Alison Kickuth
@alisonkickuth.bsky.social
Biologist @ MPI-CBG & Physics of Life, Dresden
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Another successful Brugues lab retreat. Starting out with a great art workshop! and ending in a group hug!
October 23, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Another successful Brugues lab retreat. Starting out with a great art workshop! and ending in a group hug!
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⚡Ready to grow and be inspired as a scientist?
We’re looking for a *PhD student* to join our lab at @crg.eu
in Barcelona and explore how cells self-organize, uncovering life’s inner design💡
We offer strong mentoring, cutting-edge science, and a vibrant international team🌍
Check the link below!
We’re looking for a *PhD student* to join our lab at @crg.eu
in Barcelona and explore how cells self-organize, uncovering life’s inner design💡
We offer strong mentoring, cutting-edge science, and a vibrant international team🌍
Check the link below!
October 23, 2025 at 9:56 AM
⚡Ready to grow and be inspired as a scientist?
We’re looking for a *PhD student* to join our lab at @crg.eu
in Barcelona and explore how cells self-organize, uncovering life’s inner design💡
We offer strong mentoring, cutting-edge science, and a vibrant international team🌍
Check the link below!
We’re looking for a *PhD student* to join our lab at @crg.eu
in Barcelona and explore how cells self-organize, uncovering life’s inner design💡
We offer strong mentoring, cutting-edge science, and a vibrant international team🌍
Check the link below!
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We hire!
The CytoMorpho Lab is looking for an engineer with a background in cell and molecular biology to join our team in Paris. This is a 18-month contract position, but we're open to exploring long-term opportunities.
More details here:
cytomorpholab.com/index.php/jo...
The CytoMorpho Lab is looking for an engineer with a background in cell and molecular biology to join our team in Paris. This is a 18-month contract position, but we're open to exploring long-term opportunities.
More details here:
cytomorpholab.com/index.php/jo...
October 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
We hire!
The CytoMorpho Lab is looking for an engineer with a background in cell and molecular biology to join our team in Paris. This is a 18-month contract position, but we're open to exploring long-term opportunities.
More details here:
cytomorpholab.com/index.php/jo...
The CytoMorpho Lab is looking for an engineer with a background in cell and molecular biology to join our team in Paris. This is a 18-month contract position, but we're open to exploring long-term opportunities.
More details here:
cytomorpholab.com/index.php/jo...
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Our call for PhD students within our International Max Planck Research School for Cell, Developmental and Systems Biology is open! Apply until October 28th. We are looking forward hearing from you! imprs.mpi-cbg.de
September 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Our call for PhD students within our International Max Planck Research School for Cell, Developmental and Systems Biology is open! Apply until October 28th. We are looking forward hearing from you! imprs.mpi-cbg.de
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What a pleasure to collaborate with Laura #Schaedel and her team at @uni-saarland.de to study #microtubule damage and repair under mechanical load.
September 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
What a pleasure to collaborate with Laura #Schaedel and her team at @uni-saarland.de to study #microtubule damage and repair under mechanical load.
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Dresden researchers @paveltomancak.bsky.social @bruvellu.bsky.social, Carl Modes, @cuencam15.bsky.social & colleagues published in @nature.com that a tissue fold in fruit fly embryos buffers mechanical stresses & may have evolved in response to mechanical forces. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
Mechanical forces drive evolutionary change
A small tissue fold present in fruit fly embryos buffers mechanical stresses and may have evolved in response to mechanical forces.
www.mpi-cbg.de
September 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Dresden researchers @paveltomancak.bsky.social @bruvellu.bsky.social, Carl Modes, @cuencam15.bsky.social & colleagues published in @nature.com that a tissue fold in fruit fly embryos buffers mechanical stresses & may have evolved in response to mechanical forces. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
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Patrick's paper is finally out, a label-free method to measure the composition of multicomponent biomolecular condensates!
September 3, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Patrick's paper is finally out, a label-free method to measure the composition of multicomponent biomolecular condensates!
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Just started our @bcube-tud.bsky.social - organized Engineering Life 2025 #25EngLife conference in #Dresden! Excited to have everybody around!
September 1, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Just started our @bcube-tud.bsky.social - organized Engineering Life 2025 #25EngLife conference in #Dresden! Excited to have everybody around!
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The maturation process of oocytes remains paused for several years. Researchers from #UniKonstanz and @uni-goettingen.de have now found out which protein ensures this state is maintained over such a long period. Full story: https://t1p.de/nvejp
August 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The maturation process of oocytes remains paused for several years. Researchers from #UniKonstanz and @uni-goettingen.de have now found out which protein ensures this state is maintained over such a long period. Full story: https://t1p.de/nvejp
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Very happy that the first article from my postdoc work in the Tomancak lab is now published @PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/.... We studied the self-organization of actin in aggregates made from Hydra cells. Thread below (1/9)
August 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Very happy that the first article from my postdoc work in the Tomancak lab is now published @PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/.... We studied the self-organization of actin in aggregates made from Hydra cells. Thread below (1/9)
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Thrilled to share our work using live imaging to understand how Epiblast (future embryo proper) and Primitive Endoderm (future extraembryonic tissues) cell fates segregate in the preimplantation mouse embryo. Gargantuan effort led by amazing @rpkimyip.bsky.social, David Denberg and Denis Faerberg!
August 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Thrilled to share our work using live imaging to understand how Epiblast (future embryo proper) and Primitive Endoderm (future extraembryonic tissues) cell fates segregate in the preimplantation mouse embryo. Gargantuan effort led by amazing @rpkimyip.bsky.social, David Denberg and Denis Faerberg!
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🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨
We're hiring a Research Assistant – no PhD needed!
Join us to explore the molecular mechanisms of receptor sorting in endosomes.
Experience in protein expression/purification, cloning & cell culture desired 🧫🔬
Apply now 👉 www.nature.com/naturecareer...
#STEMCareers #ResearchJobs
We're hiring a Research Assistant – no PhD needed!
Join us to explore the molecular mechanisms of receptor sorting in endosomes.
Experience in protein expression/purification, cloning & cell culture desired 🧫🔬
Apply now 👉 www.nature.com/naturecareer...
#STEMCareers #ResearchJobs
June 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨
We're hiring a Research Assistant – no PhD needed!
Join us to explore the molecular mechanisms of receptor sorting in endosomes.
Experience in protein expression/purification, cloning & cell culture desired 🧫🔬
Apply now 👉 www.nature.com/naturecareer...
#STEMCareers #ResearchJobs
We're hiring a Research Assistant – no PhD needed!
Join us to explore the molecular mechanisms of receptor sorting in endosomes.
Experience in protein expression/purification, cloning & cell culture desired 🧫🔬
Apply now 👉 www.nature.com/naturecareer...
#STEMCareers #ResearchJobs
I successfully defended my PhD thesis this week! Thank you @brugueslab.bsky.social, @poldresden.bsky.social and @mpi-cbg.de for the great time over the last years!
June 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I successfully defended my PhD thesis this week! Thank you @brugueslab.bsky.social, @poldresden.bsky.social and @mpi-cbg.de for the great time over the last years!
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We may not have really squared the circle — but we came close! 😉 In our @NaturePhysics paper w/ @fakhrilab.bsky.social, light-triggered membrane excitability enables programmable shapes — a step toward engineering living matter.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#biophysics #syntheticcell #softmatter
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#biophysics #syntheticcell #softmatter
March 31, 2025 at 1:11 PM
We may not have really squared the circle — but we came close! 😉 In our @NaturePhysics paper w/ @fakhrilab.bsky.social, light-triggered membrane excitability enables programmable shapes — a step toward engineering living matter.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#biophysics #syntheticcell #softmatter
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#biophysics #syntheticcell #softmatter
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I am very happy to share that my work on active deformations of lipid vesicles is finally out in Nature Physics. A nicer thread+movies coming soon, in the meantime:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thx to Andreas, Hammad, Dmitry, Gerhard @laynefrechette.bsky.social and everybody else who contributed!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thx to Andreas, Hammad, Dmitry, Gerhard @laynefrechette.bsky.social and everybody else who contributed!
March 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I am very happy to share that my work on active deformations of lipid vesicles is finally out in Nature Physics. A nicer thread+movies coming soon, in the meantime:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thx to Andreas, Hammad, Dmitry, Gerhard @laynefrechette.bsky.social and everybody else who contributed!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thx to Andreas, Hammad, Dmitry, Gerhard @laynefrechette.bsky.social and everybody else who contributed!
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Happy to share our review on methodology for measuring and manipulating mechanical forces with specific focus on developmental biology! Congrats to authors @clemvilleneuve.bsky.social @mccreery.bsky.social and hats off to the community for developing awesome tools www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Measuring and manipulating mechanical forces during development - Nature Cell Biology
This Review discusses the recent advances in experimental approaches to interrogate the mechanical forces that mediate tissue deformations during development, highlighting the insights afforded at bot...
www.nature.com
March 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Happy to share our review on methodology for measuring and manipulating mechanical forces with specific focus on developmental biology! Congrats to authors @clemvilleneuve.bsky.social @mccreery.bsky.social and hats off to the community for developing awesome tools www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Yitong's paper is now out in Current Biology. In this paper, we investigated what sets the speed of chromosome separation in anaphase and found that it is mainly set by the dynamics of the cell cycle oscillator. This was a fun collaboration with @brugueslab.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
The cell cycle oscillator and spindle length set the speed of chromosome separation in Drosophila embryos
Xu et al. investigate how the speed of chromosome separation is regulated during the cleavage divisions of the Drosophila blastoderm. They find that spindle length and the cell cycle oscillator jointly control the velocity of chromosome movement in anaphase.
www.cell.com
January 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Yitong's paper is now out in Current Biology. In this paper, we investigated what sets the speed of chromosome separation in anaphase and found that it is mainly set by the dynamics of the cell cycle oscillator. This was a fun collaboration with @brugueslab.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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We made a photoswitchable HaloTag (psHaloTag), which can reversibly turn-on fluorogenic dyes upon illumination 💡. Congrats to Franzi, Bego and all co-authors, check out our preprint below 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
January 7, 2025 at 8:45 AM
We made a photoswitchable HaloTag (psHaloTag), which can reversibly turn-on fluorogenic dyes upon illumination 💡. Congrats to Franzi, Bego and all co-authors, check out our preprint below 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Really happy to share with you my last work from my time in @embl.org with the @viktri08.bsky.social group. We studied the dynamics of cell fate transition in gastruloids and found that cells communicate with each other to control the timing of symmetry breaking. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Cell-cell communication controls the timing of gastruloid symmetry-breaking
In the embryo, morphogenetic signals instruct regional patterning thereby defining the body axes of the future animal. Remarkably, in the absence of such signals, collections of pluripotent stem cells...
www.biorxiv.org
December 21, 2024 at 8:17 AM
Really happy to share with you my last work from my time in @embl.org with the @viktri08.bsky.social group. We studied the dynamics of cell fate transition in gastruloids and found that cells communicate with each other to control the timing of symmetry breaking. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Cell-cell communication controls the timing of gastruloid symmetry-breaking https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.16.628776v1
December 20, 2024 at 10:51 PM
Cell-cell communication controls the timing of gastruloid symmetry-breaking https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.16.628776v1
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Bovyn, M. J., & Haas, P. A. (2024). Shaping epithelial lumina under pressure. Biochemical Society transactions, 52(1), 331–342. #EpithelialMechanicsReview
https://portlandpress.com/biochemsoctrans/article/52/1/331/234112/Shaping-epithelial-lumina-under-pressure
https://portlandpress.com/biochemsoctrans/article/52/1/331/234112/Shaping-epithelial-lumina-under-pressure
December 19, 2024 at 8:00 AM
Bovyn, M. J., & Haas, P. A. (2024). Shaping epithelial lumina under pressure. Biochemical Society transactions, 52(1), 331–342. #EpithelialMechanicsReview
https://portlandpress.com/biochemsoctrans/article/52/1/331/234112/Shaping-epithelial-lumina-under-pressure
https://portlandpress.com/biochemsoctrans/article/52/1/331/234112/Shaping-epithelial-lumina-under-pressure