Exciting week: 2-day meeting of our Dutch synthetic cell community, BaSyC and EVOLF, hosted by Nico Claassens at WUR.

Learn all things #cytoskeleton #research in an interdisciplinary environment at EMBO Workshop "Structure and Function of the Cytoskeleton" in Paris, FR, 7–10 April 2026.

Deadline: 20 December 2025

https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-cytoskeleton
#EMBOCytoskeletalFunction #EMBOevents #conference 🧪

And we begin our day with the incredible @gijsjekoenderink.bsky.social !!

Charu Sharma from the Koenderingk and Dekker labs now presenting. #BiomembraneDays2025

Charu Sharma from the group of Gijsje Koenderink and @ceesdekker.bsky.social is now showing how to drive dynaminA-assisted division of minimal cells
#BiomembraneDays25

The actin-binding/-bundling protein #anillin can also interact with microtubules to crosslink the two types of filaments and slide them along each other
@marileend.bsky.social @gijsjekoenderink.bsky.social and colleagues
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

New: Pasolli, Meiring, Akhmanova et al. @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social describe tools to acutely relocate #vimentin intermediate filaments by inducibly coupling them to microtubule motors. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

@joycemeiri.bsky.social @gijsjekoenderink.bsky.social
#Technology #Cytoskeleton

📢 Institut Jacques Monod Lecture

📅 July 11th
📍 Institut Jacques Monod

Next week, Gijsje Konderick ( @gijsjekoenderink.bsky.social‬ ‬ ), will give the Institut Jacques Monod Lecture "How cytoskeletal crosstalk makes cells strong"

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Onze EVOLF community groeit flink, zie bv deze foto van ons overleg gisteren

#EvolvingLIfeFromNonlife

Upcoming seminar by Gijsje Koenderink: How cytoskeletal crosstalk makes cells strong at Institut Jacques Monod, Friday 11 July 2025 at 11:45. More info

Genetically encoded reporters of actin filament organization in living cells and tissues: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Check out our iScience article on how epithelial-to-mesenchymal (EMT) and unjamming transitions drive cancer invasion, focusing on matrix confinement, vimentin, and MMP1 in spheroid invasion and cell-ECM interactions.

📖 Read more: 🔗 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Check out this beautiful quantitative study of cell mechanics, led by James Conboy, in collaboration with Fred MacKintosh & Pouyan Boukany! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...