And please say hi to Maya Moody (GF talk), Caleb Rux (AFM talk) @science_rux , and Brady Hislop Brady Hislop. First ORS for Maya and Caleb!

#tweetthetib Hey Dr. Chelsea Heveran, it’s going tibia okay. #ORS2022

We are looking for a research technician to join our lab at UC San Francisco! Come do research with us, and help manage our lab. We are a cell biology and biophysics lab working on the mechanics of cell division. Please share and RT. You can apply here: aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF03844

Interested in the mechanics of insect flight? My excellent collaborator Mark Jankauski is hiring Mechanical Engineering PhD students at Montana State University. Come join an exciting project in a super supportive and fun lab. Also - Bozeman is beautiful! RTs appreciated.

Our lab UC San Francisco is currently recruiting a postdoc! We work on the self-organization and mechanics underlying cell division, somewhere between cell biology & biophysics. Come join us! We will all be at ASCB if you want to chat there. Please RT.

📢Not to miss - MONDAY, 4/17 at 12:00pm PT📢 UC San Francisco #CCMBM and Health Innovation via Engineering (HIVE) hosts Dr. Chelsea Heveran of MSU Engineering, who will give a lecture on recent advances in #bonebiology, #biomechanics, and #ELMs! 📢📢Register at bit.ly/HIVEAPRIL to receive Zoom details.

Excited to share our work out in eLife - the journal. What do spindle poles do? We make barrel-shaped, pole-less spindles and ask what the mammalian spindle can and cannot do without spindle poles. Congrats Manuela Richter manuela and all authors!!! elifesciences.org/articles/85208

Interested in engineering more sustainable building materials using living microorganisms? Ph.D. student positions open at the Heveran Lab at Montana State University. Please email to inquire ([email protected]).

Excited to share a preprint! We find that chromosome size-dependent spindle forces impair mammalian mitotic error correction of long chromosomes. Congrats to graduate student Megan K Chong who led this work! With Miquel miquel rosas salvans and Vanna Tran. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our lab is exicted to be at American Society for Cell Biology #cellbio2023 in Boston. Come check out what we've been up to! C3STC

Congratulations to graduate student Megan K Chong from our lab who received a UCSF Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring! Megan is an inspiring mentor to many in our lab and out. And congrats to all other awardees! Graduate Division

🎉 Super excited to announce that registration is now open for the 2024 Bay Area Cytoskeleton Symposium on May 13 at UC Berkeley! 🎉 Keynotes from Eva Nogales & @itsthewoolab, and trainee talks from selected abstracts! Register now! tinyurl.com/BACS2024

In Journal of Cell Biology, Megan K Chong @RosasSalvan Vanna Tran & Sophie Dumont show that chromosomes biorient and correct errors with varying efficiencies. Chromosome size and the spindle forces that scale with size determine error correction efficiency. hubs.ly/Q02wQkQv0 #CellDivision

Excited to share our work Journal of Cell Biology! We find that chromosome size-dependent spindle forces impair mammalian mitotic error correction of long chromosomes. Congrats to graduate student Megan K Chong who led this work! With Miquel miquel rosas salvans Vanna Tran rupress.org/jcb/article/22…

Excited to share our work Journal of Cell Biology! We find that torques within and outside the spindle oppose each other to limit spindle twist during anaphase. Congrats to Lila Neahring who led the work! Thanks to Nathan Cho, Caleb Rux, Ahmet Yildiz, Upadhyayula and Subramanian Labs.

Nominate a colleague or yourself to speak at the Motility & Cytoskeleton Subgroup at the 2025 Biophysical Society Meeting! Radhika Subramanian and I are organizing the subgroup and looking for nominations by July 8th: forms.gle/i3AMosmEugx2cn….

Excited to share a preprint! We find that SKAP's binding to microtubules *reduces* friction at the kinetochore-microtubule interface and increases attachment stability under force. Congrats to postdoc Miquel miquel rosas salvans and all authors! With Caleb Rux and Moumita Das.

2x Preprint drop!!! Mitochondrial pearling has arrived! “The Biophysical Mechanism of Mitochondrial Pearling”. “Pearling Drives Mitochondrial DNA Nucleoid Distribution” 1/10 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share our work out in Current Biology ! We find that SKAP's binding to microtubules *reduces* friction at the kinetochore-microtubule interface and increases attachment stability under force. Congrats to postdoc Miquel miquel rosas salvans and all authors! With Caleb Rux

Mechanical force locally damages, remodels and stabilizes the lattice of spindle microtubules biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_cellbio