Jonna Alanko Turun yliopisto - University of Turku I warmly recommend Jonna and her new lab at TurkuBioscience Turun yliopisto - University of Turku You will not only be working with a magnificent PI but also in an environment with a great critical mass for imaging and cell migration enthusiasts Guillaume Jacquemet Turku BioImaging Ivaska Lab

New #preprint: "(Un)buckling mechanics of epithelial monolayers under compression" at arxiv.org/abs/2409.07928, the first paper from the #PhD work of Chandraniva Guha Ray. MPI-PKS Dresden MPI-CBG Dresden Center for Systems Biology Dresden

A kind reminder for you, an excellent scientist looking for an outstanding postdoctoral fellow 🤓. The excellence postdoc position offered by Physics of Life Dresden is accepting applications until 01/11. Send us yours! 🤩

📢 IgNobel prize for active matter! The physics of drunk worms! 🪱

CryoEM Reconstruction of Yeast ADP-Actin Filament at 2.5 Angstrom resolution. A comparison with mammalian and avian F-actin. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

amazing!

Non-Muscle Myosin II A: Friend or Foe in Cancer? mdpi.com/2935602 #mdpiijms

Come be my colleague!

'Mitotic' kinesin-5 is a dynamic brake for axonal growth biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Human NLRP3 inflammasome activation leads to formation of condensate at the microtubule organizing center biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

great set of talks!

Characterizing human KIF1Bß motor activity by single-molecule motility assays and Caenorhabtidis elegans genetics journals.biologists.com/jcs/article-ab…

microcracks in actin! very interesting work indeed.

How do integrins and paxillin interact at #FocalAdhesions? This study presents a 3D structure of the LIM3 domain of #paxillin, revealing a direct association between paxillin and the cytoplasmic tail of the #integrin beta subunit #PLOSBiology plos.io/3TrtFUw

Next Mon 9/23! UPenn Physiology & PennMuscle Seminar Speaker: Dr. Janis Burkhardt (Penn/CHOP) Title: "Mechanical control of T cell responses" Cookies & coffee @ 2:45pm / Talk @ 3pm in CRB Austrian *Trainees - if you want to join lunch with the speaker, please email Linda*

Microtubules coordinate mitochondria transport with myofibril morphogenesis during muscle development biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

PIP5K-Ras bistability initiates plasma membrane symmetry breaking to regulate cell polarity and migration biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Qian, W., Yamaguchi, N., Lis, P., Cammer, M., & Knaut, H. (2024). Pulses of RhoA signaling stimulate actin polymerization and flow in protrusions to drive collective cell migration. Current Biology, 34(2), 245-259. #EpithelialMechanics cell.com/current-biolog…

J. Liu, et al., Light-induced cortical excitability reveals programmable shape dynamics in starfish oocytes. arXiv [physics.bio-ph] (2024). arxiv.org/abs/2409.08651

Very septin-centric editorial board, looking forward to this issue :)