📣 Paper alert! The Landino Lab's first peer-reveiwed research article is officially online! We are happy this work found a home in MBoC. Congratulations to Greg, and thank you to the many people who helped get us here! Check it out here: www.molbiolcell.org/doi/abs/10.1...
It was my pleasure to host @ahnaskop.bsky.social for our departmental seminar tomorrow at 12 pm in BSB1060.
If you are in Ann Arbor and want to know more about mid body remanants, please join us tomorrow! It's going to be a great seminar!
#mcdb #midbody #celldivison #umich @umich.edu
Postdoc position available!!! We are looking for a creative postdoc to develop independent research directions in tissue morphogenesis using embryos, stem cell/organoid systems, and quantitative imaging and/or biophysics. Here are the details: livejohnshopkins-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...
#Keratin 15 promotes a progenitor cell state in basal #keratinocytes of skin #epidermis. say Catherine J. Redmond, Pierre A. Coulombe and colleagues @umich.edu: rupress.org/jcb/article/...
#Cytoskeleton #StemCells
Congratulations 👏 Welcome to Ann Arbor
Interested in cell adhesion, evolution of multicellularity, or developing tools for emerging marine models?
My lab at UM is hiring a postdoc, and the application is now open:
🔗 tinyurl.com/28jvu4aa
If you know anyone looking for a postdoc, please pass this along!
if you are attending #CellBio2025 please check out the posters from our lab @hugheslabpenn.bsky.social. The lab will have a great showing this year featuring my talented colleagues @lsprahl.bsky.social @danielalber.bsky.social and many others!
Hey @ascbiology.bsky.social peeps! My Tactile Mitosis talk is at 4pm tomorrow —which is one of many amazing talks on the power of art in science and education. Hope you all can make it! #sciart
Mini symposium
Mini symposium speaker line up
Curious about what’s new in cilia/ciliated cells? Come find out at mini-symposium: Cilia Biogenesis, Structure & Function at #CellBio2025 @ASCBiology! Organised by Karl Lechtrek, Caroline Ott, Martin Engelke & @caylajewett.bsky.social — marking 25 years of cilia-in-disease discovery.
Attending #Cellbio2025?
I am presenting two posters, stop by if you are interested in epithelial dynamics.
Looking forward to all the amazing conversations and feedback!!
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Course - Cell & Developmental Biology of Xenopus: Gene Discovery & Disease, April 7 - 21, 2026. Application Deadline: January 16, 2026 xenbase.org/xenbase/doNe... #science #devbio #xenopus #frogs
Ever wondered how adult organs preserve epithelial barrier integrity while continuously exposed to mechanical stress? We tackled this question in our new preprint – led by our brilliant PhD student Vishnu Krishnakumar! (1/11)
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🚨 My lab is hiring at all levels!
Interested in animal origins & evolutionary cell biology?
I'm recruiting a postdoc, PhD students & a research assistant to study the molecular evolution of cell adhesion using marine invertebrates + comparative genomics.
🔗: clarkelab.com/join/
Please repost!
Thanks ☺️
PAK4 dynamics at actively remodeling vertices 🌟 ⚡👀
Check out our recent preprint
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This has been an amazing collaborative project. Huge shout out to Tomohito Higashi (Fukushima University) for brining our attention to PAK4 and collaborating with us.
Thanks to all the authors including my Undergrad Alex Chang, who made valuable contribution to the project.
Inhibiting endogenous PAK4 recruitment to the junctions disrupts barrier function, implicating PAK4 and Afadin as critical partners in vertex remodeling to preserve tissue integrity.
Inhibiting PAK4 disrupts tissue packing and compromises junctional continuity.
This video highlights impaired rosette resolution in PAK4 inhibitor treated embryos.
Our study sheds new light on how p21-activated kinase 4; PAK4 is recruited to epithelial junctions by Afadin, drives dynamic vertex remodeling in both cells and embryos.
Are you interested in how multicellular vertices resolve in epithelia?
Checkout our recent bioRxiv preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
(Scroll down to see some cool videos)
PAK4 promotes vertex remodeling to maintain epithelial integrity and barrier function https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.02.680170v1
Great meeting as always! #ToledoCellulArt
Beautiful work!! 👏
Amazing study showing the importance of mechanical context for crucial biological processes.
Also great to see research on pregnancy and women health!!
📢 Pre-print alert 📢 We are excited to share the lab's first research article! We used our artificial cortex system to investigate how membrane composition regulates self-organized cortical dyanamics. Check it out here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I was so excited to meet everyone and share my scirnce at Cell Contact and Adhesion GRC, unfortunately I had to cancel my plans due to funding and travel uncertainties... Sad to miss this amazing conference 😞
Congrats Kate 🥳👏
Happy New Year!!
To celebrate 2025, here is our new pre-print showing a key role for cofilin and actin turnover in embryonic wound healing ... by modulating actin rigidity!! Work led by @anamcarmo.bsky.social, with key contributions by Ji Hong Sayo. 🪰🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#nikonparty celebrations at #cellbi02024 @babliadhikary.bsky.social
I’m delighted to share that I will be starting my lab @univmiami.bsky.social in Spring 2025! We will study cellular and developmental biology in non-bilaterian animals – cnidarians, ctenophores, placozoans, and sponges – to explore early animal evolution.
Thanks Jen ☺️
Thank you all for your engagement and wonderful conversations
#CellBio2024 is amazing 😍
