Vladimir Volkov

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I make microtubules pull on things. Group Leader at QMUL. I post preprints.
volkovlab.com
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Registration is open for the Dynamic Kinetochore Workshop 2024. Join us in Caux Palace above Lake Geneva for four days filled with centromeres, kinetochores, and microtubules. A fantastic lineup of speakers, and 20 slots for selected talks (prioritised for ECRs)
https://meetings.embo.org/event/24-kinetechore
Dynamic kinetochore

The kinetochore is a dynamic proteinaceous structure that connects centromeric chromatin to spindle microtubules and is of fundamental importance for the segregation of chromosomes during mitosis and…

As my group is slowly approaching size > 1, it's time for the new lab website: www.volkovlab.com. Will be soon looking for a postdoc and a technician (both funded by @bbsrc for 3 years). While the HR approve the official ads, feel free to reach out! A boost is highly appreciated
Why is a short loop in the extended #Ndc80 #kinetochore complex essential for #mitosis?
In vitro studies by Soumitra Polley @andreamusacchio @microtubule_guy @pim et al reveal its contribution to end-on #microtubule attachment via homotypic interactions between adjacent Ndc80 molecules
https://www.embopress.org/doi/10.15252/embj.2022112504
Fluorescence in Structural Biology by @rita_strack, or how advances in fluorescence microscopy is now complementing cryoET. Glad to see a centriole here in U-ExM as an example :)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-022-01738-2
Fluorescence in structural biology - Nature Methods

Advances in fluorescence microscopy and spectroscopy show their promise for applications that complement in situ structural biology methods like cryoelectron tomography.

Nature

I am grateful to start my lab Max Perutz Labs in Vienna in Summer '23. What a place to do Chromosome Biology and Reconstitution Biochemistry! Looking forward to study how dividing cells recognise and process DNA bridges in anaphase.

Thanks to my postdoctoral advisor @andreamusacchio for all the support. A special shout-out to our collaborators @microtubule_guy and @MarileenD

It's exciting and all your congratulations and kind words in the past days mean a lot. Thanks!

New paper showing that an Asgard archaeon, the closest relatives to eukaryotes, has an actin cytoskeleton of twisted-pair filaments and complex cell morphologies! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05550-y
Actin cytoskeleton and complex cell architecture in an Asgard archaeon - Nature

Culture and analysis of ‘Candidatus Lokiarchaeum ossiferum’—a member of the Asgard phylum—reveals an elaborate cell architecture with extensive membranous protrusions.

Nature

On #scienceTwitter, my favourite thing was reading and, on rare occasions, writing "paper/preprint threads". From the researchers I followed and through the #Twitter algorithm, this became my most important source for new #research.

While people start to do the same on #Mastodon, I have the feeling that I miss important work bc no algorithm "saves" it for me if I don't watch my timeline constantly.

Two simple solutions would be: a commonly accepted hashtag that everybody uses when writing "paper threads" or an [...] @ a.gup.pe group with a similar adaptation rate.

#Question 1: is there already a mechanism for this that I missed?
#Question 2: What hashtag or group name?
I saw #TootPrint before. Maybe #PaperInAToot? #PaperInAPost? #PaperInAThread? #PaperPost? #MastoPrint?

Suggestions and boosts, please, we need reach for this! 🤓​

#TwitterMigration #Science #Scientist @phdstudents @academicchatter @neuroscience @cognition

Do you engage less with #mastodon accounts when they use #twitter links?

Please boost - as I wish to gauge if my narrow observations, thus far are right.

Yes
70.6%
No
29.4%
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Wow! Pubmed will start indexing #preprints of NIH-funded research starting early this year! HT @ASAPbio
First 2023 #microscope session #SIM