Very nice to see this work on regulation of kinesin-1 in dual motor RNPs published: rdcu.be/dxpGR This was the result of a very enjoyable and productive collaboration with Simone Heber, Anne Ephrussi and colleagues.

Excited to share I've received the Mightex Application Note Award-2023! Gratitude to Mightex for selecting my work, my mentor & photoconversion expert Vladimir Gelfand for guidance. Thanks to Department of Cell & Developmental Biology Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine Nikon Instruments for their support. mightexbio.com/visualizing-vi…

What an exciting lineup 🤩for this Friday's Chicago Cytoskeleton Meeting! Join us for great science talks, followed by a poster session! 👩‍💻🧬

This conference HHMI | Janelia will bring together experts from various disciplines to share their research and discuss unresolved questions in the field of cellular polarity—an essential feature of tissue & organ formation Learn more & apply by May 2 @ janelia.news/POL24

Elly Tanaka will be IMBA’s new Scientific Director, heading the institute from April 2024 onwards. Elly Tanaka is a renowned researcher, who studies the regeneration of complex body parts. Welcome, Elly!

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Ertugrul Ozbudak will join the Cell & Developmental Biology Department at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine! feinberg.northwestern.edu/sites/cdb/facu…

Hoang Anh Le (aka Anh), PhD 🏳️‍🌈 Massimo Also, kinesin-1 can use another MT as a cargo, hence sliding two MT along each other. This effect usually plays a major role in regulation of cell morphology and overall 3D organization.

Chicago Cytoskeleton meeting is Friday April 19 at 3 pm featuring the keynote talk by Dan Fletcher (UC Berkeley). See you there! Please RT.

New research from Flatiron Institute researchers reveals the source of the mysterious swirling flows in some of nature’s largest cells, published in the April issue of Nature Physics. Read more: simonsfoundation.org/2024/04/17/res… #biology #FlatironCCB Michael Shelley Sayantan Dutta Reza Farhadifar

Excited to share our new preprint with Bhuvan | புவனசுந்தர் and Vladimir Gelfand! 🎉 Using a sparse vimentin SunTag labeling strategy and 3D FIB-SEM reconstructions, we do a deep dive on vimentin IF dynamics and nanoscale organization in cells. #CellBiology biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Great work from amazing postdoc Enzo Bresteau and a wonderful collaboration with Woolner Lab and Oliver Jensen. We show that apical size reduction by macropinocytosis can work to alleviate tissue crowding biorxiv.org/content/10.110….

Love making proteins and using microscopes? Interested in figuring out how molecular motors transport cargoes and organise microtubules? Join us as a postdoc. Apply here: t.ly/yHCZz

EB-SUN, a New Microtubule Plus-End Tracking Protein in Drosophila. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… A new microtubule plus-end binding protein enriched in Drosophila oocytes. It was discovered and studied by graduate student Sun Kim in collaboration with Steve Rogers from UNC.

Microtubules coordinate mitochondria transport with myofibril morphogenesis during muscle development biorxiv.org/content/10.110…