Jorge Ferreira
@jorgeferreira.bsky.social
Cell biologist at i3S - University of Porto
Associate Professor - Faculty of Medicine of Porto
At the crossroads between nuclear mechanics and cell division.
https://integrativenucleus.weebly.com/
Associate Professor - Faculty of Medicine of Porto
At the crossroads between nuclear mechanics and cell division.
https://integrativenucleus.weebly.com/
Pinned
Chromosome condensation mechanically primes the nucleus for mitosis
Timely and accurate transition into mitosis is essential to preserve genome integrity and avoid chromosome segregation errors. This transition depends on spatial and temporal activity patterns of the ...
www.biorxiv.org
New preprint from the lab! Please check it out. 🚨
Have you ever wondered how cells decide when it’s time to divide? So did we!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Have you ever wondered how cells decide when it’s time to divide? So did we!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Our attempt to give multinucleate cells the spotlight they deserve (seriously, they’re everywhere), led by the fearless @mrosjac.bsky.social and with @Markus Ganter
doi.org/10.32942/X2M...
We’d love your feedback while this goes through the peer review process!
#MicroEvoSky
#ProtistsonSky 🧪🌏
doi.org/10.32942/X2M...
We’d love your feedback while this goes through the peer review process!
#MicroEvoSky
#ProtistsonSky 🧪🌏
November 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Our attempt to give multinucleate cells the spotlight they deserve (seriously, they’re everywhere), led by the fearless @mrosjac.bsky.social and with @Markus Ganter
doi.org/10.32942/X2M...
We’d love your feedback while this goes through the peer review process!
#MicroEvoSky
#ProtistsonSky 🧪🌏
doi.org/10.32942/X2M...
We’d love your feedback while this goes through the peer review process!
#MicroEvoSky
#ProtistsonSky 🧪🌏
I just wrote an invited review on one of my favourite topics. This was a long and tiring process (as usual). I wrote the entire thing from scratch without any AI tool (not even editing or paraphrasing). Editor comes back to me with highlighted sections that were AI-generated. How should I reply?
November 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I just wrote an invited review on one of my favourite topics. This was a long and tiring process (as usual). I wrote the entire thing from scratch without any AI tool (not even editing or paraphrasing). Editor comes back to me with highlighted sections that were AI-generated. How should I reply?
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Please repost - Multiple PhDs available
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November 5, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Please repost - Multiple PhDs available
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Here's a few thoughts after the FASEB meeting on Mechanobiology of the nucleus #MBNSRC
1 - The community is healthy and growing in multiple directions
2 - New people are committed in moving the field forward
3 - Some directions are unexpected and have huge potential.
Looking forward to new chapters
1 - The community is healthy and growing in multiple directions
2 - New people are committed in moving the field forward
3 - Some directions are unexpected and have huge potential.
Looking forward to new chapters
October 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Here's a few thoughts after the FASEB meeting on Mechanobiology of the nucleus #MBNSRC
1 - The community is healthy and growing in multiple directions
2 - New people are committed in moving the field forward
3 - Some directions are unexpected and have huge potential.
Looking forward to new chapters
1 - The community is healthy and growing in multiple directions
2 - New people are committed in moving the field forward
3 - Some directions are unexpected and have huge potential.
Looking forward to new chapters
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📢 Fully-funded 4-year MRC DiMeN PhD opportunity in our lab.
🔬 Exciting cancer cell biology collab with @maiblab.bsky.social & Liz Smythe @mcb-sheffield.bsky.social to use recombinant biosensors to image active KRAS in #pancreaticcancer
👇Apply by 4th Dec
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🔬 Exciting cancer cell biology collab with @maiblab.bsky.social & Liz Smythe @mcb-sheffield.bsky.social to use recombinant biosensors to image active KRAS in #pancreaticcancer
👇Apply by 4th Dec
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Understanding the membrane recruitment of oncogenic KRAS in pancreatic cancer at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Understanding the membrane recruitment of oncogenic KRAS in pancreatic cancer at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com
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October 31, 2025 at 9:56 AM
📢 Fully-funded 4-year MRC DiMeN PhD opportunity in our lab.
🔬 Exciting cancer cell biology collab with @maiblab.bsky.social & Liz Smythe @mcb-sheffield.bsky.social to use recombinant biosensors to image active KRAS in #pancreaticcancer
👇Apply by 4th Dec
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🔬 Exciting cancer cell biology collab with @maiblab.bsky.social & Liz Smythe @mcb-sheffield.bsky.social to use recombinant biosensors to image active KRAS in #pancreaticcancer
👇Apply by 4th Dec
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Get out your calendars! The motors are out of quarantine and we plan to assemble in person on 8th May 2026 at University of Warwick Campus for a fun day on motors and the filaments they walk along. Livestream is planned too. More details on registration, travel bursaries etc. will be revealed soon.
October 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Get out your calendars! The motors are out of quarantine and we plan to assemble in person on 8th May 2026 at University of Warwick Campus for a fun day on motors and the filaments they walk along. Livestream is planned too. More details on registration, travel bursaries etc. will be revealed soon.
Almost time for the best meeting of the year! Looking forward to interact with everyone! See you there
Final call to register and submit abstracts for the @faseborg.bsky.social conference on the Mechanobiology of the Cell Nucleus (#MBNSRC) to be considered for platform presentations. The conference takes place in Melbourne, FL, Oct. 26-30, 2025. See more info at: events.faseb.org/event/Mechan...
October 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Almost time for the best meeting of the year! Looking forward to interact with everyone! See you there
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📣Announcing the 4th edition of the EMBL‑IBEC Conference on “Engineering Multicellular Systems”, taking place 11–13 March 2026 in Barcelona. Exploring organoids, mechanobiology, embryo models, organ-on-chip systems, multiomics and more. Abstracts open now!
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October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
📣Announcing the 4th edition of the EMBL‑IBEC Conference on “Engineering Multicellular Systems”, taking place 11–13 March 2026 in Barcelona. Exploring organoids, mechanobiology, embryo models, organ-on-chip systems, multiomics and more. Abstracts open now!
events.ibecbarcelona.eu/embl-ibec-co...
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The Chancellors Studentship is an excellent opportunity to do your PhD in the UK. If you are interested in doing your PhD at the interface between physics, neurobiology and mechanobiology, please get in touch.
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Warwick PGR Scholarship Competitions
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October 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The Chancellors Studentship is an excellent opportunity to do your PhD in the UK. If you are interested in doing your PhD at the interface between physics, neurobiology and mechanobiology, please get in touch.
warwick.ac.uk/services/dc/...
warwick.ac.uk/services/dc/...
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Can pressure gradients persist over long timescales in animal cells? We induced intracellular pressure gradients and examined the resulting flows in single cells. We reveal surprisingly long lasting pressure gradients.
More here: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
More here: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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September 29, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Can pressure gradients persist over long timescales in animal cells? We induced intracellular pressure gradients and examined the resulting flows in single cells. We reveal surprisingly long lasting pressure gradients.
More here: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
More here: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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Are you interested on how regenerating tissues transit between stages? Am sharing here our work showing that during #Xenopus tail regeneration, tissue stiffening activates a Piezo1-Yap1 mechanosensitive cascade to allow wounded epithelia to transit into regenerative states!
September 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Are you interested on how regenerating tissues transit between stages? Am sharing here our work showing that during #Xenopus tail regeneration, tissue stiffening activates a Piezo1-Yap1 mechanosensitive cascade to allow wounded epithelia to transit into regenerative states!
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I am advertising for a #postdoc for a 3 year BBSRC-funded project exploring the role of macrophages in salivary gland development. The successful candidate will be based at @edinuni-irr.bsky.social at @uni-of-edinburgh.bsky.social. Closing date: 9th Oct. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Emmerson lab within the Institute for Regeneration and Repair at the University of Edinburgh. This three year, BBSRC-funded postdoctoral research associa...
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September 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM
I am advertising for a #postdoc for a 3 year BBSRC-funded project exploring the role of macrophages in salivary gland development. The successful candidate will be based at @edinuni-irr.bsky.social at @uni-of-edinburgh.bsky.social. Closing date: 9th Oct. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
New preprint from the lab! Please check it out. 🚨
Have you ever wondered how cells decide when it’s time to divide? So did we!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Have you ever wondered how cells decide when it’s time to divide? So did we!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Chromosome condensation mechanically primes the nucleus for mitosis
Timely and accurate transition into mitosis is essential to preserve genome integrity and avoid chromosome segregation errors. This transition depends on spatial and temporal activity patterns of the ...
www.biorxiv.org
September 3, 2025 at 10:07 AM
New preprint from the lab! Please check it out. 🚨
Have you ever wondered how cells decide when it’s time to divide? So did we!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Have you ever wondered how cells decide when it’s time to divide? So did we!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Jorge Ferreira
Please re-post: If you know (or are!) somebody who might fancy doing a PhD (Oct 2026 start) in my group @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social, working on chromatin evolution in prokaryotes (or other things we're interested in), please have a look at www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/supervisors-...
Supervisors and Projects
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September 1, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Please re-post: If you know (or are!) somebody who might fancy doing a PhD (Oct 2026 start) in my group @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social, working on chromatin evolution in prokaryotes (or other things we're interested in), please have a look at www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/supervisors-...
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Join us for the first Mechanobiology of the Nucleus conference supported by @faseborg.bsky.social. Co-organized with @lammerdinglab.bsky.social, @katemiro.bsky.social and Verena Ruprecht, the amazing program is here:
events.faseb.org/event/Mechan...
Opportunities for talks! Abstracts by Aug. 31st.
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Opportunities for talks! Abstracts by Aug. 31st.
July 21, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Join us for the first Mechanobiology of the Nucleus conference supported by @faseborg.bsky.social. Co-organized with @lammerdinglab.bsky.social, @katemiro.bsky.social and Verena Ruprecht, the amazing program is here:
events.faseb.org/event/Mechan...
Opportunities for talks! Abstracts by Aug. 31st.
events.faseb.org/event/Mechan...
Opportunities for talks! Abstracts by Aug. 31st.
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Excited for our next special issue and looking forward to working with Abby Buchwalter (@abbybuch.bsky.social) and Megan King (@luskinglab.bsky.social)! Working on the cell biology of the nucleus? Send your papers our way!
#notforprofit
#notforprofit
Call for papers: Cell Biology of the Nucleus
We invite you to submit your latest research to our special issue: Cell Biology of the Nucleus, guest edited by Abby Buchwalter @abbybuch.bsky.social, working alongside Megan King @luskinglab.bsky.social.
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We invite you to submit your latest research to our special issue: Cell Biology of the Nucleus, guest edited by Abby Buchwalter @abbybuch.bsky.social, working alongside Megan King @luskinglab.bsky.social.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/nu...
July 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Excited for our next special issue and looking forward to working with Abby Buchwalter (@abbybuch.bsky.social) and Megan King (@luskinglab.bsky.social)! Working on the cell biology of the nucleus? Send your papers our way!
#notforprofit
#notforprofit
Looking forward! Promises to be an amazing conference!
Interested in nuclear #mechanobiology? Join us for the first ever FASEB Science Research Conference on the Mechanobiology of the Nucleus #MBNSRC.
Find more information and register at: events.faseb.org/event/Mechan...
Submit abstracts by August 31, 2025. Please share and see you in October!
Find more information and register at: events.faseb.org/event/Mechan...
Submit abstracts by August 31, 2025. Please share and see you in October!
July 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Looking forward! Promises to be an amazing conference!
Just learned of the passing of Frank Stahl. Together with Mat Meselson, he figured out one of the most amazing processes in biology. How does DNA replicate? Check out the beautiful movie made by iBiology and celebrate their legacy! www.ibiology.org/genetics-and...
The Most Beautiful Experiment: Meselson and Stahl • iBiology
Matt Meselson and Frank Stahl share the story of their groundbreaking experiment from 1958 that definitively showed semiconservative DNA replication.
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July 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Just learned of the passing of Frank Stahl. Together with Mat Meselson, he figured out one of the most amazing processes in biology. How does DNA replicate? Check out the beautiful movie made by iBiology and celebrate their legacy! www.ibiology.org/genetics-and...
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Ever wished to become an actin star? 😎
Then try getting suspended above a non-adhesive substrate.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Then try getting suspended above a non-adhesive substrate.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A multicellular star-shaped actin network underpins epithelial organization and connectivity - Nature Communications
The combined role of cellular junctions and actomyosin networks in tissues remains unclear. Here, the authors identify a tissue-scale star-shaped network of actomyosin that preserves cell shape, limit...
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July 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Ever wished to become an actin star? 😎
Then try getting suspended above a non-adhesive substrate.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Then try getting suspended above a non-adhesive substrate.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I suppose there are worst places to grade exams.
July 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I suppose there are worst places to grade exams.
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Welcome and congratulations to the 60 new members and 9 associate members who have been elected to the EMBO Membership! This honour celebrates #research excellence and outstanding achievements in the #LifeSciences. 🧪
Learn more here:
www.embo.org/press-releas... #EMBOMembers2025
Learn more here:
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Outstanding life scientists elected to the EMBO Membership – Press releases – EMBO
Sixty-nine new members join the community of leading life scientists in Europe and beyond
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July 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Welcome and congratulations to the 60 new members and 9 associate members who have been elected to the EMBO Membership! This honour celebrates #research excellence and outstanding achievements in the #LifeSciences. 🧪
Learn more here:
www.embo.org/press-releas... #EMBOMembers2025
Learn more here:
www.embo.org/press-releas... #EMBOMembers2025
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📣 Good news: 281 top researchers have just won ERC Advanced Grants!
The new funding, worth nearly €721 million, is part of the 🇪🇺 EU’s #HorizonEurope programme.
Find out more 👉 europa.eu/!JYKxkD
#ERCAdG #FrontierResearch @ec.europa.eu
The new funding, worth nearly €721 million, is part of the 🇪🇺 EU’s #HorizonEurope programme.
Find out more 👉 europa.eu/!JYKxkD
#ERCAdG #FrontierResearch @ec.europa.eu
June 17, 2025 at 10:11 AM
📣 Good news: 281 top researchers have just won ERC Advanced Grants!
The new funding, worth nearly €721 million, is part of the 🇪🇺 EU’s #HorizonEurope programme.
Find out more 👉 europa.eu/!JYKxkD
#ERCAdG #FrontierResearch @ec.europa.eu
The new funding, worth nearly €721 million, is part of the 🇪🇺 EU’s #HorizonEurope programme.
Find out more 👉 europa.eu/!JYKxkD
#ERCAdG #FrontierResearch @ec.europa.eu
Nationwide blackout in Portugal at the moment. No electricity anywhere. I was in the middle of a lecture. That was a new experience for me
April 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Nationwide blackout in Portugal at the moment. No electricity anywhere. I was in the middle of a lecture. That was a new experience for me