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UK Cilia and Centrosome Network
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A supportive network for the cilia research community to share research and expertise. Account managed by Dr. Girish Ram Mali and ECR Advisory Group

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UK Cilia and Centrosome Network @ukcilianetwork.bsky.social · May 31
📢📢📢 Klaxon call for all cilia enthusiasts 📢 📢📢! Registrations still open + free. There are still spots for a few posters. Come along its London calling. Also this year we will have a special cilia imaging session organised by Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social

www.ucl.ac.uk/child-health...
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biologyopen.bsky.social
Our Editor-in-Chief Dan Gorelick will be attending #CellBio2025
@ascbiology.bsky.social @embo.org.

Come and visit Dan @danielgorelick.bsky.social to discuss Biology Open, our Fast & Fair peer review initiative and other @biologists.bsky.social initiatives.
Promotional graphic for Biology Open announcing that Editor-in-Chief Dan Gorelick will attend Cell Bio 2025 in Philadelphia, December 6–10. The text invites attendees to visit The Company of Biologists booth (#1232) to ask questions about publishing in Biology Open and learn about the “Fast & Fair peer review” initiative, which offers high-quality peer review within 7 working days of submission. The image includes the Biology Open and Cell Bio 25 logos, a rectangular banner highlighting the peer review initiative with an icon of stacked papers and a checkmark, and social media handles for Biology Open on X and Bluesky.
December 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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seemagrewal.bsky.social
If you’re at #CellBio2025, please do reach out if you’d like to find out more about publishing in @jcellsci.bsky.social

(and if you’re not, here’s a list of reasons for why you should choose JCS:
journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/re...
😁)
jcellsci.bsky.social Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 4d
Our Editors will be attending #CellBio2025 @ascbiology.bsky.social @embo.org.

Reach out to @seemagrewal.bsky.social and Amelia Glazier to discuss JCS, @focalplane.bsky.social and our other @biologists.bsky.social initiatives.
JCS logo Cell Bio 2025 logo Our Editors will be attending Cell Bio 2025 Feel free to reach out with any questions you might have about publishing in the journal or other activities from our not-for-profit publisher The Company of Biologists. Picture of Seema Seema Grewal, Executive Editor, seema.grewal@biologists.com Picture of Amelia Amelia Glazier, Reviews Editor, amelia.glazier@biologists.com X: @J_Cell_Sci Bluesky: @jcellsci.bsky.social Instagram: cell_science_stories
December 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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mahjoublab.bsky.social
Bummed to miss #ASCB this year (one of my fav meetings), but the lab is well represented!

Stop by poster B169 today and Maneesha will tell you all about her work on basal bodies and cilia homeostasis in multiciliated cells 👇 #CellBio2025
December 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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jcellsci.bsky.social
Our Editors will be attending #CellBio2025 @ascbiology.bsky.social @embo.org.

Reach out to @seemagrewal.bsky.social and Amelia Glazier to discuss JCS, @focalplane.bsky.social and our other @biologists.bsky.social initiatives.
JCS logo Cell Bio 2025 logo Our Editors will be attending Cell Bio 2025 Feel free to reach out with any questions you might have about publishing in the journal or other activities from our not-for-profit publisher The Company of Biologists. Picture of Seema Seema Grewal, Executive Editor, seema.grewal@biologists.com Picture of Amelia Amelia Glazier, Reviews Editor, amelia.glazier@biologists.com X: @J_Cell_Sci Bluesky: @jcellsci.bsky.social Instagram: cell_science_stories
December 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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zjmaggiexu.bsky.social
Thrilled to share our work on the 🔥 single-celled predator Podophrya collini, which rewires its cell morphology to hunt more efficiently. Huge thanks to our amazing team—Amy, Lauren, Omaya, Marine, Mari, and especially Scott—for making this shine! ✨
cellraiser.bsky.social Scott Coyle @cellraiser.bsky.social · 19d
How do cells adapt morphology to function? In a 🔥 preprint by @zjmaggiexu.bsky.social , with @dudinlab.bsky.social and @amyweeks.bsky.social , we identify a self-organizing single-cell morphology circuit that optimizes the feeding trap structure of the suctorian P. collini. 🧵 tinyurl.com/4k8nv926
November 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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karenjliu.bsky.social
Exciting new findings on mechanisms of Wnt signalosomes --from Sheng-yuan Wu's PhD project in @matthias-krause.bsky.social lab! Great collaborators, great story. #xenopus 🐸
November 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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focalplane.bsky.social
We’re excited for the UK Cilia and Centrosome Network e-symposium this afternoon featuring the #JCSciliaSI!

To discover more about the research in this issue, check out these JCS snapshots, video highlights from authors about their research: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/11/24/j...
JCS snapshots: the cilia and flagella edition - FocalPlane
JCS snapshots: the cilia and flagella edition - News
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November 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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colinbingle.bsky.social
An outstanding opportunity. @ukcilianetwork.bsky.social could amplify this (maybe they have)?
November 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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alanbrownhms.bsky.social
Our lab is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow. The position is intentionally broad, as we are looking for outstanding researchers from diverse scientific backgrounds to advance our understanding of cilia and ciliopathies: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15526
HMS - Postdoctoral Fellow in BCMP, Brown Lab
We invite applicants for a postdoctoral fellow position in the Brown lab at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. The Brown lab uses structural, biophysical, and biochemical approaches to d...
academicpositions.harvard.edu
November 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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dyneinassembly.bsky.social
I saw her at the poster session at ASCB 2024! very very impressive work and such a cool model system to study.
cellraiser.bsky.social Scott Coyle @cellraiser.bsky.social · 19d
This work shines because of @zjmaggiexu.bsky.social passion for these cells. She built it all—the cultures, transcriptomes, analyses, modeling and collaborations—from scratch. I can’t begin to express how brilliant and hard-working a scientist she is (and she's 👀 for postdocs!). So proud of her 🥲
Photographs of Zhejing "Maggie" Xu, an extraordinary gifted, hard-working, and brilliant grad student who is as comfortable at the bench or IDE as she is in the field. Truly an amazing individual whose passion for suctorian, protists, and cell biology more generally is in a class all its own
November 19, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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cellraiser.bsky.social
Key transcripts encoded centrin-like proteins, a frequent component of sensory/contractile structures in protists. We visualized tentacle ultrastructure by U-ExM with @dudinlab.bsky.social lab, discovering stunning tip and collar structures 🤯that add structural complexity to new tentacle formation.
November 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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dyneinassembly.bsky.social
Thanks for the shoutout! @jcellsci.bsky.social :)
jcellsci.bsky.social Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 20d
In their Perspective article, Muyang Ren, Siham Jaleel, Stephen King & Girish Mali @dyneinassembly.bsky.social highlight the structural diversity of the axonemal dynein assembly factors & their emerging roles in the biology of motile cilia.
#JCSciliaSI
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Schematic of the dynein assembly pathway and putative roles of DNAAFs that work within it. Axonemal dynein arm motor subunits (heavy chains, intermediate chains and light chains) are assembled in a multi-step dynein assembly pathway involving steps of folding, assembly and transport. DNAAFs are thought to operate at distinct steps. HSP70 proteins likely engage nascent dynein heavy chain, intermediate chain and light chain subunits as they emerge from the ribosome exit tunnel. Specific DNAAFs then likely hand over semi-folded subunits to the HSP90 chaperone and its co-chaperone R2TP complex for further folding and assembly. Many DNAAFs are proposed to function at this step with RUVBL1/2. Pre-assembled ODA motors are finally packaged into an inhibited closed conformation by DNAAF9 (Shulin) for stable attachment to IFT trains for ciliary import. IDAs might undergo similar packaging for IFT transport via currently unknown factors. Genetic variants that block any step of assembly can cause severe motile ciliopathies such as PCD. PTM, post-translational modification.
November 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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focalplane.bsky.social
While trying to steer clear of the ‘best organelle’ debate, we’re delighted to highlight #JCSciliaSI, guest edited by @cilialab.bsky.social & @lottepedersen.bsky.social.

And, we hope that even the most ardent fans of other organelles can agree that cilia are certainly beautiful to image!
JCS Special Issue - 'Cilia and Flagella: from Basic Biology to Disease' - FocalPlane
JCS Special Issue - 'Cilia and Flagella: from Basic Biology to Disease' - News
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November 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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jcellsci.bsky.social
Rudolfo Karl, Elvira Mass, Dagmar Wachten @wachtenlab.bsky.social and colleagues discover that renal tissue-resident macrophages promote cystogenesis in early polycystic kidney disease.
#JCSciliaSI
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Figure showing that tissue-resident macrophages promote cytogenesis in an in vitro 3D model system.
November 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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mick-lab.bsky.social
Thrilled to share "in situ APEX activation" (iAPEX), a proximity labeling technology for subcellular #proteomics applied to primary #cilia. iAPEX uses an enzymatic cascade, in which a D-amino acid oxidase locally produces H2O2 to activate ascorbate peroxidase.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
An enzymatic cascade enables sensitive and specific proximity labeling proteomics in challenging biological systems - Nature Communications
Proximity labeling allows proteomic mapping of subcellular structures. Here, Sroka et al. develop in situ APEX activation (iAPEX) to overcome limitations of labeling specificity and H2O2 toxicity, app...
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November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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strontiumpup.bsky.social
If you’re at #sfn25 you definitely don’t want to miss this nanosymposium on cilia, tomorrow from 1-4pm! Come learn about neuronal cilia, they do some pretty cool stuff!
elinakosty.bsky.social ElinaK @elinakosty.bsky.social · Oct 24
Synapses may get all the glory, but join us cilia-philes for our @sfn.org Nanosymposium to learn about the role of cilia in modulating brain activity, behavior, and development.

Sunday November 16th 1-4pm SDCC Room 25A. Thrilled to chair with @konjikusicmia.bsky.social - we'll see you there!
A graphic depicting a brain with an antenna behind it and the large title "Cilia in the brain". The full text is: Join us for a series of talks on: Cilia in the Brain. Sunday November 16, 2025 1:00 PM- 4:00 PM. Sessin # Nano-013, SDCC RM25A, SfN session title: "Primary Cilia Signaling and Function". on the right half an SfN logo is depicted with a list of speakers for this session
November 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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matthdoran.bsky.social
In an eight-person rowing boat, each rower contributes to movement but also has a unique role: balancing, powering, or setting the rhythm and pace. In our latest collaborative work we asked – do the eight dynein “rowers” in #cilia and #flagella operate in the same way?
November 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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zephyris-science.bsky.social
Very excited to share this one! Our comprehensive structure, genetics and biophysics dissection of which flagellar dyneins and other proteins are needed for flagella to beat and drive cells swimming behaviours: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 8, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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seemagrewal.bsky.social
Our special issue on ‘Cilia and Flagella’ is now out! Huge thanks to all (authors + reviewers) who contributed, and to our wonderful Guest Editors (@cilialab.bsky.social + @lottepedersen.bsky.social) for pulling it together.
Happy reading!
#cilia #flagella

journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13...
Volume 138 Issue 20 | Journal of Cell Science | The Company of Biologists
Journal of Cell Science publishes cutting-edge science encompassing all aspects of cell biology. It is published by The Company of Biologists, a not-for-profit organisation.
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November 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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jcellsci.bsky.social
Amanda Smith, Lawrence Ostrowski and colleagues find that lipid nanoparticle-encapsulated Dnai1 mRNA rescues ciliary activity in primary ciliary dyskinesia mouse cell models.
#JCSciliaSI
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November 5, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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jcellsci.bsky.social
Laurence Wilson and Martin Bees use high-speed 3D holographic imaging to capture the flagellar beat of single algal cells, revealing changes in the ‘handedness’ of the flagellar shapes at different points in their cycle.
#JCSciliaSI
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November 6, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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bastinlab.bsky.social
Exciting project!
ottavia-romoli.bsky.social Ottavia Romoli @ottavia-romoli.bsky.social · Nov 7
Hello mosquito 🦟 and microbiota 🧫 🦠 aficionados, we are looking for a postdoc to join our team (Saleh's lab @salehlabparis.bsky.social at Institut Pasteur @pasteur.fr ) to investigate the interplay between the mosquito, its microbiota, and arboviruses. More information here 👇
November 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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dyneinassembly.bsky.social
This was a fun chat. Thanks @jcellsci.bsky.social for featuring me and spotlighting our work.

Check out the special issue on Cilia and Flagella journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13....

We have an article on Axonemal Dynein Assembly Factors (DNAAFs) which may be useful for the field.
October 31, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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cilib.bsky.social
📣 Here it is — our overview on ciliary proteomics! Great discussions and writing with @mick-lab.bsky.social and Ronald Roepman 🙏🙏
Hope we didn’t miss anything important - apologies if we did!

#cilia #ciliopathies #proteomics
@theracilproject.bsky.social @for5547.bsky.social

tinyurl.com/yc8ztn5v
Advances in ciliary proteomics – towards cracking the hidden proteome code of cilia
Summary: This Review explores proteomic strategies for investigating cilia, tracing the evolution from early discoveries to recent advancements enabled by proximity labeling techniques.
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November 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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tanosbarbara.bsky.social
Great Science! Great food and great company in Oberbronn! Thank you to the organizers of the CFC meeting 2025! Thank you for all the fantastic talks & posters! + unbeatable morning runs! @club-cfc.bsky.social @bastinlab.bsky.social @alexbnmrh.bsky.social #cilia #flagella #centrosome #ciliopathies
October 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM