We built a a self-dividing synthetic cell ! Check out this #CDlab preprint on BioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Great work by 1st author Charu Sharma who encoded dynaminA in a genome and expressed that in liposomes that then divide into daughter cells! Collaboration with Koenderink lab!

✍️ New preprint from the @minclab.bsky.social 📃 A Composite Endomembrane Suspension Governs Cytoplasm Rheology 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Nicolas Minc@minclab.bsky.social · 2w ago

Latest work from the team driven by our fantastic post-doc Maribel Arjona. Using cytoplasm extract fractions and active rheology, we adress how endomembranes, that pack the cell interior, influence the mechanics of the cytoplasm! @ijmonod.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social

Latest work from the team driven by our fantastic post-doc Maribel Arjona. Using cytoplasm extract fractions and active rheology, we adress how endomembranes, that pack the cell interior, influence the mechanics of the cytoplasm! @ijmonod.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social

bioRxiv Biophysics@biorxiv-biophys.bsky.social · 2w ago

A Composite Endomembrane Suspension Governs Cytoplasm Rheology https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.20.739612v1

Congratulations to superstar and awesome colleague Gaëlle Letort @gaellel.bsky.social, bioimage analyst extraordinaire for THE CRYSTAL MEDAL OF THE CNRS 2026!!! 🥳🎉🕺🦄🥳 We work with amazing people www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/personne/...

Thrilled to share our new paper on cell extrusion. A beautiful study with a tremendous amount of data, led by the fantastic @fanny-wodrascka.bsky.social ! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

✍️ The @minclab.bsky.social published a new article 📖 @currentbiology.bsky.social 📃 A cell size-dependent competition between geometry and polarity governs nuclear and spindle positioning in early embryos 🔗 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Nicolas Minc@minclab.bsky.social · last mo.

Our work on size scaling for centrosome positioning in early embryos is now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social Congratulations to Aude et al. ! www.cell.com/current-biol... @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @ijmonod.bsky.social @upcite.bsky.social

Our work on size scaling for centrosome positioning in early embryos is now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social Congratulations to Aude et al. ! www.cell.com/current-biol... @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @ijmonod.bsky.social @upcite.bsky.social

Nicolas Minc@minclab.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Latest work from the lab by Aude Nommick et al., in which we propose a "size-scaling" model for microtubule force exertion that regulates centrosome centration vs decentration during embryo development! @ijmonod.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Welcome and congratulations to the 60 new members and 11 associate members who have been elected to the EMBO Membership! They join a community of more than 2,200 leading scientists. 🧪 https://www.embo.org/press-releases/seventy-one-leading-scientists-elected-to-the-embo-membership/ #EMBOMembers2026

Happy to see many admired colleagues in here! congrats @audeber.bsky.social @frelab.bsky.social @centriolelab.bsky.social @sulianamanley.bsky.social @minclab.bsky.social @yehumoran.bsky.social @matosches.bsky.social (and many healthily offline ones)

EMBO@embo.org · last mo.

Welcome and congratulations to the 60 new members and 11 associate members who have been elected to the EMBO Membership! They join a community of more than 2,200 leading scientists. 🧪 https://www.embo.org/press-releases/seventy-one-leading-scientists-elected-to-the-embo-membership/ #EMBOMembers2026

Awesome to see @minclab.bsky.social @ijmonod.bsky.social and @polosophie.bsky.social @upcite.bsky.social on this list!!! Very well deserved 🍾

EMBO@embo.org · last mo.

Welcome and congratulations to the 60 new members and 11 associate members who have been elected to the EMBO Membership! They join a community of more than 2,200 leading scientists. 🧪 https://www.embo.org/press-releases/seventy-one-leading-scientists-elected-to-the-embo-membership/ #EMBOMembers2026

📣 The Institut Jacques Monod ( @cnrs.fr | @upcite.bsky.social ) is proud to announce the election of Dr. Nicolas Minc ( @minclab.bsky.social ) as a new member of the EMBO community! Congratulations! #EMBOMembers2026 More informations 🔗 buff.ly/2HSXoSd @embo.org @cnrs-idf-villejuif.bsky.social

EMBO@embo.org · last mo.

Welcome and congratulations to the 60 new members and 11 associate members who have been elected to the EMBO Membership! They join a community of more than 2,200 leading scientists. 🧪 https://www.embo.org/press-releases/seventy-one-leading-scientists-elected-to-the-embo-membership/ #EMBOMembers2026

Un pétition du collège des sociétés savantes pour mettre en avant le rôle de la recherche dans la campagne politique à venir et rappeler le sous investissement chronique en France depuis 20 ans. N'hésitez pas à faire ciculer recherche-publique-2027.fr

📣Join us for the DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY COURSE @institutcurie.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr We have fantastic speakers and registration is free! training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve... @karinayaniv.bsky.social @doetschlab.bsky.social @eileen-furlong.bsky.social @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social

Getting nuclear size just right – emerging mechanisms regulating nuclear scaling and morphology @jcellsci.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

🚨Preprint Drop🚨 We are very pleased to release our study on DNA methylation dynamics at enhancers during ESC differentiation! This work was led by Marlet Morales-Franco and Priscillia Lhoumaud 🧵(1/13) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Dual profiling of DNA modifications with enhancer features during the exit of naive pluripotency

Cis-regulatory elements, such as enhancers, play an essential role in coordinating gene expression programs during cellular transitions. As such, substantial efforts have been made to characterize enh...

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« Ici, en France, la recherche est une priorité, l’innovation une culture, la science un horizon sans limite » Emmanuel Macron, vendredi 18 Avril 2025. 🤡🤡 #Science #ESR #Research

David Monniaux@monniauxd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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📢 We are looking for a Junior Group Leader to join us at @institutcurie.bsky.social! Having joined the department just over a year ago, I can honestly say that it is an exceptionally stimulating and supportive scientific environment, filled with outstanding colleagues — all in the heart of Paris.

🔬⚙️💻 Excited to share #OptiCell3D, our new image-based framework for inferring cell mechanical properties with high precision from 3D microscopy. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #ComputationalBiology #CellBiology #Biophysics #OpenSource

you've heard alot about how cells are or are not crowded at the molecular scale, but what about at the organelle scale? in her new preprint, @marymirvis.bsky.social develops a quantitative way to ask this question in budding yeast - see her thread below www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Mary Mirvis@marymirvis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

1/13 So excited to share our new preprint!! How do organelles pack together in a crowded cytoplasm? we know organelles interact via contact sites, but how does competition for space contribute to organelle morphology and interactions? @wallaceucsf.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We are very pleased to announce Prof. Paul Guichard and Dr. Virginie Hamel @centriolelab.bsky.social as joint winners of the RMS Award for Light Microscopy 🔬 👏 🏅 Huge congratulations to both! Read more about Paul and Virginie's achievements: www.rms.org.uk/resource/pro...

Registration for the Cell Biology and Cancer course at Institut Curie is now open! Explore how biological forms emerge across scales, from intracellular organization to tissues. 📅 November 16th-20th, 2026 (Paris) ⏳ Deadline: September 10th, 2026 🔗 training.institut-curie.org/cours/biolog...

✍️ New preprint from the @minclab.bsky.social 📃 Mechanosensation Promotes Local Cell Wall Repair 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Nicolas Minc@minclab.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Latest work from the lab driven by our talented student @yannis-reignier.bsky.social , in which we characterize mechanisms coupling surface mechanosensation and cell polarity that promote the dynamic repair of Cell Wall damages. @ijmonod.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Mechanosensation Promotes Local Cell Wall Repair https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.23.720310v1

Latest work from the lab driven by our talented student @yannis-reignier.bsky.social , in which we characterize mechanisms coupling surface mechanosensation and cell polarity that promote the dynamic repair of Cell Wall damages. @ijmonod.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A real computational tour de force by @ericneiva.bsky.social, carried out as Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow in the team, now published in the Journal of Computational Physics: urlr.me/AuzK86 Congratulations, Eric! @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social Grateful to @ec.europa.eu for funding support

Eric Neiva@ericneiva.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Just published 📢 @herveturlier.bsky.social and I show how the most advanced unfitted finite elements can increase our capacity to investigate fundamental problems in cell morphogenesis. 👉 Link to paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.jc... 🚀 Stay tuned for future applications to animal systems!

Our latest publication is now out at Genome Biology! link.springer.com/article/10.1... We uncover a unique association between a H3K27me3 reader complex and active transcription. A thread with our key findings: (1/8) #TEsky #Polycomb #transcription #smallRNAs

A H3K27me3 reader complex couples H3K27me3 accumulation to nascent transcription of transposable elements in Paramecium - Genome Biology

Background The ability to deposit histone H3K27-trimethyl (me3) marks is essential for transcriptional repression by Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2). This is largely attributed to Polycomb repres...

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✍️ The Gazave Lab ( @stemdevevo.bsky.social ) published a new article 📖 @emboreports.org 📃 Multifaceted conserved functions of Notch during post-embryonic neurogenesis in the annelid Platynereis 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1... ⬇️ Scientific news published by @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social

CNRS Biologie@cnrsbiologie.bsky.social · 4mo ago

#ResultatScientifique🔎| La voie de signalisation Notch aurait de multiples fonctions neurogéniques conservées à l’échelle des bilatériens, telles que la spécification des progéniteurs et la différenciation neuronale. ✍️ Eve Gazave ▶️ buff.ly/O5ST9AX 👉 buff.ly/vC9HvDs

✍️ The @romet-jegou-lab.bsky.social Lab contributed to a new publication 📖 Science Advances 📃 Mechanisms of CARMIL dimerization, autoinhibition, and capping protein binding 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

It’s incredibly hard to study lipids in biological membranes on the nanoscale. You need near-perfect information on both membrane ultrastructure and lipid density. Lipid-CLEM, now out in @natcellbio.nature.com brought to you by @mathilda95.bsky.social changes that: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you are interested in doing a postdoc of quantitative biology, biological physics or similar areas… we got you covered 😃 👇🏻

Physics of Life Dresden@poldresden.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚨Attention #postdocs! Applications for our Excellence Postdoctoral Fellows Program open on April 1. 👩‍🔬Are you an early career researcher interested in working at the interface of biology & physics? We offer a 3+ year position, generous resources, and mentoring opportunities! Apply: tud.link/y3djda