Journal of Cell Science Special Issue: Cell Biology of the Nucleus

Posted by FocalPlane, on 6 July 2026

Journal of Cell Science’s special issue on the cell biology of the nucleus is now complete. In their Editorial, Megan King and Abby Buchwalter discuss the themes of the special issue, including the connections between the nucleus and cytoskeleton, nuclear mechanics, nuclear lipids, the nuclear pore complex and nuclear transport, the nuclear lamina, chromatin and chromosomes and nuclear scaling. Read the full Editorial to find out more about the research in this issue.

We’ll be celebrating the issue in a special webinar hosted by the Nuclear Pore and Nuclear Transport webinar series organised by Vasilisa Aksenova and Mary Dasso. The webinar will be on Monday 13 July at 5pm BST (UTC+1). Join us to hear talks from Ayse Turkmen, Andrew D Stephens and Ralph Kehlenbach on their research published in our Cell Biology of the Nucleus Special Issue.

Ayse Turkmen, PhD (Ullman Lab), Department of Oncological Sciences, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
A system to dissect the role of cell division in nuclear envelope remodeling and identify molecular modifiers of nuclear membrane architecture

Andrew D. Stephens, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Changes in nuclear and actin mechanics from G1 to G2 affect nuclear integrity
Read our Cell scientist to watch interview with Andrew: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/139/12/jcs265048/372001/Cell-scientist-to-watch-Andrew-Stephens

Ralph Kehlenbach, PhD, Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, GZMB, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
TMEM209 is a novel transmembrane nucleoporin

Join us on Zoom: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/97155454682?pwd=UTpJwaM4BSOnJGFdz7YBfijpq2auq5.1
Meeting ID: 971 5545 4682
Passcode: JCSNPC2026