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Nadja M. Hümpfer
@nadjahuempf.bsky.social
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(she/her) Scientist, Berlin-based, PhD Student in @ewerslab.bsky.social
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
nadjahuempf.bsky.social
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
Ângela Gonçalves on stage of Falling Walls Science Summit presenting a comparison of the number of menstrual cycles in an average western woman and a paleolithic woman. Each additional year of cycling adds a 9.1% risk to endometrial cancer development.
November 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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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. 🎉🤩
A still image of a video shown on screen that shows a follicle marked by individual cells' membrane (green), cell nuclei (magenta) and fluid inside the follicle (red). Melina Schuh on stage of the Falling Walls Science Summit presenting her group's research.
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
nadjahuempf.bsky.social
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
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amunts.bsky.social
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
nadjahuempf.bsky.social
"... 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
October 30, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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woutoosterheert.bsky.social
Are you excited to uncover the molecular mechanisms of actin filament assemblies that drive cell migration using cryo-EM?

Only 1.5 week to apply for this exciting PhD position in my newly established lab at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam: www.werkenbijavl.nl/vacatures/ph...
PhD Student – Structural Biology of Actin Filament Assemblies | Werken bij AVL
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October 28, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Thank you, fellow preLighter @sristi.bsky.social for mentioning our #Atlas 🗺️ on #Cytokinesis ⌛ in the September in #preprints list @prelights.bsky.social 😊

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September in preprints – Cell biology edition - preLights
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October 7, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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October 4, 2025 at 5:43 AM
nadjahuempf.bsky.social
Why has this not taken off more during the whole #Wicked craze?🧹🌸❇️ youtu.be/yTQyFzTl5GA?... A capella science always gold....
Defining Gravity (ft. Physics Girl & MALINDA) | A Capella Science
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October 2, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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septinlab.bsky.social
Exciting news!

Submissions are now open for the first @ascbiology.bsky.social #MBOC Spercial Issue on #Septins

Submission deadline: April 30, 2026

RT and spread the word at #CellBio2025

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October 1, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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katecavanaugh.bsky.social
See this? This = implanting mouse embryo. Usually this happens inside its mother and is invisible to us, but we can actually watch implantation ex vivo with the hope of understanding why implantation goes awry in embryos of older women. A 🧵...
October 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Our very own @ewerslab.bsky.social presents our story on Multiscale imaging of #Cytokinesis, harnessing #ExM 🔬🫧 of cytokinetic bridges 👀 🍬at this year's #BiomembraneDays25 👏🏽.
Read more? 👉🏽 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Helge Ewers pointing towards a huge screen that shows different stages of cytokinesis; Illustrated by individual and averaged U-ExM images of Septin2-GFP (green) and tubulin (magenta)
October 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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kaimurk.bsky.social
Upcoming 'Advanced Bioimaging' Symposium at 19th of November at the Charité to celebrate the 10th anniversary of our AMBIO imaging facility
September 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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jamesdmanton.bsky.social
We present a simple method to easily increase the imageable depth of an expansion microscopy gel on a typical inverted microscope ten-fold, using some carefully placed FEP film and a water dipping objective lens:
A comparison of imaging an expansion microscopy hydrogel with a water dipping objective lens, using either eye gel as an immersion medium or a combination of Immersol W, water and a thin FEP film. In both cases, the sample is supported by a thin FEP film rather than a coverglass.
September 15, 2025 at 8:42 AM
nadjahuempf.bsky.social
It is out! 🦚 I recorded hundreds of #ExM 🔬images of cytokinetic bridges and averaged them into 6 stages. How? With help from our fantastic collaborators @zacsimile.bsky.social and @jonasries.bsky.social in Vienna 😇. Check out the full atlas here: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17232370
Sketches of six stages of cytokinetic development of the intercellular bridge are illustrated with exmaple U-ExM fluorescence microscopy images. Septin2-GFP shown in green. Tubulin shown in magenta. A shortened workflow illustrates the image alignment and averaging process to generate average 2D reconstructions of cytokinetic stages.
September 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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dimovalab.bsky.social
Puzzling temperature-responsive membrane rods in cells now presented by Oliver Rocks with work by @pm-mueller.bsky.social at the #BiomembraneDays25
September 30, 2025 at 10:17 AM
nadjahuempf.bsky.social
Another welcome distraction from the dissertation awaits right next to the office: #BioMembraneDays25 are such a great gathering, spanning membrane and lipid #biophysics to physiology. The food is outstanding too 🤗. Thanks to organizers @ewerslab.bsky.social @dimovalab.bsky.social and Thomas Weikl!
September 30, 2025 at 1:16 PM
nadjahuempf.bsky.social
Taking a break from my thesis marathon and enjoying the lecture by @eboyden3.bsky.social at the #GEF25 😄. A wonderful ride through the beginnings, present and future of #ExM 🔬. What a great opportunity to join via live stream, big thanks to the organizers @alishaib.bsky.social and Silvio Rizzoli 😊
September 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM
nadjahuempf.bsky.social
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
September 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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ritastrack.bsky.social
@ewerslab.bsky.social Helge Ewers is starting the day strong at #GEF25. Check out this incredible work on cytokinesis! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 28, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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ewerslab.bsky.social
it’s me! and the work of @pm-mueller.bsky.social Meret Fischer, Chethana, Ria Thielhorn, Mengfei Gao, Michael Dyhr and, most prominently Nadja Hümpfer
September 28, 2025 at 8:54 AM