Monica_BIC
@monica-bic.bsky.social
Neurobiologist and microscopist mainly... #ExM #CLEM #Cryo-EM #FLuorescenceFriday #Neurons In case you don't know, I work at the BIC @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social
Met some locals during my trail run this weekend. They were not impressed by my pace.
Otra entrega de la serie de podcasts de @monicagprieto.bsky.social sobre el genocidio en Gaza. La política genocida israelí de hambre y sed. cadenaser.com/audio/178868...
Disección de un genocidio: Hambre y sed
El hambre y la sed son dos de las formas más lentas y violentas utilizadas contra la población gazatí. Sin comida ni agua, el cuerpo se debilita para sobrellevar las consecuencias de la guerra como no...
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Better vitrification = better cryo-ET. We've opened an RFA for two-year grants to advance vitrification techniques for biological samples—welcoming applications from researchers in heat transfer, cryogenics, and materials science. Apply here: bit.ly/4uip6eJ
When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
Exciting news! Our @erc.europa.eu StG project ARCHAEAOLOGY got funded 🎉 We’ll combine cryoET/EM, ExM & spatial omics to explore the subcellular organization of Asgard archaea. Job ads coming soon! 🦠 ❄️ 🔬 #TeamTomo #ArchaeaSky #MicroSky
EMBL@embl.org · last wk.Congratulations to @florianwollweber.bsky.social, the recently appointed Group Leader at EMBL Grenoble, who received an ERC Starting Grant worth approximately €2 million to investigate the origins of eukaryotic cell complexity. bit.ly/4gNwEBk
This iconic 1971 photo of Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes has always said so much without saying a word. Two women. Two raised fists. One shared fight for equality. Dorothy passed in 2022. Now Gloria is gone too. Two giants who helped change America. Rest in power, Gloria. ✊🏼✊🏾
Quiz: what microscopy technique did I use for this image? Enjoy your weekend! #FluorescentFriday #FluorescenceFriday
Back to work... just sharing new projets. Hippocampal neurons cryo-fixated and labeled for actin (Red Hot) and membranes (Cyan). The only way to fix actin waves... #FluorescenceFriday or #FluorescentFriday
New Toettchlab paper alert! Harrison Oatman just published his beautiful work combining software design for "smart" microscopy+optogenetics and some really beautiful work understanding EGFR-driven collective cell migration. www.cell.com/cell-systems...
Super happy to share with Magali Grison, @yohannboutte.bsky.social and Christel Poujol this amazing method of super-resolution in plant-cell microscopy 🤗 always further ! always more extraordinary !🔬 🪴 @lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social
Bio-protocol@bio-protocol.bsky.social · 4w agoDual Color tau-STED Super Resolution Microscopy in Arabidopsis Root Tip Work by Louise Fougère, Christel Poujol, Yohann Boutté and Magali Grison at Universite de Bordeaux. #LifeSciences #Reproducibility #PlantScience
Hot take but any reporter that makes the actin network visible will make any cell look awesome under the microscope! These Xenopus 🐸 ectoderm cells are expressing an actin tension sensor, and you can see the retrograde flow very nicely. Actin is better than microtubules 😁 #FluorescenceFriday
Happy to share that this beautiful work by @mudgal17.bsky.social in collaboration with the Weis lab @eth-dbiol.bsky.social, discovering a new membrane fusion mechanism in eukaryotes, is finally out in peer-reviewed form at @cp-molcell.bsky.social. www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
A conserved mechanism of membrane fusion in nuclear pore complex assembly
Fischer et al. uncover a fundamental mechanism of membrane fusion during nuclear pore complex (NPC) assembly. Brl1 and Brr6 form ring-shaped, membrane-remodeling complexes that interact and bridge the...
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Vanni Lab at UNIFR, Switzerland@labvanni.bsky.social · last yr.Happy to share the latest work from the lab, led by @mudgal17.bsky.social, in collaboration with the Weis lab @ethzurich.bsky.social. How do nuclear membranes fuse during NPC assembly? We answer this question in our latest work, where we identify a new mechanism for membrane fusion… (1/13)
#ImageOfTheMonth August 2026 🔬 Stunning 8x expanded human hippocampus! Microglia (pink), lysosomes (yellow), nuclei (grey). Collaboration: Ana Victoria Prádanos Senén (@cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social) & @monica-bic.bsky.social (BIC). #Neuroscience #ExpansionMicroscopy
Farewell and thanks to all participants, trainers and organisers of #EMBLSuperResolution An inspiring 6-day course on Time-resolved STED nanoscopy has come to an end, covering the entire range of skills needed to apply STED nanoscopy in life sciences through lectures and hands-on tutorials 🔬
Ultrafast 3D imaging just got faster! Introducing: "Instant dual-view Snouty (iDV-Snouty) light-sheet microscopy" -> Double the data rate of a Snouty microscope by adding a 2nd view! Use the extra view for a variety of imaging modes! Article here: amsikking.github.io/idv-snouty_l...
¡La victoria de la Selección Española hizo a temblar a nuestro país!🏆🇪🇸 ➡️ El #CSIC registró en Cataluña las vibraciones por los saltos y celebraciones durante la final de la #CopaMundialFIFA con los sismómetros del #GEO3BCN_CSIC ¡Enhorabuena! 👏🏻⚽️
🏅 Nouvelle distinction @emmanuellebayer.bsky.social reçoit la médaille d’argent du @cnrs.fr pour ses travaux en biologie végétale. Comprendre quand une cellule doit s'ouvrir, se fermer, laisser passer ou se protéger : une question au-delà de la biologie 🔬 À découvrir : buff.ly/wtLXvgG
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Thrilled and grateful to receive an ERC Adv Grant! 🎉 We will explore how the endoplasmic reticulum contributes to plant ☘️ cell-to-cell communication 📞. 🤝 Thanks to my team, collaborators, and @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social. More details 👇 www.aquitaine.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...
Un financement européen pour changer de regard sur le langage des cellules végétales
Le Conseil européen de la recherche a annoncé ce jour la liste des lauréats des bourses ERC Advanced Grant, récompensant des scientifiques confirmés p
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Why not go 3/3 with Anna Brachet and team from @iins-bordeaux.bsky.social. Spectrin rings in dendritic spines, mixed ßII/ßIII-tetramers, MINFLUX images! Also a talk at the Cell Biology of the Neuron GRC: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Our conference BrainStress will take place on 14-16 October. Mind the deadlines for abstract submission and early-bird registration! July 1st! brainstress.sciencesconf.org
Our new paper in @plosbiology.org introduces IntAct-U-ExM enabling isoform-specific imaging of actin at nanoscale across yeast, mammalian cells & primary neurons. Fabulous work spearheaded by @anubhavdhar.bsky.social along with an amazing team! #actin #U-ExM journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Catching actin waves... do you know more about this phenomena? Contact me, please!
Call for Workshops: TiM2027! Expert in microscopy, image analysis, or AI? Propose a workshop for Trends in Microscopy 2027! ✅ Hands-on learning ✅ Access to labs & industry gear ✅ Network with researchers 📅 Deadline: June 30, 2026 🔗 Apply: t1p.de/zxwxx #TiM2027 #Microscopy #BioImaging
Workshops - German BioImaging
Photo credits: Thomas Blank Information for Workshop Providers GerBI-GMB invites proposals for scientific and educational workshops for TiM2027. The workshop submission deadline is June 30, 2026....
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