Felipe del Valle Batalla
@fadelvalle.bsky.social
Cell biologist - PhD. What’s a cell? How does it really work? Why do we care?
Loving running, reading, microscopy and coffee.
Opinions are my own. fadelvalle.github.io
Donlin-Asp Lab
University of Edinburgh
Loving running, reading, microscopy and coffee.
Opinions are my own. fadelvalle.github.io
Donlin-Asp Lab
University of Edinburgh
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I’m thrilled to announce that I will start a postdoc at
@pdaphd.bsky.social 's Laboratory at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland 🏴 I’m beyond honored and excited about this opportunity 🙌😊Stay tuned for cool microscopy and data! (pic I took back in 2019 secretly wishing to come back)
@pdaphd.bsky.social 's Laboratory at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland 🏴 I’m beyond honored and excited about this opportunity 🙌😊Stay tuned for cool microscopy and data! (pic I took back in 2019 secretly wishing to come back)
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I love to see the endoplasmic reticulum (ER, cyan) hitchhiking over microtubules (MTs, orange).
Also the membrane dynamics are lovely.
It's been a while, but here we are for a late #fluorescencefriday with some #microscopy
#scicomm #scisky @cellcommlab.bsky.social focalplane.bsky.social 🧪🔬
Also the membrane dynamics are lovely.
It's been a while, but here we are for a late #fluorescencefriday with some #microscopy
#scicomm #scisky @cellcommlab.bsky.social focalplane.bsky.social 🧪🔬
November 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I love to see the endoplasmic reticulum (ER, cyan) hitchhiking over microtubules (MTs, orange).
Also the membrane dynamics are lovely.
It's been a while, but here we are for a late #fluorescencefriday with some #microscopy
#scicomm #scisky @cellcommlab.bsky.social focalplane.bsky.social 🧪🔬
Also the membrane dynamics are lovely.
It's been a while, but here we are for a late #fluorescencefriday with some #microscopy
#scicomm #scisky @cellcommlab.bsky.social focalplane.bsky.social 🧪🔬
www.nmccarty.com/p/30-essays?... Great picks ! (also an amazing substack)
30 Great Essays About Biology
If you read one a day, you may just fall in love.
www.nmccarty.com
October 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
www.nmccarty.com/p/30-essays?... Great picks ! (also an amazing substack)
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Not all colormaps are created equal. Notice the nonlinear brightness scaling in two very popular ImageJ LUTs! (Glow & GFB)
October 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Not all colormaps are created equal. Notice the nonlinear brightness scaling in two very popular ImageJ LUTs! (Glow & GFB)
This is what I actually signed up for ❤️ gloomy scientific vibes 🏴
October 21, 2025 at 7:43 AM
This is what I actually signed up for ❤️ gloomy scientific vibes 🏴
🥳
Happy birthday @biologists.bsky.social! 🥳 Here’s to another century of supporting biologists and inspiring biology!
1925: On this date, 100 years ago, The Company of Biologists is founded by George Parker Bidder III. Throughout today, we will be posting some of our key milestones. Read more about the past 100 years at bit.ly/3WnTVA1.
October 15, 2025 at 8:40 AM
🥳
Falkirk for the day ❤️
October 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Falkirk for the day ❤️
As per usual:
NEVER.
Enough.
L U T S
NEVER.
Enough.
L U T S
I’m happy to share some plugins I’ve been developping this summer: "Channels and Contrast" and LUTs Manager!
I can’t find new bugs and ideas by now so I need your help to please test them in your machines and report bugs, feedbacks and ideas! forum.image.sc/t/looking-fo...
I can’t find new bugs and ideas by now so I need your help to please test them in your machines and report bugs, feedbacks and ideas! forum.image.sc/t/looking-fo...
October 4, 2025 at 6:54 PM
As per usual:
NEVER.
Enough.
L U T S
NEVER.
Enough.
L U T S
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Happy October 1st!
A good time to share another #CellBio #preprint reading list put together by a team of preLighters: @sristi.bsky.social, Matthew Davies, @vibhasingh.bsky.social, @fadelvalle.bsky.social & Barbora Knotkova.
Check out their picks ⬇️👀
prelights.biologists.com/prelists/sep...
A good time to share another #CellBio #preprint reading list put together by a team of preLighters: @sristi.bsky.social, Matthew Davies, @vibhasingh.bsky.social, @fadelvalle.bsky.social & Barbora Knotkova.
Check out their picks ⬇️👀
prelights.biologists.com/prelists/sep...
September in preprints – Cell biology edition - preLights
prelights.biologists.com
October 1, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Happy October 1st!
A good time to share another #CellBio #preprint reading list put together by a team of preLighters: @sristi.bsky.social, Matthew Davies, @vibhasingh.bsky.social, @fadelvalle.bsky.social & Barbora Knotkova.
Check out their picks ⬇️👀
prelights.biologists.com/prelists/sep...
A good time to share another #CellBio #preprint reading list put together by a team of preLighters: @sristi.bsky.social, Matthew Davies, @vibhasingh.bsky.social, @fadelvalle.bsky.social & Barbora Knotkova.
Check out their picks ⬇️👀
prelights.biologists.com/prelists/sep...
Could run forever with these views 🏴
September 28, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Could run forever with these views 🏴
Fiji is just:
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Fiji is just:
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Pew Research looks the same:
September 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Pew Research looks the same:
In 🇬🇧! Next stop: 🏴🩷
September 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
In 🇬🇧! Next stop: 🏴🩷
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I'm very happy to finally be able to show what I have been working on for the last years (with help of @sarahdezperez.bsky.social and Elmeri)!
@mattilalab.bsky.social @inflames-flagship.bsky.social @utu.fi
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@mattilalab.bsky.social @inflames-flagship.bsky.social @utu.fi
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Dynamic Micropatterning Reveals Spatial Dynamics of B Cell Receptor Signaling and Immune Synapse Formation
B cell activation by foreign antigens, recognized by the B cell receptor (BCR), is the key prerequisite for cell differentiation for antibody production. B cells typically encounter antigens bound to ...
www.biorxiv.org
August 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
I'm very happy to finally be able to show what I have been working on for the last years (with help of @sarahdezperez.bsky.social and Elmeri)!
@mattilalab.bsky.social @inflames-flagship.bsky.social @utu.fi
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@mattilalab.bsky.social @inflames-flagship.bsky.social @utu.fi
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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preLighters go live!
A light and lively face-to-face conversation between the preLighters @fadelvalle.bsky.social & Vibha Singh and the researchers probablycarmen.bsky.social & Eva Mejia-Ramirez will be hosted at the @focalplane.bsky.social webinar.
4 Sept, 14.00-15.00 BST
Tune in!
A light and lively face-to-face conversation between the preLighters @fadelvalle.bsky.social & Vibha Singh and the researchers probablycarmen.bsky.social & Eva Mejia-Ramirez will be hosted at the @focalplane.bsky.social webinar.
4 Sept, 14.00-15.00 BST
Tune in!
preLighters go live! This Thursday - preLights
– How do membrane actin protrusions initiate to T-cells signalling? – What does RhoA have to do with nuclear envelope tensions in stem cells? – Does advanced microscopy help study mechano-signalling –...
prelights.biologists.com
September 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
preLighters go live!
A light and lively face-to-face conversation between the preLighters @fadelvalle.bsky.social & Vibha Singh and the researchers probablycarmen.bsky.social & Eva Mejia-Ramirez will be hosted at the @focalplane.bsky.social webinar.
4 Sept, 14.00-15.00 BST
Tune in!
A light and lively face-to-face conversation between the preLighters @fadelvalle.bsky.social & Vibha Singh and the researchers probablycarmen.bsky.social & Eva Mejia-Ramirez will be hosted at the @focalplane.bsky.social webinar.
4 Sept, 14.00-15.00 BST
Tune in!
Beautiful snowy Andes 🩷 will miss you
August 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Beautiful snowy Andes 🩷 will miss you
Hope to see you there !
#FocalPlaneFeatures meets @prelights.bsky.social
@fadelvalle.bsky.social & Vibha Singh have picked 2 fantastic #cellbio preprints & will be presenting their preLights alongside research talks from @probablycarmen.bsky.social & Eva Mejia-Ramirez.
Register: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/08/20/f...
@fadelvalle.bsky.social & Vibha Singh have picked 2 fantastic #cellbio preprints & will be presenting their preLights alongside research talks from @probablycarmen.bsky.social & Eva Mejia-Ramirez.
Register: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/08/20/f...
August 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Hope to see you there !
Incredibly effective !
After adding this a year ago, we stopped having salty water spills on the SpectraPhysics InSight x3+ laser
August 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Incredibly effective !
I’m thrilled to announce that I will start a postdoc at
@pdaphd.bsky.social 's Laboratory at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland 🏴 I’m beyond honored and excited about this opportunity 🙌😊Stay tuned for cool microscopy and data! (pic I took back in 2019 secretly wishing to come back)
@pdaphd.bsky.social 's Laboratory at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland 🏴 I’m beyond honored and excited about this opportunity 🙌😊Stay tuned for cool microscopy and data! (pic I took back in 2019 secretly wishing to come back)
August 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I’m thrilled to announce that I will start a postdoc at
@pdaphd.bsky.social 's Laboratory at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland 🏴 I’m beyond honored and excited about this opportunity 🙌😊Stay tuned for cool microscopy and data! (pic I took back in 2019 secretly wishing to come back)
@pdaphd.bsky.social 's Laboratory at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland 🏴 I’m beyond honored and excited about this opportunity 🙌😊Stay tuned for cool microscopy and data! (pic I took back in 2019 secretly wishing to come back)
Reposted by Felipe del Valle Batalla
📢Release alert!
BoneJ 7.1.4 is out now, bringing 💥100x faster💥 GPU-accelerated 3D Skeletonization, part of the new BoneJ+ extensions.
You'll need a token to try it out, from bonej.org/shop
Drop us a line bonej@bonej.org to get a coupon for a 100% discount on your first token.
BoneJ 7.1.4 is out now, bringing 💥100x faster💥 GPU-accelerated 3D Skeletonization, part of the new BoneJ+ extensions.
You'll need a token to try it out, from bonej.org/shop
Drop us a line bonej@bonej.org to get a coupon for a 100% discount on your first token.
bonej.org
bonej.org
July 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM
📢Release alert!
BoneJ 7.1.4 is out now, bringing 💥100x faster💥 GPU-accelerated 3D Skeletonization, part of the new BoneJ+ extensions.
You'll need a token to try it out, from bonej.org/shop
Drop us a line bonej@bonej.org to get a coupon for a 100% discount on your first token.
BoneJ 7.1.4 is out now, bringing 💥100x faster💥 GPU-accelerated 3D Skeletonization, part of the new BoneJ+ extensions.
You'll need a token to try it out, from bonej.org/shop
Drop us a line bonej@bonej.org to get a coupon for a 100% discount on your first token.
Finally! My PhD work is out in @jcb.org ❤️ thanks to everyone involved. It was a long way to this, but it was worth it.
Aceitón, Riobó, Del Valle Batalla, Yuseff et al show that B cells respond to mechanical cues at the immune synapse through ATAT1-dependent microtubule acetylation to coordinate cytoskeletal dynamics & lysosome positioning, enhancing antigen extraction and presentation rupress.org/jcb/article/...
July 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Finally! My PhD work is out in @jcb.org ❤️ thanks to everyone involved. It was a long way to this, but it was worth it.
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WHAT
🧵 Scientific American coined the phrase "mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell" in 1957—and this year, we proposed a new idea: that mitochondria are more like a motherboard.
The Hidden Social Lives of Mitochondria
When these energy-giving organelles thrive, so do we
www.scientificamerican.com
July 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM
WHAT
Writing, making mistakes during writing and correcting those mistakes (through feedback, labmeetings, and personal interaction) is fundamental to achieving not only "good quality" science, but also for getting to know yourself as a scientist. Writing reflects your inner thoughts.
This is so upsetting. Outsourcing writing does not "free up time to do more science" it's just a step further toward becoming the CSO at the top of a managerial pyramid rather than being a scientist
July 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Writing, making mistakes during writing and correcting those mistakes (through feedback, labmeetings, and personal interaction) is fundamental to achieving not only "good quality" science, but also for getting to know yourself as a scientist. Writing reflects your inner thoughts.