Liz Kurtz
@liz-kurtz.bsky.social
PhD student in the Roy Lab at SUNY Upstate studying T cell migration 🤩 special interests are microscopy and mechanobiology 🏃♀️
When you had quals & published your first paper!✨behind✨SO PROUD to share we published our first piece of the CasL story!! journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... The scaffold protein CasL restrains membrane blebbing and promotes T cell migration | Journal of Cell Science | The Company of Biologists
The scaffold protein CasL restrains membrane blebbing and promotes T cell migration
Highlighted Article: The scaffold CasL restricts membrane blebbing by controlling the balance of actin polymerization and myosin contractility during integrin-dependent T cell migration.
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September 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
When you had quals & published your first paper!✨behind✨SO PROUD to share we published our first piece of the CasL story!! journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... The scaffold protein CasL restrains membrane blebbing and promotes T cell migration | Journal of Cell Science | The Company of Biologists
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Liz Kurtz @liz-kurtz.bsky.social, Nathan Roy and colleagues find that the scaffold protein CasL restrains membrane blebbing and promotes T cell migration.
Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
July 28, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Liz Kurtz @liz-kurtz.bsky.social, Nathan Roy and colleagues find that the scaffold protein CasL restrains membrane blebbing and promotes T cell migration.
Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Reposted by Liz Kurtz
If you're curious about how cells make decisions in complex environments, and how mathematical models can capture such behaviour, our preprint is now live!
Check it out here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Check it out here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Investigating Local Negative Feedback of Rac Activity by Mathematical Models and Cell Motility Simulations
For polarization and directed migration, cells use a combination of local positive feedback and long-range inhibition. We have previously used mathematical models to show the ability of this core…
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May 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
If you're curious about how cells make decisions in complex environments, and how mathematical models can capture such behaviour, our preprint is now live!
Check it out here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Check it out here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Liz Kurtz
Check this fascinating footage: a neutrophil navigating towards a micropipette. These cells can not only navigate complex, noisy environments, but also rapidly reorient to new cues. Curious about how they do it? Keep reading!
May 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Check this fascinating footage: a neutrophil navigating towards a micropipette. These cells can not only navigate complex, noisy environments, but also rapidly reorient to new cues. Curious about how they do it? Keep reading!
Reposted by Liz Kurtz
We found that cells use emergent collective memory—arising from simple chemical reactions—to outperform physical limits of detecting chemical gradients. Curious how? 1/n
8 min talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7XH...
bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#biophysics #cellbiology
8 min talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7XH...
bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#biophysics #cellbiology
Local collective memory from ratiometric signaling outperforms cellular gradient sensing limits
YouTube video by Debraj Shubham Ghose
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May 5, 2025 at 10:11 AM
We found that cells use emergent collective memory—arising from simple chemical reactions—to outperform physical limits of detecting chemical gradients. Curious how? 1/n
8 min talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7XH...
bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#biophysics #cellbiology
8 min talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7XH...
bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#biophysics #cellbiology
Reposted by Liz Kurtz
What governs where DNA replication begins in human cells? Here, we show that origins of replication in human DNA are epigenetically specified and that crucially, this epigenetic mark is required for both DNA replication and cell proliferation! @narjournal.bsky.social academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
May 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
What governs where DNA replication begins in human cells? Here, we show that origins of replication in human DNA are epigenetically specified and that crucially, this epigenetic mark is required for both DNA replication and cell proliferation! @narjournal.bsky.social academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
Reposted by Liz Kurtz
Join us for this @dgz.bsky.social seminar online with very cool talks about the Cell biology of the immune system
There will be of course some #CellMigration of leukocytes ;)
Speakers: @liz-kurtz.bsky.social, #ZahraaA, @labliston.bsky.social and #StefanU
There will be of course some #CellMigration of leukocytes ;)
Speakers: @liz-kurtz.bsky.social, #ZahraaA, @labliston.bsky.social and #StefanU
The next #DGZ Focus Workshop on #CellBiology of the #ImmuneSystem will take place on April 29, organized by @pjsaez.bsky.social & Evi Kiermaier – join us! 🧑🔬🧑🔬🧬
April 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Join us for this @dgz.bsky.social seminar online with very cool talks about the Cell biology of the immune system
There will be of course some #CellMigration of leukocytes ;)
Speakers: @liz-kurtz.bsky.social, #ZahraaA, @labliston.bsky.social and #StefanU
There will be of course some #CellMigration of leukocytes ;)
Speakers: @liz-kurtz.bsky.social, #ZahraaA, @labliston.bsky.social and #StefanU
Had an AMAZING time this past week at GRC for Directed Cell Migration!! Met and reconnected with so many amazing people and got to see some incredible art at the same time 💕💕 was honored with the opportunity to present my work on CasL in T cell migration as well, I’m floating back to lab this week 😂
January 21, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Had an AMAZING time this past week at GRC for Directed Cell Migration!! Met and reconnected with so many amazing people and got to see some incredible art at the same time 💕💕 was honored with the opportunity to present my work on CasL in T cell migration as well, I’m floating back to lab this week 😂