this looks super useful! congrats :)

All you ever wanted to know about how to analyse the nematic nature of cellular tissues is right here 👀👇🏼!

Bonus #1: we did it for many cell types and uncovered unexpected defect behavior 🐌

Bonus #2: for theoreticians looking for parameter values for your simulation🧑🏼‍💻

tinyurl.com/2s399yen

What if you got to work with some of your best friends on a science project? I can't publish how fun this was, but I can show you the data (🧵)! Last week, we posted our second neutrophil swarming paper to bioRxiv and I wanted to post my favorite videos here~
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

There's an update of #EZreverse, it is much quicker and supports drag-and-drop
joachimgoedhart.github.io/EZreverse.html

Just published in @science.org 🚀

By controlling how cells align, we show that living nematic tissues can be programmed to generate forces and fold into predictable 3D shapes.

A new platform for tissue engineering and the design of smart active materials! 🫆

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Check out our new release on BioRxiv
co-lead by @pm-mueller.bsky.social

👉 rb.gy/lnrizk

special🙏 to
Severine Kunz #MDC
@leventallab.bsky.social
@andimicroscopy.bsky.social
@ewerslab.bsky.social and Kedar Narayan @NCI CCR VolumeEM

Are the days of discovering new cellular structures over?? /1

Image of a calcium calibration curve, calcium concentration traces of individual cells and lifetime images of cells

📣 New preprint alert! Co-authored by @spalaciosm.bsky.social and @andreacaldarola.bsky.social :
Quantitative imaging of calcium dynamics with a green fluorescent biosensor and fluorescence lifetime imaging
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

napari 0.7.0 is available now! 🚀🎉

It's a BIG release so read the full release notes, with highlights: https://napari.org/stable/release/release_0_7_0.html

We want to thank everyone who has worked incredibly hard on this release including our 11 new brilliant […]

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Briefly, after organ injury, 100 milliseconds, we detected collective changes in membrane potential at the tissue level. This is so far the earliest detected wound-response!! This electric signal sparks the formation of a tissue-wide calcium wave👇

So cool! Congrats! 🎉

PAPER OUT ✨ How can we make smart microscopy more interoperable? What are the technical and cultural challenges? 30+ people from academia and industry propose a roadmap: doi.org/10.1515/mim-... Also a review of applications and repo of implementations. Join the discussion! smartmicroscopy.github.io

Not something you see in textbooks very often: tripolar mitosis.

Hello epithelial mechanics fans!! I’m Juanma @juanmagararc.bsky.social 👋 I work on cell mechanics (see celldynamicslab.com) and use Flipper-TR FLIM to probe membrane biophysics in cells.

Join me on this tour about Flipper: what it measures, strengths, advice, cool case studies, and cute drawings!

ow noooo I missed it! :'(
will it be made available somewhere online? :)

Cow Tools!

We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them

It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS

Here I describe our study

(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social

Congrats this is really cool!!!

We just released a new major version of TrackMate (v8), the cell and organelle tracking plugin of Fiji.

It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:

Thank you Mathieu :))

Optimal disk packing of chloroplasts in plant cells | PNAS Photosynthesis is essential for ecosystem survival, but while plants require light, excessive exposure can damage cells. Chloroplasts, photosynthet...

Hot out of press!!!

Studying chloroplast organisation from the perspective of packing problems in confinement.
chloroplasts show multiple configurations for different purposes (optimal light uptake in dim light vs. light avoidance in strong light for photo protection)🌿

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is so cool! Congrats! :)
Definitely something to try out!

Just won the best poster award for our new work on Chloroplast Packing at the Dutch Biophysics meeting (NWO, BioPM). It was a great collab with Eric Weeks and @mazi1.bsky.social
The Paper is also accepted now, so double good news :)
Stay tuned!!

Of course!!! :)

The Bioluminescent garment is now in Kunsthal Rotterdam in the big Iris van Herpen exhibition
< SCULPTING THE SENSES >
www.kunsthal.nl/nl/plan-je-b...

Extremely happy to have been there at the premiere and opening!
I recommend everyone interested in science or fashion design to visit!!
🩵👗

Thank you so much! 😁😊

Beyond happy!
Yesterday I obtained my 🔥PhD🔥 cum laude🔥(highest award) with my work "On Light and Life - Physics of Chloroplast Motion and Bioluminescence"🌿✨

Thanks to so so so many people involved in the work and that have been a huge support to me during this time - especially @mazi1.bsky.social

Join my team for a PhD in Learning in living adaptive networks (Theory). Apply by October 7th through www.portal.graduatecenter.lmu.de/ocgc/qmb

Our science photo book The Radiant Sea is out Sept 2nd!!
30 years of research, 10 years of "we should", and a year of collating pix and writing.
Sönke and I show (mostly for the first time) images of how organisms produce, use, and interact with light in the sea. #bioluminescence #fluorescence 🦑🧪🌊

Upcoming Symposium!

Physics of Adaptation and Decision making in Biology!

When: September 16
Where: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Join us here: www.fluidlab.nl/padm25

Speakers:
Ray Goldstein, Sujit Datta, @thomasshimizu.bsky.social, @mirnakramar.bsky.social, @blarson.bsky.social, me

it was already fun to look around the documentation for cmap (cmap-docs.readthedocs.io)

but @grosoane.bsky.social just added a very cool feature to toggle between color vision deficiencies. Watch your perceptually uniform color maps gain some kinks 😂

as a mild deutan myself, I appreciate it! 🙏