Nadja M. Hümpfer
@nadjahuempf.bsky.social
(she/her) Scientist, Berlin-based, PhD Student in @ewerslab.bsky.social
Here for Microscopy, Cytoskeleton, Cellbio, Cytokinesis. Black in STEM
Here for Microscopy, Cytoskeleton, Cellbio, Cytokinesis. Black in STEM
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Nadja M. Hümpfer
@nadjahuempf.bsky.social
· Sep 28
Now out on bioRxiv. 🥳My research on #cytokinesis, averaging thousands of #ExM images🔬, creating a dynamic atlas of cytokinesis 🦠⏳. Here's an animated sneak peek of what we found. Better resolution on bioRxiv😄 #PSFoftheGIF
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Wow this is a seriously serious supplementary figure from @cellpress.bsky.social today. Panels A through UU.
I get that Cell likes to minimize the number of supplementary figures. But is this really what is happening here?
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
I get that Cell likes to minimize the number of supplementary figures. But is this really what is happening here?
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
December 17, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Wow this is a seriously serious supplementary figure from @cellpress.bsky.social today. Panels A through UU.
I get that Cell likes to minimize the number of supplementary figures. But is this really what is happening here?
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
I get that Cell likes to minimize the number of supplementary figures. But is this really what is happening here?
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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#LivingArchitectures
We put cells and cytoskeleton filaments on the architecture of the musée d'Orsay.
www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/agenda/ev...
Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab adapted their protocols to illustrate the questions that keep them awake at night.
-> Two shows on the 24th and 25th of January.
We put cells and cytoskeleton filaments on the architecture of the musée d'Orsay.
www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/agenda/ev...
Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab adapted their protocols to illustrate the questions that keep them awake at night.
-> Two shows on the 24th and 25th of January.
December 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
#LivingArchitectures
We put cells and cytoskeleton filaments on the architecture of the musée d'Orsay.
www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/agenda/ev...
Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab adapted their protocols to illustrate the questions that keep them awake at night.
-> Two shows on the 24th and 25th of January.
We put cells and cytoskeleton filaments on the architecture of the musée d'Orsay.
www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/agenda/ev...
Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab adapted their protocols to illustrate the questions that keep them awake at night.
-> Two shows on the 24th and 25th of January.
Reposted by Nadja M. Hümpfer
Today, our animation synthesizing decades of research on actin-mediated endocytosis in budding yeast was published:
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
The result of a fantastic Iwasa-Drubin lab collaboration.
@margotriggi.bsky.social @jiwasa.bsky.social
movie.biologists.com/video/10.124...
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
The result of a fantastic Iwasa-Drubin lab collaboration.
@margotriggi.bsky.social @jiwasa.bsky.social
movie.biologists.com/video/10.124...
December 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Today, our animation synthesizing decades of research on actin-mediated endocytosis in budding yeast was published:
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
The result of a fantastic Iwasa-Drubin lab collaboration.
@margotriggi.bsky.social @jiwasa.bsky.social
movie.biologists.com/video/10.124...
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
The result of a fantastic Iwasa-Drubin lab collaboration.
@margotriggi.bsky.social @jiwasa.bsky.social
movie.biologists.com/video/10.124...
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MIT researchers have discovered how an immune system molecule triggers neurons in a specific brain circuit to shut down social behavior amid infection. picower.mit.edu/news/too-sic... @mitbcs.bsky.social #Neuroscience #behavior
November 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
MIT researchers have discovered how an immune system molecule triggers neurons in a specific brain circuit to shut down social behavior amid infection. picower.mit.edu/news/too-sic... @mitbcs.bsky.social #Neuroscience #behavior
Tomorrow is tomorrow
November 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Tomorrow is tomorrow
Great to see it published after hearing your talk in the Septin Community Meeting 👌🏽
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Great to see it published after hearing your talk in the Septin Community Meeting 👌🏽
Off to Dresden for my seminar tomorrow at @mpi-cbg.de kindly hosted by Sandra Scharaw. I can't wait to meet everyone and talk exciting science stuff 🔬🧪🧬. Presenting my Atlas of cytokinesis 😊 🌍🍬
November 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Off to Dresden for my seminar tomorrow at @mpi-cbg.de kindly hosted by Sandra Scharaw. I can't wait to meet everyone and talk exciting science stuff 🔬🧪🧬. Presenting my Atlas of cytokinesis 😊 🌍🍬
Excited and humbled to receive the 3rd jury prize for the print of my live-cell imaging of cytokinesis with the @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LLS 7 at the AMBIO Symposium 🎇🤩😊
November 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Excited and humbled to receive the 3rd jury prize for the print of my live-cell imaging of cytokinesis with the @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LLS 7 at the AMBIO Symposium 🎇🤩😊
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I tried an even harder example on Gemini Pro image generation and this is quite scary/amazing. I asked for a microscopy image of around 20 HeLa cells, GFP tagged 20% nuclear, 10% membrane, +1 nuclear staining, + overlap. Image below and prompt in the following post.
November 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I tried an even harder example on Gemini Pro image generation and this is quite scary/amazing. I asked for a microscopy image of around 20 HeLa cells, GFP tagged 20% nuclear, 10% membrane, +1 nuclear staining, + overlap. Image below and prompt in the following post.
Is this a musical? 🤩
November 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Is this a musical? 🤩
What do we see here, color channel-wise?
November 22, 2025 at 10:25 AM
What do we see here, color channel-wise?
As a passionate septinologist, I constantly remind people that Septins are the 4th component of the cytoskeleton. Yet, I fail to know hardly anything about the 3rd... This looks so cool 😎 I want to read up on IFs immediately
November 21, 2025 at 9:58 AM
As a passionate septinologist, I constantly remind people that Septins are the 4th component of the cytoskeleton. Yet, I fail to know hardly anything about the 3rd... This looks so cool 😎 I want to read up on IFs immediately
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Scientists around former IMP group leader David Keays (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social show that #pigeons detect magnetic fields through their inner ear. Their discovery was now published in the journal @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
More: www.imp.ac.at/news/article...
More: www.imp.ac.at/news/article...
A global screen for magnetically induced neuronal activity in the pigeon brain
How animals detect the Earth’s magnetic field remains a mystery in sensory biology. Despite extensive behavioral evidence, the neural circuitry and molecular mechanisms responsible for magnetic sensin...
www.science.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Scientists around former IMP group leader David Keays (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social show that #pigeons detect magnetic fields through their inner ear. Their discovery was now published in the journal @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
More: www.imp.ac.at/news/article...
More: www.imp.ac.at/news/article...
What an honor and a pleasure to present my research at the 10 years AMBIO NIKON🔬 Core Facility Symposium 🎇 @Charité. Amazing science across the bench, scales, model systems, in health and disease. 🐀🦠🧫 Multiplexing and omics, data handling, and correlative approaches are at the forefront of medical 🔬
November 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
What an honor and a pleasure to present my research at the 10 years AMBIO NIKON🔬 Core Facility Symposium 🎇 @Charité. Amazing science across the bench, scales, model systems, in health and disease. 🐀🦠🧫 Multiplexing and omics, data handling, and correlative approaches are at the forefront of medical 🔬
Happening today @ Charité Berlin. 10 years of AMBIO @nikonmicroanz.bsky.social Core Facility 🎉
Celebrate with this excellent speaker line up 👇🏽
Celebrate with this excellent speaker line up 👇🏽
Upcoming 'Advanced Bioimaging' Symposium at 19th of November at the Charité to celebrate the 10th anniversary of our AMBIO imaging facility
November 19, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Happening today @ Charité Berlin. 10 years of AMBIO @nikonmicroanz.bsky.social Core Facility 🎉
Celebrate with this excellent speaker line up 👇🏽
Celebrate with this excellent speaker line up 👇🏽
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We’re just innocent men
November 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
We’re just innocent men
November 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
November 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
It doesn't stop! 🤩 Session this morning includes major breakthrough of @afilimon.bsky.social on the importance of menstrual blood 🩸 as a marker to test for #endometriosis and the effect of menstrual cycle on cancer development in aging women. ❤️💪🏽🩸 Important work + well deserved winner! #FallingWalls
November 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
It doesn't stop! 🤩 Session this morning includes major breakthrough of @afilimon.bsky.social on the importance of menstrual blood 🩸 as a marker to test for #endometriosis and the effect of menstrual cycle on cancer development in aging women. ❤️💪🏽🩸 Important work + well deserved winner! #FallingWalls
Shout-out to the spearheading researchers Tabea Marx and Christopher Thomas ✨
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Shout-out to the spearheading researchers Tabea Marx and Christopher Thomas ✨
How do mammalian follicles expel and safe-guard the oocyte upon ovulation? Amazing talk by @schuhlab.bsky.social at the #FallingWalls #ScienceSummit25 on the live visualisation of ovulation 🔬🥚. Hyaluronic acid acts as a hydrogel to induce #expansion and increase pressure in the follicle. 🎉🤩
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
How do mammalian follicles expel and safe-guard the oocyte upon ovulation? Amazing talk by @schuhlab.bsky.social at the #FallingWalls #ScienceSummit25 on the live visualisation of ovulation 🔬🥚. Hyaluronic acid acts as a hydrogel to induce #expansion and increase pressure in the follicle. 🎉🤩
Great panel concluding an exciting day at the #ScienceSummit25 in Berlin. Moderated by @curiousdrgeorge.bsky.social and supported by @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social Biohub. "The human researcher and AI together will always outperform each other individually".👌🏽 And a shout-out to expansion microscopy 🔬🧫🦠
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Great panel concluding an exciting day at the #ScienceSummit25 in Berlin. Moderated by @curiousdrgeorge.bsky.social and supported by @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social Biohub. "The human researcher and AI together will always outperform each other individually".👌🏽 And a shout-out to expansion microscopy 🔬🧫🦠
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What a gem from @dudinlab.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social @centriolelab.bsky.social in Cell! Expansion microscopy atlas of >200 eukaryotes comparing cytoskeletal architectures revealing structures not seen before. Stunning visualisation! Exactly the kind of transformative cell biology we need.
October 31, 2025 at 5:45 PM
What a gem from @dudinlab.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social @centriolelab.bsky.social in Cell! Expansion microscopy atlas of >200 eukaryotes comparing cytoskeletal architectures revealing structures not seen before. Stunning visualisation! Exactly the kind of transformative cell biology we need.
"... As though innovation were a vending machine fueled by targeted investment rather than by the slow, uncertain and often serendipitous crawl of basic research." #unkürzbar
Nektarios Tavernarakis on why curiosity-driven research, not focusing on application, is fundamental to problem solving and requires government support in @emboreports.org doi.org/10.1038/s443...
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October 30, 2025 at 11:09 AM
"... As though innovation were a vending machine fueled by targeted investment rather than by the slow, uncertain and often serendipitous crawl of basic research." #unkürzbar