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Melike Lakadamyali

@melikel.bsky.social
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Professor, Physiology Department, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. www.lakadamyali-lab.com Super resolution microscopy, single molecule biophysics, microtubules, organelles, nucleus and chromatin

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Estibaliz Gómez de Mariscal, PhD @gomez-mariscal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🚨Our work #ReScale4DL: balancing pixel and contextual information for enhanced bioimage segmentation, with @henriqueslab.bsky.social is out today!🚀 www.nature.com/articles/s41... ReScale4DL links key concepts in DL (receptive fields)+microscopy (resolution) so they can work #bettertogether😉 Threat👇
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Melike Lakadamyali @melikel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Nanoscale Approaches to Biology is excited to be hosting this special event during BPS emerging science week with an excellent lineup of speakers. Please register and join us!
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Melike Lakadamyali @melikel.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Congratulations! Very well deserved!
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Diez Lab @ TU Dresden @stefandiezlab.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
🔬 #JobAlert Interested in doing a PhD with us in #SyntheticBiology on the Reconstitution of Oscillatory Microtubule-Motor Systems? Check shorturl.at/wis5P (note the eligibility criteria) or/and get in touch with us shorturl.at/WmgOD. Deadline: 31 July 2026 #WeAreHiring #AcademicJobs #ScienceJobs
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Melike Lakadamyali @melikel.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Very proud of Dr. Kim on a stellar defense. This is a bittersweet moment for the lab as she will be missed. But a bright future awaits her in her new career and we all wish her the best of luck. Her contributions will continue to make an impact in our science and the field for many years to come!
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Abby Buchwalter @abbybuch.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
After some good funding news, we are hiring! Looking for a postdoc to join our team and lead our explorations into transposon repression by the nuclear lamina. Check out the full ad on our lab website at buchwalter-lab.github.io/postdoc-ad.pdf + contact me to learn more!
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Max Planck Institute for Medical Research @mpi-mr.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
🤩We're really looking forward to our next Rudolf Mößbauer Colloquium with Melike Lakadamyali @melikel.bsky.social from @upenn.edu University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine! 🚀🔬 #mmimr #maxplanck #rmc #scientifictalks #superresolution #imaging
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Melike Lakadamyali @melikel.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This work was driven by a very talented graduate student in the lab, Hannah Kim, and numerous, amazing collaborators who contributed with biological model systems.
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Melike Lakadamyali @melikel.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
In unpublished work with collaborators (soon to come) we also show that mitigating aberrant chromatin remodeling events identified by O-SNAP can partially rescue cell function.
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Melike Lakadamyali @melikel.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Using O-SNAP, we unraveled aberrant chromatin remodeling in human chondrocytes during in vitro expansion and in mammary epithelial cells with increased nuclear oxidative stress.
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Melike Lakadamyali @melikel.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
My lab has been imaging chromatin organization using super-resolution microscopy in healthy and diseased cells for over a decade. We can now quantify chromatin remodeling in an unbiased and multi-scale manner, classify cell states and obtain insight into which spatial features drive classification.
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Melike Lakadamyali @melikel.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I am so happy to see our paper on spatial feature based analysis of chromatin states in print in Nature Communications. Here is an early access version of O-SNAP: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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O-SNAP uncovers nanoscale chromatin remodeling in dedifferentiation and stress responses - Nature Communications
Changes in nuclear architecture during cell state transitions remain poorly understood. Here, the authors use O-SNAP, a framework to analyze SMLM images of chromatin, to reveal chromatin remodelling i...
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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 01/06/2026
Heterogeneity of late #endosome/#lysosomes shown by multiplexed DNA-PAINT imaging. Quantitative pipeline developed by Charles Bond, Melike Lakadamyali @melikel.bsky.social and colleagues: rupress.org/jcb/article/... 📕 Part of #Lysosomes 2026: rupress.org/jcb/collecti...
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Melike Lakadamyali @melikel.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Proud PI moment. Adriana’s thesis work in my lab was tour de force and I am so happy and proud to have had the privilege of hooding her today.
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Sinem Saka @sinemsaka.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Cells are not just bags of molecules. Function depends on spatial interactions: RNAs and/or proteins come together with interaction partners to drive regulation and function. In our new preprint, we introduce ProPER, a novel method for in situ proximity detection. Preprint: tinyurl.com/muju86s6
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Sonja Schmid @scisonja.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Don't miss the #GordonConference on 𝑺𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆-𝒎𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒆 𝑨𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝑩𝒊𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒚, organized by #KevinWelsher & me: ⏰ June 28 - July 3, 2026 🌍 in the Swiss Alpes (✈️ Geneva) ✅ APPLY now: deadline May 31. We're 75% booked: register today & be there! 🙌 🕳️ 🧬🧪🧫 🔬🟩🟥🟩🟥🏋️‍♀️💥🪤 🍩 ... you get it... 😁
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Sonja Schmid @scisonja.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
We're super excited about the speaker line-up at this GRC, featuring e.g. keynotes from @melikel.bsky.social, #ShuoHuang, #ScottBlanchard, @ceesdekker.bsky.social – and more talk slots are still available! www.grc.org/single-molec...
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2026 Single Molecule Approaches to Biology Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Single Molecule Approaches to Biology will be held in Les Diablerets, Vaud (fr) Switzerland. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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Ulrike Boehm @ulrikeboehm.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
What if cells have undiscovered methods for managing their internal logistics? Our recent work (@cathygalbraith.bsky.social, James A. Galbraith, @sciencethecat.bsky.social & myself) challenges existing views on intracellular transportation 🔗 lnkd.in/dhMDgY5Q
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Melike Lakadamyali @melikel.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Congratulations and best of luck with the move!
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Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics @mpi-ie.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
🚨 Postdoc in 3D genome architecture – join the @jumanaaha.bsky.social lab at the MPI-IE, Freiburg (🇩🇪) The wonderful lab of Jumana AlHaj Abed is pushing the limits of how chromosomes fold and interaction – and we need someone who can code, image, & think across scales. Apply here: s.gwdg.de/9c8838
Illustration of a fly and cellular structures connected by red and black thread-like lines inside a circle with a blue dot labeled 'TF' and text 'AlHaj Abed LAB' and 'Postdoctoral Researcher (m/w/d) Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology & Epigenetics'Text listing tasks in AlHaj Abed lab including Hi-C and Micro-C analysis, adapting multi-way contact genomic tools for Drosophila, building visualization framework for Pore-C data, image analysis, and programming in R and/or PythonText listing reasons to appreciate the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg including collaborative culture, core facilities, grants, scientific network, international diversity, public benefits, family support, relocation service, social life, and location, with a website linkLogo of the Max Planck Society; below text inviting to join the AlHaj Abed Lab with application deadline April 8, 2026, and a project website URL
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Sinem Saka @sinemsaka.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Spectral multiplexing is typically limited to 4-5 channels. Our new preprint introduces a framework that utilizes DNA barcoding and signal tuning to enable robust spectral unmixing and ground-truth benchmarking to achieve 15-plex subcellular profiling without cycling www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Mir Lab @mirlab.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
@mukherja.bsky.social work on RNAPII clusters is in print today: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats! TLDR: RNAPII clusters represent transcriptonally engaged molecules at single genes, not super-stochiometric assemblies. Please check it out and see the the thread below for a summary.
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A single cluster of RNA Polymerase II molecules is stably associated with active genes - Nature Communications
Live molecular-scale imaging in fly embryos shows that a single RNA Polymerase II cluster stays bound to active genes during transcription. Cluster formation requires initiation, and intensity represe...
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Melike Lakadamyali @melikel.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Congratulations. Well deserved!
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Diana Voss @dianavoss.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Baby KJ update! 🧪 He's looking so good now 🥹 Hope this little guy continues to thrive and that the team at CHOP gets to save more kids like him.🫶 youtu.be/dMY-nYMeis4?...
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Baby KJ One Year Later: Gene-Editing Breakthrough Update
YouTube video by The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics @mpi-ie.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
This Friday (today), we’re pleased to welcome Melike Lakadamyali (@melikel.bsky.social) from @upenn.edu. If you are interested in Super resolution microscopy, cytoplasmic and nuclear organization with a focus on biophysics, then do not miss Prof. Lakadamyali talk in our lecture hall at 13:00. 🤗
Seminar announcement for Max Planck Seminar Freiburg titled 'Super-resolution imaging of chromatin in health and disease' with date, time, location, and speaker Melike Lakadamyali from University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia USA
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Melike Lakadamyali @melikel.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Congratulations! So well deserved!
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Melike Lakadamyali @melikel.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Congratulations! Incredibly well deserved!
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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Melike Lakadamyali @melikel.bsky.social, Jérôme Solon and Manuel Mendoza @longchrom.bsky.social share the behind the paper story of their research interrogating how chromosome compaction scales with cell size using a combination of live confocal microscopy and 3D STORM.
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Seeing Chromatin Scaling with Cell Size, from Interphase to Mitosis - FocalPlane
Seeing Chromatin Scaling with Cell Size, from Interphase to Mitosis -
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Manuel Mendoza @longchrom.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Thanks to @focalplane.bsky.social for the invitation to highlight our recent @biophysj.bsky.social paper! With @melikel.bsky.social and Jérôme Solon, we combined super-resolution and live imaging to connect interphase chromatin organisation to mitotic chromosome compaction across cell sizes.
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Seeing Chromatin Scaling with Cell Size, from Interphase to Mitosis - FocalPlane
Seeing Chromatin Scaling with Cell Size, from Interphase to Mitosis -
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EMBL @embl.org · 22/01/2026
EMBL is deeply saddened by the passing of our Interim Director General Peer Bork, a pioneering scientist who left an indelible imprint on life science research in Europe and beyond. We extend our deepest condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues. www.embl.org/news/people-...
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Melike Lakadamyali @melikel.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Feel better Rita!
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Melike Lakadamyali @melikel.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I’m sad to miss the exciting talks at Cellbio! This is indeed a very exciting area of research. See also this fantastic paper by my Penn colleagues on this topic: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Visualization of lysosomal membrane proteins by cryo electron tomography - Nature Communications
Lysosomes are vital for cellular health and linked to many diseases. Here, authors use cryo-ET to image intact lysosomes and resolve lysosomal protein structures, providing a platform to advance the s...
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Melike Lakadamyali @melikel.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Congratulations! So well deserved!
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Gautam Dey @gautamdey.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
So proud to watch Jana turn a side quest into an entire research programme. Couldn’t imagine a more well-deserved outcome. 😍 The mighty yeast reveals what we believe are general principles of centromere evolution! Behind the curtain: communities.springernature.com/posts/counti... #MEvoSky 🧪🌎
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Counting Chromosomes: The Simple Idea That Unlocked the Rules Behind Centromere Evolution
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Ulrike Endesfelder @uendesfelder.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Last call for Les Houches! Apply now or never! ;) (ok, in 2 years again then) and share with your friends.
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Jean-Yves Tinevez @jytinevez.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Job alert! We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks? See also on the forum: forum.image.sc/t/research-e...
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Research engineer in Bioimage Analysis for the researchers of the inIdEx FORMULA
Hi all We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks? The position is in the Instit...
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Sara Wickstrom @sarawickstrom.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
How do #stemcells integrate information to coordinate fate decisions? Delighted to finally see our work showing how growth factors regulate the mechano-osmotic state of the #nucleus and #chromatin to control #pluripotency exit out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... see 🧵 👇
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Mechano-osmotic signals control chromatin state and fate transitions in pluripotent stem cells - Nature Cell Biology
McCreery, Stubb et al. show that mechano-osmotic changes in the nucleus induce general transcriptional repression and prime chromatin for cell fate transitions by relieving repression of specific differentiation genes.
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Biophysical Society @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Erdinc Sezgin to Receive 2026 Early Independent Career Award www.biophysics.org/news-room/er...
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Melike Lakadamyali @melikel.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Congratulations @jiexiaolab.bsky.social . This is so well deserved.
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Biophysical Society @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Jie Xiao to Receive 2026 Carolyn Cohen Innovation Award www.biophysics.org/news-room/ji...
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Biophysical Society @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Sarah Veatch to Receive 2026 Agnes Pockels Award in Lipids and Membrane Biophysics buff.ly/AdSMhCT
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Melike Lakadamyali @melikel.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Congratulations to @ceesdekker.bsky.social . This is so well deserved!
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Biophysical Society @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Cornelis (Cees) Dekker to Receive the 2026 Kazuhiko Kinosita Award in Single-Molecule Biophysics buff.ly/fIexyZu
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Ulrike Endesfelder @uendesfelder.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Please share: The application for Les Houches is open (until Oct 31) fluorescenceleshouches.wordpress.com *This is for you, if you ever wanted to learn all about fluorescence markers & how to apply them for your biological research!* PS: no fees this year, you just need to get there, that's all!
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French-German WE-Heraeus-Seminar "Fluorescence markers for advanced microscopy : From photophysics to biology - 2026"
March 15-20 2026, Les Houches, France
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Prevedel Lab @prevedel-lab.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
@embl.org Heidelberg is looking for a new Head of Scientific Instrumentation! This is an exciting opportunity at the interface between scientific research and technology development, overseeing our mechanical and electronic workshops! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/d...
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Head of Scientific Instrumentation Workshops
EMBL is a world leader in scientific research and at the forefront in the development of cutting-edge technologies. It operates across six sites in Heidelberg (headquarters), Barcelona, Cambridge, Gre...
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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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Eric Joyce @ericjoyce.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
🚨New preprint from the lab🚨 🧬 What keeps certain chromatin domains anchored at the nuclear periphery? Our new genome-wide HiDRO screen uncovers a key role for RNA-binding protein hnRNPK. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Mechanistic and Epigenetic Partitioning of Lamina-Associated Chromatin Revealed by a Genome-Wide Imaging Screen
The nuclear periphery is a key site for heterochromatin organization in eukaryotic cells, where lamina-associated domains (LADs) promote transcriptional repression and genome stability. Despite their ...
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Eileen Furlong @eileen-furlong.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept ‪@embl.org has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
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Group Leader - Genome Biology Unit
Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in Genome Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a motivated scientist to lead an independent research group addressing exciting and original biological...
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Melike Lakadamyali @melikel.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
I will be here for a while. Let me know when you’re around. Would be great to catch up.
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Gautam Dey @gautamdey.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Want to acquire #ExM images like this and help us understand the true extent of cytoskeletal diversity across the tree of life? This position might be for you! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j... With @dudinlab.bsky.social @embl.org @biology-unige.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social
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