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🚨⚠️🔬 Do you work with cells? Do you care about what their interior "feels" like? Rikki Garner and I are organizing a session about the "Physical Biology of the Cytoplasm" for the second time at American Society for Cell Biology #cellbio2023 The abstract deadline is August 1st!

We, the Loyola University Chicago postdocs, call for an urgent raise in compensation. We addressed this open letter to President Reed on May 22nd: drive.google.com/file/d/1Ujhw7N… 1/10

It’s been 7 days since our letter to Loyola University Chicago‘s president went public. We are advocating for fair and competitive pay for all Loyola’s postdocs. PIs are discussing it, but we’ve yet to hear from the administration. We’re waiting, and the scientific community is watching!

Thank you to all our colleagues for the amazing work you do! Without you, graduate students DON'T get degrees, papers DON'T get published, grants DON'T get funded, and PIs DON'T get tenure. Let’s hope Loyola University Chicago come to their senses and pay us a fair wage!

Excited to have my recent work on #bioRxiv. We identified cis-regulatory elements of Plp and the interact PCM scaffold are important for Plp mRNA localization at centrosomes. 🙌A team work from Weiyi (Rose) Tian Melissa Quintanilla Jordan Beach LeritLab. 🙌 biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Quintanilla (Melissa Quintanilla), Oakes (Patrick Oakes), Beach (Jordan Beach) and colleagues Loyola University Chicago demonstrate subcellular biophysical mechanisms that enable myosin 2 filament assembly. hubs.ly/Q02l3klJ0 Matthew Akamatsu @Coronin @taraskalab #Biophysics #Cytoskeleton

In Journal of Cell Biology, Quintanilla (Melissa Quintanilla), Oakes (Patrick Oakes), Beach (Jordan Beach) and colleagues Loyola University Chicago demonstrate subcellular biophysical mechanisms that enable myosin 2 filament assembly. hubs.la/Q02l48n70 Matthew Akamatsu @Coronin @taraskalab #Cytoskeleton

Actin retrograde flow in the lamellapodia of a stage one neuron. Happy #FluorescenceFriday !

Spotlight: Gurley and Peifer Mark Peifer UNC Lineberger highlight work from Quintanilla et al. (hubs.la/Q02mHCjr0) that reveals how the local biophysical environment regulates assembly of #myosin filaments. hubs.la/Q02mHJNy0 Melissa Quintanilla Patrick Oakes Jordan Beach

The same molecular machines powering a gymnast drive the remarkable cell shape changes & cell migration events of development . Myosin motor proteins walking on actin filaments rearrange the cytoskeleton and via linkage to cell–cell & cell–matrix junctions, alter cell shape 1/n

Our April cover ➡️ hubs.la/Q02r6l130 shows overlayed temporal projection of actomyosin dynamics in the leading edge of migrating mouse embryonic fibroblast expressing EGFP-non-muscle myosin & mScarlet F-Tractin. From Melissa Quintanilla, Jordan Beach et al. hubs.la/Q02r6jGp0