Lindsay Rathbun did a great job presenting her work today on the role of cell division in tissue morphogenesis in her new home at Syracuse University’s Biology Department! She also did a splendid job announcing to the University the Hehnly Lab Halloween Party that is coming up on October 27. So excited!
"The balance between adhesion and contraction during cell division"
Check out the beautiful review titled “The balance between adhesion and contraction during cell division” from Dylan Burnette’s lab, specifically Nilay Taneja, that my graduate student, Lindsay Rathbun, and I were lucky to contribute to. Featured below is a stunning Figure Nilay put together. It’s fantastic and shows the power of Structured Illumination Microscopy.
Figure 1. (a) Structured illumination microscopy micrograph of HeLa cell at metaphase, stained for α-tubulin (yellow), actin filaments (magenta) and myosin IIA (cyan). The mitotic spindle comprises spindle microtubules, that facilitate chromosome segregation and dictate furrow positioning, and astral microtubules that play a pivotal role in spindle positioning by interacting with the actin cortex. Myosin II is uniformly distributed at the cortex during metaphase. (b) Upon anaphase onset, myosin II is enriched at the equator to ingress the cleavage furrow. Note the extensive contacts between the mitotic spindle and the contractile cortex, suggesting cross-talk between these two cytoskeletal networks. Note that the actin bundles protruding from the cells are not retraction fibers, as they are not attached to the substrate. Scale bar: 10 μm.
Mitosis Microsymposium at Naples Central School, Naples NY
Yesterday the Bergstralh and Hehnly lab hosted their 2nd Mitosis Microsymposium, but this time we did it in Naples NY. The Naples Biology Class participated, presented, and asked great questions during the event. I’ve attached some photos below, but special thanks to Jon Betrus for hosting and participating, and providing the most beautiful locale for dinner afterwards. SPECIAL thanks to the students of Biology at NCS for participating. Again, thanks to everyone that helped, particularly my husband Mike Chang, my mom Sharon Hehnly, and Allyn Pridmore.
Here’s several photos of everyone either at the Naples Central School, on a hike at Grime’s glen, or at dinner at Jon Betrus’s cabin.
Seminar at Ithaca College
I had a great time at Ithaca College talking about cell division and tissue morphogenesis! What a beautiful campus!
