Lan and Yan had a great first visit to ASCB/Cell Bio meeting this year where Lan presented a poster and Yiling a talk and a poster! They both did great, met lots of people, and asked great questions. We also got to hang with old friends (Ana Vertii, Hui-Fang Hung, Shashi Kant, and Benedict Delaval) and eat excellent food! We got to also hang out with Syracuse University Patteson and Castaneda Labs. With Alison Patteson (Physics, SU) giving a great talk in the Vimentin section! Overall it was a great trip and we can’t wait to do it again.
Check out the paper from Maxx and the Patteson Lab (Physics, SU) here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34995457/
Titled: Vimentin intermediate filaments mediate cell shape on visco-elastic substrates.
You can also find it on BioRxiv here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.07.286237v1.full
Representative images of wild-type (vim +/+) and vimentin-null (vim -/-) mouse embryonic fibroblasts (mEF) on glass slides. Wild-type and vimentin-null mEFs show similar distributions of F-actin stress fibers and paxillin focal adhesions. Confocal images show vimentin (yellow), actin (blue), paxillin (green) and the nucleus (pink). Scale bar, 10 μm.
