If you were a motor protein, Dynein you’d be. If I stand at the minus-end, Will you walk towards me? #ValentineAProtein

We are looking for a research technician to join our lab at UC San Francisco! Come do research with us, and help manage our lab. We are a cell biology and biophysics lab working on the mechanics of cell division. Please share and RT. You can apply here: aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF03844

Happy #MicroscopyMonday! Here are some cellular fireworks, with most images collected during @MBLPhys 🎆 contributions by: manuela, Chunzi Liu, Nick Martin, Meg Titus & Amy Crawford, @PetraLevin, & Elizabeth Mueller *sound on*

Excited to share a preprint! We make barrel-shaped, pole-less spindles and ask which properties emerge locally from k-fibers and which emerge more globally from focused spindle poles. Congrats Manuela Richter manuela and all authors!!! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Now Online Probing cytoskeletal remodelling by cutting and marking filaments dlvr.it/Symts0

In Journal of Cell Biology, Megan K Chong @RosasSalvan Vanna Tran & Sophie Dumont show that chromosomes biorient and correct errors with varying efficiencies. Chromosome size and the spindle forces that scale with size determine error correction efficiency. hubs.ly/Q02wQkQv0 #CellDivision