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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

But what's the mechanism?

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Michael Way @drmichaelway.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

2nd postdoc job alert in the Crick Institute in London. Project will examine the role of motors & the cytoskeleton (actin, septins and microtubules) during vaccinia virus egress using biochemical, structural & cellular approaches + live cell imaging. spread the word. crick.ac.uk/WayPostdoc20...

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Postdoctoral Fellow - Cellular signalling and cytoskeletal function lab

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John Prensner @johnprensner.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Wow this is a seriously serious supplementary figure from @cellpress.bsky.social today. Panels A through UU. I get that Cell likes to minimize the number of supplementary figures. But is this really what is happening here? www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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Manuel Thery @manuelthery.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

#LivingArchitectures We put cells and cytoskeleton filaments on the architecture of the musée d'Orsay. www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/agenda/ev... Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab adapted their protocols to illustrate the questions that keep them awake at night. -> Two shows on the 24th and 25th of January.

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David Drubin @drubin.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Today, our animation synthesizing decades of research on actin-mediated endocytosis in budding yeast was published: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... The result of a fantastic Iwasa-Drubin lab collaboration. @margotriggi.bsky.social @jiwasa.bsky.social movie.biologists.com/video/10.124...

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Nadja M. Hümpfer @nadjahuempf.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Off to Dresden for my seminar tomorrow at @mpi-cbg.de kindly hosted by Sandra Scharaw. I can't wait to meet everyone and talk exciting science stuff 🔬🧪🧬. Presenting my Atlas of cytokinesis 😊 🌍🍬

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Pedro Beltrao @pedrobeltrao.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I tried an even harder example on Gemini Pro image generation and this is quite scary/amazing. I asked for a microscopy image of around 20 HeLa cells, GFP tagged 20% nuclear, 10% membrane, +1 nuclear staining, + overlap. Image below and prompt in the following post.

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Scientists around former IMP group leader David Keays (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social show that #pigeons detect magnetic fields through their inner ear. Their discovery was now published in the journal @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... More: www.imp.ac.at/news/article...

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A global screen for magnetically induced neuronal activity in the pigeon brain

How animals detect the Earth’s magnetic field remains a mystery in sensory biology. Despite extensive behavioral evidence, the neural circuitry and molecular mechanisms responsible for magnetic sensin...

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Nadja M. Hümpfer @nadjahuempf.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

What an honor and a pleasure to present my research at the 10 years AMBIO NIKON🔬 Core Facility Symposium 🎇 @Charité. Amazing science across the bench, scales, model systems, in health and disease. 🐀🦠🧫 Multiplexing and omics, data handling, and correlative approaches are at the forefront of medical 🔬

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Nadja M. Hümpfer @nadjahuempf.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Happening today @ Charité Berlin. 10 years of AMBIO @nikonmicroanz.bsky.social Core Facility 🎉 Celebrate with this excellent speaker line up 👇🏽

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We're just normal men @wejustinnocentmen.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

We’re just innocent men

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Nadja M. Hümpfer @nadjahuempf.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

It doesn't stop! 🤩 Session this morning includes major breakthrough of @afilimon.bsky.social on the importance of menstrual blood 🩸 as a marker to test for #endometriosis and the effect of menstrual cycle on cancer development in aging women. ❤️💪🏽🩸 Important work + well deserved winner! #FallingWalls

Ângela Gonçalves on stage of Falling Walls Science Summit presenting a comparison of the number of menstrual cycles in an average western woman and a paleolithic woman. Each additional year of cycling adds a 9.1% risk to endometrial cancer development.

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Nadja M. Hümpfer @nadjahuempf.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

How do mammalian follicles expel and safe-guard the oocyte upon ovulation? Amazing talk by @schuhlab.bsky.social at the #FallingWalls #ScienceSummit25 on the live visualisation of ovulation 🔬🥚. Hyaluronic acid acts as a hydrogel to induce #expansion and increase pressure in the follicle. 🎉🤩

A still image of a video shown on screen that shows a follicle marked by individual cells' membrane (green), cell nuclei (magenta) and fluid inside the follicle (red). Melina Schuh on stage of the Falling Walls Science Summit presenting her group's research.

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Nadja M. Hümpfer @nadjahuempf.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Great panel concluding an exciting day at the #ScienceSummit25 in Berlin. Moderated by @curiousdrgeorge.bsky.social and supported by @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social Biohub. "The human researcher and AI together will always outperform each other individually".👌🏽 And a shout-out to expansion microscopy 🔬🧫🦠

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Alexey Amunts @amunts.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

What a gem from @dudinlab.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social @centriolelab.bsky.social in Cell! Expansion microscopy atlas of >200 eukaryotes comparing cytoskeletal architectures revealing structures not seen before. Stunning visualisation! Exactly the kind of transformative cell biology we need.

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Nadja M. Hümpfer @nadjahuempf.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

"... As though innovation were a vending machine fueled by targeted investment rather than by the slow, uncertain and often serendipitous crawl of basic research." #unkürzbar

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Wout Oosterheert @woutoosterheert.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Are you excited to uncover the molecular mechanisms of actin filament assemblies that drive cell migration using cryo-EM? Only 1.5 week to apply for this exciting PhD position in my newly established lab at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam: www.werkenbijavl.nl/vacatures/ph...

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PhD Student – Structural Biology of Actin Filament Assemblies | Werken bij AVL

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Nadja M. Hümpfer @nadjahuempf.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Thank you, fellow preLighter @sristi.bsky.social for mentioning our #Atlas 🗺️ on #Cytokinesis ⌛ in the September in #preprints list @prelights.bsky.social 😊 prelights.biologists.com/prelists/sep...

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September in preprints – Cell biology edition - preLights

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Ewerslab @ewerslab.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

🚂 A peine lancés et déjà supprimés ? Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne, un voyage bas-carbone largement plébiscité par ses utilisateurs agir.greenvoice.fr/petitions/sa...

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Nadja M. Hümpfer @nadjahuempf.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Why has this not taken off more during the whole #Wicked craze?🧹🌸❇️ youtu.be/yTQyFzTl5GA?... A capella science always gold....

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Defining Gravity (ft. Physics Girl & MALINDA) | A Capella Science

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Elias Spiliotis @septinlab.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Exciting news! Submissions are now open for the first @ascbiology.bsky.social #MBOC Spercial Issue on #Septins Submission deadline: April 30, 2026 RT and spread the word at #CellBio2025 www.molbiolcell.org/cell-biology...

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Kate Cavanaugh @katecavanaugh.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

See this? This = implanting mouse embryo. Usually this happens inside its mother and is invisible to us, but we can actually watch implantation ex vivo with the hope of understanding why implantation goes awry in embryos of older women. A 🧵...

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Nadja M. Hümpfer @nadjahuempf.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Our very own @ewerslab.bsky.social presents our story on Multiscale imaging of #Cytokinesis, harnessing #ExM 🔬🫧 of cytokinetic bridges 👀 🍬at this year's #BiomembraneDays25 👏🏽. Read more? 👉🏽 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Helge Ewers pointing towards a huge screen that shows different stages of cytokinesis; Illustrated by individual and averaged U-ExM images of Septin2-GFP (green) and tubulin (magenta)

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Kai Murk @kaimurk.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Upcoming 'Advanced Bioimaging' Symposium at 19th of November at the Charité to celebrate the 10th anniversary of our AMBIO imaging facility

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James Manton @jamesdmanton.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

We present a simple method to easily increase the imageable depth of an expansion microscopy gel on a typical inverted microscope ten-fold, using some carefully placed FEP film and a water dipping objective lens:

A comparison of imaging an expansion microscopy hydrogel with a water dipping objective lens, using either eye gel as an immersion medium or a combination of Immersol W, water and a thin FEP film. In both cases, the sample is supported by a thin FEP film rather than a coverglass.

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Nadja M. Hümpfer @nadjahuempf.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

It is out! 🦚 I recorded hundreds of #ExM 🔬images of cytokinetic bridges and averaged them into 6 stages. How? With help from our fantastic collaborators @zacsimile.bsky.social and @jonasries.bsky.social in Vienna 😇. Check out the full atlas here: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17232370

Sketches of six stages of cytokinetic development of the intercellular bridge are illustrated with exmaple U-ExM fluorescence microscopy images. Septin2-GFP shown in green. Tubulin shown in magenta. A shortened workflow illustrates the image alignment and averaging process to generate average 2D reconstructions of cytokinetic stages.

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Dimova Lab @dimovalab.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Puzzling temperature-responsive membrane rods in cells now presented by Oliver Rocks with work by @pm-mueller.bsky.social at the #BiomembraneDays25

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Nadja M. Hümpfer @nadjahuempf.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Another welcome distraction from the dissertation awaits right next to the office: #BioMembraneDays25 are such a great gathering, spanning membrane and lipid #biophysics to physiology. The food is outstanding too 🤗. Thanks to organizers @ewerslab.bsky.social @dimovalab.bsky.social and Thomas Weikl!

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Nadja M. Hümpfer @nadjahuempf.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Taking a break from my thesis marathon and enjoying the lecture by @eboyden3.bsky.social at the #GEF25 😄. A wonderful ride through the beginnings, present and future of #ExM 🔬. What a great opportunity to join via live stream, big thanks to the organizers @alishaib.bsky.social and Silvio Rizzoli 😊

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Nadja M. Hümpfer @nadjahuempf.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Now out on bioRxiv. 🥳My research on #cytokinesis, averaging thousands of #ExM images🔬, creating a dynamic atlas of cytokinesis 🦠⏳. Here's an animated sneak peek of what we found. Better resolution on bioRxiv😄 #PSFoftheGIF

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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

@ewerslab.bsky.social Helge Ewers is starting the day strong at #GEF25. Check out this incredible work on cytokinesis! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Ewerslab @ewerslab.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

it’s me! and the work of @pm-mueller.bsky.social Meret Fischer, Chethana, Ria Thielhorn, Mengfei Gao, Michael Dyhr and, most prominently Nadja Hümpfer

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