectures" performance at @museeorsay.bsky.social was breathtakingly beautiful
#LivingArchitectures
Congratulations @manuelthery.bsky.social @lblanchoin.bsky.social and all Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab for their poetic vision of the microscopic level.
#Addendum to 1970 paper, “CYTOPLASMIC FILAMENTS OF AMOEBA PROTEUS: I. The Role of Filaments in Consistency Changes and Movement,” includes eight video sequences originally recorded on 16-mm films. No technology was available at the time to include this data. 🎞️ rupress.org/jcb/article/...
#Actin
Author Tom Pollard: “I hope readers will enjoy movies from our 1970 JCB paper showing dramatic cytoplasmic movements in cell-free extracts. Electron micrographs in the paper related these movements to the assembly of actin filaments. This addendum is a tribute to my very generous mentor Sus Ito.”
#art 🎨 | Quand l’art devient expérimental & que chaque spectateur devient 🧑🔬.
A l'occasion du spectacle 'Architectures vivantes’ du @museeorsay.bsky.social qui aura lieu les 24 et 25 janvier prochains, @manuelthery.bsky.social, directeur scientifique du projet revient sur cette expérimentation en 📽️
"Perhaps the most exciting place to be is just beyond the trend: informed by it but not confined by it."
📣 #Job alert!
Looking to establish your own independent research in cell biology, development or evo-devo?
The @cnrs.fr is recruiting 7 scientists in that area of research.
Here are updated unofficial guidelines. Reach out to members of the committee if you have questions
c3n-cn.fr/section-24-w...
#Communiqué 🗞️ En 2026, pour célébrer ses 40 ans, le @museeorsay.bsky.social devient un véritable théâtre du vivant. Deux soirées dans la Nef plongeront le public dans un spectacle immersif au coeur des dynamiques cellulaires donnant vie à l’architecture de la gare.
👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/un...
#RejoignezleCNRS 🫵 Envie de repousser les limites de la science ? Le #CNRS recrute des chercheurs (F/H) passionnés.
📅 Concours ouverts jusqu’au 12 janvier 2026.
Candidatez dès maintenant !
👉 carrieres.cnrs.fr/concours-ext...
#Recrutement #Innovation #Recherche #Icicarecrute
#LivingArchitectures
We put cells and cytoskeleton filaments on the architecture of the musée d'Orsay.
www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/agenda/ev...
Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab adapted their protocols to illustrate the questions that keep them awake at night.
-> Two shows on the 24th and 25th of January.
Today, our animation synthesizing decades of research on actin-mediated endocytosis in budding yeast was published:
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
The result of a fantastic Iwasa-Drubin lab collaboration.
@margotriggi.bsky.social @jiwasa.bsky.social
movie.biologists.com/video/10.124...
I'm heading to ASCB in Philadelphia this year and If you'd like to chat about your research, please get in touch and we can schedule a time to meet.
Same for actin networks…
“Cellular Olympics” our catalog of freeky ultra fast cellular superhero’s is freely available “Ann Rev of microbiology”
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
This is a compilation of world’s fastest single cell organisms - enjoy this buffet of rare delightful protists with mind bending speeds. 🧪
⚡Ready to grow and be inspired as a scientist?
We’re looking for a *PhD student* to join our lab at @crg.eu
in Barcelona and explore how cells self-organize, uncovering life’s inner design💡
We offer strong mentoring, cutting-edge science, and a vibrant international team🌍
Check the link below!
Perspective from Richard McIntosh describing the history of research on #microtubule polymerization in terms of the ideas, technologies, and observations that have emerged as countless researchers have studied the dynamics of these essential cytoskeletal polymers. rupress.org/jcb/article/...
Tomorrow at @ISTAresearch.bsky.social in Vienna at 4:30 PM I will show and discuss how shapes can emerge (and disappear) from mixture of microtubules and molecular motors.
#morphogenesis
We hire!
The CytoMorpho Lab is looking for an engineer with a background in cell and molecular biology to join our team in Paris. This is a 18-month contract position, but we're open to exploring long-term opportunities.
More details here:
cytomorpholab.com/index.php/jo...
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.
Yusuke Maeda, from the department of Chemical Engineering of Kyoto University for a seminar on
Tuesday the 21st of October at 12:00
in the main amphitheatre of the IPGG (6 rue Jean Calvin).
Title and abstract:
From Flow to Shape: Biophysical Principles of Confined Actomyosin
58:32 minutes…it is heavy cooking…
Want to hear a mid-career PI pontificate about science, career and cooking? Today's your lucky day thanks to The Microscopists podcast! Thanks Peter @yorkbioimaging.bsky.social for having me 🎙️🎧
themicroscopists.bitesizebio.com/episodes/chr...
Dialogue is so important in science engagement.
“Our responsibility is … to speak with humility, to listen with care, and to earn the trust of those we hope to reach… To change what people believe, we must first understand why they believe it and what purpose that belief serves in their lives.”
La vie est belle! vous attend à la maison des relations internationales à Montpellier!
Une initiative des @addictauxsciences.bsky.social qui présente les images de Montpellier Ressources Imagerie dans ce cadre exceptionnel 🤩
Festival What a trip!
Jeu-Sam 10-18h
@eurobioimaging.bsky.social
The actin-binding/-bundling protein #anillin can also interact with microtubules to crosslink the two types of filaments and slide them along each other
@marileend.bsky.social @gijsjekoenderink.bsky.social and colleagues
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
We also give examples of imaging and functionalization to study actin-related processes.
We detail the equipment and protocol for microwell manufacture, as well as characterization and quality control.
