Caging of membrane-to-cortex attachment proteins can trigger cellular symmetry breaking biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_biophys

New Preprint! How can cells polarize in the absence of a stimulus? We suggest a surprising biophysical mechanism, protein caging! We reveal how the complex mechanical interactions at the cell surface lead to symmetry breaking. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

RT appreciated: My lab is recruiting several Ph.D.s and Postdocs excited to build synthetic cells that undergo Darwinian evolution. The backgrounds that we need for include biochemistry, synthetic biology, and systems chemistry. Details: boekhovenlab.com/openings/

Check out our new preprint where we show that cell shape noise facilitates shape transitions! It was a heroic project led by @WolframPonisch (theory) and Iskra Yanakieva (experiments) and a great collaboration with Guillaume Salbreux Summary in Wolfram’s thread biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Registrations are open for the Qlife Quantitative Biology spring school on Cell Dynamics in Developmental System March 3-April 04 2025. Great line of talks, lectures and hands-on practicals on omics, image analysis, modeling and inference: shorturl.at/Ygthh

Conference Alert🚨 16-21 Feb 2025 From Soft Matter to Biophysics @ Les Houches FR t.ly/GXhPL Apply by Dec 15 to explore the latest in soft matter & biophysics, focusing on functional materials & synthetic biology! Karen Alim Karin Jacobs Martin Lenz @HerveTurlier

TheoBiophysics is looking for collaborators! Become an editor and share with us the passion for science! We are looking for helpers on the podcast, content creators, and new initiatives. DM us! sites.google.com/view/theoretic…

Did you know there are more than bilayer #membranes in nature? Meet the #archaeal monolayer and its surprising mechanical properties! New #preprint! (1/7)

High-resolution snapshots of the talin auto-inhibitory states suggest roles in cell adhesion and signaling doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

🚨 Great alternatives to BioRender are now available!! 📢 NIAID News offers a collection of public figures and icons for everyone to use. Check it out at bioart.niaid.nih.gov

For night 28 of #31NightsOfHalloween #MicrosCreepy, IT'S ALIVE! These are reanimated cell "ghosts," which are cells that have had their membranes/cytoplasm washed away, leaving the cytoskeleton behind. Adding ATP activates myosin motors, which causes contraction!

Excited to share that our story on apolipoprotein control of cross-presentation is now published in Science Immunology and can be found here science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Congrats first authors Gerone Gonzales , Liam Wilkinson and Song Huang, as well as Cassie Wood and xless authors too. 😊

Honoured to make the cover of The EMBO Journal with our ERM story. 😍

Join us next week for another exciting session of the Physical Properties of the Cytoplasm Seminar with Dr. Matthieu Piel. For more info, visit cytophys.org

Galaxy in a drop of water

Apply for your funded early-career researcher place at our Workshop on “Mechanometabolism Unleashed: The Interface of Cell Mechanics and Metabolism” where you can listen to our recent research on mechanometabolism. Apply by 13 Dec at biologists.com/workshops/june… #BiologistsWorkshops

My friends, let's make science, knowledge, and enlightenment great again! Come to the blue side of the Force!

A novel method for imaging glutamate receptors in situ via #CryoET. elifesciences.org/articles/98458…

PhD position available between Loic Dupré's lab and our lab in Toulouse, France ! Cytotoxic immunological synapse ☠️💋+ fancy microscopy 🤖🔬+ cell mechanics 🦾 = 😍 More information here: sbcf.fr/wp-content/upl… Please spread the word 🙏