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Anne Straube @anne.mechanochemistry.org · 18/06/2026

I also learned today the modern way of taking decisions in Germany. Is it worrying if you are chuffed about a positive response from a beer bottle?

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Anne Straube @anne.mechanochemistry.org · 18/06/2026

Immensely enjoying #EESMicrotubules Great science, the best people, gorgeous sunsets and fireflies dancing in the forest...

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Anne Straube @anne.mechanochemistry.org · 30/05/2026

Beautiful day for some orienteering at Teifi Pools

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Anne Straube @anne.mechanochemistry.org · 20/05/2026

Another update in the 🥕 great carrot mystery🥕 @mechanochemistry.org Carrotface has assembled itself, taking over an office door. The new life form seems friendly, but does not make its intentions clear. Does it expect carrot cake sacrifices to remain friendly?

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Anne Straube @anne.mechanochemistry.org · 20/05/2026

Day3 🥕🥕🥕🥕🥕 @mechanochemistry.org . Might be a budding mechanism of proliferation?

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Anne Straube @anne.mechanochemistry.org · 19/05/2026

The @mechanochemistry mystery continues. The carrot has amplified in an unusual manner producing two offspring of similar size...

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Anne Straube @anne.mechanochemistry.org · 17/05/2026

Beautiful day on Burton Dasset hill

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Anne Straube @anne.mechanochemistry.org · 09/05/2026

We had a blast. Thanks to everyone who came and made this such a memorable event.

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Anne Straube @anne.mechanochemistry.org · 08/05/2026

Some poster session impressions from motors and filaments meeting

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Anne Straube @anne.mechanochemistry.org · 01/05/2026

Barely a week to go until our "Motors and Filaments" meeting. Programme is ready. Catering ordered. My 3d printer has been busy too: have a look into the mingle bingo and dinner quiz prizes box. tinyurl.com/mechanochemi...

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Anne Straube @anne.mechanochemistry.org · 25/04/2026

Stunning day with blue sky and bluebells

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Anne Straube @anne.mechanochemistry.org · 07/04/2026

A full, buzzing auditorium as EMBO / European Cytoskeleton Forum Workshop takes off in Paris.

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Anne Straube @anne.mechanochemistry.org · 31/03/2026

Registration deadline for our motors and filaments meeting is tomorrow - not a 1st April joke! Thanks to our generous sponsors supporting sustainable scientific conference organisation @embo.org @biologists.bsky.social we also offer registration for a free livestream, supported by bsky discussions!

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Anne Straube @anne.mechanochemistry.org · 22/03/2026

Indeed an exciting programme. Registration open for another two weeks. We are also able to accommodate a few late abstracts and bursary applications. If you would have usually gone to the UK microtubule meeting early May, come to Warwick instead. tinyurl.com/mechanochemi...

Schedule for Motors and Filaments meeting, See also here: https://tinyurl.com/mechanochemistry

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Anne Straube @anne.mechanochemistry.org · 25/02/2026

We encourage you to travel by train if at all possible. Please apply for sustainable travel bursaries when you submit your abstract. We will also consider waiving registration fees for presenters who can demonstrate a need. All info here: tinyurl.com/mechanochemi...

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Anne Straube @anne.mechanochemistry.org · 25/02/2026

The abstract deadline for our Motors and Filaments Meeting is approaching fast - 1st March. We have plenty slots for 15/10min talks and 3min flash talks to allocate. Thanks to generous support from @embo.org and @biologists.bsky.social, we can offer sustainable travel bursaries and a free livestream

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Anne Straube @anne.mechanochemistry.org · 20/01/2026

Need any more reasons to come to Warwick campus? How about "The Good and The Bad" roaming campus near the spectacular sport centre facilities sometimes even under a wonderful blue sky...

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Anne Straube @anne.mechanochemistry.org · 20/01/2026

Early bird registration including on campus conference accommodation for our #motors and #filaments meeting will close 29th January 2026. You can still register after that, but need to find your own accommodation. Grateful to @embo.org and @biologists.bsky.social for sponsoring this event!

Mechanochemistry of molecular motors and cytoskeletal filaments - a meeting at the university of warwick, 8-9 May 2026

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Anne Straube @anne.mechanochemistry.org · 06/01/2026

Shape changes are movement in shape space. We trained a Hidden Markov Model with sequences of cell shapes that depolarise and repolarise during directional changes and show that shape information alone can reliably predict cell migration behaviour.

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Anne Straube @anne.mechanochemistry.org · 06/01/2026

Once the shape map is done, the user can explore this shape space and visualise average shapes from any region of interest, partition shape space to analyse shape distributions from different experimental conditions or measure the speed of shape changes between two regions of shape space.

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Anne Straube @anne.mechanochemistry.org · 06/01/2026

To compare our Best Alignment Metric with Fourier Descriptors we asked both to find the 5 closest shapes in a large dataset of RPE cell shapes. BAM selects reliably shapes with the same typical characteristics such as central tail on D-shaped cell in line 5, gentle left bend of cell in line 8 etc.

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Anne Straube @anne.mechanochemistry.org · 06/01/2026

Our paper describing the development of ShapeSpaceExplorer is now out: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... The software and documentation is available here: github.com/cmcb-warwick... Explainer thread below.

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Anne Straube @anne.mechanochemistry.org · 13/12/2025

We set registration rates as low as possible (just £30) and offer sustainable travel bursaries for those who come to the meeting by train. What's more, accessing the livestream is completely free. So, sign up now. tinyurl.com/mechanochemistry

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Anne Straube @anne.mechanochemistry.org · 02/12/2025

Calling all #MotorsInQuarantine fans: Please join us for 1.5 days of science on motors and the cytoskeleton as we celebrate the career of Rob Cross. More info and sign-up here: tinyurl.com/mechanochemi... #kinesin #dynein #myosin #microtubules #actin #cytoskeleton

Mechanochemistry of Molecular Motors and Filaments. 8-9 May 2026 at University of Warwick.

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Anne Straube @anne.mechanochemistry.org · 30/10/2025

Get out your calendars! The motors are out of quarantine and we plan to assemble in person on 8th May 2026 at University of Warwick Campus for a fun day on motors and the filaments they walk along. Livestream is planned too. More details on registration, travel bursaries etc. will be revealed soon.

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Anne Straube @anne.mechanochemistry.org · 20/06/2025

A day to fangirl: Ron Vale visiting CMCB at Warwick University today. Cool to share stories on dynein and kinesin collaboration in bidirectional transport and hear about his efforts in sharing the beauty of biology and process of science

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Anne Straube @anne.mechanochemistry.org · 20/06/2025

Congratulations to Dr Jess Bithell who heroically facilitated most of the motors in quarantine sessions in parallel to her PhD studies. Vivas are also always a demonstration of Straube lab member creativity and skill in designing cakes and cards. Can you guess what Jess worked on?

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Anne Straube @anne.mechanochemistry.org · 17/05/2025

Looking forward to the Physics within the Cell workshop on 16th June. Join if you want to discuss molecular motors and intracellular transport with me. More info here: iop.eventsair.com/pwtc2025/

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Anne Straube @anne.mechanochemistry.org · 12/05/2025

Great to be back in Edinburgh for the UK microtubule meeting. Thanks to Julie Welburn who has been keeping it going for 10 years. Excellent science, the annual hike and a ceilidh to look forward to.

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Anne Straube @anne.mechanochemistry.org · 10/05/2025

Glorious weather at British orienteering championships in the Lake District this weekend. Deleted X app, hoping that it will be blue skies forever now...

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Anne Straube @anne.mechanochemistry.org · 08/05/2025

Late to the party, I know, but finally making the move to where the sky is bluer and the grass is greener.

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