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Falk Schneider

@faldalf.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at University of Warwick Leading FMD Lab: fmd-lab.org Postdoc in Fraser Lab (USC) Postdoc Fritzsche Lab (Oxford) PhD in Eggeling Lab (Oxford) Into all things Biophysics, Fluorescence, and Membranes faldalf.github.io

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Mathilda Lennartz @mathilda95.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
UPDATE!: I am absolutely stoked that the second paper of my PhD is now out in @natcellbio.nature.com :D. We combined lipid imaging, STED microscopy, and mathematical modelling in a super cool team effort to quantify lipid partitioning inside clathrin-coated pits. www.nature.com/articles/s41....
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Quantification of lipid sorting during clathrin-mediated endocytosis - Nature Cell Biology
Lennartz et al. evaluate lipid enrichment in clathrin-coated pits and observe that the differential lipid partitioning into clathrin-coated pits is largely driven by the lipid asymmetry of the plasma ...
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Tessa Montague @tessamontague.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm excited to share our new preprint: Generation of a transgenic cephalopod tinyurl.com/pc86jxz8 Cephalopods (cuttlefish, octopus & squid) are crazy critters that dynamically camouflage to their surroundings by changing the color, pattern, & texture of their skin, which they control w their brain.
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Nicole CL Noel @nclnoel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My work on the turquoise killifish photoreceptor mosaic was published last week - check it out if you’re interested in photoreceptors, cell organization, and pretty pictures! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Ordered Chaos: Photoreceptor Mosaics in the Larval and Adult Turquoise Killifish (<i>Nothobranchius furzeri</i>)
The annual turquoise killifish (Nothobranchius furzeri) cone photoreceptor mosaic is an ordered lattice but lacks regularity of cone subtypes in adulthood. The cone mosaic differs between life stages...
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napari @napari.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
🚀 napari is hiring Remote Developers-in-Residence! Join us to build the future of interactive n-dimensional data visualization in Python. 💻 60% Dev / 20% Maintenance / 20% Community & Outreach 💰 $59.50/hr (Contract, 14–35 hrs/wk) 🌍 100% Remote, open globally Learn more and apply today […]
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Valentin Dunsing-Eichenauer @dunsingvalentin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#FluorescenceFriday: Given the recently grown interest in ciliary beating, here is a movie of beating cilia in a human airway model that I captured last week with lattice light-sheet microscopy. No AI „processing“, this is the raw data! Frame rate is ca. 170fps, displayed here at 25fps.
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Jonas Wietek @jwietek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Two cillia, no AI, enjoy.
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Giovanni D’Angelo @giodang.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#lipidtime: It's a lipid universe. Today in Nature we publish the Lipid Brain Atlas, the first map of membrane lipid composition across the entire mouse brain, a layer of organisation that cell-type and transcript maps had left out. #lipidomics #neuroscience #BrainAtlas
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André Nadler @nadlerlab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This my friends, this is the big one. A long time coming. Lipid Cell Biology is coming of age and even for a hot field, this is a true game changer. This dataset will keep us all busy for years to come. Congrats to everybody on this amazing crew!!! Go party!!
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Maik Bischoff @maikbischoff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
1/23 I have fantastic news! I am truly honored to have been awarded an Emmy Noether-Grant by @dfg.de @uni-muenster.de Since most of you are not from Germany, I will use the following posts to explain what this Program is, who Emmy Noether was and what my group in Münster will be doing. #cellbio
A picture of me and the Emmy Noether Program Logo
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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
21,627 applications for the Marie Curie early career fellowships.
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Steffen Scholpp @scholpplab.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
How does a Wnt cytoneme contact become a productive signalling site? Emma Cooper and colleagues find focal Ca²⁺ transients at cytoneme contacts and link Ca²⁺ availability to contact stability and Wnt/β-catenin signalling. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #Wnt #Cytonemes #CellBiology
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adafruit @adafruit.com · 17/09/2026
Build an MP3 audio player with #CircuitPython and parts from #Adafruit ! This personal music player features a tft display and mechanical key switches. Learn guide: learn.adafruit.com/walkmp3rson-... youtu.be/fgalBx2QSJ0 #3DPrinting
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Sergey Ovchinnikov @sokrypton.org · 14/09/2026
Finally a more intuitaive way to learn pLDDT/pAE? 😎 sokrypton.github.io/protein_figh... (Character idea from @hannes-stark.bsky.social & Alex Waldherr)
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Plasma membrane order maps functional diversity in immune cells @natchembio.nature.com @sciezgin.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Plasma membrane order maps functional diversity in immune cells - Nature Chemical Biology
Cells undergo membrane remodeling in response to the environment to perform specific functions. Now, a cytometry-based method with immune cell biomarker analysis captures variations in plasma membrane...
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Has anyone seen their STED microscopes do this to tissues? This is on the lowest power setting... What's up?
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bedzhov lab @bedzhovlab.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
2x Group leader/Professor positions at Uni Salzburg in: Developmental biology: www.plus.ac.at/personalwese... Endocrinology: www.plus.ac.at/personalwese...
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Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
PURELIGHT: a quantitative photon-counting framework unifying intensity and lifetime imaging at video rate across detector technologies by Luca Ravotto and team: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
High-speed FLIM imaging of astrocytic calcium dynamics with Tq-Ca-FLITS
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Emmanuel Beaurepaire @ebeaurepaire.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A nice study by @laboptbio.bsky.social colleagues V.Abdelsayed, P.Mahou,G.Latour,MC.Schanne-Klein and collaborators in J.Ramella-Roman's group at FIU. They use polarized SHG to analyze the reorganization of cervix collagen matric during gestation in mice. Congrats Vaky & co! doi.org/10.1063/5.03...
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Advanced optical polarimetric microscopy reveals spatio-temporal dynamics of cervix remodeling during gestation
Polarimetric microscopy is a powerful tool for assessing fiber orientation and reorganization during various biological processes. Collagen fiber remodeling in
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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 07/09/2026
The cell biologist’s guide to detecting and modulating membrane #phospholipids. A review by Worcester, @gerryhammond.bsky.social and colleagues: rupress.org/jcb/article/... 📕 From our #Lipid and #Membrane collection: rupress.org/jcb/collecti... #EMBOLipidCode
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Christoph Dellago @chhdellago.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If you are like me, you start every morning by making yourself a coffee with a moka pot. ☕️ While you wait for the coffee to bubble up, you can now explore how it works: compphys.univie.ac.at/Moka I made this (thank you, Claude!) for my thermo and stat phys course, but perhaps you enjoy it too.
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Coskun Lipid Cellar @ ZML Dresden @lipid.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Ups we did it again! Please mark your calender. EMBO Workshop “Lipid Code to Life”, taking place September 7–11, 2026, in Dresden, organized by Maria Fedorova, @lipid.bsky.social, Valerie O'Donnell, @holthuislab.bsky.social and @molcellbiophys-lab.bsky.social 🥳 Retweets = lipidlove
copyright Palina Nepachalovich of ZML Dresden
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Pol Solé Navais @polsolenavais.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
📣📣📣 The University of Gothenburg (Sweden) is recruiting 25 (yes, 25!) Assistant Professors in a wide range of disciplines (from arts to education to geology to maths), two of these at our Faculty. Happy to talk to anyone interested in knowing more about Sweden, Gothenburg or GU!
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Gothenburg Global Scholars Initiative
The University of Gothenburg is launching the Global Scholars Initiative – a coordinated international recruitment effort comprising 25 research positions across a broad range of disciplines and facul...
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Stephen Royle @steveroyle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
NEWS: @anne.mechanochemistry.org and I are the new Joint Directors of the Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology (CMCB) at Warwick @mechanochemistry.org We thank @rob.mechanochemistry.org who has been at the helm of CMCB since its inception. Looking forward to more exciting science in the future.
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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The role of geometry in morphogenesis Read this Review from our special issue #DevSIextracellular by Ryan Harrison, Olivier Hamant and @timesaunders.bsky.social. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Role of geometry in shaping tissues. Multiple factors, including cell shape (top left), boundary constraints (top right), topological inputs (bottom left) including from different cell alignment defects (±1/2) and biophysical factors (bottom right) impact how the final tissue form emerges (centre). Centre shows images of a 48 h neuruloid (left; magenta, DAPI; green, actin) and a young Arabidopsis flower (right) treated with oryzalin (depolymerised microtubules) thus showing isotropic growth, but no defect in patterning (organs are still initiated in the right position).
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Wilbert Bitter @wilbertbitter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Please have a look at our review on a very interesting and underappreciated group of proteins... Getting a grip on StAR-related lipid-transfer (START) domain proteins in bacteria academic.oup.com/femsre/artic...
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Getting a grip on StAR-related lipid-transfer (START) domain proteins in bacteria
Bacterial START domain proteins have a conserved helix-grip fold, but diverge from mammalian lipid transporters by utilizing a more versatile array of proc
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Chad Hobson @cmhobson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A couple years in the making, but the preprint is finally out! We developed a pipeline for timelapse, volumetric FLIM (vFLIM) that incorporates multi-channel light sheet excitation, a SPAD array detector for widefield FLIM, and machine learning lifetime processing. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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vFLIM: Machine Learning-enabled Light Sheet Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging
The lifetime of fluorescent molecules provides an orthogonal readout to fluorescence intensity, opening experimental possibilities of measuring changes in local molecular environments, mechanical tens...
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A massive update: At least ~15 companies~ are selling scientists antibodies using faked validation data. We've documented 18,000+ manipulated images on 17,000+ products sold by leading laboratory suppliers including Thermo Fisher, Abcam, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Millipore Sigma and Bio-Techne. 1/🧵
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Do you work with microscopy images and segment to quantify or track? Do you study cell biology? development? Gather round! Let me tell you about FOCUS-3D, a segmentation algorithm that is fast, accurate and can be used on any model. We used it here to study zebrafish development. 🧪 (thread)
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FOCUS‑3D: Robust, generalizable volumetric cell segmentation for three‑dimensional fluorescence microscopy
Understanding how cells establish spatial organization within tissues is a fundamental question in life sciences. While modern three-dimensional fluorescence microscopy captures large-volume tissue ar...
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hernanggarcia.bsky.social @hernanggarcia.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
MS2 in zebrafish @cp-cellsystems.bsky.social! Eck, Moretti and Schlomann, in collaboration with our friends in the of @loicaroyer.bsky.social and Oates labs, discovered that smooth protein oscillations in the segmentation clock are the result of transcriptional pulses: tinyurl.com/hwbf525m
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Kate Cavanaugh @katecavanaugh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
🧵 What if one reason fertility declines with age isn’t just genetic-but mechanical? Thrilled to share our new paper in @NatureCellBio : Elevated contractility drives implantation failure in mouse embryos from aged females… here’s what we found 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/11
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Elevated contractility drives implantation failure in mouse embryos from aged females - Nature Cell Biology
Cavanaugh et al. show that embryos from aged mice have increased contractility and tissue viscosity on embryonic day 4.5, which leads to poor spreading and attachment. Similar age-associated mechanica...
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Erik van Nimwegen @erikvannimwegen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
What if I run Bonsai on random data? Will it tell me the data have no structure? Yes, it does. Random points in a high-dimensional space are all equi-distant and, in contrast to other visualization methods, Bonsai will tell you all cells are equi-distant. 5/n
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Erdinc Sezgin @sciezgin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
New paper alert 🎇 in @biologists.bsky.social Journal of Cell Science.. Cell surface remodeling caused by the loss of the flippase subunit TMEM30A in immune cells: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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Cell surface remodeling caused by the loss of the flippase subunit TMEM30A in immune cells
Summary: TMEM30A loss disrupts membrane lipid asymmetry, increasing phosphatidylserine exposure, membrane dynamics and surface remodeling, linking flippase dysfunction to immune cell interactions.
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Robert Arkowitz @robertarkowitz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
ImpRes: A robust FRAP framework to quantify fast diffusion of cytoplasmic probes Olivier Destrian, Rene-Marc Mege, Benoit Goyeau, Morgan Chabanon bioRxiv 2026.08.14.744877; doi: doi.org/10.64898/202... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Nature Cell Biology @natcellbio.nature.com · 29/07/2026
☕Jha et al. show that the transmembrane protein CD44 restricts EGFR mobility to maintain an EGFR–PI3K–Rac gradient during bleb-based cell migration. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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CD44 restricts EGFR mobility to polarize cytoskeletal signalling modules driving bleb-based migration - Nature Cell Biology
Jha et al. show that the transmembrane protein CD44 restricts EGFR mobility to maintain an EGFR–PI3K–Rac gradient during bleb-based cell migration.
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Aurélien Barbotin @abarbotin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Falk Schneider @faldalf.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
😱🤩 wow! Shining light on lipid-protein interactions #lipidtime Monumental work and awesome skytorial @nadlerlab.bsky.social Very excited to dig through the preprint. Congratulations already 🎉
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Jonas Ries @jonasries.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Long time in the making and finally out. Great work by Lucas and @haosha.bsky.social who wrote the code, Maxime and Nestor for the beautiful samples and @zacsimile.bsky.social for helping to wrap this up. Try it out!
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The first 22 hours of #zebrafish development in under one minute. Credit to @zebrafish007.bsky.social in #WeinsteinLab at NIH. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
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Will Scott @wsctt.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Recently we were trying to change the colour of superfolder GFP and accidentally engineered a great probe for expansion microscopy! Read about it in our first micropublication - lnkd.in/eCxYcCJZ
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CMU Mellon College of Science @cmuscience.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
CMU biophysicists are flipping the script on cell membrane dynamics. They’ve developed a new theoretical framework that links membrane stress to lipid flip-flop, uncovering a key driver of membrane asymmetry. 🧪⚛️ www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
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CMU Researchers Capture the Randomness of Lipid Flip-Flopping
Cell membranes are dynamic, two-sided structures made of asymmetric lipid layers. While lipids can randomly flip-flop from one layer to the other, membrane proteins sort lipids between the two sides. ...
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FreeCAD @freecad.org · 23/07/2026
FreeCAD 1.1.2 is out. Bugfix release only, no new features, but 32% of the patches fix BIM and core issues, and 12% are security fixes. Recommended update for everyone! blog.freecad.org/2026/07/23/freecad-1-1-2-released/ Support the project: wiki.freecad.org/Donate #FreeCAD #CAD #OpenSource
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FreeCAD 1.1.2 released
We are pleased to announce the release of version 1.1.2. This release pulls important fixes from the current development branch without adding any new features. 32% of the backported patches fix is…
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 03/05/2026
Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations doi.org/10.59350/5zt... 🧪
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Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations
Phylopic, NIH Bioart, Bioicons, Scidraw, Open Science Art, Health Icons, Servier Medical Art, Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Noun Project, Segment Anything, Excalidraw, draw.io, Biographics
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Falk Schneider @faldalf.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
@wsctt.bsky.social and Nimo Abdullah from @sporemohan.bsky.social lab demonstrate the potential of 3-iodotyrosine containing FPs for expansion microscopy 🔬🐟🌈 Happy to have played a small role in this exciting project Findings available @micropub7n.bsky.social micropublication.org/journals/bio...
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MOHAN BALASUBRAMANIAN @sporemohan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Here is our one figure paper in micropublications. A new tool for protein expansion microscopy. First time in @micropub7n.bsky.social and loved the experience Please let me know if you have some feedback and how this may be incorporated into other work micropublication.org/journals/bio...
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3-iodotyrosine fluorescent proteins for improved expansion microscopy | microPublication
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microPublication Biology @micropub7n.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
3-iodotyrosine fluorescent proteins for improved expansion microscopy #micropublication #biology #data #caltechlibrary #Zebrafish #Escherichiacoli #Biochemistry #Methods #NewFinding #Methodology micropublication.org/journals/biolo…
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Mike Piacentino @mikepiacentino.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Come join us! 🔬🐣 The Piacentino Lab at Johns Hopkins @hopkinsmedicine.bsky.social is recruiting a postdoc to study membrane lipids, cell migration, and invasion in neural crest and embryonic models! @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social #devbiol #cellbio #lipids
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UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org · 20/07/2026
What’s the focus of UKRI’s new strategy? Watch Stian Westlake, ESRC Executive Chair, talk about the strategy’s goals and how they will be delivered. He highlights the importance of the strategy for social science and describes some of the ways we will measure its success and impact.
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The focus of UKRI’s new strategy
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adamezracohen.bsky.social @adamezracohen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
We developed a new approach for mapping absolute membrane voltage, based on dynamic photocycle control in Voltron2. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Here's my favorite example: human iPSC colonies break into electrical domains as they begin to differentiate.
Top image shows a greyscale picture of some cells.  Bottom image shows a voltage map overlay in color, with two electrical "domains".Wide-area view of membrane voltage in human iPSC colonies.
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Anh Hoang Le, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇻🇳 @anhhle2702.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I love these PIP3 biosensors because it labels the plasma membrane so well. You can see the cell's edge so clearly along with any intracellular vesicles. Also, this cell is so blebby. This video was taken when I was still working on endocytosis :D Good old times! #FluorescenceFriday
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bioRxiv Biophysics @biorxiv-biophys.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy quantifies affinity, cooperativity, and kinetic stability in ternary protein complexes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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