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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

We are delighted to announce our new Equality, Diversity, Inclusion, and Culture (EDIC) Grant £1500 for initiatives to promote EDI in cell biology in UK or Ireland. BSCB members of any career stage can apply. Scope is purposefully wide - we're excited to see your ideas! bscb.org/support-gran...

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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Registration and abstract submission for our spring meeting is now OPEN

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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

After the success of our 2023 Imaging Cell Dynamics conference, we’ll be hosting a second #JCSImaging meeting in 2026, organised by @franbottanelli.bsky.social, @guijacquemet.bsky.social‬, @drmichaelway.bsky.social‬ & Giulia Zanetti. To register your interest: www.biologists.com/meetings/jcs...

Journal of Cell Science Meeting 2026
Imaging Cell Dynamics
Date: 11 – 14 May 2026
Venue: Montanyà Hotel, Catalonia, Spain
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

@rashmi-priya.bsky.social from @crick.ac.uk is awarded the 2026 BSCB Women in Cell Biology Medal at #DynamicCellVI by @viji-draviam.bsky.social Rashmi delivered a fascinating medal talk about her research on cell and tissue mechanics during heart development.

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Dimitry Tegunov @dtegunov.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

We're super excited to share MissAlignment: a new ML-based approach to reference-free tilt series alignment, spearheaded by @martenchaillet.bsky.social. We think it's going to make your cryo-ET life a lot better. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Code: github.com/warpem/miss-... 🧶 Thread:

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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Fantastic talk from our 2026 Postdoc ECR Medal Winner @giuliapaci.bsky.social from @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at #DynamicCellVI explaining her research on the role of 3D epithelial topology in developmental patterning Congratulations Giulia 👏👏

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Royal Microscopical Society @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Great to be here in Reading for Dynamic Cell VI, organised jointly by our friends at the Biochemical Society and the British Society for Cell Biology 🙂 Come and chat with us about the benefits of RMS membership and our range of activities in support of #microscopy 🔬

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Viji Draviam @viji-draviam.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

aPKC substrate targeting mechanisms - Shona Ellison from @crick.ac.uk presented their role in cell polarity at the #DynamicCellVI meeting of @bscb-official.bsky.social and @biochemsoc.bsky.social

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Viji Draviam @viji-draviam.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

@bscb-official.bsky.social Beautiful Cryo-ET talk by Kashish Singh on cytoplasmic lattices in mammalian embryos from @mrclmb.ac.uk at the #DynamicCellVI conference

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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Fantastic keynote talk by David Barford @mrclmb.ac.uk on kinetochore structure at #DynamicCellVI

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Viji Draviam @viji-draviam.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The abstract deadline has been extended to 16 March 2026 for Dynamic Cell VI, the annual meeting of the British Society for Cell Biology, with the Biochemical Society. biochemistry.org/events-and-training/events-calendar/dynamic-cell-vi/ Travel grants are available for BSCB members.

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Viji Draviam @viji-draviam.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

If you are at #CellBio25 @ascbiology.bsky.social and would like to hear our work on kinetochore and centromeric truncating variants, join the session on organelle dynamics (Room108 Monday 4pm).

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Viji Draviam @viji-draviam.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

It was an awesome day of Aurora and MPS1 discussion! Good luck with the fabulous discoveries!

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

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Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

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RAPP OptoElectronic @rappopto.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Wonderful work by @viji-draviam.bsky.social and team. Congratulations on the publication! We're honored to be cited in your work—exciting to see our contributions supporting cutting-edge research. Looking forward to following your continued discoveries!

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Viji Draviam @viji-draviam.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Join us at hashtag#mmc2025 on the 3rd of July at our community meeting with the Royal Microscopical Society on 'Optogenetics in the SR regime'. Details here: www.mmc-series.org.uk/meetings-fea...

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Viji Draviam @viji-draviam.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

With the @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social, we are hosting a community meeting: "Optogenetics in the Super-resolution regime" at the Microscience Microscopy Congress (mmc2025) on the 3rd of July (Manchester, UK). More here: www.mmc-series.org.uk/meetings-fea...

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Imogen Ramsden @imogen-ramsden.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Still thinking about my great experience at #Biologists100 — from my flash talk and poster, to the ECR session and insightful main talks, and all the chats in between! Big thanks to @biologists.bsky.social & @bscb-official.bsky.social for the opportunity! 📸 Full post and photos on my LinkedIn

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Viji Draviam @viji-draviam.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

A noncanonical role for dynein in controlling microtubule growth in mitosis, as shown previously in interphase. More here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Dynein synergises with EB1 to facilitate cortex-microtubule encounter and proper spindle positioning in metaphase. Thanks to the funder @ukri.org

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banterlegroup.bsky.social @banterlegroup.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

'Science is an investment' - long term and for all. Very glad to see extra funds towards scientific excellence!

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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

We are sponsoring the Scottish Cell Biology Meeting on 18th Sept. Save the date!

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Viji Draviam @viji-draviam.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Maria Leptin @erc.europa.eu discussing the importance of large infrastructures for biology @bscb-official.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social annual meetings with Jim Murray and Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz and Nick Hopwood.

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Viji Draviam @viji-draviam.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Helen Skaer wins the Waddington medal 2025 at the @bscb-official.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social annual meetings.

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Viji Draviam @viji-draviam.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Beautiful talk on Centriole and Centrosome assembly principles by Jordan Raff at the @bscb-official.bsky.social annual meeting

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Helen Matthews @helenkmatthews.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

What a view for #biologists100 the drinks reception

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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

#biologists100 conference is underway celebrating 100 years of @biologists.bsky.social

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Mitosis Lab @mitosislab.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Happy that Jon Chen @jonchenjk.bsky.social's cryo-ET and confocal study of RPE-1 chromatin in situ is online www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038/s44318-025-00407-2 Congrats also to coauthors Tingsheng Liu, @shujuncai.bsky.social, Cai Tong Ng, Jian Shi and collaborators Weimei Ruan Uttam Surana.

Cryo-ET visualization of chromatin at the nucleosome level in RPE-1 cells arrested in G1 phase and metaphase.

Cryotomograms of a metaphase RPE-1 cell.

3-D class averages of mononucleosomes and ordered stacked dinucleosomes in G1 and metaphase.

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Don’t forget about the available incentives for travel to our Biologists @ 100 conference: Up to £150 for international train journeys and a prize of £700 in our sustainable travel blog competition. Find out more at 100yearsconference.biologists.com/sustainability #biologists100

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Find out more about the incentives available for travel to Biologists @ 100

Travelled by train? Claim up to £150 for international train journeys

Tell us how you made your travel to the conference more sustainable. £700 sustainable travel blog prize.

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

We are looking forward to meeting everyone in Liverpool next week for our special 100-year anniversary conference. We have a busy, fun-filled programme. You can follow all the action from Biologists @ 100 at #biologists100. 100yearsconference.biologists.com

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Joanna Masel @joannamasel.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Now seems a good time to mention that I haven't yet filled a postdoc position in phylogenetic methods. If you just lost your job, need something temporary, and know something about bioinformatics/statistics/evolution, talk to me.

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Beck Laboratory @becklab.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

In a great collaboration with @hummerlab.bsky.social and the Kräusslich lab: HIV capsid doesn't break at the NPC; instead, it cracks open the NPC itself! Details in Cell: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... @mpibp.bsky.social @uniheidelberg.bsky.social A thread below:

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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Raven, the latest contributor to our Sticky Wicket column, asks, ‘Where will my shiny new tools come from?’ journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

A picture of Raven with a thought bubble asking, ‘Where will my shiny new tools come from?’

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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

The BSCB is on Bluesky! Follow us for all your favourite cell biology content

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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

In case you're wondering, our beautiful microscopy banner image is by @anhhle2702.bsky.social from our 2021 image competition

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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

It's not too late to submit your abstract for our Spring @biologists.bsky.social meeting. Join us in Liverpool this March! 100yearsconference.biologists.com

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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

MIT researchers introduce Boltz-1, a fully open-source model for predicting biomolecular structures With models like AlphaFold3 limited to academic research, the team built an equivalent alternative, to encourage innovation more broadly www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

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MIT researchers introduce Boltz-1, a fully open-source model for predicting biomolecular structures

Researchers in the MIT Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health developed a fully open-source biomolecular structure prediction model that achieves state-of-the-art performance, at the level of Al...

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vagnarellilab.bsky.social @vagnarellilab.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Many congratulations Dr Dorothee Kommer! Proud supervisor😊 Thanks to the external examiners Prof @viji-draviam.bsky.social, Dr Sally Wheatley and internal Dr Michell Sahai.

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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Laura Bel Borja, Federico Pelisch and colleagues find that CENP-C-targeted PLK-1 regulates kinetochore function in C. elegans embryos. Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... #OpenAccess #ReadandPublish

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Vladimir Volkov 🇺🇦 @vladimirvolkov.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Very happy to receive a Wellcome CDA! The award will fund my lab for a whopping 8 years, allowing us to dissect force-sensing at the kinetochore-microtubule interface in depth using structural methods. We are currently looking for a postdoc: qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/candidate... Please apply or repost

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Dylan Burnette @mag2art.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

The beating heart of a zebrafish embryo videoed through a microscope. #CellBiology #CardioSky

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Jeremy Baskin @jeremybaskin.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Great “tools of the trade” piece by Xiaofu Cao in Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol about her recent paper exploiting cell cycle-dependent phosphorylation to make a conditional protein relocalization tool! ToT piece: rdcu.be/d0Utp Original paper (@naturecellbiology.bsky.social): www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Exploiting cell cycle-dependent dephosphorylation for mitosis-specific protein recruitment

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology - In this Tools of the Trade article, Cao (Baskin lab) discusses the development of MARS, which enables mitosis-specific recruitment of enzymes to the plasma...

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