Mick lab

Using biochemistry, cell biology, proteomics and imaging techniques to unravel the molecular functions of mammalian primary #cilia.
@mick-lab.bsky.social

[Mick lab @MickLab]

We are super-excited to see our first original paper published in @JCellBiol. Fantastic collaboration with @KalocsayMarian @GygiLab @MaxNACHURY to establish quantitative, time-resolved #cilia #proteomics.
Very proud of our first PhD student Elena May! https://t.co/7mpvuAHgJi

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

Hundreds of scientists who study cancer and aging have made an easily avoidable but significant mistake, deploying the wrong antibody to test for a key protein, according to a researcher who exposes errors in the biomedical literature.

Learn more: https://t.co/VsdVvOgrUo @NewsfromScience

[Journal of Cell Biology @JCellBiol]

.@CytoLabKoc show PCM1 multimerization scaffolds centriolar satellite assembly & drives stepwise client recruitment. Disrupting this homeostasis impairs ciliary signaling & #mitosis. Key insights into how this membraneless organelle forms & remodels https://t.co/Epp1nPSsqX

[Mick lab @MickLab]

We are very proud of our @Saar_Uni https://t.co/7vwDuySly4. student Smilla Koy for winning the Euro #Cilia2027 image competition. A well-deserved recognition of her amazing work. We're lucky to have such talent in the lab!

[7th European Cilia Meeting @EuroCilia2027]

🏆 GRAND PRIZE WINNER 🏆
Congrats to Smilla-Maria Koy (BSc Student, Mick Lab, Saarland University, Germany) for winning our Image Competition!
🔬 "IMCD3 Spheroid with Cilia" captures primary cilia emerging into the lumen to show cell polarity.
#FluorescenceFriday #cilia.

[Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi]

A PhD's success depends more on the fit between the student, the advisor, and the lab than on the specific topic being studied (it barely matters at all).

Similarly, a lab's success depends more on how excited (or miserable) its researchers are than on the precise project they are working on (it could be virtually anything).

This information isn't in papers or in grant proposals, you have to ask the researchers.

[eLife - the journal @eLife]

This ‘fundamental’ study uncovers how directing pyruvate into mitochondria can shrink cells by shifting their metabolism away from building amino acids and proteins.
https://t.co/X1n0OEsCeK

[Mick lab @MickLab]

@CytoLabKoc Congrats Elif!

[Elif Nur Firat-Karalar @CytoLabKoc]

I am thrilled to be featured in the ‘First Persons’ through the decades article in Journal of Cell Science.. It is honoring for me to appear on the same page as David Stephens, an outstanding scientist, leader, and mentor in the cilia field, who sadly passed away in 2024.

[eLife - the journal @eLife]

A new #CryoET study shows that the protein ZapD helps organise FtsZ filaments into stable ring-like structures in building bacterial division machinery.
https://t.co/Jz9GRlVqBJ

[Eric Betzig @Eric_Betzig]

Apoptotic vesicle release from a cell as it gives up the ghost under oxidative stress, as seen by MOSAIC lattice light sheet mode.

[Bianca Schrul @BiancaSchrul]

First pizza lunch after a whirlwind week moving into our brand-new research building. Exhausted, but absolutely thrilled by the incredible facilities & lab space. Can’t wait to dive back into science.

A few benches are still waiting for curious minds: Come, join us! #AcademicJob

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

"For half an hour, I vented everything I had been holding in for months … my supervisor listened patiently, then calmly offered a line I’ll never forget: 'You are here to learn to ride a bicycle, not to invent a bicycle.'

That one sentence landed softly, but it cracked something open." #ScienceWorkingLife https://t.co/e9cfXVzB5c

[Tanentzapf Lab @TanentzapfLab]

The goal of a PhD is not to learn some facts or read a few papers or learn a bunch of techniques. The goal of a PhD is to learn independence, problem solving, how to finish things you start, resilience, & gain the ability to adapt & think creatively. Learning these things is hard

[Orit Peleg @oritpeleg]

More on collective behavior: Our new Annual Review of Biophysics piece - with the stellar Danielle Chase - explores how animals sense, share information, and make group decisions. In honeybees and beyond 🐝

https://t.co/UcuG35gUu5

[Tanentzapf Lab @TanentzapfLab]

I think a good rule of thumb is to spend at least as much time thinking about your data as you did obtaining it. It's common for people to spend a lot less time thinking than doing which gives rise to all kinds of problems.

[Mick lab @MickLab]

@CytoLabKoc @PLOSBiology Congrats Jovana, Elif and team!

[Nature Chemical Biology @nchembio]

A new paper reports that the primary mechanism of capsaicin entry into the vanilloid-binding site of TRPV1 is a targetable hydrophobic tunnel at the TRPV1-membrane interface

https://t.co/KoFyBOEKnf

[Journal of Cell Biology @JCellBiol]

Militsin, Palty et al. reveal novel crosstalk btwn STIM proteins & IP3Rs, whereby STIM activation alters the spatial pattern of IP3R-mediated Ca2+ release, shifting it from a promigratory localized signal to a diffuse, migration-suppressing signal https://t.co/GZYiF9VRLg

[7th European Cilia Meeting @EuroCilia2027]

Save the date!
March 2027 on beautiful lake Maggiore right outside #Milan, are you ready for #Cilia2027? 🥳
Stay tuned for more info!

[Mick lab @MickLab]

@berkeleyMCB @OlzmannLab Congrats Gloria, fantastic news!

[Research in Germany - Initiative of the BMFTR @ResearchGermany]

👨‍🎓 🇩🇪👩‍🎓 Further your research career by doing your PhD in Germany❗ Start your search for currently open PhD positions at the DAAD online database https://t.co/ULJ3XQP310