Malina Iwanski
@mkiwanski.bsky.social
Postdoc in the Pigino Lab @ HT. I enjoy long walks along microtubules and missing the sunset because I’m behind a microscope. She/her. Eng/Ned/Deu.
Impressive experiments and - of course - beautiful imaging 😍
🚨The Neurocyto lab is branching out in our latest preprint! We used tubulin microinjection to directly visualize microtubule turnover in developing hippocampal neurons, demonstrating the presence of in-lattice repair and a selective stabilization in the nascent axon. Check below, or read on 🧵 1/9
Direct labeling of microtubule turnover reveals in-lattice repair and stabilization patterns in developing neurons
The microtubule cytoskeleton is the backbone of neuronal morphogenesis, driving the development of the dendrites and axon, and supporting trafficking to distant compartments. How neuronal microtubules...
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January 14, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Impressive experiments and - of course - beautiful imaging 😍
Just look at those microtubules go! Happy to see our paper out in JCS ✨
Malina Iwanski @mkiwanski.bsky.social, Lukas Kapitein and colleagues discover that stable microtubules reverse their polarity during neuronal development.
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#OpenAccess #ReadandPublish
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#OpenAccess #ReadandPublish
December 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Just look at those microtubules go! Happy to see our paper out in JCS ✨
Reposted by Malina Iwanski
Time to get signed up for the Symposium on Structural Proteomics! This time at @humantechnopole.bsky.social in Milan 6th-8th October Full speaker lineup announced. Thanks to @thermofishersci.bsky.social @brukercorporation.bsky.social, Affipro and MSVision for support
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July 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Time to get signed up for the Symposium on Structural Proteomics! This time at @humantechnopole.bsky.social in Milan 6th-8th October Full speaker lineup announced. Thanks to @thermofishersci.bsky.social @brukercorporation.bsky.social, Affipro and MSVision for support
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My main PhD paper is on bioRxiv! 🥳 We used motor-PAINT, expansion microscopy, and live-cell imaging of StableMARK to map out how the microtubule cytoskeleton reorganizes during neuronal development.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Polarity reversal of stable microtubules during neuronal development
Neurons critically depend on long-distance transport orchestrated by motor proteins walking over their highly asymmetric microtubule cytoskeleton. These microtubules are organized uniformly in axons w...
www.biorxiv.org
February 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
My main PhD paper is on bioRxiv! 🥳 We used motor-PAINT, expansion microscopy, and live-cell imaging of StableMARK to map out how the microtubule cytoskeleton reorganizes during neuronal development.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Malina Iwanski
Advances in microscopy mean we can now do more than just observe biology—we can control it. But how far can we really push this in mammalian cells with all their (beautiful but annoying) heterogeneity? 🧪🔬(🧵)
December 17, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Advances in microscopy mean we can now do more than just observe biology—we can control it. But how far can we really push this in mammalian cells with all their (beautiful but annoying) heterogeneity? 🧪🔬(🧵)
And perfect timing to get newbie me all up-to-date 💫
Our review of Intraflagellar transport is out now! We cover lots of the recent advances in our understanding of IFT, and where we think there are still some gaps.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The intraflagellar transport cycle - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
Intraflagellar transport (IFT) ensures delivery of selected proteins into cilia. The IFT protein complexes IFT-A and IFT-B polymerize at the base of the cilium to form an anterograde train that facili...
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November 19, 2024 at 2:26 PM
And perfect timing to get newbie me all up-to-date 💫
Hi folks! Lots of things changed in my life recently (!) but mainly (1) I finished my PhD in the lab of Lukas Kapitein focusing on microtubule stability and orientation in neurons and (2) I moved to Milan to start my postdoc with Gaia Pigino on tubulin post-translational modifications in cilia.
November 18, 2024 at 9:12 PM
Hi folks! Lots of things changed in my life recently (!) but mainly (1) I finished my PhD in the lab of Lukas Kapitein focusing on microtubule stability and orientation in neurons and (2) I moved to Milan to start my postdoc with Gaia Pigino on tubulin post-translational modifications in cilia.