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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#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.
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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...
Reposted by Nadja M. Hümpfer
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
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 😊 🌍🍬
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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.
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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
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
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...
For the love of frontier research, or why Elon’s rockets keep blowing up | EMBO reports
EMBO Press is an editorially independent publishing platform for the development of EMBO scientific publications.
doi.org
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
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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...
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
www.werkenbijavl.nl
October 28, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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...
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...
Thank you, fellow preLighter @sristi.bsky.social for mentioning our #Atlas 🗺️ on #Cytokinesis ⌛ in the September in #preprints list @prelights.bsky.social 😊
prelights.biologists.com/prelists/sep...
prelights.biologists.com/prelists/sep...
September in preprints – Cell biology edition - preLights
prelights.biologists.com
October 7, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Thank you, fellow preLighter @sristi.bsky.social for mentioning our #Atlas 🗺️ on #Cytokinesis ⌛ in the September in #preprints list @prelights.bsky.social 😊
prelights.biologists.com/prelists/sep...
prelights.biologists.com/prelists/sep...
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🚂 A peine lancés et déjà supprimés ? Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne, un voyage bas-carbone largement plébiscité par ses utilisateurs
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Signez la pétition maintenant !
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October 4, 2025 at 5:43 AM
🚂 A peine lancés et déjà supprimés ? Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne, un voyage bas-carbone largement plébiscité par ses utilisateurs
agir.greenvoice.fr/petitions/sa...
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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
YouTube video by acapellascience
youtu.be
October 2, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Why has this not taken off more during the whole #Wicked craze?🧹🌸❇️ youtu.be/yTQyFzTl5GA?... A capella science always gold....
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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
www.molbiolcell.org/cell-biology...
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
www.molbiolcell.org/cell-biology...
October 1, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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
www.molbiolcell.org/cell-biology...
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
www.molbiolcell.org/cell-biology...
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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
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 🧵...
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...
Read more? 👉🏽 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
October 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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...
Read more? 👉🏽 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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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
Upcoming 'Advanced Bioimaging' Symposium at 19th of November at the Charité to celebrate the 10th anniversary of our AMBIO imaging facility
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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:
September 15, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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:
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
September 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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
Reposted by Nadja M. Hümpfer
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
Puzzling temperature-responsive membrane rods in cells now presented by Oliver Rocks with work by @pm-mueller.bsky.social at the #BiomembraneDays25