My main PhD paper is on bioRxiv! 🥳 We used motor-PAINT, expansion microscopy, and live-cell imaging of StableMARK to map out how the microtubule cytoskeleton reorganizes during neuronal development. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... - ThreadSky

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My main PhD paper is on bioRxiv! 🥳 We used motor-PAINT, expansion microscopy, and live-cell imaging of StableMARK to map out how the microtubule cytoskeleton reorganizes during neuronal development.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.07.636940v1

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mkiwanski.bsky.social•17 days ago

Check it out for some beautiful super-resolution reconstructions of the microtubule networks in developing neurons! Using motor-PAINT, we can colour-code microtubules by their orientation to see how this changes during development. Cyan: plus-end-out (away from soma). Magenta: plus-end-in.

mkiwanski.bsky.social•17 days ago

And expansion microscopy let us precisely map the networks of acetylated (orange) and tyrosinated (blue) microtubules in these early neurites and near the centrioles!

mkiwanski.bsky.social•17 days ago

Remarkably, we found that stable microtubules are initially anchored at the centrioles and oriented plus-end-out in early neurites. They are then released from the centrioles, allowing them to reverse their polarity by sliding to adopt the minus-end-out orientation seen in mature dendrites.

mkiwanski.bsky.social•17 days ago

We could even follow the fates of individual stable microtubules in these young neurons over the course of hours using StableMARK 😍

mkiwanski.bsky.social•17 days ago

But wait - did you spot the instances of stable microtubule orientation reversal in this cell?

mkiwanski.bsky.social•17 days ago

Of course team work makes the dream work and none of this would have been possible without Albert, Lukas, and two of my incredible Masters students, Noor and Bronte! 💜

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