Landoni lab & UNIL logos, featuring fluorescent images of mitochondria and nematodes
The Landoni Lab opens this summer at UNIL! @fbm-unil.bsky.social 🔬 Quantitative #imaging + systems biology to decipher how #metabolic architecture & #mtDNA dynamically shape tissue development, #aging and #mitodisease. Beyond excited to fire up the lasers, open positions soon! 🧪 #mitochondria #newPI
Flyer of the 16 GSMI scholars and program alumni who received the NSF-GRFP Award or an Honorable Mention
Congratulations to our sixteen NSF-GRFP awardees and Honorable Mentions!!
Terrible question phrasing.
Normally, motile cilia beat vigorously on the cell surface, just like they do on our lung cells to keep us healthy.
The longstanding mystery for how mitochondria segregate and position their DNA has been solved!
Read all about it:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@jclandoni.bsky.social
Here is Juan and I at the 4th of July parade at MBL physiology
This (along with the ethical reasons, and the environmental reasons, and the "if you have to push it on me that hard I automatically don't trust it" reasons) is a big part of why I don't use GenAI - I'm not done learning yet! I've still got things I want to **know** how they work.
Our paper is now out in Science! Super excited to share our discovery that #mitochondria #pearling is the elusive mechanism driving the regular distribution and inheritance of #mtDNA nucleoids 🧬 [1/6]
“Why Did This Evolve? It Didn’t. It Was Already There” - @jclandoni.bsky.social
👉 www.iflscience.com/why-did-this...
🚨 Deadline approaching (Apr 16)! Don’t miss your chance to join our student-led #TheoreticalBiophysics workshop. Meals, accommodation + reasonable travel covered for accepted participants.
Apply ➡️ janelia.news/THB26
@allysonsgro.bsky.social @zamakany.bsky.social
Excited to share our work on the structure and function of cytoplasmic lattices within mouse embryos. A collaborative effort with @niakanlab.bsky.social and work led by @kashishsingh.bsky.social and @inaharasimov.bsky.social . It is now out on BioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Today is the start of Impact Week, a week-long celebration of the people and philanthropy that power the MBL. Each day, we’re highlighting a different area of impact, beginning today with #research, the foundation of breakthroughs in Woods Hole.
Donate: mbl.edu/give
Daniel Cortes, returning to the MBL this year as a Whitman Fellow, discovered a new, never-before-described species of Stentor.
He and his colleagues named it Stentor stipatus.
🔗 Read about it here: go.mbl.edu/stentor
I'm trying to figure out if I've been there or not. Difficult task considering every block looks identical....
🚨 Our lab is hiring postdoctoral fellows in two different areas of research: (1) mitochondrial biology and (2) reproductive science. Postings are below, and you can visit bombawarczaklab.com to learn more about what we do!
Repro: apply.interfolio.com/183045
Mito: apply.interfolio.com/183230
Condensates are powerful ways to break symmetry and cells do remarkable things with them. Here we show that in a multinucleate fungus, a condensate regulates translation of a cyclin and a formin in distinct locations.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The National Science Foundation is systematically being converted to the National AI and Quantum Research Foundation.
“I see it as the administration exerting political control over what has traditionally been NSF’s ability to fund the best science.”
This post is about biologists' obligation to speak up for trans rights, in case I need to spell it out directly.
Great thread, worth the read in its entirety
New preprint alert! 🦠🔬
We quantitatively evaluated the swimming and flagellar movement of Chattonella, a red-tide alga.
Chattonella has two unequal flagella, and we found a positive correlation between anterior flagellum length and swimming speed. #protistonsky
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Fun find in the free library at work: Greg's Microscope. Never knew this existed. Warms my heart to see some ciliates in a children's book.
I forgive them for referring to protists as animals...
Students & postdocs 👉 Apply by April 16 for our Theoretical Biophysics workshop. Topics include active matter, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, development, behavior, evolution + more.
✈️ Meals, hotel & reasonable travel covered
🔗 janelia.news/THB26
@allysonsgro.bsky.social @zamakany.bsky.social
Thrilled to share that the first part of my PhD work from @cohenlaboratory.bsky.social lab is now on bioRxiv! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Check out the threads below:
Does tubulin acetylation dictate organelle behavior? We used quantitative multispectral imaging to simultaneously profile 8 membrane-bound organelles and decipher how tubulin acetylation shapes organelle architecture and interaction networks during neuronal differentiation. 4/9
During #NeuronalDifferentiation, #organelles dramatically reorganize. #Microtubules are essential tracks for transport. But are they just highways, or can they instruct organelle behavior? Are tubulin modifications a regulatory code that guides organelle position or function? 1/9
"The most uncomfortable part for me is that I no longer think that scientific research will resolve the crises that we face."
"I keep doing research not because I think it will save us, but because it would be a form of surrender to stop seeking understanding."
To me the chatbots pose zero interesting questions about the ‘nature of selfhood’ but dozens about the nature of manipulation. Here the Claude team pretends they are programming the robot for ethical responses but they land on one that is false and disingenuous.
In recognition of International Day of Women and Girls in Science, @plosone.org brings together perspectives from Section Editors and an insightful conversation with @clairebrockett.bsky.social from @sheffielduni.bsky.social on why inclusion matters ⬇️
#IDWGS2026 #WomenInScience
Aa foretold by the prophecy
