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Renkawitz Lab @renkawitzteam.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If you are interested in cellular and organelle mechanobiology, and particularly in nuclear mechanobiology, this is an interesting piece to read, led by @lammerdinglab.bsky.social. Happy to have contributed to this perspective. Exciting questions and exciting times ahead for the field!

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EMBO @embo.org · 09/07/2026

Sign up now for the EMBO Workshop "Organelle dynamics in health and disease: Bridging molecules to organisms" in #Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 12–14 October 2026. Deadline: 15 July 2026 meetings.embo.org/event/26-organell… #EMBOOrganelleDynamics #LifeSciences #meeting #EMBOevents 🧪

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EMBO @embo.org · 16/01/2026

The EMBO Workshop "#Centrosomes: From fundamentals to diseases" in #Lausanne, Switzerland, 1–4 September 2026 will highlight the advances in the field of centrosome #research. Register now! Deadline: 1 June meetings.embo.org/event/26-centroso… #EMBOCentrosomes #EMBOevents #conference 🧪

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Thorn-Seshold Lab @thornsesholdlab.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Internship / MSc for #engineering, #photoswitch & #optogenetics fans: Like LEDs, soldering, simple PCBs and optics? Join the Thorn-Seshold lab at @tudresden.bsky.social & help build next-gen light engines for #photopharmacology & cellular control. PIs please repost! @poldresden.bsky.social

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EMBO Lab Leadership @embolableadership.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

The EMBO Lab Leadership for #Postdocs online course running 16–18 June still has places open. Three days on the people side of running research: - interpersonal skills - tools for your development - clearer communication Sign up here: www.embolableadership.org/course/embol... #EMBOLabLead

A woman by a flipchart during a course. Text highlighting the EMBO Lab Leadership for postdocs online course 16-18 June still has places available

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SFB 1348 @sfb1348.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Looking forward to an exciting @sfb1348.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de seminar with Alexander Ludwig (Nanyang Technological University Singapore) on May 7, 2026. He will speak about “Birth of a Lumen: Multiscale Imaging Reveals a Novel Mechanism of Apical Domain Initiation”. Everyone's welcome!

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Matthew Welch @mattwelchlab.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Our most recent paper "Divergent Rickettsia species exhibit distinct mechanisms of actin-based motility" is now out in @jcb.org! Check it out here: rupress.org/jcb/article/...

Image of Rickettsia bacteria in yellow, in an infected cell expressing fluorescent actin in blue.

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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 28/04/2026

The first Nature Conference on fluorescence microscopy is open for registration. The conference will highlight key areas in fluorescence microscopy, with sessions on super resolution techniques, mesoscale & intravital imaging & AI-driven developments natureconferences.streamgo.live/next-generat...

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Next-Generation Fluorescence Microscopy

Organized by Tsinghua University, Nature Photonics, Nature, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Biotechnology and Nature Communications. The conference will highlight key areas in fluorescence micro...

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Physics of Life Dresden @poldresden.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

🚀 Are you planning to secure funding to start your own research group? (e.g. ERC, Emmy Noether, etc). 👨‍🔬Physics of Life can host you, and offers numerous benefits! We are launching a new Program to host and support third-party funded junior groups. Check out the details here: tud.link/xayd8s

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Renkawitz Lab @renkawitzteam.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

How does a cell move when it carries cargo larger than its own organelles? Excited to share our findings: cells can mechanoadapt their force architecture to move oversized cargo Watch the bulky parasite (red) within an immune cell squeezing through a tiny pore www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/6

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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Just back from the annual meeting of the @dfg.de priority program #SPP2332 on "Physics of Parasitism", this time at the Robert Koch Institute at Berlin. So many great talks and discussions! Already looking forward to next year's meeting at Hamburg👍

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Renkawitz Lab @renkawitzteam.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

We thank all team members, collaborators, and funding partners for a productive year 2025! In 2026, we look forward to new exciting findings on the mechanobiology of cells and their organelles at the interface of cell biology, biophysics, material science, and immunology. All the best for 2026!

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SFB 1348 @sfb1348.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Dynamic cellular interfaces reloaded!🎉 Happy and excited to receive extended funding @sfb1348.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de @mpi-muenster.bsky.social and to push our collaborative science forward in the next 4 years! Big thanks @dfg.de, reviewers, and everyone else involved for the continued support!

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Renkawitz Lab @renkawitzteam.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Thanks to @katemiro.bsky.social , Megan King, Verena Ruprecht & @lammerdinglab.bsky.social for organising the very first meeting on the “Mechanobiology of the Nucleus” #MBNSRC @faseborg.bsky.social and for the invitation to present our discoveries. The conference was fantastic!

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Matthias Krause @matthias-krause.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Register for the Dynamic Cell VI conference, Reading, UK, April 2026! This conference focusses on all aspects of cell dynamics, co-organised by @bscb-official.bsky.social and @biochemsoc.bsky.social with @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social and the Chinese Society for Cell Biology. bit.ly/Dynamic-Cell-VI

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EMBO @embo.org · 07/10/2025

Want to apply for an EMBO Postdoctoral #Fellowship? 🧪 Here are tips from the EMBO Fellowship Committee: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY7c... #LifeSciences #grant #funding

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How to apply for an EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship: Tips from the Committee

YouTube video by EMBO - excellence in life sciences

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Renkawitz Lab @renkawitzteam.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Thank you for the fantastic organisation of the conference and for assembling this excellent scientific program with numerous great poster sessions. I am already looking forward to the next CellMech conference in two years!

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Felix Campelo @felixmendu.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Announcing a new @embo.org Workshop on "Intracellular mechanics and organelle mechanobiology" that we are organizing with Michael Krieg and Verena Ruprecht at @icfo.eu (Barcelona) on 16-20 February, 2026. Please, repost and spread the word! 🙏 #EMBOmechanobio meetings.embo.org/event/26-org...

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Intracellular mechanics and organelle mechanobiology

Mechanobiology is an interdisciplinary field that emerges at the cross-section of biology, physics and engineering. It aims to understand how living cells, tissues and animals sense and respond to me…

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Guillaume Charras @gcharras.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Can pressure gradients persist over long timescales in animal cells? We induced intracellular pressure gradients and examined the resulting flows in single cells. We reveal surprisingly long lasting pressure gradients. More here: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

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Jeff Rasmussen @jraslab.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Congrats to @errricpeterman.bsky.social on leading our latest paper now published in @jcellsci.bsky.social ! Eric found multiple roles for microtubules in tissue-resident macrophage homeostasis and function -- including in helping macrophages navigate around epithelial obstacles during wound repair👇

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Daniel J. Cohen (Princeton) @djcohen.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

SCHEPHERD--the bioelectric cell herding platform built for YOU. Single cells, monolayers, organoids--this herds them all + new tricks. Plz try it-- we will *give* you parts! Teaser here of a steering a single cell. GS Yubin Lin's lifeblood with J. Yodh on piano; Celeste R. and Paul K. Thread 1/N

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Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

To expand the Fast & Fair peer review experiment to more subject areas, we are inviting our community members to join the Biology Open peer reviewer pool. Your participation and commitment are key to the success of this initiative. Apply at bit.ly/428Cszt #fastandfairpeerreview

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Jan Lammerding - Lab @lammerdinglab.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Final call to register and submit abstracts for the @faseborg.bsky.social conference on the Mechanobiology of the Cell Nucleus (#MBNSRC) to be considered for platform presentations. The conference takes place in Melbourne, FL, Oct. 26-30, 2025. See more info at: events.faseb.org/event/Mechan...

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Dagmar Iber & CoBi @iberd.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

How can cells self-organize rapidly into complex patterns during development? Let’s explore a powerful and underappreciated mechanism: Directed Cell Migration (DCM). Preprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1101/2025... 👇Thread 🧵(1/11)

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 29/07/2025

Our Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route is now open for applications, providing a fast-track option for attracting mid-career researchers looking to relocate to the UK from overseas, providing up to £4m over a five-year period. #RSGrants

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Paul & Virginie - Centriole Lab @centriolelab.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

🚨 New EMBO Practical Course! Ultrastructure Expansion Microscopy: From Cells to Tissue 🔬 📅 20–24 Apr 2026 | 📍 EMBL Heidelberg Co-organised with @banterlegroup.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social 💡 Register your interest to get notified when registration opens: 🔗 www.embl.org/about/info/c...

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Gautam Dey @gautamdey.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

1 month to abstract deadline for the first cell biology of the nucleus meeting at @embl.org in many years - organised by the stellar @luskinglab.bsky.social @sarawickstrom.bsky.social Tom Quail & Simone Koehler Tons of open slots, invited and selected speakers all get 20 mins ❤️ #EESNucleus

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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

📢Call for speakers We are looking for ECRs to speak in our mini-symposium run together with the popular membrane trafficking webinar series organised by ‪@franbottanelli.bsky.social @felixmendu.bsky.social & @ishier.bsky.social. focalplane.biologists.com/2025/07/14/f... Apply by 24 August

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FocalPlane features... membrane trafficking - apply to give a talk - FocalPlane

FocalPlane features... membrane trafficking - apply to give a talk - News

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BaumjohannLab @baumjohannlab.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

🚨 There is a new W2 Professorship for Tumor Immunology (permanent position) available in our department. 🎓 🧫 🧪 🔬 ℹ️ Check out the details here: www.uni-bonn.de/en/universit... ⏰ Apply now! Application deadline is August 26, 2025. 📢 Please share! @unibonn.bsky.social @immunosens.bsky.social

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W2 Professorship for Tumor Immunology

W2 Professorship

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EMBO @embo.org · 21/07/2025

More than 100 EMBO Postdoctoral Fellows from 30+ countries got together for this year's EMBO Fellows’ Meeting. Read about the fellows' experience and the enriching programme: www.embo.org/features/sha... #EMBOFellows #LifeSciences #Networking

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Sharing science and creating connections – Features – EMBO

More than 100 postdoctoral researchers met at the EMBO Fellows' Meeting

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Jan Lammerding - Lab @lammerdinglab.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Interested in nuclear #mechanobiology? Join us for the first ever FASEB Science Research Conference on the Mechanobiology of the Nucleus #MBNSRC. Find more information and register at: events.faseb.org/event/Mechan... Submit abstracts by August 31, 2025. Please share and see you in October!

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Ivaska Lab @ivaskalab.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Latest from Ivaska Lab ▶️ Niklas Jäntti et al delve deep into the roles of EPLINα/β on integrin trafficking and breast cancer outcomes! Congratulations to all the authors! Check the paper out here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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EPLINα controls integrin recycling from Rab21 endosomes to drive breast cancer cell migration

Epithelial protein lost in neoplasm (EPLIN), an actin-binding protein, has been described as both a tumor promoter and tumor suppressor in different c…

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CellMech2025 @cellmech2025.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

🚨 Our final program is online!!! You can now check the schedule for Invited Speakers, Oral talks, Poster sessions, etc! 👇

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 07/07/2025

SNAP-tag is a widespread tool for labelling protein for bioimaging. An article published in Nature Chemical Biology presents SNAP-tag2 with increased labelling kinetics and brightness, which translates into a better performance in live-cell super-resolution imaging. go.nature.com/46fMIZd 🧪

This is figure 2 showing how SNAP-tag engineering is aiming for faster and brighter fluorescence labeling

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

The Company of Biologists Workshop - Mechanometabolism Unleashed: The Interface of Cell Mechanics and Metabolism Thank you to Workshop organisers Marco Foiani, Ana-Maria Lennon-Duménil, Victoria Sanz-Moreno and Giorgio Scita. #Workshop #Biology #CellBiology #Community #Collaboration #Research

Group photo from the Mechanometabolism Unleashed: The Interface of Cell Mechanics and Metabolism Workshop

Held at Buxted Park, East Sussex, UK
22-25 June 2025

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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

📢Conference alert📢 Only one week left to register for the Engineering Life 2025 Symposium at Dresden September 1-3. This year's edition focuses on the function of mechanical forces in biology. engineering-life-dresden.de

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Engineering Life 2025: ORIGIN AND FUNCTION OF MECHANICAL FORCES IN BIOLOGY

Engineering Life 2025, biological forces, force spectroscopy, measuring forces, developmental forces, molecular motors, forces in morphogenesis, cytoskeleton, DNA mechanics, bionanotechnology

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HetCCI (SPP 2493) @hetcci.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Proud to kick-off #HetCCI, a DFG-funded research consortium in Germany (Priority Programme #SPP2493 on heterotypic cell-cell interactions in epithelia). Follow us if interested in how epithelial cells interact with non-epithelial tissues in different settings! Webpage will follow asap. #cellbiology

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EMBO Lab Leadership @embolableadership.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Take time to focus on your interpersonal skills, discover tools to support your development and tune up communication skills at the in-person @embo.org Lab Leadership course for #Postdocs: 22-24 July 2025. Places still available - sign up now: www.embolableadership.org/course/embol... #EMBOLabLead

A woman writing on a flipchart during a course. Text highlighting the EMBO Lab Leadership for #Postdocs course on 22-24 July in Leimen, Germany still has places available

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Biomedical Center Munich / LMU Munich @bmc-lmu.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

🎉 Our group leader Markus Sperandio is recognised for his outstanding contributions in #vascular #biology. He explores the #molecular mechanisms that guide #neutrophils ,focusing is on how these vital #immune functions emerge during early #postnatal #development. ➡️ www.med.lmu.de/bmc/en/news/...

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Malpighi Prize for physiologist Markus Sperandio

The physician is being honoured with the award by the European Society of Microcirculation (ESM).

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Renkawitz Lab @renkawitzteam.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

If you are interested in #OrganelleDamage #Mechanics #Microtubules #Cytosk.Forces or #Migration This zoom-in shows the rapid dynamics of the breakage of the #centrosome - a membrane-less organelle www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Imaged by #separation of the #centriole-pair (black dots; red arrows)

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CellMech2025 @cellmech2025.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

@renkawitzteam.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/cell...

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EMBO @embo.org · 14/05/2025

The Maria Leptin | EMBO Science Journalism Fellowships support life scientists pursuing a career in #ScienceJournalism and science journalists who wish to further their scientific education. Apply now: buff.ly/2YPDOJv #LifeSciences #Funding 🧪

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Fellowships, grants and career support – Maria Leptin | EMBO Science Journalism Fellowships – EMBO

Supporting life scientists pursuing a career in science journalism and science journalists who wish to further their scientific education

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natalieadye.bsky.social @natalieadye.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Join us in Singapore in September for the "Mechanobiology in Time and Space" meeting hosted by the Mechanobiology Institute at NUS @mbisg.bsky.social and Max Planck Society @maxplanck.de. Abstracts due soon! www.mbi.nus.edu.sg/events/mbico...

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