A pain I know all too well 😕

Beautiful work by @franbottanelli.bsky.social lead by @probablycarmen.bsky.social now out. Was fun to contribute!

Exciting to see this out in its final form! Wonderful work led by @probablycarmen.bsky.social. Want to know why protrusions are better at initiating immune signaling in #Tcells? Look no further. Link to Carmen’s 🧵 on the preprint bsky.app/profile/prob...

Breakthrough Prize – Life Sciences Breakthrough Prize Laureates – Bryan Traynor

There is not just one but two Breakthrough Prize winners from the NIH intramural program this year! Hearty congratulations Bryan Traynor “For the discovery of the most common genetic cause of ALS and frontotemporal dementia ….”

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Early Career Faculty Program | Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMI The Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program offers comprehensive support to outstanding early career faculty committed to scientific excellence in their own research, and to fostering labs that expand the ...

This program transformed my career! Please apply.

@hhmi-science.bsky.social's #FreemanHrabowski Scholars Program offers early career faculty up to $10M over 10 yrs, plus salary & benefits. Postdoc? This year's competition has a program for you too. Applications open 11/3! bit.ly/4vhC0LA

Cytokinetic abscission failures in a polarized epithelium affect apical membrane size and cilia | Molecular Biology of the Cell Cytokinetic abscission genes are linked to cancers and developmental disorders, but the consequences of disrupted abscission in vivo remain under-explored. Previously we showed that in the forebrain o...

Our latest #abscission paper is online at MBoC www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/... . We looked at what happens when there are stochastic abscission failures in a polarized epithelium in vivo. 1/6

Amazing, fascinating, surprising, baffling story!!

Check it out below

Dear Lipid and Membrane Enthusiasts,

There is only one month!! left to register and submit your abstracts for the @embo.org Workshop “Lipid Code to Life”, which will be held from September 7–11, 2026, in Dresden, Germany.

Workshop program and registration page: meetings.embo.org/event/26-lip...

Amazing find by @oliverrocks.bsky.social and @pm-mueller.bsky.social , such a cool discovery. Was fun to be involved.

Visualizing suborganellar lipid distribution using correlative light and electron microscopy - Nature Cell Biology Lennartz et al. introduce a correlative light and electron microscopy workflow, Lipid-CLEM, combining near-native lipid probes and on-section labelling via click chemistry. Lipid-CLEM quantitatively a...

☕ @mathilda95.bsky.social @nadlerlab.bsky.social & co introduce a correlative light and electron #microscopy workflow, Lipid-CLEM, combining near-native #lipid probes and on-section labelling via click chemistry. Lipid-CLEM quantitatively analyses lipids in membrane nanodomains.
bit.ly/4moYLJH

Transport of sphingolipids by yeast Npc2 supports phase separation of the vacuole membrane The yeast vacuole membrane forms ordered microdomains that facilitate microlipophagy under nutrient limitation. We previously found that this process …

New paper where we report that Npc2 - a shuttle-like lipid transfer protein - in yeast directly transports sphingolipids to the = vacuole membrane during formation of microautophagy-linked ordered domains #lipidtime
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Data. A mouse model of glioblastoma leads to inevitable death within 50 days. Delivery of HSV+TK plus IL2, driven by a strong and specific synthetic superenhancer, allows almost all mice to survive even after nearly 150 days. From Fig5 of Koeber et al 2026

Just look at this graph (Fig 5A,B from Koeber et al).

Amazing.

Congratulations to the Pollard lab and all authors.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Time to put the new German Society for Cell Biology lunchroom into your calendar! As always an excellent lineup:

1/25 New paper out in PNAS! We show that the fitness costs of reproductive specialization, where somatic cells give up reproduction, scale inversely with organism size. Larger organisms can afford far more soma, removing a key barrier to multicellular complexity.

Earth appearing as a bright crescent behind the Moon’s surface

OH. MY. GOD.

THIS IS THE EARTHSET PHOTO FROM ARTEMIS II. IM SPEECHLESS.

Imagine you’re a Hollywood producer or a TV executive in 2015 and a screenwriter pitches you a future where a President issues this message on Easter Sunday. The writer would never work again

Going to space is one of the coolest things humans have done

Group picture of the fluorescence and membrane dynamics laboratory at the University of Warwick. Four members are shown with a birthday cake with a candle. Lab logo in the corner. fmd-lab.org

Time is flying by ⌛😱

Recently celebrated the first birthday of my lab at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social @mechanochemistry.org

It's been a lot of fun.
Many thanks to my great colleagues and amazing team who makes the science happen.

Looking forward to our next scienceventures 🔬👨‍🔬👩‍🔬
#FCS #FLIM

Every PI

Sad for both

Do we grow wiser as we age?
I spent 15+ years chasing glam journals, wasting time and energy (and frustrating my team and co-authors).
I don’t want to wake up at 70 and realize my life went into convincing a few editors my work was trendy enough.
Enough. I’ll try to be smarter.

This is what it looks like when a star goes supernova.

im so lucky to be able to surround myself with cell biology and scientists, seeing the result of people's hard work and rigorous questioning is seriously inspiring

Our NIAAA funded Post-DoctT32 has received its NoA (non competing renewal). Are you looking for a post-doc and interested in joining our amazing center? If so, reach out! Here is a convenient form that you can use to upload CV and a cover letter!

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What an honor! Congrats Elias and thank you for your efforts on behalf of our community.

Well at least it’s definitely unpublished…

I'm thrilled to be starting as Professor for Molecular Biology at Heidelberg University in April. Looking forward to this adventure!

It’s incredibly hard to study lipids in biological membranes on the nanoscale. You need near-perfect information on both membrane ultrastructure and lipid density. Lipid-CLEM, now out in @natcellbio.nature.com brought to you by @mathilda95.bsky.social changes that:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Visualizing suborganellar lipid distribution using correlative light and electron microscopy - Nature Cell Biology Lennartz et al. introduce a correlative light and electron microscopy workflow, Lipid-CLEM, combining near-native lipid probes and on-section labelling via click chemistry. Lipid-CLEM quantitatively a...

I am extremely excited that my first first-author paper from my PhD is finally out 😆!! We developed a new CLEM workflow to measure lipid densities at the nanoscale. So if you are into lipids and super-resolution imaging approaches, this one is for you: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I think im never going to get over super resolution microscopy