Fabrice Senger

It's fall, which means it's bioimage analysis conference season! @erinweisbart.bsky.social and @bethcimini.bsky.social had SUCH fun at the @bioimagingna.bsky.social/I2K #I2kxBINA2026meeting last month. We HAD to take advantage of being in person together to film on-site with our friends! (1/2)

🎉 New preprint! We built a fully open-source, 3D-printable droplet microfluidics platform with strobe-enhanced microscopy — sharp images of fast-moving droplets without a high-speed camera. All files on GitHub. #Microfluidics #OpenHardware 🔗 biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.19.758223v1

Kentaro Morikawa, Yuuki Shimizu, Nen Saito, Yasuhiro Inoue: Inverse origami inspired by insect morphogenesis: geometric design of wrinkle structures for curved surface formation https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.34903 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.34903 https://arxiv.org/html/2610.34903

Septin cytoskeleton acts like intermediate filaments! Our & @pwoakes.bsky.social newest papers in @jcb.org show septins relieve mechanical stress, a key oncogenic trait that can help metastatic tumors survive. Exciting translational implications, a new player in mechanobiology, sick imaging!

The new ELLIS Unit in Grenoble will celebrate its kick-off on 8 December! Join them for scientific talks featuring ELLIS President Serge Belongie and Mirco Ravanelli from Concordia University. Participation is free! Programme & registration: https://bit.ly/4zC71LA

wonderfull poster and line-up

*A community benchmark enables high-resolution, cross-lab quantification of mouse social behavior* Introducing HiDRA: 82 supervised classifier heads for 33 dyadic and solitary behaviors. Works out-of-the-box on new data and outperforms video foundation models. neuroethology.github.io/hidra-site/

A new paper by @yuritakahashi.bsky.social from @bensteventon.bsky.social lab @geneticscam.bsky.social describes a feedback loop 🔁 between EMT initiation and SNAI2-induced SMAD1 signalling in 🐤 explants. Migration -> ⬆️SMAD1 -> ⬆️BMP signalling -> ⬆️migration. #devbio link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Would love to be there

"pixel-classifier.ts does what Labkit and ilastik do, in about 400 lines in total:" Claude casually showing off. (Not exactly true, but excellent for a course: claude.ai/artifact/KSp...)

Towards a systems-level view of the microtubule cytoskeleton and its functions in physiology and disease www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our multi-immersion oblique plane microscope manuscript is online now. A light-sheet system that can be adapted to different imaging tasks, including a volumetric correction for imaging in media of any refractive index. @amsikking.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Viscous mechanical cues encode metastatic behavior through cytoskeletal-nuclear coupling and chromatin remodeling https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.13.757678v1

Physical Review E commissioned perspective articles on the future of SPLASHY (soft, polymeric, living, active, statistical, heterogeneous, yielding) physics. I wrote one about tunable matter, I think an exciting future direction for our field. Feedback welcome! journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...

More on CCM, from a mechanical perspective

The @sonnenlab.bsky.social discovered a functional role for oscillation frequencies in keeping the gut cells in balance. They experimentally changed the frequency of Hes1 oscillations in intestinal organoids and showed that this altered cell-type composition.https://www.hubrecht.eu/cells-got-rhythm/

📣 APPLICATIONS OPEN! Applications for the MBL's Advanced Research Training Courses are now open. 🔗 Check out details for course offerings here: go.mbl.edu/ARTC27

latest napari cellpose looks pretty good : napari-cellposesam.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Our work is finally out! How do organs get the right shape and size on time? Using the zebrafish inner ear canal, we show that a mechanical feedback loop between the ECM and Yap1 drives timely tissue growth, and a built-in termination system shuts it down once morphogenesis is done.

Review: Minimally invasive bioelectronic implants www.nature.com/articles/s41...

le Spiegel sur la France : « Un État qui réagit à toute revendication par la violence fait diversion des revendications pour thématiser la violence en elle-même. » www.spiegel.de/ausland/schu...

Calling #ALife researchers & philosophers🚨 There’s still a little over a week left to submit your abstract for the interdisciplinary minisymposium we’re organizing in December. Please help us spread the word & reach anyone who might be interested! 👇 hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/... #philsci #HPS 🧪

Sounds interesting while the software is not released with the paper...

🚀 Rxiv-Maker is now peer-reviewed and open access! Write your manuscript in Markdown and get a typeset PDF or an editable Word file, with figures, citations and cross-references numbered for you. Led by Bruno Saraiva, with @guijacquemet.bsky.social's lab 🔬 doi.org/10.1242/jcs.265183

Last days to apply and join my lab!👇

Plus loin que l'horizon, c'est bien mieux que le bout d'son nez

Very happy and proud about this one : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

These open-source adobe apps built in rust are so good... they're way better than other adobe alternatives i tried getartcraft.com/apps

We are updating our Expansion Microscopy (U-ExM) website with : - Protocols tips to help you get started - Examples of applications across different biological systems. - work in progress - an antibody database 👉 mocel.unige.ch/research-gro...

🔬 We're hiring a Laboratory Manager! Join our growing international team at the Max Planck Center for Physics and Medicine in Erlangen! 🧬 Cell & molecular biology 🧪 Lab coordination & experimental research 📩 Apply now: [https://www.fau-jobs.de/jobposting/8173a98034c48d53d57bce14503883cbdbf6f3b80]

Happy to share our latest preprint in collaboration with @bashorlab.bsky.social. Great work by first author Alena Streletskaia. biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

From MBoC: How do cells coordinate their movements as a group? New research shows how vimentin helps connect individual cell movement with coordinated collective migration and efficient wound closure. https://www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/mbc.E26-01-0052

Fast single molecule localization microscopy in 3D https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.29.755394v1

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Data-driven traction force microscopy in 3D collagen hydrogels

Are you a biologist working with microscopy images? A computer scientist wanting to work with microscopy data? Their boss??? None of these, but curious how AI has transformed microscopy image analysis? 🔬🤖 This one's for you: 📄 doi.org/10.1146/annu... More in the thread! 🧵

We have a position open in our core facility in the @pasteur.fr . Please share it and / or apply! forum.image.sc/t/research-e...

Thank you @raimonsunyer.bsky.social

bioRxiv has a dedicated section for negative results. Use it. Share negative results. Your colleagues will appreciate it.

The original #Luxar thread is way too long and most people missed most demos, so I will be slow-dripping demos in the next weeks... Here is how you can annotate anything drawn and have text, images, videos overlays displayed on-hover or links opened on-click!

Self-centering steady-state flows emerge in confined actomyosin networks https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.24.754221v1

QuPath workshop with Michael Nelson-- going through many new extensions! #I2KxBINA

The Marseille Imaging Institute invite you to its R&D Imaging Seminar, November 2–6, 2026, La Timone Marseille Join us for a week of academic & industrial talks covering: #NuclearImaging, #AI and imaging, #OpticalImaging, #MRI, #Ultrasound & #Xray imaging Infos & registration: shorturl.at/9tVJt

The IMAG'IC team is back to offer you the "Introduction to the Use of #ImageJ" training course. 22 October 2026 (English) 4 November 2026 (French) institutcochin.fr/formations/f... @institutcochin.bsky.social @upcite.bsky.social @inserm.fr @cnrs.fr

It’s dreadful outside so please help me succeed in getting good Persian rice. Knowledgeable people: what did I miss and how to get it right next time?

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The power of funding fundamental discovery in driving unexpected benefits for humankind are unmatched. We should be funding more basic research not less

Are there key discoveries made with spatial RNA seq? Or what are your favorite spatial rna seq papers? Pls reski!

🚨I have open PhD positions in my new lab at #NIMSB🚀!! Deadline Oct-16 nimsb.unl.pt/join-us/ 🌟I'm looking for motivated candidates who are eager to join a highly multidisciplinary team and study the intracellular dynamics of cancer cell migration using advanced computational methods and microscopy👾