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Latest News
British Science Week 2025 at the Manchester Museum
March 10 - 11, 2025
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Members of our lab joined forces with the Zacharchenko lab to bring the worlds of cell biology, fluorescence microscopy and structural biology to the school children of Greater Manchester!
2024 Christmas Dinner and Bowling!
December 18, 2024
Actin Meeting 2024
December 13, 2024
Our lab attended the 2024 Actin Meeting in Bristol, with members Dr Rafaella Konstantinou and Najd Alzuabi presenting posters.
Lab day out - Paintball!
July, 2024
Congratulations! Xingchen Li defended his thesis and became Dr. Xingchen Li
July 15, 2024
Congratulations! Ashwaq Albaraky defended her thesis and became Dr. Ashwaq Albaraky
June 10, 2024
New research grant from BBSRC
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"How tensins transform focal adhesions into fibrillar adhesions and phase separate to form new adhesion signalling hubs."
May 2024
New publication in Molecular and Cellular Proteomics
2024, Mol Cell Proteomics 23(3), 100735
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mcpro.2024.100735
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Judith B. Fülle, Rogerio Alves de Almeida, Craig Lawless, Liam Stockdale, Bian Yanes, E. Birgitte Lane, David R. Garrod, and Christoph Ballestrem
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March , 2024
Congratulations! Rafaella Konstantinou defended her thesis and became Dr. Rafaella Konstantinou
July 27, 2023
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Lab Day Out with nature views and tasty foods
July 17, 2023
Two new publications on bioRxiv!
The structural basis of the Talin-KANK1 interaction that coordinates
the actin and microtubule cytoskeletons at focal adhesions
X Li, B.T Goult, C Ballestrem, T Zacharchenko
Proximity mapping of desmosomes reveals a striking shift in their molecular neighbourhood
Judith B. Fülle, Rogerio Alves de Almeida, Craig Lawless, Bian Yanes, E. Birgitte Lane,
David R. Garrod, Christoph Ballestrem
New publication in Journal of Cell Biology
J Cell Biol (2022) 221 (10): e202107022.
Tensin3 interaction with talin drives the formation of fibronectin-associated fibrillar adhesions
Paul Atherton*, Rafaella Konstantinou*, Suat Peng Neo, Emily Wang, Eleonora Balloi, Marina Ptushkina, Hayley Bennett, Kath Clark, Jayantha Gunaratne, David Critchley, Igor Barsukov, Edward Manser, Christoph Ballestrem
Huge congratulations Christoph for your appointment as Professor at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Manchester in 2019.
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Fantastic inaugural lecture!
29 June 2022
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New publication in Journal of Cell Science
Journal of Cell Science (2021) 134, jcs258906
Desmosome dualism – most of the junction is stable, but a plakophilin moiety is persistently dynamic
Judith B. Fülle, Henri Huppert, David Liebl, Jaron Liu, Rogerio Alves de Almeida, Bian Yanes, Graham D. Wright, E. Birgitte Lane, David R. Garrod, Christoph Ballestrem
Congratulations, Judith Fülle on successfully defending your dissertation and becoming Dr. Judith Fülle!
31 March 2022
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Our amazing final year students 2022!
New publication in Experimental Cell Research
Volume 407, Issue 2, 15 October 2021, 112805
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Vinculin is required for neuronal mechanosensing but not for axon outgrowth.
De-Yao Wang, Cristina Melero, Ashwaq Albaraky, Paul Atherton, Karin A. Jansen, Andrea Dimitracopoulos, Federico Dajas-Bailador, Adam Reid, Kristian Franze, Christoph Ballestrem
Congratulations to Paul Atherton on being awarded the
Research Staff Strategy Group (RSSG) Excellence Award
for Best Research Staff of the Year 2020/21
of the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health at the University of Manchester!
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The RSSG awards are bestowed on researchers who make a significant contribution to the research excellence of the University. Paul, you are an outstanding researcher and at the same time you always support the colleagues you work with. Huge congratulations, we are looking forward to celebrate with you!
with golf, footgolf, pizza, bbq and great company of new and old lab members, friends & family
Huge congratulations to Rafaella Konstantinou on being awarded best talk
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"Interplay of tensin 3 with mechanosensors talin & vinculin
regulates fibronectin remodelling"
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Huge congratulations to Judith Fülle on being awarded best poster
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"Desmosome dualism: the core is stable while plakophilin is dynamic."
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at the ‘Dynamic Cell IV’
organised by the BSCB and the Biochemical Society 14-19th March 2021
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