Thanks to Paula Esquivias we now have an almost complete #MotorsInQuarantine schedule for the coming months. See here for details and sign-up: mechanochemistry.org/whatson/MiQ/ Huge thanks also to our sponsors J Cell Science Cells MDPI BSCB who keep MiQ free to attend for all.

Very excited to be presenting our lab's work tomorrow at #MotorsInQuarantine and thanks to Anne Straube (annestraube.bsky.social) for juggling multiple events to make it happen!

Thrilled that our latest work is now online at Current Biology here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1cueD3QW8Rwn… We show that crosslinked microtubule networks subject to motor-driven sliding loads can operate via two distinct mechanical pathways, which could impact mitotic spindle stability.

The mid-late tenure track space is particularly challenging right now. A big issue is gaining the national recognition and letter writers required for tenure. This last 1.5yrs has shut down many opportunities with only a 1yr extension to make up for it. 1/n

Show support for Children's Place at the Plaza by liking, commenting & RTing this post. It’s part of our 30th Anniversary Social Media Giveaway. Help your favorite groups receive up to $2k. Children's Place is an early childhood center for a diverse community of families. #GTM30

The mechanochemical origins of the microtubule sliding motility within the kinesin-5 domain organization biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv

I'm excited to share our latest preprint on how kinesin-5's unique tetramerization and tail domains enable it to crosslink and slide microtubules. Congrats to collaborators Jawdat Al-Bassam, Scott Forth, Gary Brouhard, and Steve Rosenfeld, and especially to Malina Iwanski!

In the hope of understanding the cellular mechanisms linked to cancer, a major health challenge worldwide, a research team is melding biology, physics, and math: bit.ly/3OTGGRu.

Learn from Jacob Palumbo, Ellinor Tai and Scott Forth of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute how to directly measure forces within reconstituted active microtubule bundles. Watch on JoVE: hubs.ly/Q01zKD-20 Scott Forth #nanoscale #microtubules

The bacon is flowing with @DrJennyRoss and Scott Forth. Excited for Scott’s talk tomorrow at 11 in Physics!

Powering through BAMM 2023 with a talk by Scott Forth discussing his lab’s work on mechanics of the mitotic spindle! #BAMM #Meiosis #Mitosis ⁦Kabeche Lab⁩

It’s a wrap! Wonderful day of cell division biology at BAMM 2023 ⁦. Thank you to all participants for making it such a fun and successful meeting, as well as fantastic co-organizers Lily Kabeche ⁦Kabeche Lab⁩ and Dan Needleman, and our lab members. #BAMM #Meiosis #Mitosis

Such an honor to be invited to speak at BAMM 2023, a fantastic meeting all around. Thanks Binyam, Lily, and Dan for putting together a wonderful day of science.

I’m thrilled to announce that our lab has received our first R01! Thank you to all lab members whose hard work made this possible, and to the NIH @NIGMS for the support. Here’s to a few more years of poking at microtubule networks with lasers!

Come join our fantastic department at RPI! We currently have a new search for an Open Rank Faculty Position in Cell Biology - please feel free to DM with questions, and share widely! careers.rpi.edu/en-us/job/4941…

Big news... We are hiring! Open rank faculty position in Cell Biology, more information linked below. We can't wait to welcome you to our department of incredible faculty and exciting research! careers.rpi.edu/en-us/job/4941…

One week till we start to review applications for the open position in the Biological Sciences at RPI! I look forward to seeing all the amazing candidates! Apply here: careers.rpi.edu/en-us/job/4941…

The annual American Society for Cell Biology #cellbio2023 meeting calls for a lab reunion! It was great to see many former lab members at the meeting, where we caught up for a fun dinner! Scott Forth Kuo-Chiang Hsia Rudolf Pisa Shih-Chieh (Jeff) Ti Zhen Chen

From MBoC Insights into the role of phosphorylation on microtubule cross-linking by PRC1, by Scott Forth, @RPI, et al. molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/mb… #ASCB #CellBiology