We're now accepting proposals for our 2026 #BiologistsWorkshops programme. We aim to be responsive to the community and open to novel initiatives, so if you have an idea that you feel would work well, please apply by 19 July 2024.
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Anne Rosfelter, Hervé Turlier, David Burgess, Alex McDougall @ascidianbiocell and colleagues find that reducing cortical pulling at mitotic entry facilitates aster centration.
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This is so cool! Synthetic G protein-coupled receptors for programmable sensing and control of cell behavior biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Interrogating Matrix Stiffness and Metabolomics in Pancreatic Ductal Carcinoma Using an Openable Microfluidic Tumor-on-a-Chip | ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.102…

Cosimo Commisso

Attention #actin Fans! Have a look at the #Free Access paper from Douglas Robinson's Lab Johns Hopkins Medicine. Benefits and challenges of reconstituting the actin cortex, in CYTOSKELETON Cytoskeleton Journal. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… #cell #cell biology #science #cytoskeleton #Biology

Slow kinesin-dependent microtubular transport facilitates ribbon synapse assembly in developing cochlear inner hair cells biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Conditional nmy-1 and nmy-2 alleles establish that non-muscle myosins are required for late C. elegans embryonic elongation biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Probing actin‐activated ATP turnover kinetics of human cardiac myosin II by single molecule fluorescence
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We made it !
Fantastic talk by Dr. Samantha Stehbens PhD showing the work of #RobertJu

All things for MTs, CLASPs and nuclear protection during confinement.

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#CellMig2024 #BSCB24 #BiochemEvent FocalPlane

J. R. Davis, et al., Monolayer force generation and transmission is dictated by focal adhesion distribution. bioRxiv, 2024.04.10.588783 (2024). biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Sign up now for #SciCommConnect , our interactive workshop on science communication with the Node and preLights.
We’ll hear from scicomm experts Dr Jamie Gallagher & John Wallingford and work on your skills with our short talk competition & our writing sprints.
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TAM receptors control actomyosin dynamics in osteoclasts via RHOA-COFILIN-MYOSIN II signaling biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

the new '-taxis' the field needed!

Frictiotaxis underlies adhesion-independent durotaxis biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Spatially resolved proteomics of the Arabidopsis stomatal lineage identifies polarity complexes for cell divisions and stomatal pores Developmental Cell from Dominique Bergmann's lab.

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KIF2C-induced nuclear condensation concentrates PLK1 and phosphorylated BRCA2 at the kinetochore microtubules in mitosis biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_cellbio

Actin polymerization counteracts prewetting of N-WASP on supported lipid bilayers biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_biophys

Attending #BioChemEvent this week? Visit The Company of Biologists booth to pick up some of our free goodies and find out about joining the FocalPlane Network, an international directory for researchers with #microscopy expertise.
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BSCB Biochemical Society

Our latest review is out!! 'Macropinocytosis at the crossroad between nutrient scavenging and metabolism in cancer' Molecular and Cellular Biology Science at Sheffield Sheffield Cancer Research
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The microtubule regulator EFA-6 forms spatially restricted cortical foci dependent on its intrinsically disordered region and ... biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_cellbio

This is cool as hell