#cilia — Public Fediverse posts

Inside an Ear

Our ears, like those of many other animals, convert mechanical signals to electrical ones, through a Rube-Goldberg-esque series of transformations. External sound waves make their way down the soft tube of the ear canal, which funnels them to a thin-walled cone, the eardrum, that’s about half as large as a dime. Here, the vibrating air pushes against the cone’s membrane, and those vibrations travel onward through a linked trio of small bones that amplify the vibration’s amplitude.

The last of these bones presses against an even smaller, oval-shaped membrane. As the bone moves, it shakes the membrane, sending waves through the liquid on its other side. Those waves travel down the spirals of the tiny, pea-sized cochlea, named for a snail shell’s shape. As the waves move through the liquid, they bend bundles of hair-like strands back and forth, like tall grass waving in a breeze. The bending triggers a chemical that binds to nerves at the base of the bundles, sending an electrical signal through the nerve and into the brain.

But the hair-like bundles, known as stereocilia, are also able to amplify incoming vibrations. In this case, the bundles in the outer portion of the cochlea expend energy to bend more than the incoming vibrations naturally make them move. This bending amplifies the fluid motion that gets transmitted to stereocilia further down the line; it’s those bundles that will make the final conversion to an electrical signal the brain receives. (Image credit: B. Kachar; research credit: Y. Thipmaungprom et al.; via APS)

Calling all #cilia researchers. Our new Community Page presents CiliaKB, a manually curated #KnowledgeBase that serves as a one-stop platform for researchers to rapidly access mechanistic #data and mine for translational clues about cilia.
#CellBiology
https://plos.io/4d4QaYr

Calling all #cilia researchers. Our new Community Page presents CiliaKB, a manually curated #KnowledgeBase that serves as a one-stop platform for researchers to rapidly access mechanistic #data and mine for translational clues about cilia.
#CellBiology
https://plos.io/4d4QaYr

Calling all #cilia researchers. Our new Community Page presents CiliaKB, a manually curated #KnowledgeBase that serves as a one-stop platform for researchers to rapidly access mechanistic #data and mine for translational clues about cilia.
#CellBiology
https://plos.io/4d4QaYr

Calling all #cilia researchers. Our new Community Page presents CiliaKB, a manually curated #KnowledgeBase that serves as a one-stop platform for researchers to rapidly access mechanistic #data and mine for translational clues about cilia.
#CellBiology
https://plos.io/4d4QaYr

Calling all #cilia researchers. Our new Community Page presents CiliaKB, a manually curated #KnowledgeBase that serves as a one-stop platform for researchers to rapidly access mechanistic #data and mine for translational clues about cilia.
#CellBiology
https://plos.io/4d4QaYr

Zooplankton larvae shoot up in the water column when exposed to high pressure.

Mediated by special pressure-sensory photoreceptors.

From our paper on the mechanism of barotaxis.

https://elifesciences.org/articles/94306
#cilia #plankton #neuroscience

Trump said the U.S. will run Venezuela until a "proper transition can take place,"
as he defended Saturday's military strikes that resulted in the capture of President #Nicolás #Maduro and his wife.

"So we're going to stay until such time as we're going to run it, essentially, until such time as a proper transition can take place." Trump stammered to reporters from Mar a Lago.

Trump later told Fox & Friends that Maduro and his wife, #Cilia #Flores, were being brought by boat to New York where they'd stand #trial.

He said U.S. #oil #companies would head to Venezuela to operate in their oil reserves,
and the military is set to #attack #again if necessary to secure the effort.
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/03/g-s1-104346/trump-venezuela-maduro-press-conference?utm_social_post_id=641301310&utm_source=bsky.app&utm_social_handle_id=did%3Aplc%3Aln72v57ivz2g46uqf4xxqiuh&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_medium=social

Happy to be involved in UNICIL, our new Wellcome Trust Discovery project coordinated by @micromotility.bsky.social

We will study ciliary dynamics across scales and organisms. A long-term #postdoc position will be available at Heidelberg University @uniheidelberg shortly.

@uniofexeter press release:

https://news.exeter.ac.uk/living-systems-institute/multi-million-project-to-crack-the-code-of-cilia-tiny-structures-with-big-impact-on-human-health/

#biology #microscopy #vEM #cilia #platynereis

📣 A new star is born in the cilia world and cell death galaxy: Emilia Kieckhöfer brilliantly defended her PhD today! Congratulations!!! 🎉🥳👍

#cilia #necroptosis #bbs #raredisease #ciliopathies #celldeath #apoptosis #kidney #cysts #Nphp #Zilien

@cilia
@SFB1403 @CECAD
@UniKoeln

📣 A new star is born in the cilia world and cell death galaxy: Emilia Kieckhöfer brilliantly defended her PhD today! Congratulations!!! 🎉🥳👍

#cilia #necroptosis #bbs #raredisease #ciliopathies #celldeath #apoptosis #kidney #cysts #Nphp #Zilien

@cilia
@SFB1403 @CECAD
@UniKoeln

📣 A new star is born in the cilia world and cell death galaxy: Emilia Kieckhöfer brilliantly defended her PhD today! Congratulations!!! 🎉🥳👍

#cilia #necroptosis #bbs #raredisease #ciliopathies #celldeath #apoptosis #kidney #cysts #Nphp #Zilien

@cilia
@SFB1403 @CECAD
@UniKoeln

📣 Exciting update from the Nephrolab :koeln: Cologne:

This preprint marks our debut in the BBS research area, presenting work of Emilia Kieckhöfer on cystic kidney disease in Bbs8 and potential mechanisms.
A heartfelt thank you to Helen May-Simera and her team, along with all other contributors, for their invaluable support!

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.07.583949v1

#BBS #Ciliopathy #RareDisease #Nephrology #Kidney #Nephrolab #Cilia #BardetBiedl #Science #CellBiology #BBS8
@cilia

We close with Dan Dodd (Mill lab, MRC HGU) on unique #cilia & #centriole-specific functions for #tubulin isotype TUBB4B with dominant negative roles in motile & non-motile #ciliopathies. New insights from Alan Brown & Jeff Ti Labs. Deep read: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... #ukcilia2024 6/8

📣🔎 We are looking for a PhD candidate!

Topic:
Primary Cilia and Renal Ciliopathies as part of our work within #Theracil

:koeln: :koelsch:

Please apply via 📧 to me (you will find the address on our webpage) or via DM.

#Ciliopathies #Cilia #CysticKidneyDisease #NPHP #ADPKD #Nephrolab
@UniKoeln @CECAD
@cilia

https://www.kidneyresearchcenter.org/

Our group has several 3y+ #postdoc openings at the Centre for Organismal Studies at Heidelberg University. Come and join us in Heidelberg to study eye evolution, #cilia, #behaviour by #connetomics #vEM etc. #neuroscience #Evolution #job #science
https://adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FDB$.startup?MODUL=LS&M1=1&M2=0&M3=0&PRO=34018

After a wonderful kick-off meeting ⁦‪of TheRaCil time to chill by Copenhagen‘s canals 🌬️🥶😊🌬️

@cilia #cilia #Ciliopathy #RareDiseases #Zilien #Nephrology #Nephrologie

Two+ weeks 🚨 19/09/2023 15:00-17:15 BST 🚨until our 45th BSCB GenSoc UK Cilia Network e-symposium- free and open to all! >1260 folks already registered, this is the #cilia #centriole place to be! Not on my list already, sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bscb-gensoc-uk-cilia-network-e-symposia-series-tickets-122092125835

We have all good things lined-up: #GeneRegulatoryNetworks, #Signalling, mind-blowing #cryoET protein ID, #OrganelleProteomics in #neurons AND everything #tubulin! Join us...

Register now for the amazing hybrid centrosome conference in Istanbul, hosted by Elif Nur Firat-Karalar!

Sharing this announcement on the fediverse. Unsure if Elif has joined Mastodon yet…

Some of us might see this as the basal body meeting 😉

@cilia
#Centrosome2023
#cilia #centrosome #centriole #Embo #EmboWorkshop #Science #zilien #RareDisease #ScienceMastodon #Zentrosom #developmentalbiology #biology @nephrology #CellBiology #Ciliopathy

Four good things happened at work today. Almost unheard of.

Two great bits of new data. #cilia #Golgi #ExtracellularMatrix
One modified piece of equipment that means we can do some cool new experiments.
And I got some code to run a mathematical model given to us by a collaborator. New software. Step learning curve.

Worth remembering days like these. They do still happen!

Great review from Nicola Stevenson. Part of our team in Biochemistry at the U of Bristol researching #Golgi #cilia and #extracellularmatrix

https://journals.biologists.com/bio/article/12/2/bio059719/287059/The-factory-the-antenna-and-the-scaffold-the-three

Part of Biology Open's series of Future Leader Reviews. @BiologyOpen

Nikki is making great progress on our @BBSRC sLoLa.
This review includes some thoughts beyond her current work towards more integration with cilia biology.

@Mill_lab

Wonderful!
For more sleeps ...
🙂 :happy:

#cilia #ciliopathy #RareDiseases #centrosome #centriole #CellBiology #DevelopmentalBiology #DevBio
@cilia

Our first session of 2023 looking to keep virtual communities connected- our 42nd BSCB GenoSoc UK Cilia Network e-symposium 24/01/2023 15:00-17:15 free & open to all #cilia & #centriole fans! Register if not on our list already: https://eventbrite.co.uk/e/bscb-gensoc-uk-cilia-network-e-symposia-series-tickets-122092125835

We kick off with 6 sensational speakers who were poster prize winners from EMBO Cilia2022 meeting to kick of the new year- #cilia, #centriolarsatellites, #ciliopathies! Come see our plans for 2023...

@CytoLab

Hi Elif!!! Great to see you on #ScienceMastodon! Welcome! 😊

And a Happy New Year! 🎉🥳

#cilia #centriole #centrosome #RareDiseases #NewHere
#CellBiology #Ciliopathy

@cilia

@pkdev @cilia @nephrology

Welcome to the German PKD group, PKD e.V. !!!
Great to see you on Mastodon! 🙂

It is our big concern that with Twitter an important connection between patients and scientists could break away ... Wonderful meeting you here! :happy: :applause:

#Cilia #Ciliopathies #raredisease #ADPKD #Nephrology #Nephrologie #NeuHier #Medicine #Medizin

@pkdev

:applause: Herzlich Willkommen,. PKD e.V. ! Toll, dass Sie jetzt auch auf Mastodon sind! 🙂

Es ist unsere große Sorge, dass mit Twitter ein wichtiger Link zwischen Patient:innen und Wissenschaftler:innen wegbrechen könnte und die Alternative nur langsam in Gang kommt. Daher ist es super, dass PKD e.V. hier an Bord ist! :happy:

@cilia @nephrology

#Cilia #Ciliopathies #raredisease #ADPKD #Nephrology #Nephrologie #NeuHier #Medicine #Medizin

@BazziLab

Hisham, welcome to #ScienceMastodon! :happy:

Great to see more and more faces from Cologne here! :koeln: :dom:

#centrosome #cilia #hedgehog #raredisease #dermatology #cecad #uniklinikköln

@cilia

Good Morning, Ciliverse! Have a wonderful weekend! 🙂

(Checking if our group @cilia is working 😉)

#cilia #centriole #ciliopathy #raredisease

@Mill_lab

Pleasantine, this would be great - but: the group was somehow generated automatically - I can't edit the intro 🙁

So we have to keep on mentioning @cilia and adding the hashtags in our "toots". :happy:

#cilia #biology #centriole #developmentalbiology #devbiol #ciliopathy #raredisease #ADPKD #BBS #PCD #flagella #cysts #kidney
#coolestorganelleontheplanet #Ciliverse

📣📣📣
Okay, here it is, the #Cilia group:

@cilia

My first attempt didn't work, most likely because of the "&" within the former group-name.

The way I understand this: everyone can now follow this group. If the group is mentioned in a post " @cilia ", this is shared with everyone in the group.

Deeply sorry that the name is now only "cilia" - it is meant for maximum inclusion!!!

It should include everyone:
#raredisease #ciliopathies #centrosome #centriole #devbiol

Please join!!! 🙂🙂🙂

re-#Introduction with new handle after move to fediscience.org #ScienceMastodon

Hi, I'm Sven, a #structural #biochemist who recently moved from #Dundee, Scotland to #Boston, MA to start a #postdoc in the Brown lab at #HarvardMedicalSchool.

My broad interests are #structuralbiology
#cryoEM
#cilia
#ubiquitin
#biophysics
#proteinfolding #proteinengineering
#methods
#CellBiology

Looking to build a network on here! 🤝 😄

Hi there, #Mastodon ! #introduction time: my name is Hugo, I'm a structural biologist originating from the Netherlands. Currently a post-doc at Ben Engel's lab in Basel, Switzerland.

I love peering deep into cells, using #CryoElectronTomography to discover more about the molecular machines that make life tick, inside their native environment. #Cellbiology at the molecular scale.

I hope to see more of my (non-)science friends in this community soon!

#Science #Sciencemastodon #CryoET #Cilia

My #introduction to #ScienceMastodon:
I am a #Cell #Biologist and research group leader at IRB Barcelona, Spain.
 In my lab we observe the #Microtubule #Cytoskeleton and try to make sense of what we see, what an awesome job!
We also like hashtags that start with C:
#Cell #Cytoskeleton #Centrosome #Centriole #Cilia
And we would like to know how to build a centrosome:

@StearnsLab

Hi Tim! What a pleasure to see you and follow you on Mastodon! 😀👍 Welcome!

#cilia #centriole #cellbiology #NewHere

@Centriolelab

Greetings from the #Nephro to the #Centriole lab!!! Welcome Virginie & Paul! 🙂

#neuhier #ScienceFediverse #centrosome #cilia #biology