In the December 5th edition of biobytes, Taroh Kinoshita (Osaka

University, Osaka, Japan) describes how GPI-anchored CRIPTO is released from the

cell surface (Lee et

al.), and Lisa Taneyhill (University of Maryland, College Park, MD)

explains how the intracellular domain of Cadherin 6B promotes neural crest cell

epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition  (Schiffmacher

et al.). Plus a round-up of other highlights from The Journal of

Cell Biology. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and

Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. See the associated papers in

JCB for details on the funding provided to support these

original research studies.

In the November 7th edition of biobytes, Mailin Hamm and Wiebke Herzog

(University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany) describe how Semaphorin3d regulates

endothelial cell migration (Hamm et

al.), and Christopher Lengner (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,

PA) explains how Msi proteins maintain a reserve population of intestinal stem cells

(Yousefi

et al.). Plus a round-up of other highlights from The Journal of

Cell Biology. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and

Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. See the associated papers in

JCB for details on the funding provided to support these

original research studies.

In the October 10th edition of biobytes, Peyton Nesmith and Kit Parker

(Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Cambridge, MA) describe an in

vitro model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Nesmith et

al.), and Anna Santamaria (Vall d’Hebron Research Institute,

Barcelona, Spain) explains how the Ska complex promotes Aurora B activity in mitosis

(Redli et

al.). Plus a round-up of other highlights from The Journal of

Cell Biology. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and

Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. See the associated papers in

JCB for details on the funding provided to support these

original research studies.

In the September 12th edition of biobytes, Tom Gaitanos (Max Planck

Institute of Neurobiology, Munich-Martinsried, Germany) describes how Rac signaling

mediates ephrin receptor trans-endocytosis (Gaitanos et

al.), and Peter Kim (Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada) explains

how amino acid starvation targets peroxisomes for autophagic degradation (Sargent et

al.). Plus a round-up of other highlights from The Journal of

Cell Biology. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and

Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. See the associated papers in

JCB for details on the funding provided to support these

original research studies.

In the August 15th edition of biobytes, Mark Philips (New York

University School of Medicine, New York, NY) describes how N-Ras is transferred

between membrane compartments (Zhou et

al.) and Pete Cullen (University of Bristol, Bristol, England, UK)

explains how disease-causing mutations affect the retromer complex's function

in endosomal trafficking (McMillan et

al.). Plus a round-up of other highlights from The Journal of

Cell Biology. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and

Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. See the associated papers in

JCB for details on the funding provided to support these

original research studies.

In the July 18th edition of biobytes, Andrea Cantú

(University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA) describes how early

embryos coordinate the proliferation and migration of primordial germ cells (Cantú

et al.) and Andrew Grenfell (University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley,

CA) explains how mitotic RNA processing promotes kinetochore and spindle assembly

(Grenfell et

al.). Plus a round-up of other highlights from The Journal of

Cell Biology. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and

Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. See the associated papers in

JCB for details on the funding provided to support these

original research studies.

In the June 20th edition of biobytes, Veit Goder (University of Seville,

Seville, Spain) describes how GPI anchors affect ER quality control pathways (Sikorska et

al.), and Elizabeth McNally (Northwestern University, Chicago, IL)

explains how annexins mediate muscle plasma membrane repair (Demonbreun et

al.). Plus a round-up of other highlights from The Journal of

Cell Biology. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and

Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. See the associated papers in

JCB for details on the funding provided to support these

original research studies.

In the May 23rd edition of biobytes, Tarun Kapoor (The Rockefeller

University, New York, NY) describes how different tubulin isotypes have distinct

polymerization properties (Pamula et

al.), and Yinghui Mao (Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY)

explains how the formin protein mDia2 maintains chromosome centromeres (Liu and

Mao). Plus a round-up of other highlights from The Journal of

Cell Biology. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and

Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. See the associated papers in

JCB for details on the funding provided to support these

original research studies.

In the April 25th edition of biobytes, Holger Richly (Institute of

Molecular Biology, Mainz, Germany) describes how ZRF1 remodels E3 ubiquitin ligases

at DNA lesion sites (Gracheva et

al.) and Kenneth Pryde (University College London, London, England, UK,

and University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany) explains how PINK1 induces the

fragmentation of damaged mitochondria (Pryde et

al.). Plus a roundup of other highlights from The Journal of

Cell Biology. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and

Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. See the associated papers in

JCB for details on the funding provided to support these

original research studies.

>In the March 28th edition of biobytes, Hongyan Wang (Duke-NUS,

Singapore) describes how Arl2 regulates the asymmetric division of

Drosophila neuroblasts (Chen et

al.), and Ramiro Almeida (University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal)

explains how the proteasome controls presynaptic differentiation (Pinto et

al.). Plus a round-up of other highlights from The Journal of

Cell Biology. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and

Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. See the associated papers in

JCB for details on the funding provided to support these

original research studies.