LaBeRling
Laura and others in the Royle lab devise a way to label membrane contact sites in living cells on demand. They use the lamin B receptor to label contact sites without disrupting them.
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Actomyosin! Only 80p!
Sedigheh (Mobi) Ghanbarzadeh and Darius in close collaboration with theorists Sami Al-Izzi and Richard Morris from the School of Physics, UNSW Sydney (both alumni of Warwick) investigate how the level of ATP (our loved fuel for molecular motors and other cellular processes) changes the dynamics and patterning of membrane bound actomyosin networks.
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Motor co-dependence mechanisms
Ferdos and Alex in a collaboration between Straube and Carter (MRC-LMB) labs, show that complexes of dynein, KIF1C, dynactin and cargo adapter Hook3 undertake plus and minus end-directed motility along microtubules.
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Taste the rainbow
Intracellular nanovesicles come in many flavours. Mary in the Royle lab dug into the cell and pulled out an ATG9A flavour INV.
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Breaking up the party
James and Selena in Royle and Bayliss (Leeds) labs found an affimer that could inhibit the interaction between TACC3 and ch-TOG.
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The heart of the matter
Agnieszka and Andreas in the Sampath laboratory (in collaboration with the Smutny, Yue and Gorodkin groups), identified an RNA element in the pro-convertase Furin that controls left-right positioning of the heart as well as formation and function of cardiac valves in zebrafish embryos.
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Shugoshin brings surety
The McAinsh and Marston labs collaborate to show that shugoshin ("guardian spirit") stabilises the cohesin bridges connecting human meiotic chromatids
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CMCB Early Career Seminar Series
Our new series gives a platform to early career mechanochemical cell biologists to explain their science and then discuss with CMCB members. If we think you would be a good fit, we will support you in early career fellowship applications and in other ways.
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Mechanochemistry of Molecular Motors and Cytoskeletal Filaments
A focussed scientific meeting at the University of Warwick. 8th and 9th May 2026.
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