Happy Friday, everyone! We are pleased to announce that we have revamped our departmental website. A new video has been added to the homepage too. Please, have a look! feinberg.northwestern.edu/sites/cdb/

Spindly, a dynein adaptor at the kinetochore, takes on a new role in the postmitotic neuron: it's required for determination of axonal microtubule polarity by recruiting dynein to cortical actin prelights.biologists.com/highlights/kin… 1st preLight by Mafalda Pimentel on work from Vladimir Gelfand

So happy to see our work finally published in PNAS: Kinetochore protein Spindly controls microtubule polarity in Drosophila axons pnas.org/content/early/…

Best put by our chair, Luisa Arispe, “change isn’t passive, it’s intentional, it requires purpose and perseverance”. CDB_NU fully supports #BLM and today we’re stepping away from science to reflect on how we can make meaningful changes to support this movement in STEM #ShutDownSTEM

Awesome Work from The Gelfand Lab Vladimir Gelfand and Urko del Castillo pushing the limits of Live Cell Imaging with the Nikon A1R #confocal and their Nikon W1 Live-SR #superresolution system! news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2020/07/protei… Nikon Microscope Solutions Department of Cell & Developmental Biology

Ataxin-2 is an essential gene in neurodevelopment. Check out the impresive work that Roz Norkett is presenting about Atx2 and its role in controlling neuronal cytoskeleton at American Society for Cell Biology

A new preprint from our lab, hard work by Urko del Castillo and Roz Norkett biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Ataxin-2 is essential for neurodevelopment. If you want to learn more have a look at our (Roz Norkett and Vladimir Gelfand ) new prepint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our Department Department of Cell & Developmental Biology is screening this great film Picture a Scientist, regarding equality, diversity and inclusion in science over this weekend, followed by a panel discussion on the topic on Monday. Highly recommend the film, not only to scientists, but everyone.....

If you want to know how dynein transports material from nurse cells to the oocyte in the Drosophila ovary, log into Motors in Quarantine Zoom meeting this coming Wednesday mechanochemistry.org/whatson/MiQ/#t… It is not what you think it is, I promise

Finally online in Developmental Cell! A novel variant of CLIP-170 that confers taxane resistance authors.elsevier.com/c/1dxna_Yv6zu1…

Very happy to share our work on Ataxin-2 Vladimir Gelfand Urko del Castillo Department of Cell & Developmental Biology cell.com/iscience/fullt…