3 ... 2 ... 1 ... @acoli12 liftoff !!

There are still a few days left to register and slots for oral presentations. Great program and line-up of speakers! Please RT. https://t.co/c5BoQlkrG2

@GelinMatthieu @ManuelTHERY and colleagues discover that when under mechanical pressure, microtubules can break into densely branched actin networks. Highlight: https://t.co/ukM6EvdvGB Article: https://t.co/9jO7oDT21j

Very proud of Alexandre Schaeffer who defended his PhD with talent. He argued that microtubules do not play a mechanical role in the regulation of centrosome positioning.

@ManuelTHERY @DeriveryLab This might explain part of what we saw on microtubules especially their extreme stability and resistance to cold treatment 😉 https://t.co/sOtWH9x9PJ

Towards building a chemotactic protocell, we reconstituted global actin polymerization in response to an external chemical cue inside giant vesicles — prompting symmetry breaking. We extended the work to recapitulate directional chemical sensing (below). Now on BioRxiv ⬇️. (1/2)

Thanks to the group of @PielMatthieu we found that in the absence of microtubule mechano-stabilisation, ie in the absence of CLASP2, cells can no longer deform and migrate through tiny constrictions.

Thanks to the group of Anna Akhmanova we found that the mechano-stabilisation process fully depends on CLASP2 relocalisation from the tip to the shaft of microtubules.

Now our paper is officially published in ACS Synthetic Biology! My molecular steampunk art is also selected as the journal's cover art. https://t.co/kGRRU0VjQD

Le journal Le Monde met les cellules artificielles à l’honneur ! Ainsi que notre travail publié dans EMBO journal récemment et qui montre l’importance du recyclage et du vieillissement des protéines. https://t.co/2UCbsmoIAO https://t.co/QwHdxfvAzK https://t.co/FiH63Tfbbz

Go with the flow – bulk transport by molecular motors Wen Lu and Vladimir Gelfand @volodya_gelfand @NorthwesternU discuss the roles of molecular motors in cytoplasmic streaming. https://t.co/x9IKxEzVXR #JCSCellBiologyofMotors

In their Review, @kjverhey1 @UMCDB and @R_Ohi_Lab @UMich discuss how kinesin motors alter the microtubule lattice and what the downstream allosteric interactions mean for intracellular transport and the microtubule dynamics. #JCSCellBiologyofMotors https://t.co/3AzkcIrDiz

Recycling of the actin monomer pool limits the lifetime of network turnover New work by @acoli12 @Lblanchoin @manuelthery et al #CytoMorphoLab https://t.co/nkBC1GXA55

I am delighted to share my last work, now published in @embojournal ! We reconstituted actin turnover in cell-sized compartments in order to evaluate the role of energy consumption and components aging on the lifetime of living systems. https://t.co/3Fl3QBHEMb

Now vollseg-napari-mtrack from @kapoorlabs is working on Napari! AI can find kymograph of microtubules and measure growth rate automatically! https://t.co/IbvcS6SITD You also need... https://t.co/SiHxJfScS2

The CytoMorpho Lab is recruiting ! We have a two-year postdoc fellowship to study the scaling of actin-based structures in living cells. The position is available in Grenoble. https://t.co/qjkqtKw9dz please RT

Final rehearsal for the Living Architecture project in Luzern, #LiLu light festival, Jan 12-22 Cells, actin, microtubules, conforming to the Torbogen arch, a festival !

Newly elongated microtubules few minutes after injection of fluorescent tubulins. #selfrepair @morgan_gazzola #NotTheCover

Demain, Alexandra Colin du @LPCV_Grenoble sera en direct dans le 13/14 de Bruno Duvic sur @franceinter à l'occasion de la journée spéciale "Nouvelles voies" https://t.co/ZfrdGL5nFA @IRIG_Grenoble

Dans @embojournal, le @CEA_Officiel a mis en lumière une avancée sur la fabrication de cellules artificielles. A termes, celles-ci pourraient servir à développer des applications industrielles durables et résilientes. Le point avec @ManuelTHERY.