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Marin Barisic

@barisiclab.bsky.social
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studying cell division and cytoskeleton at the Danish Cancer Institute, Copenhagen

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Are you looking for a postdoc exploring the cell biology of development, defining how cells change shape and move? Do you want to develop a research program & teaching skills preparing you for a position at a college or small University? Our new NIH grant will support those goals 1/n Please share
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Fena Ochs @fenaochs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy to share our new software SIMworks out today in Nature Protocols (1/3) SIMworks is a software suite built on our previous tools SIMCheck, Chromagnon, ChaiN and SIMinspector and enables data augmentation, quantitative processing and analysis. Link to publication: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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SIMworks—an integrated software suite for quality-controlled augmented quantitative structured illumination microscopy
Nature Protocols - SIMworks is an integrated software suite for quality-controlled augmented quantitative structured illumination microscopy (SIM), enabling both new learners and experienced users...
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Sachin Kotak @spindlebehavior.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Can light build centrosome-like activity? 💡🔬 Yes! We introduce LISA (Light-Induced Spindle Assembly), now in @emboreports.org. By clustering Aurora A with optogenetics, we build centrosome-like activity that nucleates microtubules and rescues spindle defects after centrosome loss. shorturl.at/9h3VQ
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Maiato Lab @mitosisrocks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A long time in the making, now finally out.💥 Our new study shows that division stays on time when kinetochore–microtubule attachments form efficiently. When the process drags, that delay is remembered, limiting future cell proliferation. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #mitosis #biology #microscopy
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Low kinetochore-microtubule occupancy leaves a mitotic memory by delaying checkpoint silencing - Nature Communications
How do cells faithfully segregate chromosomes within an optimal time? Using naturally “super-resolved” kinetochores, the authors show that maximal microtubule occupancy prevents bad mitotic memories t...
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@MEmilieTerret @memilieterret.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Great speakers, great science, great location = great meeting! EMBO workshop Forces across scale April 27-30, 2027 in Porto. meetings.embo.org/event/27-for...
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Forces across scales
This EMBO Workshop on Forces Across Scales will provide an integrative perspective on mechanobiology, a rapidly advancing field that examines how mechanical forces shape biological systems across mol…
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Andrew Blackford @andrewblackford.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Our latest work describing DDIAS as a new component of the TOPBP1-CIP2A pathway in mitosis and its requirement for brain development is now published. Fantastic collaboration with @fenaochs.bsky.social, @profstewartlab.bsky.social, Lars Allan Larsen, @tcr-miller.bsky.social, Zafar Iqbal & others
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Carlos Conde @carlos-conde.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Our latest preprint: elevated MPS1 drives CIN in colon cancer by sustaining the fibrous corona at metaphase kinetochores. This untimely persistence creates an extra microtubule-engagement domain providing a structural basis for merotely and chromosome mis-segregation. doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Maiato Lab @mitosisrocks.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Learn more about the clinical relevance of the tubulin code in our comprehensive review, recently published in Cancer and Metastasis Reviews. #Cancer #Tubulin link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Prognostic, diagnostic and therapeutic value of the cancer tubulin code - Cancer and Metastasis Reviews
Microtubules are essential cytoskeleton polymers composed of α/β-tubulin heterodimers that play a central role in the regulation of various cellular processes, including cell division, cell shape, cel...
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EMBO @embo.org · 06/08/2026
Interested in a cross-scale understanding of #mechanobiology? Join the EMBO Workshop "Forces across scales" in Porto, Portugal, 27–30 April 2027. Deadline: 1 December 2026 meetings.embo.org/event/27-forces-s… #EMBOforces #EMBOevents 🧪
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Aaron Straight @astraight.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
These two reviews on centromeres and kinetochores in @natrevmcb.nature.com cap off @andrea-musacchio.bsky.social sabbatical at @stanfordbiochem.bsky.social from @valleefoundation.bsky.social. Long time in the making! Non-paywall versions rdcu.be/fxD9V, rdcu.be/fxEar
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Structure and function of the centromere and inner kinetochore
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology - The kinetochore is a macromolecular complex that assembles on centromeric chromatin and connects spindle microtubules to the chromosome. This Review...
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Aaron Straight @astraight.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
@currentbiology.bsky.social has done it again! What a great interview with one of my favorite scientists www.cell.com/current-biol.... Linda Wordeman @mtwonderland.bsky.social. She taught me everything I know about guinea pigs and a lot about mitosis too!
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Linda Wordeman
Interview with Linda Wordeman, who studies microtubule dynamics and cell division at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
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Susana Godinho @susanagodinho.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Our flagship conference celebrating everything centrosomes and cilia returns this year and it promises to be another exceptional scientific event in the beautiful city of Lausanne, 1–4 September. 👉 Abstract submission+registration deadline 1 June Don’t miss the opportunity to share your research 🤩
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Ruđer Bošković Institute @institutrb.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Your cells divided thousands of times today. Most chromosomes landed where they should, but some got stuck. New #RBI research reveals how cells rescue trapped chromosomes during division, and why cancer cells often fail at it. 📄 Published today in @natcomms.nature.com 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Polar chromosomes are rescued from missegregation by spindle elongation-driven microtubule pivoting - Nature Communications
Polar chromosomes in human cells are prone to late alignment and segregation errors. Here, the authors show that spindle elongation rescues them by repositioning astral microtubules via a pivoting mec...
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Iva Tolić @ivatolic.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
New work from my lab, together with Boris Maček's lab! Using magnetic levitation, we made multicellular spheroids to ask a simple question: how different is mitosis in 3D structures compared with standard 2D monolayers? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Kara McKinley @karalmckinley.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
1st McKinley Lab grad student’s 1st preprint! @claireang.bsky.social studied how the uterus safely excises massive amounts of tissue during menstruation and pregnancy. Come for her GORGEOUS images, stay for her incredible discoveries. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... w/ @akelleher1017.bsky.social
Immunofluorescence image of a mouse uterus with epithelium labeled in cyan. There is a folded lumen in the center and glands branching off like bunches of grapes.
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Nilsson lab @nilssonlab.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Happy to see our work on defining a dependency map of short linear motifs out. We use base editing screens to install more than 80000 mutations into SLiMs in more than 4000 proteins to determine their contribution to cell fitness. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A proteome-wide dependency map of protein interaction motifs - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Ambjørn and Meeusen et al. functionally characterize all reported and a comprehensive set of predicted short linear motifs (SLiMs) using base-editing screens, identifying 450 reported and 264 predicte...
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Sam Connell @samuelconnell.3i.social · 27/02/2026
3i is hiring a Microscopist - repost & tell a friend! Ideal candidate has experience in fundamental optical theory & familiarity with lightsheet, spinning disk, multiphoton, TIRF etc. Full-time, exempt position (travel to visit customers) offering a competitive salary & comprehensive benefits.
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Intelligent Imaging Innovations - Microscopist
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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 20/02/2026
In Memoriam: R. Bruce Nicklas (1932-2025). Leocadia Paliulis commemorates the life of Dr. Nicklas who was a mentor, a polymath with a great sense of humor, and a link to the beginnings of chromosome research. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #CellDivision #Chromosomes
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Raquel A Oliveira @raoliveira.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
🧵 Thread: What happens when transcription isn’t properly shut off during mitosis? Our new preprint explores just that 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Iva Tolić @ivatolic.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Mitosis lovers, get ready for Dubrovnik! 🔬🎉 I’m super excited to be organizing the 4th Mitotic Spindle Conference with Nenad Pavin, and we can’t wait to see you there! Want your abstract to be selected for a talk? Submit by Feb 8! www.phy.pmf.unizg.hr/~mitosis/ #SpindleCroatia2026
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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
🧪 My lab has an opening for a postdoc position soon! Please share/get in touch!
Ad for a postdoc position in centromere biology with colorful chromosomes and centromeres made out of FIMO.
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Maiato Lab @mitosisrocks.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Mitosis has a timing system. If chromosomes attach properly, cells divide on schedule and keep proliferating. If attachment is slow or incomplete, the delay is recorded — and daughter cells stop dividing. We explore this link in our new preprint. 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Iva Tolić @ivatolic.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
PhD position in my lab!
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Kumar Somyajit & Lab @ksomyajit.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Dear Colleagues, Delighted to share that our first lab paper is now published in Nature.!!! 😊😊😊 We identify a previously concealed “safety limit” in DNA replication program: cells intrinsically rate-limit PCNA via PAF15, shaping strand-specific and global replication dynamics. 👉 rdcu.be/e1bBt
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PAF15–PCNA exhaustion governs the strand-specific control of DNA replication
Nature - PCNA–PAF15 has a key role in determining replisome dynamics during genome replication and protecting against genome instability.
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Monica Bettencourt-Dias @monicabettencourt.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
📣 Please spread: we’re hiring a Lab Manager! It is a critical position in our new lab. As our lab moves to Barcelona and joins the @crg.eu, we’re looking for a Lab Manager to help build the lab and set the lab atmosphere. 🔗 Apply here 👉 recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...
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Ivana Gasic @ivanagasic.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
New preprint from the lab 🎉: γ-tubulin is a novel target of the tubulin autoregulation pathway! Previously thought to exclusively target α- and β-tubulin mRNAs, we show that the TTC5–SCAPER–CNOT11 axis also degrades γ-tubulin mRNA, expanding the scope of this fundamental regulatory mechanism.
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Bungo Akiyoshi @bungoakiyoshi.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Interested in pursuing a PhD by working on a long-neglected marine organism and making a lot of discoveries? Darwin Trust offers a PhD studentship for international students (anyone non-UK) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Dissecting the molecular mechanism of chromosome segregation in the marine plankton Paradiplonema papillatum at University of Edinburgh on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Dissecting the molecular mechanism of chromosome segregation in the marine plankton Paradiplonema papillatum at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Nilsson lab @nilssonlab.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I have a PhD opening in my lab for an exiting project using base editor screens to find novel drug targets. Please help spread the word. candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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PhD student position in the Cell Signaling and Cell Cycle group at the Danish Cancer Institute.
The Cell Signaling and Cell Cycle group, headed by Prof. Jakob Nilsson, is looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic PhD student to establish novel CRISPR
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Carlos Conde @carlos-conde.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Our latest research in collaboration with @nilssonlab.bsky.social, @andrea-musacchio.bsky.social and Mathieu Bollen reveals a new regulatory strategy employed by cells to control PP1 in mitosis. Check it out in @currentbiology.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Polo kinase inhibits protein phosphatase 1 to promote the spindle assembly checkpoint and prevent aneuploidy
Protein phosphatase 1 (PP1) is essential for spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) silencing and mitotic exit, but its regulation during mitosis remains i…
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Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG) @crg.eu · 23/10/2025
Are you looking for a PhD? Join us in Barcelona! You'll dive into a community of >100 PhD students from 30 countries exploring the frontiers of biology. You can also join an online workshop on 6 November (15:00 CET) to learn how to find the right lab for you. More info: www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
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Surrey Lab @surreylab.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
⚡Ready to grow and be inspired as a scientist? We’re looking for a *PhD student* to join our lab at @crg.eu in Barcelona and explore how cells self-organize, uncovering life’s inner design💡 We offer strong mentoring, cutting-edge science, and a vibrant international team🌍 Check the link below!
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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 15/10/2025
Perspective from Richard McIntosh describing the history of research on #microtubule polymerization in terms of the ideas, technologies, and observations that have emerged as countless researchers have studied the dynamics of these essential cytoskeletal polymers. rupress.org/jcb/article/...
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Manuel Thery @manuelthery.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
We hire! The CytoMorpho Lab is looking for an engineer with a background in cell and molecular biology to join our team in Paris. This is a 18-month contract position, but we're open to exploring long-term opportunities. More details here: cytomorpholab.com/index.php/jo...
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Kate Cavanaugh @katecavanaugh.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
See this? This = implanting mouse embryo. Usually this happens inside its mother and is invisible to us, but we can actually watch implantation ex vivo with the hope of understanding why implantation goes awry in embryos of older women. A 🧵...
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The EMBO Journal @embojournal.org · 19/09/2025
New Aurora A kinase role in maintaining proper nuclear shape organization at mitotic exit: NuMA inhibition causes its dynamic-to-solid material-state transition, leading to bending of segregated mitotic chromosomes Sachin Kotak @spindlebehavior.bsky.social et al www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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Sara Wickstrom @sarawickstrom.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
My lab @mpi-muenster.bsky.social is looking for a computational biologist with a passion for imaging and spatial biology. A staff scientist position with long-term perspective! Apply and spread the word 🙏 jobs.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/jobposting/0...
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Computational image analyst (m/f/d)
The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster, Germany, has an opening for a
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Denis Chrétien @dchretien.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Microtubules: from atoms to complex systems www.embl.org/about/info/c...
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Microtubules: from atoms to complex systems
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Andrea Musacchio @andrea-musacchio.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The BUB1 and BUBR1 paralogs scaffold the kinetochore fibrous corona | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Congratulations @vcmentowski.bsky.social for solving a remarkably challenging molecular puzzle
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The BUB1 and BUBR1 paralogs scaffold the kinetochore fibrous corona
The kinetochore fibrous corona docks on CENP-E and a second elusive receptor identified as the checkpoint protein BUB1.
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bioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
The kinetochore corona orchestrates chromosome congression through transient microtubule interactions www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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André Marques @amarques.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
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Sachin Kotak @spindlebehavior.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Happy to share our work in @embojournal 👉 shorturl.at/zXNyn For decades, we’ve known cells dismantle & rebuild the nuclear envelope in sync with spindle poles. But why does this coordination matter? And how do pole material properties ensure error-free division? Follow this thread to know more 👇
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Jorge Ferreira @jorgeferreira.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
New preprint from the lab! Please check it out. 🚨 Have you ever wondered how cells decide when it’s time to divide? So did we! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Chromosome condensation mechanically primes the nucleus for mitosis
Timely and accurate transition into mitosis is essential to preserve genome integrity and avoid chromosome segregation errors. This transition depends on spatial and temporal activity patterns of the ...
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Soni Lacefield @lacefieldlab.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Check out our new manuscript on biorxiv on the role of MOS in mammalian oocyte meiosis: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... With @schindlerlab.bsky.social @giselacairobaza.bsky.social @muhammad-haseeb.bsky.social
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A persistent intracellular bridge and cell cycle misregulation enable polar body cell divisions and tumor formation in Mos-deficient eggs
Mammalian female meiosis is uniquely regulated to produce a developmentally competent egg capable of supporting embryogenesis. During meiosis I, homologous chromosomes segregate, with half extruded in...
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Helfrid Hochegger @helfridh.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Excited to share our new @NatureComms paper! We developed C-604, a selective inhibitor of Greatwall kinase, and discovered that cancer cells' sensitivity to it depends on a simple ratio: B55α/Greatwall expression levels. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The balance between B55α and Greatwall expression levels predicts sensitivity to Greatwall inhibition in cancer cells - Nature Communications
The authors develop and characterise a selective Greatwall inhibitor, C-604, and show that its cytotoxicity stems from PP2A-B55α hyperactivation. They identify B55α and Greatwall levels as biomarkers…
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Kara McKinley @karalmckinley.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Is anyone in continental Europe looking for a lab manager? I have a fabulous candidate - let me know and please RT!
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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 13/08/2025
Narozna et al @gorbskylab.bsky.social uncover a high-frequency, chromosome 12-specific mis-segregation error in iPSCs. Eroded 12p arms lead to bridging & micronucleation, enabling widespread trisomy 12. A slight growth advantage allows trisomic cells to persist & dominate rupress.org/jcb/article/...
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Lars Jansen Lab @jansenlab.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
The discovery of CENP-A, the centromere-specific histone H3 variant turns 40 years! Grant Rowley wrote a wonderful historical piece on the cell cycle control of this fascinating piece of chromatin! Check it out. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 11/08/2025
Geng, @kjverhey1.bsky.social et al find that KIF1C forms condensates where the exposed #kinesin motor domains entangle nearby #microtubules, causing them to bend & break in a process dependent on motor processivity, cluster properties, cytoplasmic viscosity, & MT anchors rupress.org/jcb/article/...
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Marin Barisic @barisiclab.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Check out our latest research now out @embojournal.org. Huge shout-out to our postdocs Susana Eibes and Bhagya Lakshmi and the rest of the team for their amazing work! 1/11
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