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JCS publishes research and review-style articles that cover the complete range of topics in cell biology. More info: http://jcs.biologists.org/

04/11/2025

Our is complete

Explore our ToC: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/138/20

Our cover image shows tracheal epithelial cells from an air-liquid interface culture imaged using U-ExM from Oliver Mercey and Marine Brunet.
https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/138/20/jcs264260/369650/Advances-in-high-resolution-imaging-of-centrioles

Also in Issue 20:
- Editorial from Pleasantine Mill and Lotte Pedersen
- Interviews with Keren Hilgendorf and Girish Ram Mali
- Perspectives on DNAAFs, patient engagement, ciliopathies and DynAPs
- Cilia signalling at a glance
- Strategies for multimodal profiling of phosphorylation in cilia
- Reviews on MIPs, ciliary proteomics, high resolution imaging and ciliary signalling

https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/138/20

22/10/2025

Call for papers: Cell Biology of the Nucleus

We invite you to submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue: Cell Biology of the Nucleus. This issue will be guest edited by Abby Buchwalter, working alongside Academic Editor Megan King‬.‬‬‬‬

https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/nucleus

21/10/2025

Issue 19 is complete

Explore our ToC: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/138/19

Our cover image is of primary astrocytes with glial fibrillary acidic protein in red and DAPI in blue. See article by Rubio-Atonal et al: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/138/19/jcs263983/369430/Glutamate-decreases-oxidative-stress-and-lipid

Also in Issue 19:
- Research Highlights on astrocyte metabolism, plant cell division, the olfactory bulb and DCs
- Interview with Sandra Iden
- Remembering Béla Novák
- Active intracellular mechanics Review
- Models of s***m head-tail coupling

https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/138/19

08/10/2025

Issue 18 is complete

Explore our ToC: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/138/18

Our cover image shows skin-resident macrophages (white) migrating towards a scratch wound in epithelial cells (marked with α-catenin-Citrine, magenta) of a zebrafish skin explant. See article from Peterman et al.
https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/138/18/jcs264101/369226/Microtubules-regulate-tissue-level-navigation-in

Also in Issue 18:
- Research Highlights on cell migration, endocytosis & epithelia contractility
- Interview with Guillaume Thibault
- The integrin odyssey
- Essay on immune cell interactions
- Review on surface protein machineries in Gram-negative bacteria
https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/138/18

30/09/2025

We're still accepting submissions for our next special issue: Cell Biology of the Nucleus
Guest edited by Abby Buchwalter and JCS Editor Megan King

Submission deadline: 3 November

https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/nucleus

18/09/2025

New JCS snapshot - TMEM184B modulates endolysosomal acidification via the vesicular proton pump

Elizabeth Wright presents the key findings from their recent Journal of Cell Science paper with Martha Bhattacharya and colleagues.

https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/138/15/jcs263908/368852/TMEM184B-modulates-endolysosomal-acidification-via

16/09/2025

Issue 17 is complete

Our cover image shows a collection of individual desmosomes imaged using dSTORM. Each subimage represents a specific desmoplakin (DP) isoform tail domain (DPI, magenta; DPIa, cyan; and DPII, yellow). See article by Ainslie, Patel et al.
https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/138/17/jcs263906/369087/The-desmoplakin-tail-domain-position-in-the

Also in Issue 17:
- Research Highlights on desmoplakins, cell volume regulation, autophagy and polarised growth
- Interview with Lilian Kabeche
- Perspective on vesicular pseudopodia
- ‘First Persons’ through the decades
- Essay on The Company of Biologists & the BSCB
- Basement membranes at a glance

Explore our ToC: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/138/17

15/09/2025

We invite you to submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue: Cell Biology of the Nucleus. This issue will be guest edited by Abby Buchwalter (University of California, San Francisco, USA), working alongside Academic Editor Megan King (Yale University, USA).

10/09/2025

New JCS snapshot - Cytotoxic T lymphocytes adapt to the loss of Cdc42

Adam Rochussen presents the key findings from their recent JCS paper with Claire Ma and Gillian Griffiths.
https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/138/15/jcs263826/368784/Transcriptional-adaptation-after-deletion-of-Cdc42

03/09/2025

Issue 16 is complete

Explore our ToC: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/138/16

Our cover image is a scanning electron micrograph showing macrophages after engulfing IgG-coated beads to their maximal capacity. See article from Fountain et al.

https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/138/16/jcs263539/368999/Depletion-of-endomembrane-reservoirs-drives

Also in Issue 16:
- Research Highlights on phagocytosis, tight junctions and mitoribosomes
- Signalling and actin waves at a glance
- Hypothesis on energy deprivation in youth and old age

18/08/2025

Issue 15 is complete

On the cover: 3D electron tomogram model of Trypanosoma cruzi showing the contractile vacuole complex (blue) with an adhesion plaque domain (red) & a membrane fusion pore. See article by Augusto et al.
https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/138/15/jcs263810/368816/The-adhesion-plaque-mediates-fluid-discharge-and

Also in Issue 15:
- Research Highlights on collective migration, CTLs & adhesion plaques
- Interview with Ian Ganley
- Essay from Martin Schwartz
- Opinion article on mechanosensitive ion channels
- Review on lipid transfer protein dimerisation

Explore our ToC: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/138/15

05/08/2025

Issue 14 is complete

Explore our ToC: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/138/14

Our cover image shows activated primary T cells migrating on an ICAM-1-coated surface. F-actin is shown in cyan, phosphorylated myosin light chain in a yellow heat map, and the nucleus is in grey. See article by Kurtz et al.
https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/138/14/jcs263792/368616/The-scaffold-protein-CasL-restrains-membrane

Also in Issue 14:
- Research Highlights on COG and T cell migration
- Interview with Helen Weaver
- Opinion article on α-tubulin K40 acetylation
- MARylation Review

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