🧪Interested in exploring new concepts in membrane trafficking and cell organization? 😉Join the EMBO #EMBOcellBio24 Workshop in Austria on 16-21 March '25. Organised by HT Director Marino Zerial Lab and Sharon Tooze from The Francis Crick Institute Register by 1 Dec👉humantechnopole.it/en/trainings/f…

Tu Youyou discovered a substance called artemisinin, which can be used to treat malaria. Tu not only found a way to extract artemisinin from traditional Chinese medicine, she also tested the new drug on herself to speed up development time. #NobelPrize

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New work reveals the impact of anxiety & depression on PhD students. "Anxiety and depression can have a substantially detrimental impact on graduate students’ experiences [..] and likely also contribute to increased time to degree and student attrition." nature.com/articles/s4158…

Looking for reviewers before Christmas

Issue 23 is complete Explore our ToC: journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/137/… On the cover: a killifish retina labelled with nine markers of different retinal cell types using the IBEX technique. See article by Kothurkar et al. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/13…

What’s in a name ! Rightfully perhaps. When getting her JCS cover framed as a year end gift for Antara Chakraborty the person making the frame decides the name of the journal isn’t of consequence. “I figured the picture is what matters” was his kind response to my query. 🙂

Ants and humans share a rare ability: each can work together in groups to mobilize oversized objects. In a new PNASNews study, Prof. Ofer Feinerman and his team explored this, uncovering surprising insights into the strengths and challenges of cooperation >> bit.ly/Ants-human-EN

Seasons Greetings !! (image credit Antara Chakraborty)

Our first preprint list for 2025 is focussed on research using microscopy tools to answer questions in biology. As always, please let us know if there are other preprints that you’d like to see on our list. focalplane.biologists.com/2025/01/10/mic…

Exciting imaging competition!! focalplane.biologists.com/2025/02/05/the…

Day 1 # M2T2 Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur. Cheers to thinking outside the box in the days to come.

"The Last Kiss" These are T24 bladder cancer cells captured in the final moments of division. The Golgi, shown in turquoise, is split into two pools per cell, while acetylated tubulin, shown in magenta, is concentrated in the midbody. #FluorescenceFriday

Image captured by Antara Chakraborty in the lab of Dr. Nagaraj Balasubramanian, using the Zeiss LSM 780 Multiphoton system at the IISER Pune Microscopy Facility. #FluorescenceFriday #IndiaBioImaging #Microscopy #CellBiology #ImagingScience

Another excellent capture by Antara Chakraborty from the lab.

KIF5B and Dynein regulate adhesion-dependent Golgi organization and microtubule acetylation biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_cellbio

Lab Preprint Alert… Interesting and intriguing story up on the bioRxiv Cell Biology. Antara Chakraborty looks at how KIF5B and Dynein work to regulate Golgi organisation. Important insights from looking at their role in adherent vs non-adherent cells. Some compelling microscopy too.

Check this preprint from the lab. Antara Chakraborty, Kinesin and Dynein work to regulate the Golgi organisation and function. doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

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A neuronal growth cone photographed through a microscope. DIC, actin filaments, and microtubules are shown. #CellBiology