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We are the Biophysics in Cell Biology lab! Creativity and light microscopy to study cell growth at @upfbarcelona.bsky.social 🌍 www.gallegolab.org

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Albert Herms @albertherms.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Outstanding work from Marta Bosch @albertpol.bsky.social @idibaps.bsky.social lab characterizing how LDs, the organelles storing fat in our cells protect us against infections!! Not only using antimicrobial proteins but also complex lipids! Congratulations to all the authors!
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Nature @nature.com · 25/09/2026
A landmark collection of bat genomes reveals fresh clues about the evolution of one of the world’s most unusual groups of mammals go.nature.com/46Hio8O
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Genome project opens the next chapter for studying bat evolution
A landmark collection of bat genomes reveals fresh clues about the evolution of one of the world’s most unusual groups of mammals.
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Ishier Raote @ishier.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Membrane Trafficking Seminar Series 2026 fall season is here! An exciting programme: membrane traffic, organelle biogenesis, lipid transport, endomembrane evolution, we have it all! Save the dates and join us for fun science and discussions. Details at felixcampelo.wixsite.com/membranetraf...
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Gallego Lab @gallegolab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Here👇 is a great opportunity if you are looking for a postdoc in structural biology
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Mary Munson @marymunson4.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Structural biology postdoctoral position open in my lab--apply now! For more information about the lab, see www.umassmed.edu/munsonlab/. Interested candidates should apply through the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School jobs portal (www.ummsjobs.com/job/11668/).
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Munson Lab | Home | BMB | UMass Chan Medical School
The Munson Lab researches the mechanistic basis for the regulation of spatial and temporal specificity in membrane trafficking in the Biochemistry & Molecular Biotechnology Department at UMass Chan Me...
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Liz Miller @lizmillercu.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
*JobAlert* One more week to apply for a post-doc position in my lab at Dundee to study co-translational protein quality control of secretory and membrane proteins. This is a collaborative project with @kulathu.bsky.social and @zeqiraj.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSM201/p...
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Postdoctoral Research Assistant - UOD2336 at University of Dundee
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant - UOD2336 at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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Juan Carlos De la Concepcion @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
PLEASE SHARE! New job openings in my lab @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We have a broad interest into the mechanistic basis of how molecular complexes are rewired during cellular development in plants and during invasion by pathogens. 🌱🍄🔬 See details below 👇 #PlantSciJobs
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Gallego Lab @gallegolab.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The latest from @felixmendu.bsky.social lab! cool imaging, mechanobiology and Golgi:-)
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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 03/08/2026
Mechanical forces stimulate #Golgi export. New study from Chandini Bhaskar Naidu, Javier Vera Lillo, Jean-Baptiste Manneville @upcite.bsky.social, Stéphanie Miserey @institutcurie.bsky.social, Felix Campelo @felixmendu.bsky.social @bist.eu and colleagues: rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Membrane
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Arnau Sebé-Pedrós @arnausebe.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Happy to share the final version of our study on the evolution of chromatin states across eukaryotes, out today in @natgenet.nature.com Led by @crisnava.bsky.social and @seanamontgomery.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... Some highlights below
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Diversity and evolution of chromatin regulatory states across eukaryotes - Nature Genetics
This study introduces iChIP2, a low-input chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing method that profiles histone post-translational modifications (hPTMs) simultaneously across diverse eukar...
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Juan S. Bonifacino @juanbonifacino.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
New study from our lab at NICHD, NIH! We identify TBC1D9 and TBC1D9B as novel ARL8 effectors that suppress exosome secretion by inactivating RAB11A and thus blocking exocyst-dependent fusion of multivesicular endosomes with the plasma membrane. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Universitat Pompeu Fabra @upf.edu · 02/07/2026
#TalentUPF Jordi Garcia Ojalvo i Roderic Guigo, investigadors vinculats al @melisupf.bsky.social de la #UPFBarcelona, han estat escollits membres de @embo.org, l'Organització Europea de Biologia Molecular. Un reconeix a l'excel·lència en la recerca i èxits destacats. L'enhorabona! ℹ️ tuit.cat/Emne3
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Jordi Garcia Ojalvo i Roderic Guigó, escollits membres de l’EMBO
Els dos investigadors vinculats al Departament de Medicina i Ciències de la Vida reben aquest prestigiós nomenament de l'Organització Europea de Biologia Molecular. Tots dos s’afegeixen a la llista de...
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Universitat Pompeu Fabra @upf.edu · 30/06/2026
#ProtagonistesUPF En Marc Güell, catedràtic i investigador @icreacommunity.bsky.social a la #UPFBarcelona, ha rebut el XXI Premi a la Investigació Biomèdica de la Fundación Banco Sabadell, per les seves contribucions pioneres a la biologia sintètica i a l'edició genètica. ℹ️ tuit.cat/QUab8
En Marc Güell, catedràtic i investigador ICREA de la UPF, ha rebut el XXI Premi a la Investigació Biomèdica de la Fundación Banco Sabadell, per les seves contribucions pioneres a la biologia sintètica i a l'edició genètica.
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Felix Campelo @felixmendu.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Hi #membrane folks! This is today, last talks to close this academic year's trafficking seminar season :) 👇
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Nature Cell Biology @natcellbio.nature.com · 01/06/2026
☕ @dr-downes.bsky.social et al. use in situ cryo-electron tomography and super-resolution fluorescence microscopy to define ER exit site architecture in unperturbed human cells. They visualize ribosome-exclusion zones enriched with COPII- and COPI-coated vesicles. bit.ly/3RGH6lp
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In situ cryo-ET defines the ultrastructure of ER exit sites in human cells - Nature Cell Biology
Downes et al. use in situ cryo-electron tomography and super-resolution fluorescence microscopy to define ER exit site architecture in unperturbed human cells. They visualize ribosome-exclusion zones ...
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Gallego Lab @gallegolab.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Follow @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social , a new group in Tuebingen, with lots of very very cool science coming! #cryoET #fungi #Plants
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UPF Medicine and Life Sciences @melisupf.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
#Symposium We are keen to share with you our Biomedical Research Symposium. An event to bring together researchers working on a wide range of topics in biomedicine & to showcase the projects of our excellent young researchers. June 4-5 at the @prbb.org Auditorium 👉 registration - tuit.cat/dT2kl
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Cell Biology J-Club @cellclub.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
The molecular basis of tricalbin-mediated membrane contact site organization in cells url: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article-...
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The molecular basis of tricalbin-mediated membrane contact site organization in cells
Membrane contact sites facilitate molecular exchanges through physical interactions between organelles, connected by specific protein tethers. Among these tethers are the tricalbins, which mediate con...
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Ignacio Arganda-Carreras @iarganda.eurosky.social · 08/04/2026
🚨 Registration closing soon! Join the AIM-Net Deep Learning Summer School (2–6 June 2026, La Ràpita 🇪🇸) 🔬 Hands-on training in AI for microscopy & bioimage analysis 👩‍🔬 For PhDs & early-career researchers 💻 Lectures + practicals + project work ⏳ Apply before April 10 aim-net.net/eventos/aim-...
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AIM-Net · Deep Learning Summer School
Introduction to AI methods for microscopy and quantitative bioimaging The AIM-Net Summer School is a core training activity of the AIM-Net thematic network (AEI–REDES) in collaboration […]
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Kota Miura @kbias.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Miguel A. Ibarra Arellano reporting the Hackthon@GloBIAS conference Kobe 2025: focalplane.biologists.com/2026/04/01/h...
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Hacking with GloBIAS by Miguel A. Ibarra Arellano - FocalPlane
Hacking with GloBIAS by Miguel A. Ibarra Arellano - GloBIAS - updates from the community
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Gallego Lab @gallegolab.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This is an excellent opportunity to get started on the employment of AI tools for your microscopy data, minimal Python expertise is required only. Register👇 Sébastien Tosi from our lab in the Teaching team with @cmanzo.bsky.social and @giovannivolpe.bsky.social
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Max Gutierrez @maxgg.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
💥Our latest @embojournal.org on membrane damage and repair. Di @dichen02.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk found that calcium is a conserved signal for ATG8/LC3 lipidation on membranes using novel probes to record calcium leakage. Congratulations Di et al! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Ca²⁺ leakage is a conserved signal for non-canonical ATG8/LC3 lipidation and membrane repair - The EMBO Journal
Endomembrane damage of intracellular vesicles triggers signals that activate membrane repair in mammalian cells to restore homeostasis. However, the signals that drive diverse membrane repair recruitm...
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Stephen Royle @steveroyle.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
A unique opportunity to lead the most wonderful company in scientific publishing (I might be slightly biased here). The Company of Biologists are searching for a CEO. www.inspiredselection.com/jobs/jo00000...
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Chief Executive Officer | Inspired Selection
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Gallego Lab @gallegolab.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Would you like to do a postdoc in Biophysics/Cell biology using advanced microscopy in Barcelona? quantitative live-cell imaging, cryoET in yeast and non-model organisms?...contact us if you would like to apply for a fellowship with us! Reposts are appreciated #postdoc #MSCA-PF
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Gallego Lab @gallegolab.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Come and join us! Our department just opened a junior PI position for a group leader working on Cell Metabolism, in any of its flavors: could be Metabolism in evolution, aging, disease, biotech, biophysics... you decide:-) Please share!
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UPF Medicine and Life Sciences @melisupf.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
#JobOffer MELIS is looking for a Junior Group Leader Position in Cell Metabolism ✅ PhD in Biology or similar; capacity to lead high-impact research projects; supervision of doctoral theses; teaching ⏰ Deadline: May 2 📍 Barcelona #PRBB Apply: apply.interfolio.com/180316 Details: bit.ly/40N09LX
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Felix Campelo @felixmendu.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
#JobOffer We’re recruiting a tenure-track group leader working on cell metabolism (broadly defined, including lipid metabolism, organelle bioenergetics, etc.). Happy to chat informally about the department: great science, great people, and strong collaboration opportunities! Reposts appreciated 🙏
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UPF Medicine and Life Sciences @melisupf.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
1/ 🎯 A therapeutic target that would curb the spread of #coronaviruses has been identified It is an enzyme that is activated in human cells in response to stress due to infection and causes changes in the cellular machinery that favour the production and spread of coronaviruses tuit.cat/5y9Rr
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Identifiquen una diana terapèutica que permetria frenar la propagació dels coronavirus
Es tracta d'un enzim que s'activa en les cèl·lules humanes com a resposta a l'estrès degut a la infecció i provoca canvis en la maquinària cel·lular que afavoreixen la producció i la propagació dels c...
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Gallego Lab @gallegolab.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Not one but TWO bioinformatics position in our department @melisupf.bsky.social ! Apply and come to work with us
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Manuel Irimia @mirimiam.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Great opportunity for 2 bioinformaticians! Come work with us at @melisupf.bsky.social ! 😉 Please RT! 🙏
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Ishier Raote @ishier.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Institut Jacques Monod Seminar Friday, Feb 27 Institut Jacques Monod Gautam Dey @gautamdey.bsky.social (EMBL, Heidelberg) Evolution and diversity of mitosis Exciting evolutionary cell biology: bridging genomics, experimental evolution, and stunning imaging across diverse protozoans buff.ly/uCSfjgQ
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Felix Campelo @felixmendu.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
If you are in Barcelona next Friday (20th) morning, pass by the PRBB to learn about #MembraneTension dynamics from Erdem Karatekin!
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Ishier Raote @ishier.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Postdoc job alert at Institut Jacques Monod in Paris! Interested in fundamental membrane trafficking? We seek a postdoc to study collagen secretion as a model for core principles of how cells and their environment build each other. emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Poste de chercheur postdoctoral en trafic membranaire fondamental et sécrétion du collagène (H/F)
Assurez-vous que votre profil candidat soit correctement renseigné avant de postuler
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Vanni Lab at UNIFR, Switzerland @labvanni.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Please share!!! I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join us. Focus will be on exciting collaborative projects on lipids and membrane biology, pushing the boundaries of in silico "reconstitutions". Previous experience with molecular dynamics simulations of biological systems a strong plus!
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Marta Vila @martacvila.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Una magnífica notícia amb un titular nefast de La Ser. RIP treball en equip 😔 Sort que hi ha qui dona visibilitat a l’equip. La comunicació científica també ha d’explicar com treballen els equips de recerca. #SciComm #biaix
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Felix Campelo @felixmendu.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Join us this Thursday (Jan 29) at 5pm CET for the first #MembraneTrafficking seminars of 2026, featuring two outstanding scientists, Giovanni D'Angelo (EPFL) and Sean Munro (@cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social), and the shared topic of protein trafficking, retention & sorting at the #Golgi 🥞
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Marc A. Marti-Renom @mamartirenom.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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Felix Campelo @felixmendu.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Two PhD positions just opened in the Gallego lab at our department @melisupf.bsky.social @upf.edu @prbb.org! #MembraneTrafficking in cryo-tolerant systems, with wet lab and computational projects available. Come do cool (and cold 😉) science with Oriol in Barcelona!
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Gallego Lab @gallegolab.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Please share🙏: Our lab opens 2 PhD positions to investigate fungi's evolution: #Barcelona Wet lab in Biochemistry/Structural Biology of cryo-tolerant fungi www.upf.edu/documents/d/... Computational in Physical Chemistry of cellular processes under extrem environments www.upf.edu/documents/d/...
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Gallego Lab @gallegolab.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Very happy that our "ExHOS in action" was selected! Thanks a lot @prbb.org , credit goes to Dylan Godfrey🙌
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Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona @prbb.org · 24/01/2026
🔬 Aquesta imatge 3D forma part d’un estudi de @melisupf.bsky.social  que revela noves perspectives sobre l’exocitosi, amb un possible impacte en com els patògens aprofiten la secreció cel·lular. 👉
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Explorant els mecanismes de l'exocitosi - El·lipse
Una recerca liderada pel MELIS-UPF ha identificat l'ExHOS el nanomissatger que intervé en els processos de secreció cel·lular gràcies a la microscòpia òptica i electrònica i l'anàlisi d'imatges amb intel·ligència artificial.
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Ishier Raote @ishier.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I’ll soon share a call for a postdoc at Institut Jacques Monod (Paris) on fundamental mechanisms of membrane traffic and protein/collagen secretion in health and disease. Please get in touch if interested.
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UPF Medicine and Life Sciences @melisupf.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Good job, guys! 🙌🏻
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Martínez Morales Lab @jrmarmor.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
We are looking for a Bioinformatician (both graduate and postdoctoral levels) to join our lab. Please help us spread the word about this opportunity! Applicants should submit their motivation letter, full CV and academic record to Juan R. Martínez-Morales: jrmarmor@upo.es
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Sasha Meek @sasmeek.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Check out our new paper on exocytosis continuum architecture!! Only an incredible and multidisciplinary team made this possible.
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Cell - a Cell Press journal @cp-cell.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Now online! Continuum architecture dynamics of vesicle tethering in exocytosis
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Continuum architecture dynamics of vesicle tethering in exocytosis
Data from complementary imaging techniques were integrated into a model that resolves the dynamic exocyst ensemble and membrane architecture during exocytosis, an essential cellular pathway. Sec18 mediates the rate of exocytosis by disassembling the exocyst higher-order structure after vesicle fusion.
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Juan Carlos De la Concepcion @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Check out this animation and thread from @gallegolab.bsky.social on the mechanism of #Exocytosis Truly remarkable work! They did it all! 😱
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UPF Medicine and Life Sciences @melisupf.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
#Research 1/📦 Scientists uncover the tiny machine that delivers essential molecular packages to the cell surface This fundamental activity for maintaining healthy cells has been revealed by combining cutting-edge microscopy techniques and artificial intelligence www.upf.edu/web/focus/w/...
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Descobreixen el nanomissatger que manté les cèl·lules en funcionament
Es tracta d’una petita màquina que lliura paquets moleculars essencials a la superfície cel·lular, una activitat fonamental per mantenir la salut de les cèl·lules. Aquest enigmàtic mecanisme s'ha pogu...
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Gallego Lab @gallegolab.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
0/10 🥳 our #exocyst paper out in @cp-cell.bsky.social, led by Marta, Sebas & @sasmeek.bsky.social in collab with @jonasries.bsky.social, @cmanzo.bsky.social & Castaño-Díez labs #Quantitative_Cell_Biology Continuum architecture dynamics of vesicle tethering in exocytosis www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Continuum architecture dynamics of vesicle tethering in exocytosis
Data from complementary imaging techniques were integrated into a model that resolves the dynamic exocyst ensemble and membrane architecture during exocytosis, an essential cellular pathway. Sec18 med...
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Oli Clarke @olibclarke.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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