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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
Starting to write up the first mechanistic paper from my lab about regulation of endosomal PI(3)P. We see retromer tubules (Vps35) budding from PI(3)P positive sorting endosomes with Actin at the neck. When PI(3)P homeostasis is perturbed this organisation breaks down and cells cant recycle cargo.
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Cilia and Centrosome 2026 Meeting Update: We have extended the abstract deadline until June 23! Submit yours today to join a fantastic scientific program!
Hannes Maib
Sarah Goetz
The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes:
🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting
🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)
Vertebrate #Hedgehog signaling is transduced by transmembrane protein Smoothened (SMO) on the primary #cilium, but what is its mechanism? @reitergroup.bsky.social &co show that SMO & ciliary GPCRs regulate ciliary PKA activity to activate the Hedgehog pathway @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4v7vdnp
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It won’t take you years to publish your work in JCS: most articles go from submission to acceptance in under 5 months. We also show a strong commitment at first decision, with over 95% of revisions being accepted.
Find out more:
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Reese Richardson
PLOS Biology
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?
If you need another reason to use proteomics to quantify proteins rather than Western Blot:
Microtubules (green) fighting retrograde actin flow (magenta) in a neuronal growth cone videoed through a TIRF microscope. #CellBiology
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Journal of Cell Science
The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes:
🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting
🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)
Pablo J. Sáez
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Reese Richardson
Henry De Belly
Dylan Burnette
Matthias Trost
There are lots of exciting opportunities to join the in situ structural biology community at Leeds this Autumn - 2 studentships in the Cheney PhD program (astbury.leeds.ac.uk/cheney-phd/) and I am recruiting a PhD student and research assistant. Please share and send any future tomographers our way!
Applications are open for 2 PhD student places. Closing date for applications is Thursday 26 June, 5pm. Interviews will be held on 9th July 2026. The Cheney Scholarship is a prestigious 4-year PhD pr...
