Cilia and cell motility enthusiast, basal cognition, weird organisms esp protists and larvae, how do living systems compute?
Professor of Cellular & Biophysical Dynamics, Living Systems Institute, Exeter (past: DAMTP, Cambridge)
www.micromotility.com
Kirsty Wan
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Made it to Leeds for the annual @ukcilianetwork.bsky.social meeting! Great opening talk by @helenfoster.bsky.social on how ciliary axonemes are assembled!! #cilia
I've been just a wee bit swamped and so haven't managed to bleet/skeet about a few preprints we've posted lately. Will do soon. But in the meantime, please check them out. Lab's been on a tear!
#cilia #thermosensory
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Basal bodies (BBs) are what eventually become motile cilia. So, if they don't get positioned correctly on the apical surface, the whole tissue-level function can go wrong → ciliopathies. We know actin is involved… but how does it actually control this process? 🤔 (3/17)
And now it's out! Happy that PNAS selected for the cover this SEM image snapped by @samjlord.bsky.social, one of the most evocative visualizations of Euplotes that I have ever encountered.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Stay tuned for what is shaping up to be some fascinating follow-up in the lab...
Thank you very much to Prof Joe Howard, Yale University for his fantastic talk at the LSI Distinguished Seminar Series on “How molecular motors drive the motility of cilia and flagella”. @micromotility.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk
ECRs - there is one month left to apply for a funded place at our Workshop on Rethinking Cell Differentiation and Development: A Unicellular Perspective, organised by Elena Casacuberta & James Gahan jgahan.bsky.social
More at biologists.com/workshops/de... #BiologistsWorkshops
Deadline: 12 June
Classical conditioning of a mathmo:
*Sees epsilon
*Expands for epsilon <<1
Happy #MicroscopyMonday!
Confocal image of a Schistosoma mansoni miracidium larva with alpha-tubulin stained cilia in green and nuclei in magenta.
Imaged by Sarah Kerr and Karel Mocaer in the Nikon Imaging Center at Heidelberg University.
We are very pleased to announce Prof. Paul Guichard and Dr. Virginie Hamel @centriolelab.bsky.social as joint winners of the RMS Award for Light Microscopy 🔬 👏 🏅
Huge congratulations to both!
Read more about Paul and Virginie's achievements: www.rms.org.uk/resource/pro...
www.biorxiv.org
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Kirsty Wan
Piali Sengupta
kuba sędziński
Ben Larson
LSI-Exeter
The Company of Biologists
Kirsty Wan
Marine Biological Laboratory
Royal Microscopical Society
New #preprint: "Travelling waves of invasion in microbial communities with phenotypic switching"
arxiv.org/abs/2605.10420
(I saw ε and expanded for ε ≪ 1 and a brilliant intern, Diego Manso Anda, realised that there was no need to.)
@mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social
What could be more exciting than watching Euplotes scurry around under the microscope? How about adding some raptorial predation by supergiant cannibal cells?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Video by Vittorio Boscaro.
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Pierre Haas
Ben Larson
We still have a few places to register for our
"Heidelberg Wild Thinking Workshop - The organism, its self and its environment: from philosophy to physics." 19-20 May 2026, Heidelberg
https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/wild-thinking-workshop-1 […]
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