Melissa Quintanilla

PostDoc in Piel lab @ Institut Curie. PhD in Beach Lab (@myosincity) @ Loyola. Interested in all things cytoskeleton, cell mechanics, and microscopy.

[Journal of Cell Biology @JCellBiol]

Our April cover ➡️ https://t.co/skXux0dgDv shows overlayed temporal projection of actomyosin dynamics in the leading edge of migrating mouse embryonic fibroblast expressing EGFP-non-muscle myosin & mScarlet F-Tractin. From @fluoroforce, @myosincity et al. https://t.co/vtQid8JXZW

[Journal of Cell Biology @JCellBiol]

Spotlight: Gurley and Peifer @peiferlabunc @UNC_Lineberger highlight work from Quintanilla et al. (https://t.co/SAUiVDjJ4P) that reveals how the local biophysical environment regulates assembly of #myosin filaments. https://t.co/w6ziGyqgD9

@fluoroforce @pwoakes @myosincity

[Joey Tidei @J__Today]

Actin retrograde flow in the lamellapodia of a stage one neuron. Happy #FluorescenceFriday !

[Melissa Quintanilla @fluoroforce]

@JoseOrgaz2 Thank you!

[Melissa Quintanilla @fluoroforce]

Happy Valentine’s Day to my white whale, my labor of (mostly) love, and the bulk of my thesis 💕 online now and newly improved thanks to great feedback from reviewers!

https://t.co/I0HNMTlFK5

[Melissa Quintanilla @fluoroforce]

@SeptinLab Thank you!!

[Melissa Quintanilla @fluoroforce]

@peiferlabunc @sshekhr Thank you!! 🤩

[Rockefeller U. Press @RockUPress]

In @JCellBiol, Quintanilla (@fluoroforce), Oakes (@pwoakes), Beach (@myosincity) and colleagues @LoyolaChicago demonstrate subcellular biophysical mechanisms that enable myosin 2 filament assembly. https://t.co/CmuoQGRv1y

@MatthewAkamatsu @Coronin @taraskalab
#Cytoskeleton

[Journal of Cell Biology @JCellBiol]

Quintanilla (@fluoroforce), Oakes (@pwoakes), Beach (@myosincity) and colleagues @LoyolaChicago demonstrate subcellular biophysical mechanisms that enable myosin 2 filament assembly. https://t.co/VQqK2bHjwC

@MatthewAkamatsu @Coronin @taraskalab
#Biophysics #Cytoskeleton

[Melissa Quintanilla @fluoroforce]

@christlet @myosincity @pwoakes @taraskalab @aka_MatsuLab @Coronin @shreya_06 Thank you so much! 😊

[Melissa Quintanilla @fluoroforce]

And of course thanks again to the village that made this paper what it is:
@myosincity, @pwoakes, @taraskalab, @aka_MatsuLab, @Coronin, @shreya_06, Kem Sochacki, Farida Korobova, Hiral Patel, Huini Wu, and Jeremy Rotty

[Melissa Quintanilla @fluoroforce]

@tlngy @myosincity Thank you! 🤩

[Junnan @Junnan_Fang]

Excited to have my recent work on #bioRxiv. We identified cis-regulatory elements of Plp and the interact PCM scaffold are important for Plp mRNA localization at centrosomes. 🙌A team work from @w_Tian_ @fluoroforce @myosincity @LabLerit. 🙌
https://t.co/KKF0QO1JR4

[Loyola Postdoc Society @LoyolaPostdocs]

Thank you to all our colleagues for the amazing work you do! Without you, graduate students DON'T get degrees, papers DON'T get published, grants DON'T get funded, and PIs DON'T get tenure. Let’s hope @LoyolaChicago come to their senses and pay us a fair wage!

[Loyola Postdoc Society @LoyolaPostdocs]

It’s been 7 days since our letter to @LoyolaChicago‘s president went public. We are advocating for fair and competitive pay for all Loyola’s postdocs. PIs are discussing it, but we’ve yet to hear from the administration. We’re waiting, and the scientific community is watching!

[Loyola Postdoc Society @LoyolaPostdocs]

We, the Loyola University Chicago postdocs, call for an urgent raise in compensation. We addressed this open letter to President Reed on May 22nd: https://t.co/fnKzxCSmub 1/10

[Melissa Quintanilla @fluoroforce]

@sshekhr @AlexiaCaillier Thank you!!

[Melissa Quintanilla @fluoroforce]

@SchwarzUlrich @AlexiaCaillier Thanks Ulrich!

[Melissa Quintanilla @fluoroforce]

@LammerdingLab @AlexiaCaillier Thank you! 😁

[Dr. Arthur Molines 🎮 @MolinesArthur]

🚨⚠️🔬
Do you work with cells? Do you care about what their interior "feels" like?
@rikkigarner and I are organizing a session about the "Physical Biology of the Cytoplasm" for the second time at @ASCBiology #cellbio2023
The abstract deadline is August 1st!