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George Heath

@georgerheath.bsky.social
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Group leader, Bio High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopist at the University of Leeds #AFM #membranes #biophysics #Proteins #microscopy heath-afm-lab.github.io

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Felix Rico @felixrico.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Our commentary "A FAIR road to a bioAFM databank" is out! Let by Claire Valotteau @dynamo-lab.bsky.social and Jean-Luc Pellequer @cea.fr IBS www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A FAIR road to a bioAFM databank - Nature Methods
In this Comment, we direct attention to initial efforts to establish a high-quality databank of atomic force microscopy (AFM) data: bioAFM-DB. We outline the state of this endeavor, its challenges, an...
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George Heath @georgerheath.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
3 weeks left to submit your abstracts! ⏳ Please share with colleagues and group members 📢 This is a great opportunity to discuss and share your latest work with the AFM and SPM community. 🚨 Submit before 10th April www.rms.org.uk/rms-event-ca...
AFM meeting banner showing AFM & SPM conference dates 23-25 June, Leeds, abstract deadline 10th April
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George Heath @georgerheath.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Great to see this work now out: doi.org/10.1002/anie... Here are some of the fantastic HS-AFM movies of DNA origami strand displacement dynamics 🎬 It was a pleasure collaborating and contributing to this work led by Chalmers Chau, Paolo Actis and Christoph Wälti.
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Swiss Nanoscience Institute, University of Basel @nanoscience.ch · 03/03/2026
Happy Birthday #AFM! To celebrate the first description of the atomic force microscope (AFM) in Physical Review Letters, we spoke to our longstanding honorary member Christoph Gerber, who, together with Carl Quate and Gerd Binnig, invented this groundbreaking instrument. @unibas.ch bit.ly/4raqCOm
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Christoph Gerber — a life devoted to the nanosciences
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George Heath @georgerheath.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
📢 AFM & SPM Meeting 2026 | 📍Leeds, UK | 📅 23–25 June Excited to share the confirmed speaker list so far for the RMS AFM & SPM Meeting 2026, taking place in Leeds this summer. More info and registration: www.rms.org.uk/rms-event-ca... @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social #AFM #SPM
AFM & SPM 2026 - invited speaker poster
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Daniela Barillà @danielabarilla.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
📢 Interested in #chromosomes 🧬 & #archaea thriving at the edge of life? PhD project in York,UK on how archaea pass on their genome to daughter cells.Friendly supervisors: me, @steve-quinn-lab.bsky.social & @georgerheath.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 📅 January 7, 2026 Please RP🙏thx!
Archaeal cells whose DNA has been stained with a blue dye. Zoomed-in images of mutant cells that display chromosome segregation defects.High-resolution images of DNA-protein complexes obtained with atomic force microscopy. Upon binding, the protein bridges distant sites, forming loops.
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George Heath @georgerheath.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Join us in Leeds next Summer for: AFM & SPM 2026 Co-organised with Lekshmi Kailas, Kristina Rusimova, Samuel Jarvis and Jess Cole from the Royal Microscopical Society. #AFM #SPM #Microscopy
Image featuring University of Leeds campus and text overlay: AFM & SPM 2026, June 22-25, Leeds, UK
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paoloactis.bsky.social @paoloactis.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Exciting work led by @nano-chalmers.bsky.social delivered in collaboration with @georgerheath.bsky.social introducing a rationally designed DNA origami system for the multiplexed detection of miRNA in crude RNA extracts via nanopore sensing.
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George Heath @georgerheath.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Squeeze more out of your AFM images with NanoLocz v1.3 💪 Download the updated version here: github.com/George-R-Hea...
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Elton Zeqiraj @zeqiraj.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Excited to report our latest research on new “molecular glues” that specifically lock the BRCC36 isopeptidase complex (BRISC) in an autoinhibited state and reduce interferon signalling. This first-of-its-kind approach could reshape how we target large deubiquitylase (DUB) complexes. rdcu.be/edRwF
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Clint Chen @rjchen3567.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
What a contribution this article is to the bioAFM community. 👍👍👍 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #AFM
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A structural biology compatible file format for atomic force microscopy - Nature Communications
Here, the authors developed a pipeline to transform AFM data into 3D-density files for cross-methodology structural biology analysis. Combined with molecular dynamics flexible fitting, the approach yi...
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Royal Microscopical Society @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The abstract submissions deadline for #mmc2025 has been extended! Submit your abstract by *Friday 28 February* and join our impressive line-up of speakers! rms.org.uk/resource/mmc... @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social @bioimaginguk.bsky.social @yorkbioimaging.bsky.social @micro-au.bsky.social
A packed conference audience listens intently to a speaker who is out of shot.
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Royal Microscopical Society @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
📢Abstract submissions deadline for #mmc2025 is *tomorrow* (14 February). Don't miss the chance to present your work at Europe's largest #microscopy and #imaging event taking place this year! Abstract submissions: mmc-series.org.uk/conference/a... @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social
A presenter gives a talk from behind a podium at mmc2023.
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Daniela Barillà @danielabarilla.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
📢 New round of PhD studentships. Open to applicants worldwide. 📅 Deadline 14th March www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #microsky #archaeasky #chromosome 🧬🧬🧬 @steve-quinn-lab.bsky.social @georgerheath.bsky.social Join us in beautiful York, UK!
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Life pushed to extremes: probing the mechanisms of chromosome segregation in thermophilic Archaea at University of York on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Life pushed to extremes: probing the mechanisms of chromosome segregation in thermophilic Archaea at University of York, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Clint Chen @rjchen3567.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Check out the latest work on RCD-1 from our lab: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats to my labmates! 👏 #AFM #RCD-1
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Mechanisms of RCD-1 pore formation and membrane bending - Nature Communications
The mechanism of RCD-1 regulated cell death in fungal cells is unknown. Here, the authors use AFM to uncover two mechanisms by which RCD-1 proteins form pores in lipid membranes, and discover a membra...
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George Heath @georgerheath.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Postdoc Varun Gupta will be presenting some great AFM in the 1st session of the Linz Winter Workshop this weekend ⛷️👏
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The Asbury Centre @astburycentre.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
👋👋 Hi everyone! The Astbury Centre is now on Bluesky. Follow along for updates about exciting Astbury Centre science. For now, we have put together a starter pack of members of the Astbury Centre community.
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Lorena Redondo @lorenaredondo.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
15th January is the abstract deadline for the upcoming #AFMBioMed2025 in #Barcelona! New formats, events… I wouldn’t miss it—save the date #April2025!
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Yoshi Ichikawa @ichikawa-lab.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Proud to be part of this paper published in @naturecomms.bsky.social. Using high-speed AFM, we have visualized the real-time translocation of substrate polypeptide by the single molecule of SecYEG-SecA!!! Please check this amazing video taken by high-speed AFM!!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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George Heath @georgerheath.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Please share, we have #PhD opportunities for anyone interested in filming the #Biophysics of life at the nanoscale. Full details at: heath-afm-lab.github.io/positions/ Projects based around developing and applying High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy methods to understand molecular dynamics.
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Daniela Barillà @danielabarilla.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
📢 Interested in chromosomes and microbes thriving at the edge of life?PhD project in York-UK on chromosome segregation in #Archaea. Supervised by me, @Steve Quinn & @georgerheath.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Open to Applicants Worldwide! 📅 January 6, 2025 #microsky #archaeasky
Diagram showing archaeal cells containing two chromosomes bound by proteins prior to cell division.
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George Heath @georgerheath.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
AFM starter pack. Sorry if I missed anyone, relatively small numbers at the moment. Please share, nominate others/yourself (any career stage). I will also try to add incoming new users regularly. go.bsky.app/MSz2t33
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Johannes Hohlbein @hohlbeinlab.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
First attempt in a (loosely defined) Single-Molecule Biophysics starter pack. Please share and (self-) nominate. go.bsky.app/CteFZM5
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Harry Low’s Lab @lowlab.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Now out in NSMB for those who missed our biorxiv back in 2023.. bacterial ESCRT-III-like #Vipp1 forms dynamic spiral filaments on membrane! Spirals are springs that drive 3D ring formation in the spiral centre! 😵‍💫 wonderful collaboration with Adai Colom’s lab and @rouxlab.bsky.social rdcu.be/dZSPQ
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George Heath @georgerheath.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Delighted to welcome @eddierollins.bsky.social to the group as a new postdoc! Eddie brings a wealth of expertise in bioAFM and will be applying his skills to develop high-speed AFM methods to better understand protein dynamics and interactions.
George heath and Eddie Rollins selfie
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George Heath @georgerheath.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Real time view of High Speed AFM data capture at 35fps. This is a 20nm x 20nm area showing an annexin V trimer rotating within a lattice. (Data from 2022) #AFM #microscopy
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bioRxiv Biophysics @biorxiv-biophys.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
NanoLocz: Image analysis platform for AFM, high-speed AFM and localization AFM www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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NanoLocz: Image analysis platform for AFM, high-speed AFM and localization AFM https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.23.568405v1
NanoLocz is an open-source computer program designed for high-throughput automatic processing and si
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