Melissa Quintanilla

Our April cover ➡️ hubs.la/Q02r6l130 shows overlayed temporal projection of actomyosin dynamics in the leading edge of migrating mouse embryonic fibroblast expressing EGFP-non-muscle myosin & mScarlet F-Tractin. From @fluoroforce, @myosincity et al. hubs.la/Q02r6jGp0

Spotlight: Gurley and Peifer @peiferlabunc @UNC_Lineberger highlight work from Quintanilla et al. (hubs.la/Q02mHCjr0) that reveals how the local biophysical environment regulates assembly of #myosin filaments. hubs.la/Q02mHJNy0 @fluoroforce @pwoakes @myosincity

Actin retrograde flow in the lamellapodia of a stage one neuron. Happy #FluorescenceFriday !

@JoseOrgaz2 Thank you!

@fluoroforce Congrats! Very nice study!

Happy Valentine’s Day to my white whale, my labor of (mostly) love, and the bulk of my thesis 💕 online now and newly improved thanks to great feedback from reviewers! rupress.org/jcb/article/22…

@SeptinLab Thank you!!

@peiferlabunc @sshekhr Thank you!! 🤩

In @JCellBiol, Quintanilla (@fluoroforce), Oakes (@pwoakes), Beach (@myosincity) and colleagues @LoyolaChicago demonstrate subcellular biophysical mechanisms that enable myosin 2 filament assembly. hubs.la/Q02l48n70 @MatthewAkamatsu @Coronin @taraskalab #Cytoskeleton

Quintanilla (@fluoroforce), Oakes (@pwoakes), Beach (@myosincity) and colleagues @LoyolaChicago demonstrate subcellular biophysical mechanisms that enable myosin 2 filament assembly. hubs.ly/Q02l3klJ0 @MatthewAkamatsu @Coronin @taraskalab #Biophysics #Cytoskeleton

@christlet @myosincity @pwoakes @taraskalab @aka_MatsuLab @Coronin @shreya_06 Thank you so much! 😊

And of course thanks again to the village that made this paper what it is: @myosincity, @pwoakes, @taraskalab, @aka_MatsuLab, @Coronin, @shreya_06, Kem Sochacki, Farida Korobova, Hiral Patel, Huini Wu, and Jeremy Rotty

@tlngy @myosincity Thank you! 🤩

The end of an era 😢 @fluoroforce, the 1st PhD student to join the lab, has cleaned her desk and -20/-80 space, transferred her last data, and is ready to head to Paris to join the Piel Lab. What a pleasure it has been! Au revoir Dr. Quintanilla!!!

Excited to have my recent work on #bioRxiv. We identified cis-regulatory elements of Plp and the interact PCM scaffold are important for Plp mRNA localization at centrosomes. 🙌A team work from @w_Tian_ @fluoroforce @myosincity @LabLerit. 🙌 biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Thank you to all our colleagues for the amazing work you do! Without you, graduate students DON'T get degrees, papers DON'T get published, grants DON'T get funded, and PIs DON'T get tenure. Let’s hope @LoyolaChicago come to their senses and pay us a fair wage!

It’s been 7 days since our letter to @LoyolaChicago‘s president went public. We are advocating for fair and competitive pay for all Loyola’s postdocs. PIs are discussing it, but we’ve yet to hear from the administration. We’re waiting, and the scientific community is watching!

We, the Loyola University Chicago postdocs, call for an urgent raise in compensation. We addressed this open letter to President Reed on May 22nd: drive.google.com/file/d/1Ujhw7N… 1/10

@sshekhr @AlexiaCaillier Thank you!!

@AlexiaCaillier @fluoroforce Congrats Melissa!

Congratulations Dr Quintanilla🍾🎉!! An outstanding thesis defense but mostly for being an amazing scientist and person, cheers🥂 @fluoroforce

@SchwarzUlrich @AlexiaCaillier Thanks Ulrich!

@AlexiaCaillier @fluoroforce Congrats Melissa

@LammerdingLab @AlexiaCaillier Thank you! 😁

@AlexiaCaillier @fluoroforce Congratulations!!

🚨⚠️🔬 Do you work with cells? Do you care about what their interior "feels" like? @rikkigarner and I are organizing a session about the "Physical Biology of the Cytoplasm" for the second time at @ASCBiology #cellbio2023 The abstract deadline is August 1st!