Our latest work on #actin assembly is now online Science Magazine!

We show how #formins bind and move with the growing barbed end of F-actin.

Awesome collab. between Stefan Raunser and Bieling labs MPI Dortmund, and big thanks to co-first author Micaela Boiero Sanders

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Happy to share my recent Current Opinion in Cell Biology Elsevier CellBiology
What is liver zonation? How do hepatocytes organize their activities in the tissue? And what does cell-cell communication and gradients have to do with it?
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Breaking news! Molecular Biology of the Cell #MBoC now guarantees that manuscripts submitted by American Society for Cell Biology members will be sent for review! MBoC offers fair and speedy review by scientific experts! Submit your next paper and support American Society for Cell Biology

We’ll be in Boston for #cellbio2023 ! We’ve got a bunch of posters and a talk this year and tons of cool data we’re excited to tell everyone about. Come check them out and see what we’ve been up to!

Wrapping up the week by visualizing the crazy axonal growth of dorsal root ganglia neurons in vitro using the SPY650-FastAct probe from Spirochrome! 🤩 Capturing one image every 10 minutes.

Thrilled to share the lineup of our #CellBio2023 #SciArt subgroup! Don't miss the opportunity to see some amazing talks by David S. Goodsell 🏳️‍🌈 Gaia Pigino Helena Jambor is gone elsewhere. mol mir Leonora Martínez Nuñez, PhD Mary O'Reilly B. Duygu Özpolat, Ph.D. Alex Ritter, PhD Bryan Welm Melanie Stegman, Ph.D.🦠 @melzy.bsky.social, Thao Do & Christopher Prinz!

📢 @Rodallab and I are excited to share our new findings on @BioRxiv, biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Take-home: Using improved live imaging🔬of actin markers, we found that non-muscle myosin II regulates a novel presynaptic actin assembly important for neuronal mechanobiology. 👇🧵1/12

📢New publication in Journal of Cell Biology!

Our review on 'Mechanisms of actin disassembly and turnover' just out in JCellBiol!

Written jointly with one and only Bruce Goode!
Emory University Emory College Brandeis University
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Come join us American Society for Cell Biology meeting in DC where Meng-meng Fu and me will run a session. This meeting is the very best for cell biologists, and where I first met Christophe Leterrier by chance (details vary but some facts here): crosstalk.cell.com/blog/there-is-…

Y'all need more cochlea in your timelines. I typically favor stereocilia, but we have been spending lots of effort improving our imaging of these beautiful synaptic structures. This was captured and rendered using the Oxford Instruments BC43 then rendered with Imaris 3D/4D Imaging.

UPDATED: our database of POSTDOC fellowships in neurology, neuroscience, cog. sci., neuro-engineering.

For each of the 27 fellowships, we provide description, link, deadline, amount, and eligibility criteria (citizenship).

Download this database here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-op…

🚀Join Garcia-Mata Lab Rafael Garcia-Mata, PhD as he discusses techniques to study epithelial cell architecture in 2D & 3D.
🚀Learn how #molecular mechanisms regulate the formation of adherens junction and tight junctions in #epithelial cells.
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#STELLARIS

A kinesin binding to actin and boosting its polymerization 😯🤨 ? Silencing showed a clear effect on the position of the centrosome 🤩 and the shape of protrusions at the front of migrating neurons.
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Our latest preprint is up! Ever wonder about the mechanics of immune cell migration? Come check out our new work from postdoc Caillier Alexia:

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From network analysis to experimental validation: identification of regulators of non-muscle myosin II contractility using the folded-gastrulation signaling pathway | BMC Molecular and Cell Biology. bmcmolcellbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Imaging people assemble! Send us some cool papers!

Very excited by this new adventure.

Our work on the nanoscale organization of presynaptic actin got the October 2023 cover. It's here on the glossy paper of JCellBiol! This is the best thing ever 🪩

The only thing missing from Mark Peifer's awesome recap of the Cytoskeleton Meeting meeting was a description of his talk: presented simply enough to be accessible to a freshman biology student, yet also exciting to cytoskeleton vets with decades of experience. An inspiration!