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Rob Parton
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Molecular cell biology, electron microscopy. Endocytosis, caveolae, lipid droplets, nanoparticles. Cultured cells, zebrafish, tardigrades.
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Registration is now open to attend Journal of Cell Science's meeting on Imaging Cell Dynamics, organised by Francesca Bottanelli, Guillaume Jacquemet, Michael Way and Giulia Zanetti.

Find out more: biologists.com/meetings/jcs...

#JCSimaging #Microscopy #Microscope #Imaging #Cells #CellScience
October 9, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Attention membrane traffickers! I'm recruiting a post-doc to my lab in Dundee. We're dissecting the functions of intrinsically disordered domains of COPII coat proteins. We think they control timing of coat assembly and morphology of carriers.

www.dundee.ac.uk/work-for-us/...
Postdoctoral Research Assistant - MCDB - UOD2016
Closing date: Thursday 6 November 2025, 23:59
www.dundee.ac.uk
October 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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The Institute for Molecular Bioscience is seeking an exceptional academic leader to be the new Director of the Centre for Chemistry and Drug Discovery and lead our centre consisting of 10 group leaders, 40 staff and approximately 50 HDR students. Come and join us in sunny Brisbane!
Director, Centre for Chemistry and Drug Discovery
Institute for Molecular Bioscience Join a university ranked in the world’s top 50 Australia’s #1 research institute Based at St Lucia Campus About UQ What started as Queensland's first university in 1...
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September 2, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Global Bioimaging are running a survey on Authorship and Acknowledgements for imaging core facility staff. If you work in a core, please take five minutes to fill out the survey and help us understand the good, the bad and the ugly around this topic. Thanks!

Link: forms.gle/cKh6m4SskzZm...
September 1, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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'The study...found that the main driver of increased red tape was university efficiency reforms. It threw doubt on the idea that increasing automation results in real efficiency, and suggested that Australian universities...had recently shifted towards stronger central executive management.' 1/2
University efficiency drives may have opposite effect, study finds.

The administrative burden in Australian universities is most keenly felt by teaching and research staff, according to a study from the University of Melbourne’s faculty of education.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-aust...
University efficiency drives may have opposite effect, study finds - Research Professional News
Teaching and research staff say reforms mean more red tape for them, Australian survey reports
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
August 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Today, I would like to honor the memory of Roger Y. Tsien, who died on August 24, 2016. His legacy lives with all who use his technologies, including calcium sensors, fluorescent proteins, the acetoxymethyl (AM) ester, & many more! #FluorescenceFriday
www.nature.com/articles/nme...
August 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Dear Bluesky, some good news to brighten your day! We are recruiting for the Director of the Centre for Population and Disease Genomics!! I would be grateful if you could share across your networks! uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo...
Director, Centre for Population and Disease Genomics
Centre for Population & Disease Genomics - Institute for Molecular Bioscience Join a university ranked in the world’s top 50 Full-time, fixed-term position for up to 5 years at Academic Level E Ba...
uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com
August 19, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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In their Opinion article, Samantha Webster @llssam.bsky.social, Remi Brynn and Kate Poole @katepoole.bsky.social consider how perspectives from both cell biologists and biophysicists will be crucial for characterising mechanosensitive ion channels in vivo.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
August 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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🎵 Every move you make, every telomere you shake, every strand you break, we’ll be watchin’ you...🎵 Advanced-imaging guru needed to keep a close eye on plant synthetic chromosomes in our ARIA research project at UWA in Perth & ‪@plants4space.bsky.social‬. Apply now: bit.ly/3GKSRSA
August 1, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Thoughts from our own Tom Rapoport on the role of basic science in curing disease. magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/rev...
“Revolutionary Science Comes from Unexpected Angles”
magazine.hms.harvard.edu
July 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Journal of Cell Science is published by a not-for-profit charitable organisation (@biologists.bsky.social)
that exists to benefit science, not shareholders. We provide Travelling Fellowships, Training Grants, support for ECRs and more.
For details, visit: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/re...
July 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Alexia Hawkey-Noble, Cameron Tobin, Curtis French and colleagues find that the P4-phospholipid flippase Atp11a is required for maintenance of eye and ear structure in #zebrafish.
Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
#OpenAccess
June 4, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Are you eligible for fee-free #OpenAccess publishing? Does your institution have a Read & Publish agreement with us? Check if your institution is one of over 1,000 participating.

www.biologists.com/library-hub/...

#ReadAndPublish #Publishing #Academia #Research
May 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Thanks @mitodynamics.bsky.social for the fun interview and for saying it like it is:

“…JCS and other community journals are being crushed by the mega profit-making journals, which just seem to proliferate and spit out new journals by the day…we must all make an effort to move away from this…”
In our Special Issue: Cell Biology of Mitochondria we interview Guest Editor Heidi McBride @mitodynamics.bsky.social Heidi discusses her career path, the past, present & future of #mitochondria research & her role as guest editor at JCS.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
#JCSMitoSI
May 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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I cannot wait for this meeting, it's going to be awesome
After the success of our 2023 Imaging Cell Dynamics conference, we’ll be hosting a second #JCSImaging meeting in 2026, organised by @franbottanelli.bsky.social, @guijacquemet.bsky.social‬, @drmichaelway.bsky.social‬ & Giulia Zanetti.
To register your interest: www.biologists.com/meetings/jcs...
May 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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In their Cell Science at a Glance article, Antigoni Diokmetzidou and Luca Scorrano summarise the mitochondrial contacts characterised in mammals, the molecular mechanisms underlying their formation, and their principal functions.
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#JCSMitoSI #OpenAccess
May 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Great to see this issue out! Huge thanks to our Guest Editors, Ana Garcia-Saez and Heidi McBride (@mitodynamics.bsky.social), for coordinating it!
#mitochondria
Our Special Issue: Cell Biology of Mitochondria is complete.

Explore our ToC: journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13...

Our cover image highlights mitochondria (magenta) and DNA (cyan) in glioblastoma cells from Buckley et al.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
#JCSMitoSI #Mitochondria
May 15, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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If you would like to attend a #microscopy or #bioimageanalysis training course in the next 6 months but don’t have funding, check out our Microscopy Training Grant from @jcellsci.bsky.social and @focalplane.bsky.social.

Next deadline: 6 June 2025

www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f...

#Training
May 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Delighted to share this new review article discussing the potential bidirectional communication between the liver and the central circadian clock.

The systemic relationship is likely more complex than we thought!

rdcu.be/egZWQ
Potential bidirectional communication between the liver and the central circadian clock in MASLD
npj Metabolic Health and Disease - Potential bidirectional communication between the liver and the central circadian clock in MASLD
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April 9, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Issue 8 is complete

Explore our ToC: journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13...

Our cover image is an A. flagrans trap with cell-end marker proteins in green & cell walls in blue. These traps are adhesive and attract nematodes. See article by Kriegler et al.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
May 2, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Had fun writing this review with Pete Cullen @peterjcullen1.bsky.social
ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
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April 20, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Stehbens, S. J., Scarpa, E., & White, M. D. (2024). Perspectives in collective cell migration - moving forward. Journal of cell science, 137(12), jcs261549. #EpithelialMechanicsReview
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April 17, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Also in Issue 7:
- Research Highlights on ATG9A INVs, airway epithelia & Formin 3
- JCS–David Stephens Prize
- Emmanuel Derivery @deriverylab.bsky.social Interview
- Regulation of cell migration by ECM mechanics
- Data exploration in quantitative #cellbio
journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13...
April 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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We support the scientific community - basically we're the good publisher who gives back which is why you should submit papers to our journals rather than supporting share holders!
🏆 We are pleased to offer ECR prizes at the meeting:

- 2 prizes for outstanding talks, sponsored by the Company of Biologists (Disease Models & Mechanisms and Journal of Cell Science)

- 2 prizes for exceptional posters, sponsored by the FEBS Journal.

@biologists.bsky.social
@febsj.bsky.social
April 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Did you know…
It’s free to publish in Journal of Cell Science – there are no submission charges, page charges or colour fees. We also plant a tree for every peer-reviewed article we publish🌳
For details, visit our website:
journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/re...
April 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM