Migrating on my own path. Cytoskeletal enthusiast with a love for mechanics, development, and biophysical approaches. | BWF CASI Fellow with Orion Weiner at UCSF | PhD Gardel lab at UChicago | HHMI Gilliam, Ford Predoctoral Fellow Alum |
Kate Cavanaugh
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Very excited to be sharing our new paper, just out in Nature Cell Biology!
The big question we investigate: How do migrating cells put their front 🔴 and back 🔵 in the right place?
1 week to start🔥
New @focalplane.bsky.social webinar series focused on #CellMigration, register & join us▶️, it will be fun!
pls spread the word, in the next one, ECRs could apply to show their work ;)
▶️ to register: focalplane.biologists.com/2026/05/29/n... @dgz.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social
Just heard @katecavanaugh.bsky.social present this very cool work that provides molecular insights into why older women have difficulty in getting pregnant, based on age dependent changes in embryo implantation (now in press at NCB) 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Excited to highlight a new preprint about mechanical contributions to tissue homeostasis, from the Manning group in collaboration with the amazing Carien Niessen and Sara Wickstrom @sarawickstrom.bsky.social labs, spearheaded by Dr. Somiealo Azote: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
John Wallingford
I’m happy to announce that I joined @umich.edu Department of Cell & Developmental Biology as an Assistant Professor and I will open my lab this month! My lab will investigate the genetic and cellular mechanisms underlying digestive and respiratory organs with a focus on the trachea and esophagus 1/2
Excited to share our new preprint exploring how Paramecium achieves diverse flow functions, i.e. feeding and swimming, simultaneously. This work was spearheaded by our ExM expert, PhD student Daphne Laan @daphnelaan.bsky.social :
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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...
How do proteins find their way to the cell's leading edge? @jimgalbraith27.bsky.social & @cathygalbraith.bsky.social break down how bleach line, FLOP, single-particle tracking, FCS & iPALM reveal intracellular fluid flow and an actin-myosin compartment barrier. doi.org/10.1038/s414...
This poses an intriguing question: how is cytoplasm robustly and accurately organized in absence of physical barriers, and how is cytoplasmic partitioning achieved within the constrained time window of rapid embryonic divisions? (2/9)
