Michael Way

Updated Way lab external website michaelway0.wixsite.com/waylab

📢 One week left to submit your abstract! 📢 More info here: pcd2026.sciencesconf.org

I miss David’s sage like scientific wisdom. A huge loss to the Cell biology community.

I just got reminded of this old meme and it fits today’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

Issue 18 is complete Explore our Toc: journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13... Our cover image is an osteosarcoma cell visualised by structured illumination microscopy showing actin (magenta), paxillin (green) & myosin-X (cyan). See research by Popović et al. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

The closed captions automatically generated by YouTube for my video have some great typos 😂 I really liked that I run the cell signalling and cytokelethal function lab 😱☠️⚡🔥⚰️- we might need to rebrand!

Looking for a PhD? @crick.ac.uk PhD applications for next year are open. 4 year program with lots of outstanding projects on offer. If you are interested in viral host interactions, cytoskeleton, cell bio, live cell imaging - see Way lab project + video. plz repost www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...

Applications are open for @crick.ac.uk PhD student program. This is an outstanding 4 year program run by an incredible team that puts students at the heart of everything they do. Lots of great projects to choose. We have 2 positions in our lab this year! Please apply! www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...

If you are interested in microglia and actin cytoskeleton/Arp2/3 check out the project from my lab with Josef Kittler at UCL

PhD recruitment is now open at the Crick, and we're looking for people to join a community of researchers tackling big scientific questions in the heart of London. Apply by 3 November: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-... Find out more about the three routes into our 2027 PhD programme in this thread ⬇️

And you seem to have a hamster ball for the lab - excellent!

looks great!

very cool science as always!

It's a great meeting in a wonderful country - so sad I cannot attend in 2027 because of a diary clash!

Our second special issue for 2027 will focus on the topic of membrane dynamics and repair. We invite you to submit your latest research to this issue, which will be coordinated by our Guest Editors @jezcarlton.bsky.social and @pihanson.bsky.social. journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/me...

Arp2/3 iso-complexes strike again! Axonal actin ring assembly and maintenance involves different iso-complexes that change expression during neuronal maturation 🎉 Great collaboration with Ana Rita Costa & Monica Sousa @ i3S in Porto www.i3s.up.pt/research-gro... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ah, takes me back to my postdoc days...

We're now accepting submissions for our next special issue, which will focus on 'Proteostasis' and will be coordinated by two of our Academic Editors, Pedro Carvalho and Tamotsu Yoshimori. Submission deadline: 2 November Find out more: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/pr... #proteostasis

Our team is highlighting this publication from @drmichaelway.bsky.social and team @crick.ac.uk - beautiful #cryoET subtomogram averaging looking at the poxvirus portal complex with Krios Cryo-TEM. Full paper: ter.li/gaqwi4gi

A huge thank you to all our peer reviewers. Each digital tree in the #forestofbiologists represents a real-life tree in Great Knott Wood that is being protected, thanks to the important work of our peer reviewers. Check out the full on forest.biologists.com/landscape. #PRW2026 #PeerReviewWeek

Wow. The Communards so joyful on #totp. What the hell happened? How were the 80s soooo much more progressive on some issues than now?!?

looks like vaccinia virus moving in a cell!

The actomyosin cortex controls t-tubule remodeling in skeletal muscle www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Said same to wife!

Dear #CryoEM and #Microtubule enthusiasts, I’m thrilled to have been part of this exciting journey: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We discovered and characterized a manchette-like microtubule machinery in Xenopus spermatids, likely involved in sperm reshaping and membrane reorganization. (1/3)

@jcellsci.bsky.social is looking to recruit an enthusiastic & motivated Reviews Editor. This is an exciting opportunity for a talented scientific editor to make a significant contribution to an important journal in the field of cell biology. Apply by 3 September. www.biologists.com/about-us/wor...

Join the @jcellsci.bsky.social team! We’re looking for a Reviews Editor to join our editorial team. Details below 👇 Application deadline: 3 September

Don't you think more apoptotic cell?

@myosincity.bsky.social and I are looking to hire a new postdoc this winter! Open to anyone broadly interested in studying how cells generate and interpret mechanical signals. Interested applicants can reach out to me and Jordan directly.

Why choose JCS? Here's just one reason 👇 You can find out more at: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/re... #notforprofit #forscientistsbyscientists

An eclipse in a tree's shade. The tiny gaps between leaves act as pinhole lenses, projecting crescent shaped images of the eclipsed sun onto the world below. Original post

Our 'Cell Science at a Glance' articles are short primers that act as an introduction to an area of cell biology. Perfect if you're new to a field, or want to find out the latest on a particular topic. Check out the full list at: tinyurl.com/4c8e8m97 #cellbiology #community #notforprofit

People of Clacton! Show your support for me by putting a bin outside your house, one day this week, of a colour of Tendring Council's choice. This will be unequivocal proof of the success of my campaign.

It’s election week! At this important moment I would like to address your entire planet with a message to the people of Earth. And I think I found the perfect place to do it.

You may have seen I broadcast a message to planet Earth from the edge of space. I thought it was equally important to speak to deep space about you and your lovely little planet. But I thought humans might like to see it too, so here it is. #Clacton #VoteBinface

We’re looking for a Reviews Editor to join the team. Joining an experienced & successful journal team, this is an exciting opportunity for a talented scientific editor to make a significant contribution to an important journal in the field of cell biology. www.biologists.com/about-us/wor...

Published!!! Homeostatic fun!!! Given it’s homeostatic perhaps should go for one exclamation mark! genesdev.cshlp.org/content/earl...

We invite you to submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue: Proteostasis. This issue will be coordinated by two of our Academic Editors: Pedro Carvalho and Tamotsu Yoshimori. journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/pr...

I know what you mean!

How do poxviruses initiate infection after getting into the cytoplasm? With Tom Calcraft, @miguel-virus-cells.bsky.social & Peter Rosenthal, @crick.ac.uk we solved the structure of the vaccinia virus portal that mediates viral assembly and early mRNA and subsequent genome release. rdcu.be/fwGTn

Scientists at the Crick have identified three crucial proteins that make up the ‘portal complex’ in the vaccinia poxvirus. The finding could lead to new ways of treating other poxviruses like mpox which have similar portal complexes. https://bit.ly/45vMhbi

Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social invite you to submit your latest research to their upcoming special issue: Proteostasis. This issue will be coordinated by two JCS Academic Editors: Pedro Carvalho and Tamotsu Yoshimori. Find out more at tinyurl.com/2s3uk7rz

A genuinely nice guy and brilliant scientist who is great to hang out with......we will miss you Jim!

Congratulations on the first of many😀

Pei-Shang Wu, Todd Fallesen and Frank Uhlmann @crick.ac.uk use super-resolution microscopy and semi-automated measurements to dissect chromosome size determinants in fission yeast. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... #CellBio #nucleus

Delighted to share our latest preprint "NucleiSky enables cross-scale multimodal registration of microscopy data using nuclei constellations" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Code and App: github.com/CellMigratio...

🔬 Your tax dollars once paid a physicist whose own colleagues told him he was wasting the university's money. In 1951, Charles Townes sat on a D.C. park bench and worked out, on the back of an envelope, how to force molecules to release coherent radiation. 🧵 1/5

In our latest editorial @amjeve.uk & I take on the dreaded impact factor Like Monday mornings no one likes them but you can't ignore them & they keep coming around However there are things we should all do as authors, reviewers & editors journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Not to ignore how upsetting and unethical this is, but there is some dark humor in the western blot GIF, or? To me, it pairs well with a jingle like www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNv2...

Is this the future of peer review? New from @biologyopen.bsky.social: expanded Fast & Fair trial paying reviewers £220 per paper The result: rapid peer review with no drop in quality or change in acceptance rate Paying referees makes peer review faster & fairer www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...