PostDoc in Piel lab @ Institut Curie. PhD in Beach Lab (@myosincity) @ Loyola. Interested in all things cytoskeleton, cell mechanics, and microscopy.
Joined August 2019
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Melissa Quintanilla retweeted
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Our April cover ➡️ hubs.la/Q02r6l130 shows overlayed temporal projection of actomyosin dynamics in the leading edge of migrating mouse embryonic fibroblast expressing EGFP-non-muscle myosin & mScarlet F-Tractin. From @fluoroforce, @myosincity et al. hubs.la/Q02r6jGp0
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Melissa Quintanilla retweeted
29 Feb 2024
Spotlight: Gurley and Peifer @peiferlabunc @UNC_Lineberger highlight work from Quintanilla et al. (hubs.la/Q02mHCjr0) that reveals how the local biophysical environment regulates assembly of #myosin filaments. hubs.la/Q02mHJNy0
@fluoroforce @pwoakes @myosincity
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Melissa Quintanilla retweeted
23 Feb 2024
Actin retrograde flow in the lamellapodia of a stage one neuron. Happy #FluorescenceFriday !
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Melissa Quintanilla retweeted
14 Feb 2024
In @JCellBiol, Quintanilla (@fluoroforce), Oakes (@pwoakes), Beach (@myosincity) and colleagues @LoyolaChicago demonstrate subcellular biophysical mechanisms that enable myosin 2 filament assembly. hubs.la/Q02l48n70
@MatthewAkamatsu @Coronin @taraskalab
#Cytoskeleton
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Melissa Quintanilla retweeted
14 Feb 2024
Quintanilla (@fluoroforce), Oakes (@pwoakes), Beach (@myosincity) and colleagues @LoyolaChicago demonstrate subcellular biophysical mechanisms that enable myosin 2 filament assembly. hubs.ly/Q02l3klJ0
@MatthewAkamatsu @Coronin @taraskalab
#Biophysics #Cytoskeleton
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Happy Valentine’s Day to my white whale, my labor of (mostly) love, and the bulk of my thesis 💕 online now and newly improved thanks to great feedback from reviewers!
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14 Feb 2024
And of course thanks again to the village that made this paper what it is:
@myosincity, @pwoakes, @taraskalab, @aka_MatsuLab, @Coronin, @shreya_06, Kem Sochacki, Farida Korobova, Hiral Patel, Huini Wu, and Jeremy Rotty
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Melissa Quintanilla retweeted
14 Jan 2024
Excited to have my recent work on #bioRxiv. We identified cis-regulatory elements of Plp and the interact PCM scaffold are important for Plp mRNA localization at centrosomes. 🙌A team work from @w_Tian_ @fluoroforce @myosincity @LabLerit. 🙌
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Melissa Quintanilla retweeted
18 Sep 2023
Thank you to all our colleagues for the amazing work you do! Without you, graduate students DON'T get degrees, papers DON'T get published, grants DON'T get funded, and PIs DON'T get tenure. Let’s hope @LoyolaChicago come to their senses and pay us a fair wage!
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Melissa Quintanilla retweeted
11 Sep 2023
It’s been 7 days since our letter to @LoyolaChicago‘s president went public. We are advocating for fair and competitive pay for all Loyola’s postdocs. PIs are discussing it, but we’ve yet to hear from the administration. We’re waiting, and the scientific community is watching!
4 Sep 2023
We, the Loyola University Chicago postdocs, call for an urgent raise in compensation. We addressed this open letter to President Reed on May 22nd: drive.google.com/file/d/1Ujh… 1/10
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Melissa Quintanilla retweeted
4 Sep 2023
We, the Loyola University Chicago postdocs, call for an urgent raise in compensation. We addressed this open letter to President Reed on May 22nd: drive.google.com/file/d/1Ujh… 1/10
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Melissa Quintanilla retweeted
22 Jun 2023
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Do you work with cells? Do you care about what their interior "feels" like?
@rikkigarner and I are organizing a session about the "Physical Biology of the Cytoplasm" for the second time at @ASCBiology #cellbio2023
The abstract deadline is August 1st!
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Beyond excited to share the preprint for most of my PhD work in the Beach lab @myosincity and with the Oakes lab @pwoakes! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Here’s a little short-story(⏩️)/long-story(▶️)/visual thread about it…
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Our Model:
The accumulation of transient myosin:myosin and myosin:actin interactions potentiates assembly, while myosin:myosin interaction drive amplification, and myosin:actin interactions lead to partitioning.
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Credit:
I’m so grateful for the many amazing scientists that I got to work with!
@myosincity @pwoakes
CLEM: @taraskalab, Kem Sochacki, Farida Korobova
Counting: @aka_MatsuLab
Cells & constructs: @Coronin, Hiral Patel, Huini Wu, Jeremy Rotty
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