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Jenevieve Norton @jenevievenorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Definitely the weirdest package I opened this year. Hopefully there will be no other contenders...

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Triangle Cytoskeleton Meeting @tricytomeet.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Happy Monday! There is just ONE WEEK left to get our early registration fee for this year's Triangle Cytoskeleton Meeting. Do you ever think about the mechanical forces generated by the actin cytoskeleton? Dr. Matthew Tyska's lab uses Journal cover worthy microscopy to understand these questions!

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Triangle Cytoskeleton Meeting @tricytomeet.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Have you ever wondered how cells protect their nuclei from damage while squeezing through tightly packed tissues? @septinlab.bsky.social at the University of Virginia have! Dr. Elias Spiliotis will share how septin filaments anchor and protect nuclei during migration at TCM 2026! (1/3)

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Triangle Cytoskeleton Meeting @tricytomeet.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Registration for the 2026 Triangle Cytoskeleton Meeting is NOW OPEN! Our meeting will be Monday, September 21st at the Friday Center on UNC-Chapel Hill Campus. Please fill out the Google Form below and register through the UNC Event Registration page to attend. forms.gle/zcMoubS2mavp...

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Jenevieve Norton @jenevievenorton.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Mark your calendars for this year's Triangle Cytoskeleton Meeting! This meeting had a huge influence on me as a trainee in fostering my love of not only the cytoskeleton but the community that attends this meeting. Let's look forward to another great meeting!

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Jenevieve Norton @jenevievenorton.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Congratulations, Maik! 🎉 I am proud to have been a part of the foundation for your research, and I'm so excited to continue following your discoveries and achievements.

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Maik Bischoff @maikbischoff.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

So excited to share this as a new junior PI: My brand-new lab website! 🎉🪰🌀 www.bischofflab.com Please pass it on to young, motivated researchers looking for PhD positions 😊 And for the #FluorescenceFriday community: don’t miss the SciArt Gallery! #CellBio #DevBio #PhDjob #PhDposition #Science

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Jenevieve Norton @jenevievenorton.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Exciting work and very beautiful images! Congratulations, Naveen! 🎉

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Maik Bischoff @maikbischoff.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

My entry for today’s #FluorescenceFriday: a pupal #Drosophila testis with muscles expressing 🔵 lifeact & 🔴 RFP-nls Honored & grateful to receive an honorable mention at @healthcare.nikon.com Nikon Small World 🌍🔬✨ 🔗 www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20... #NikonSmallWorld #Microscopy #ScienceArt

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Maik Bischoff @maikbischoff.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

www.ascb.org/society-news... It's official now 😁 Big thanks again to @ascbiology.bsky.social & MBoC

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

@tricytomeet.bsky.social continued with a lively poster session. I particularly liked the presentation by Naveen Chana, about work in Sid Shaw's IU lab on the plant augmin complex & microtubule regulation. She's now a PhD student in Joe Kieber's lab at UNC trianglecytoskeleton.com/2025-meeting...

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Andy Moore @aaandmoore.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

This is an airyscan confocal movie of mitochondria (white) moving around in a mouse astrocyte. Actin filaments are in orange and microtubules are in blue.

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Jenevieve Norton @jenevievenorton.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

This is an awesome opportunity to write letters to middle school students across the US to chat about real science careers and your path. Please join me in my first year signing up! It's 4 letters spread across the school year. Registration closes next week, and there's 3,200 students signed up!

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For STEM Professionals - Letters to a Pre-Scientist

Pen Pal Program Overview We encourage STEM Professionals of all kinds to get involved with Letters to a Pre-Scientist! STEM professionals send and receive letters throughout a school year from ...

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Maik Bischoff @maikbischoff.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

1/3 Excited to see my #microscopy collage featured in the first issue of 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐢𝐫𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞—a beautiful, hand-crafted non-profit magazine. Thanks so much for including my work! Check out PaperAirplane.pub, for a small donation to support refugees and immigrants! #SciArt #SciComm #DevBio #CellBio

Our Drosophila testis collage in the Journal "Paper Airplane" that you can purchase by donating a small amount to a non-profit organization.

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Maik Bischoff @maikbischoff.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Also thrilled that Gabrielle Neyman ( #UNC News), with help from #AAAS, wrote an awesome press release about our new paper that’s accessible to non-scientists! Huge thanks to Gabrielle and AAAS for helping share our work with the world! 🙏 #SciComm #Science www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

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Organ sculpting cells may hold clues to how cancer spreads

A new study from scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reveals that the cells shaping our organs may be far more mobile and coordinated than once believed. 

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Jenevieve Norton @jenevievenorton.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Our new paper uncovering the role of Plexin/Semaphorin signaling in collective cell migration using testis nascent myotubes in flies is out! This work is from my time with @peiferlabunc.bsky.social led by @maikbischoff.bsky.social. As always, I am so thankful and proud to be a part of this story!

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Plexin/Semaphorin antagonism orchestrates collective cell migration and organ sculpting by regulating epithelial-mesenchymal balance

An axon guidance factor restricts gap growth in a non-neuronal migrating cell sheet, allowing organ sculpting.

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epithelial mechanics fan club @epimechfc.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

1/14 “Epithelial” & “Mesenchymal” aren’t binary categories—they form a spectrum, or better yet, a multidimensional space. This becomes especially clear in collective cell migration, which often depends on a finely tuned degree of “mesenchymal-ness”. #cellbio #devbio #cellmigration

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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I escaped poverty because I am a scientist. And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation. A 🧵:

A Lady Professor with brown hair and glasses, wearing a scarf in red, green, yellow, & black, a gift from an incredible lactation consultant, sitting in in front of cactus.

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Jean-Yves Tinevez @jytinevez.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

We just released and uploaded a new version of *Mastodon*, the large-scale tracking and track-editing framework for large, multi-view images. Mastodon is available via Fiji, via a dedicated update site. mastodon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/do... Below is a thread that survey some of the novelties ⏬️

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Jenevieve Norton @jenevievenorton.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

This project will hold a special place for me as my introduction and gateway into falling in love with cell and molecular biology. This was in part due to Maik Bischoff's and Mark Peifer's contagious passion, and in part due to this amazing model system. With that said... look at these weird testes!

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Maik Bischoff @maikbischoff.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Everything's packed and ready for an exciting #GordonConference on Directed #CellMigration in Lucca, Italy! Thrilled (and a little nervous) to give my first-ever talk at a GRC! 🔬🛫 🇮🇹 #Science #Cellbio

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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Almost 2/3 of Americans with #Alzheimer are women. Sexism plays a big role in access to resources for cognitive health. Women born in the state with the highest structural sexism showed memory decline like that of those who were 9 years older. alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Manuscript entitled: Early life exposure to structural sexism and late-life memory trajectories among black and white women and men in the United States

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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

@emily-mcparland.bsky.social, @noahgurley.bsky.social, Kevin Slep, @peiferlabunc.bsky.social and colleagues dissect the differential roles of the dual Ras-association domains of Drosophila Canoe in linking cell junctions to the cytoskeleton. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Immunofluorescence images of embryos showing that CnoRA1 domain is important for dorsal closure, head involution and epidermal integrity.
Wild-type (WT) embryo. Some cells are rounded up to divide (white arrows), but they rapidly return to columnar architecture. (B) cnoΔRA1. Groups of cells near the ventral midline fail to resume columnar architecture (red arrows). (C–E) Stage 11. (C) Wild-type embryo. (D,E) cnoΔRA1. Failure to resume columnar architecture becomes more apparent (red arrows). (F–H) Stage 14. (F) Ventral view of a wild-type embryo. Dorsal closure is completed (white arrow), head involution is underway (yellow arrow) and segmental grooves are shallow (green arrowheads). (G) cnoΔRA1. Dorsal closure failed, exposing underlying tissues (red arrow). There are gaps in the head epidermis (yellow arrows) and deep segmental grooves remain (green arrowheads). (H) Ventral view, cnoΔRA1. Holes in the epidermis (red arrows) and deep segmental grooves (green arrowheads) are observed. (I–J) Closeups, wild-type stage 10 (I–I″) and 11 (J). Dividing cells (green arrows) and forming tracheal pits (cyan arrows) are observed. Arm, Baz and Cno remain enriched at AJs. (K–K‴) Stage 10/11 cnoΔRA1 mutant. Cells that retained columnar architecture retain junctional Arm, Baz and CnoΔRA1 (yellow arrows). However, in some cells AJs are fragmented (red arrows) and in less epithelial regions Arm, Baz and Cno are strongly reduced (cyan arrows).

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Loïc A. Royer 💻🔬🧪 @loicaroyer.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The birth of fruit fly's central nervous system imaged with multicolor #adaptive #lightsheet microscopy. The microscope self-aligns to a signal that appears during imaging. www.nature.com/articles/nbt...

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

We learn in school about the distinctive shapes of each of our body’s organs, but how did that arise? Organs self-assemble, as individual cells change shape and move in coordinated ways, sometimes with multiple cell /tissue types shaping one another 1/n 🧪

Diagram of our internal organs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_%28biology%29

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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

105 cool microscopists in this starter pack, but I know there are more out there! I want to find more 45 to complete the list, can you help me? 🤓🔬 go.bsky.app/Aaf8sKT

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