You're watching a leptocephalus ("slim-head"), the larval stage of an eel. Wait for the unrolling!
You can see why early naturalists thought they were their own species, but this little guy will grow up into an adult eel, if he manages to stay concealed.
(📷: Robert Stansfield, Blackwater Cozumel)
Cool Myosin zipper!
Imaged on our omniOPM system.
#FlourescenceFriday
HySIL / pLSM-SCOPE / SLICE work out now in Nature Biotechnology (open article)!
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Reto Fiolka
a small attempt to capture this enormous loss and what Greg meant and means to so many.
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
"Humbled to receive this recognition. This belongs as much to my team, my family, & to my home, Palestine: the people, the place, the joyful stubbornness to enjoy life."
Cheers buddy @gautamdey.bsky.social
Thx to my mentors @sophiemartinlab.bsky.social, @paveltomancak.bsky.social, & Pierre Gönczy.
Thrilled to be joining the ZMBH, where my lab will continue to explore the evolution and engineering of living membranes. Farewell @bcube-tud.bsky.social...I couldn't imagine a better place to have started my lab! I'm perpetually grateful to my lab group for making this such a successful adventure!!
Gregory J. Hannon passed away in April 2026 at the age of 61. A towering figure in
modern molecular biology, Greg influenced remarkably diverse areas of science. His
work reshaped our understanding of...
Congratulations to Gautam Dey (EMBL) and Omaya Dudin (University of Geneva) for being awarded the EMBO Gold Medal 2026 in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the #LifeSciences in Europe! 🧪 https://www.embo.org/press-releases/embo-gold-medal-2026-awarded-to-gautam-dey-and-omaya-dudin/
EMBO
This will be on 26 June in Paris! 🤩You are welcome to join and participate in this exciting 1-day conference at the College de France on Biological computational accross areas of biology. Fantastic speakers.
Free, no registration, at the heart of Paris on a lovely season. Worth planning a weekend…?
Science really takes a village. Thrilled to share this with my friend @dudinlab.bsky.social, and with our brilliant and fearless teams, our collaborators around the world and our mentors - in my case a special shoutout to Buzz Baum, Jan Ellenberg and @monicabettencourt.bsky.social.
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Julius Brennecke
Two great scientists and humans, whose collaboration shows what it’s like to do science as a positive-sum game. Wonderful news for evolutionary cell biology and for you two @dudinlab.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social! 👏
Happy to share our perspective on Mechanobiology across scales! This started as a stimulating discussions at the N4M conference, Camogli 2 years ago and culminated through lots of discussions, edits and co-working!Special thanks to Daniel Müller and his lab for coordinating and driving this work 🍾📣
Omaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦
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James Saenz
Gautam Dey
Hybrid solid−liquid optics enable scalable, high-resolution light-sheet microscopy across diverse immersion media - @rtomer.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social go.nature.com/4xdDkQR
Congratulations to Gautam Dey (EMBL) and Omaya Dudin (University of Geneva) for being awarded the EMBO Gold Medal 2026 in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the #LifeSciences in Europe! 🧪 https://www.embo.org/press-releases/embo-gold-medal-2026-awarded-to-gautam-dey-and-omaya-dudin/
The ZMBH welcomes Dr. James Sáenz @jamessaenz.bsky.social as new Professor in Molecular Biology. James previously led a research group at B CUBE - Center for Molecular Bioengineering of Dresden University of Technology.
Thomas Lecuit
Congratulations to Gautam Dey (EMBL) and Omaya Dudin (University of Geneva) for being awarded the EMBO Gold Medal 2026 in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the #LifeSciences in Europe! 🧪 https://www.embo.org/press-releases/embo-gold-medal-2026-awarded-to-gautam-dey-and-omaya-dudin/
Hybrid solid–liquid optics improve light-sheet imaging of intact biological samples.
Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 11 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02179-0The Perspective highlights key challenges in mechanobiology, including the need to engineer multicellular reference models, develop and refine biophysical methods to manipulate and quantify biomechanical properties across scales and establish theoretical frameworks to interpret complex mechanobiological phenomena.
Here is the announcement of a
Symposium @college-de-france.fr on 26 June on Information Flow and Computation in Biological systems. A great line of speakers on a variety of topics from embryogenesis to neuroscience, immunology and microbiology.
Free entrance, come if you are in Paris end of June 🤩
