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Andrew Savinov @biosavinov.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thrilled to announce that the Savinov lab is now live at UT Austin @utaustin.bsky.social! Our lab employs massively parallel experimental and AI methods to discover and design protein fragments as universal regulators of protein interactions in health and disease. www.savinovlab.com (1/n)

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Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Please share this post with anyone you think might be interested in joining our lab, and follow us to keep an eye out for our upcoming work! 8/n

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Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

And finally, we are also recruiting PhD students! If you are interested, please reach out to me and apply to the ILS Graduate Program (ils.utexas.edu/prospective-...) or the Physics Graduate Program (physics.utexas.edu/prospective-...). 7/n

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Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We are also excited to hire postdocs to take the lab’s research in new and interesting directions! If you have exciting ideas for how to investigate tissue fluidity in your favorite 3D tissue (or your favorite AI/ML/Biophysical model!), please reach out to me directly. 6/n

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Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If you have experience with 3D cell culture (especially hiPSCs!), we are also looking for a Lab Manager and Cell Culture Specialist to manage and organize laboratory operations, train students, and expand the lab’s 3D cell culture research arm. 5/n

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Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If you <3 zebrafish @zebrafishrock.bsky.social, we are looking for a Zebrafish Research and Aquatics Specialist to grow and manage our new lab’s zebrafish facility, train students, engage in outreach, and contribute to exciting research on zebrafish development. 4/n

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Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Our lab is located in a thriving, growing city with plenty of live music, great coffee, and sunshine – and we are hiring at all levels! See our open positions here (www.rikkigarnerlab.org/team) or feel free to reach out to me directly. 3/n

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Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We combine quantitative in toto imaging of whole living embryos, 3D cell culture, biophysical modeling, and AI/ML to understand how organisms harness interesting physics to shape and pattern life. If that sounds interesting to you, please join us! 2/n

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Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Excited to announce that the Rikki Garner lab has opened its doors in beautiful Austin, TX! Our interdisciplinary lab @utaustin.bsky.social MBS investigates tissue fluidity as a universal physical regulator of multicellular patterning in health and disease. www.rikkigarnerlab.org 1/n

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Zebrafish Rock! 🎃 @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

MULTIPLE JOB ALERTS 🚨 The newly minted Garner Lab (www.rikkigarnerlab.org) at UT-Austin is hiring at all levels, including undergrads, grad students, postdocs, and research staff! They are looking to build a kind, supportive, and interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers. More details in 🧵

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

We wrote two reviews on cell migration, published today in Nature Methods. They provides practical guidelines how to select a cell-migration assay and how to analyze cell-migration data Review 1: nature.com/articles/s41... Review 2: nature.com/articles/s41...

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

“A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known" - Bertrand Russell, 1976. Time-lapse video of Vampyrella lateritia eating Spirogyra algae from Science Source/Oliver Skibbe. 🦠

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Yamuna Krishnan @krishnanyamuna.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Organelles do NOT have a single uniform pH. And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you. A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n

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Rahul K @theresearch.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I’d like to invite everyone working on engineering living materials to share this starter pack. Please drop me a message or leave a comment if you like to join the #ELMs community. go.bsky.app/RinsDZh

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Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Hope to see you all at 10AM today!

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Wallace Marshall @wallaceucsf.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Flagellar length control in Chlamydomonas is a paradigm for organelle size regulation. In poster 163 at CellBio2025 Sunday Dec 7, I present work by Hiro Ishikawa using a synthetic biology approach to test a length-sensing model based on diffusion of kinesin in flagella

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Katheryn Rothenberg @krothphd.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I’m so excited to be at #CellBio2025 with my trainees! Elizabeth (#259) and Olivia (#251) have posters in Sunday’s session. Please stop by to hear about the work we are starting up in the lab looking at Rap1 GTPase signaling in epithelial migration in human carcinoma cells and in Drosophila embryos.

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Babli Adhikary @babliadhikary.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Attending #Cellbio2025? I am presenting two posters, stop by if you are interested in epithelial dynamics. Looking forward to all the amazing conversations and feedback!!

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A. T. Molines @atmolines.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

My former bench mate @joellemiere.bsky.social from the @fredchanglab.bsky.social giving a killer talk about nuclear size regulation in fission yeast at #ASCB #CellBio2025 Stay tuned for the paper to come soon ! Beautiful experimental data falling on the mathematical model, no fit needed 🤩

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Liam J. Russell @liamjrussell99.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Super excited to share some of my work in such a great session at #cellbio2025!! If you’re at the meeting come on down, I’ll be talking about cell density and its influence on tissue fluidization during epithelial morphogenesis 🔬👨🏻‍🔬🪰

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Kate Cavanaugh @katecavanaugh.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

🚨 Link up with me at #Cellbio2025 ! 🚨 Excited to present the majority of my postdoc work in the Physical Cell Biology from Molecules to Organisms Minisymposium. Thanks to the organizers for putting together such an exciting session 🤩

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Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Featuring @katecavanaugh.bsky.social @yusuke-mori.bsky.social @fengtongji.bsky.social @liamjrussell99.bsky.social Gavin Schlissel, June Ho Hwan, Yuxuan Rain Xiong, Rohit Joshi, and myself! Sun 10AM–12PM, Room 120 (The app is missing the first few talks, but I assure you talks start right at 10AM!)

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Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Looks like I'm just an F0 founder in a tank all by myself.

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Chris Miles @chrismil.es · 02/12/2025

I'm hiring a postdoc through Utah Math. Deadline Dec 15. If you work in math/comp bio (SciML, stochastic modeling, single-cell data), please apply! Vibrant math bio community & unbeatable outdoors. Mention me in your cover letter & reach out with any questions. www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/27...

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Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

If you're at #cellbio2025, @atmolines.bsky.social Hernan Garcia and I invite you to attend our Minisymposium “Physical Cell Biology from Molecules to Organisms” for incredible talks on epigenetic mechanical memory, viscoelasticity, cortical flows, morphogenesis, tissue wetting, size scaling, et al!

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

The #cellbio2025 is starting this week! I’ll be giving a talk on the first 1st day, in the session organized by @iaincheeseman.bsky.social and @abbybuch.bsky.social (Thx for the invitation!). If you’re interested in #oocytes, #proteostasis, and #aging come by to attend! @ascbiology.bsky.social

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Dr. Ahna Skop @ahnaskop.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Come find out how to make your science more accessible. Hear and touch mitosis during my talk. @ascbiology.bsky.social #cellbio2025 #mitosis #midbody #tactilelearning

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Jerry C @xianglejerry.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Hey everyone and fellow #actin people! Here's a preview video for my upcoming talk at #cellbio2025 @ascbiology.bsky.social next Wednesday at 10am! Because it's gonna happen on the last day, so I promise to be a little funny, and I might even throw in a song and dance! And some nice data too.

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Zebrafish Rock! 🎃 @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Any other shoalmates in attendance? #cellbio2025

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Aakriti Jain @aakritijain.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

If you will be at @ascbiology.bsky.social #CellBio2025 this coming week, let’s connect! I'm giving a talk on Tue Dec 9 at 10 AM in the “From Mechanisms to Therapeutic Insights in Neurodegeneration” session and a poster on Mon Dec 8 in the “Organelles – Endosome and Lysosomes” session. See you there!

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Wallace Marshall @wallaceucsf.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Cells can hunt prey, solve mazes, and learn from past experience. Does this mean they can think, at some level? Find out more at our upcoming session on "Cell Behavior and Cognition" at the ASCB/EMBO #cellbio2025 meeting, Saturday 1-3 pm rm 115.

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Sarah Cohen @cohenlaboratory.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Attending #CellBio2025? Come see the Cohen Lab - Monday will be a busy day for us, including my theatrical debut in WICB "Scripts of Success" skits!

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Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Presenting at #cellbio2025 this week? Please post your presentation info here on Bluesky so we can like and share!

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Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Talk: Sun 11:21 AM, Room 120, Minisymposium: Physical Cell Biology from Molecules to Organisms, "Tissue fluidity: A double-edged sword for multicellular patterning" Poster: Tues 2:15 – 3:45 PM, Board No. B034

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Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Looking forward to seeing everyone at #cellbio2025! Excited to share new work from my postdoc to measure, model, and control the interplay of tissue fluidity and multicellular patterning in a living organism. Come see me at my talk or poster (details below), or DM me if you want to meet up!

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Biophysical Journal @biophysj.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Too fluid, too rigid, no patterning. Garner et al. identify tissue fluidity—how freely cells move within a tissue—as a critical regulator of adhesion-based cell sorting. Read their study to learn how tissues can tune their fluidity to enable patterning.

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Tissue fluidity mediates a trade-off between the speed and accuracy of multicellular patterning by cell sorting

The organization of cells into spatial patterns is a fundamental aspect of multicellularity. One major mechanism underlying tissue patterning is adhesion-based cell sorting, in which a heterogeneous…

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irisjuanico.bsky.social @irisjuanico.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Who's going to #cellbio2025 in Philly? I am a PhD candidate and molecular biologist studying regeneration in Hydra vulgaris, an animal that can grow back its entire body. Looking to transition to industry next year. Let's connect!

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Eric (“VJ”) Rubenstein @vjrubenstein.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Just one week away until #CellBio2025! Please plan to join us for a sUPeR speakER lineup at the #EndoplasmicReticulum Minisymposium! Dec 10 at 9 AM @ascbiology.bsky.social

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Abby Buchwalter @abbybuch.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

It's an amazing time to be a cell biologist, as new tech makes probing cellular processes in physiological contexts more tractable. This is the theme of a Special Interest Subgroup that @iaincheeseman.bsky.social and I are hosting at #cellbio2025. Join us on Saturday 12/5! @ascbiology.bsky.social

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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 24/11/2025

🎉 Congratulations to Yu Deng, winner of the 2025 Norton B. Gilula Travel Award! Yu is a PhD student from Dr. Peter Devreotes’ lab at @jhu.edu. Be sure to catch Yu’s talk during #CellBio2025! Read about this year's winners 👉 rupress.org/jcb/pages/al...

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Rockefeller University Press @rupress.org · 24/11/2025

🎉 Congratulations to Justus Francis (@justusfrancis.bsky.social), winner of the @jcb.org 2025 Alan Hall Travel Award! Justus is a graduate student in @sc-lab.bsky.social. Be sure to catch Justus’s talk during #CellBio2025! Read about this year's winners 👉 rupress.org/jcb/pages/al...

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Beata Science Art @beatascienceart.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

All #CellBio2025 attendees! Here’s our phenomenal lineup for our session on #SciArt & #SciComm: @ahnaskop.bsky.social, @jiwasa.bsky.social, @mag2art.bsky.social, @nat-prunet.bsky.social, and Julia Licholai. Please come by and spread the word! Huge thanks to @ascbiology.bsky.social and co-organizers!

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Mary Munson @marymunson4.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Super excited for the upcoming #cellbio2025 @ascbiology.bsky.social @embo.org meeting in Philadelphia! Check out the Special President's session on "The Rising Tide of Science Denial" on Saturday at 1pm!

Image of the four speakers for the "Rising Tide of Science Denial", special President's session on Saturday Dec 6 at 1pm: Kenneth R. Miller, Michael Mann, Paul Offit, and Gale M. Sinatra

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Brian Camley @diffusiveblob.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Ten years ago, I saw a paper with some data that has bothered me ever since: B cells in a 0-100 ng/mL gradient of CCL19 are attracted to CCL19, but B cells in 0-500 ng/mL are repelled (see movie, ignoring the big clusters for now!). Why? Here's our model! doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Willow Coyote-Maestas @willowcoyote.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Zara Weinberg passed away earlier this week. She joined my lab earlier this year when her postdoc lab formally closed. She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.

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