Henry De Belly
Postdoc in Orion Weiner's lab at UCSF. I work at the interface of Cell Biology and Biophysics.
I am into: #Actin, #Membrane, #CellMigration, #Polarity, #Cats, #Mechanobiology #Cheese #CellBiology
- Reposted by Henry De Belly🚨NEW PI ALERT🚨 @henrydebelly.bsky.social is in the house, and look at that *fresh* new office. Clean slate for his next #relentlessdiscovery in CRI's Tissue Regeneration Program (TRP). Onward! Read more about his new lab 👉 cri.utsw.edu/faculty/henr... 🧪 @haozhulab.bsky.social
- Today marks the end of my postdoctoral training at @oweinerlab.bsky.social at UCSF and the beginning of a new chapter @cri-utsw.bsky.social
- I’m deeply thankful to all my previous mentors, especially Orion Weiner, Kevin Chalut and Ewa Paluch, for their guidance, trust and generosity. Thank you for helping me grow as a scientist and as a person.
- Just as importantly, I want to thank all the colleagues, collaborators and friends (a strongly overlapping Venn Diagram) who made my postdoc such a collaborative, supportive, and genuinely fun experience. You are way too many to list here but know that I am deeply thankful to all of you.
- I’m excited to be moving forward to open my own lab at the Children’s Research Institute at UT Southwestern @cri-utsw.bsky.social and to build an environment grounded in curiosity, collaboration, and creativity!
- Reposted by Henry De BellySuper excited to share that I will be starting my lab at UT Southwestern Medical Center this January! We will explore how lysosomes drive cellular metabolism and signaling to better understand disease to develop new therapies for cancer and neurodegeneration. More info here: aakritijainlab.com
- Privileged to have been involved in this great story led by Franklin from the Burkhardt's lab, showing the role of S1P in controlling naive T cell motility! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Thrilled to announce the launch of my lab @cri-utsw.bsky.social at UTSW this January! We will explore how cells sense and respond to mechanical forces, focusing on membrane mechanics to reveal how tension and signaling work together to shape cell behavior.
- We're growing! Our newest Investigator @henrydebelly.bsky.social will join the CRI Tissue #Regeneration Program in January 2026. Learn more about Henry ➡️ cri.utsw.edu/faculty/henr... and 📌apply to research in his lab cri.utsw.edu/careers
- Looking for curious and creative scientists (technicians, postdocs…) to join the team. Come do some cool imaging with me, such as this migrating neutrophil with front 🔴 and back 🔵 polarity biosensors! More infos about the lab here: cri.utsw.edu/faculty/henr...
- Reposted by Henry De Belly@henrydebelly.bsky.social @oweinerlab.bsky.social elegantly showed how migrating cells exhibit a long-range mutual activation and partitioning of GTPases at both the front and back of the cell, functioning as an integrated mechano-chemical system. He’s also recruiting for his new lab!🧑🔬#MBIMPG2025
- Reposted by Henry De BellyEver wished to become an actin star? 😎 Then try getting suspended above a non-adhesive substrate. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Henry De BellyI'm thrilled to announce that my lab is opening this August in the Department of Cell & Tissue Biology @ UCSF! We will study airway stem cells and explore how they generate multiciliated cells (my favorite!) to keep pathogens and debris out of the lung. Check out choksilab.org for more!
- Reposted by Henry De BellyCTB welcomes new Assistant Professor Semil Choksi @semilc.bsky.social to the department! The Choksi Lab will study how airway stem cells generate multiciliated cells - and how this process goes wrong in respiratory disease. His lab is opening this August. Visit choksilab.org to learn more!
- Reposted by Henry De Belly#Science Bluesky, do your thing: We're organising the International Symposium on Mechanobiology (ISMB) 2026 in #Glasgow & we're looking for research groups in Latin America & Africa who are doing great work in #Mechanobiology or adjacent areas. Can you indicate some names to me?
- Reposted by Henry De BellyAll of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!
- Reposted by Henry De BellyI am a proud HHMI Gilliam Fellow alumn. The HHMI funded me at a critical time in my career - a real inflection point that made me realize that I had a place and future in science. I always looked to the HHMI as a safety net to those historically excluded by academia, 1/4
- Reposted by Henry De Belly🚨📣 New preprint alert! Excited to share my new postdoc work on direct force and mechanical properties measurements in live embryos! A great team effort with A. Chamolly (theory), under the supervision of F. Corson and @jeromegros.bsky.social 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #devbio #mechanics
- Reposted by Henry De BellySO excited to share that a major part of the postdoctoral work in @robzonculab.bsky.social lab is now published: “Leucine aminopeptidase LyLAP enables lysosomal degradation of membrane proteins” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Henry De BellyIn Memoriam: Wolfenson, Giannone, and Schwartz recall the life and many contributions of Michael Sheetz, who passed away on January 30, 2025. rupress.org/jcb/article/...
- Reposted by Henry De Bellyborn too late to get a two Western blot Nature paper, born too early to be a science TikTokker, born just in time to start a postdoc during a global pandemic and look for faculty positions during a historic hiring freeze
- Reposted by Henry De BellyAs scientist I am going through difficult times (this is understatement of the year for me!!). Past one and half months have been horrible, however I am trying to pick myself up and super excited to share my postdoc work with the community! #cellmigration www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Henry De BellyHuge crowds in SF today for #standupforscience. inspiring stories, not only from scientists like @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social, but also people who have lived through life-saving/changing experiences as a direct consequence of federally-funded scientific research 💪🏽
- Reposted by Henry De BellyAdded bonus: You would get to live in the South of France!🇫🇷 🍷☀️ 🧪 www.404media.co/french-unive...
- Reposted by Henry De BellyUnique opportunity to join the CytoMorpho Lab (in Paris ❤️) as a postdoc to work on the self-organization and polarization of reconstituted networks made of microtubules, motors and actin filaments in vitro. Experience required. Please Repost 🙏 thanks !
- Reposted by Henry De BellyOur lab has multiple open positions for post-docs to study the regulation and function of cytoplasm mechanics during embryo development. Details below 👇👇 Please Repost !!! @ijmonod.bsky.social @cnrs.bsky.social
- The lanyards at ASCB this year are comically loud. It's like everyone is wearing little bells around their necks 🔔.
- Reposted by Henry De BellyHi! Thought I'd mosey on down to bsky as well with the rest of the science peeps! I love combining old-school biochemistry with all the 'omics' to discover new things about organelle function and cellular metabolism in health and disease.
- Reposted by Henry De BellyExcited for some cool science at #CellBio2024 this year! Come by my poster (Sun. Dec 15, 1.30-3pm Board B136) and stay for my talk (Sun. Dec 15, 4 pm Rm 33B) where I'll tell you about our work on a lysosomal mechanism for membrane protein degradation!
- Reposted by Henry De Belly🎈New preprint! We study how single cells move up, down and about fibronectin gradients. Experiments by @icfortunato.bsky.social, theory by David Bruckner. Collaboration with @raimonsunyer.bsky.social and @ehannezo.bsky.social 👇https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2024.12.02.626413v1
- Reposted by Henry De BellyCheck out our new paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social by amazing grad students @ezlevy.bsky.social and @isabellaleite.bsky.social “A tug-of-war between germ cell motility and intercellular bridges controls germline cyst formation in mice” authors.elsevier.com/a/1k7fg3QW8S...
- Reposted by Henry De Belly👋Hello #mechanobiology community! Next year we are organizing the CellMech conference in Leuven! We will soon be announcing (super amazing) invited speakers, registration deadlines, etc I'll try to keep the🦋community updated, but best is to subscribe to the mailing list 📧👇 cellmech2025.org
- Reposted by Henry De BellyOur interdisciplinary MRes is recruiting students for Sept 2025 entry : www.ucl.ac.uk/lifesciences...
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- Reposted by Henry De Belly🚨🚨🚨 Call is now open!!! Wanna become our new beloved colleague and be part of a stimulating (and friendly) scientific community ??? We are perfectly located in beautiful Paris with exciting work environment and state-of-the-art core facilities APPLY 👇👇👇👇👇
- Reposted by Henry De BellyAfter some fiddling with the Fiji update site, here they are! The latest version of kwolbachia.bsky.social LUTs in the NeuroCyto LUTs repository . LUTs are also on Kevin's GitHub: github.com/kwolbachia/K.... And as a bonus, the "LUT Panel" that allows to quickly browse and test all LUTs!
- Sharing my latest preprint as a re-introduction to bsky! biorxiv.org/content/10.1... ---- Everyday, cells like this crawl through your body to protect you. While we know that their front 🔴 and back 🔵 polarity programs work together, how exactly do these two processes communicate?
- While we know that the front and back polarity programs locally inhibit one another, this alone isn't enough for stable polarization Using optogenetics, mechanical manipulations, and math modeling, we found these two programs also mutually activate one another at a distance 🤝
- Together we show that the actin cortex and plasma membrane function as an integrated mechanochemical system that is an essential feature of human lymphocyte polarization and motility
- It is really cool to see this big migration of 'science twitter' to bsky!! This makes me very hopeful. Here are some dancing primary T cells to celebrate 🕺
- So hyped to see this great story by Dengke Ma's lab being finally out!! This paper is full of fascinating data and I highly recommend a read: Early-life stress triggers long-lasting organismal resilience and longevity via tetraspanin www.science.org/doi/full/10....
- Wei showed that transient heat exposure in young worms leads to long lasting heat resilience of the organism, long after the initial heat stress.
- They identified that this response is mediated by Testraspanin-1 (TSP-1), which forms a super stable web-like structure at the plasma membrane, playing a critical role in maintaining intestinal membrane barrier during external stresses (like heat).
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View full threadI am deeply thankful to Wei and Dengke to have involved me in this project. I am very excited for the future of this collaboration. It pains me to admit it, but It is super fun to be occasionally working with things that are more than one cell 😬
- My dear friend/collaborator Shannon is starting her lab at Stanford in a couple of months and she is looking to hire a postdoc to work with her on the mechanics of mitosis: biophysics-jobs.careerwebsite.com/job/postdoc-... I cannot recommend Shannon enough, her lab is going to be super awesome!
- Just finished the EMBO lab leadership course and it was truly incredible! Amazing instructors, so many practical tools and a lot of fun interacting with colleagues. I cannot recommend this course enough (and honestly think that it should be mandatory for every PI).
- Reposted by Henry De BellyLet's campaign to make .gifs and other movies available here before we all move somewhere else... If you want to have .GIFs in Bsky please repost ! @mads100tist.bsky.social @christlet.bsky.social @henriqueslab.bsky.social
