Thomas Lecuit
@thomaslecuit.bsky.social
How are biological forms encoded? Group leader at IBDM Marseille, director of Turing Center for living systems (CENTURI). Professor at Collège de France, Paris: Dynamics of living systems
Michaud, @andrewgoryachev.bsky.social, von Dassow, @xenresearchcenter.bsky.social et al. identify a versatile cortical pattern-forming circuit based on #Rho, F-#actin, Ect2, & RGA-3/4 rupress.org/jcb/article/... 📕 In "Collective Behaviors and Self-Organization in Cells" rupress.org/jcb/collecti...
About eligibility changes at ANR: at least the ERC has a prominent scientist in charge and when something's wrong, they can listen and engage (see their recent reversal on eligibility). ANR has just bureaucrats who make sure their air-conditioned offices will not let them hear researchers screaming
New paper 🧵 What if the "landscape" that guides cell differentiation isn't fixed, but is sculpted, in real time, by the very cells moving through it? We call this a 'sandscape' : grains of sand that carve dunes as they move, while the dunes' shape simultaneously steers where the grains go next.
An auspicious day, today, 14 July for a semi-final 🇫🇷. May the better team win
The videos of the talks from speakers at the conference @college-de-france.fr on Information processing and biological computation on June 26 are available at the link below. Or on YouTube directly. Enjoy!
Collège de France@college-de-france.fr · 4w ago#Science #Biologie 🔬 « Information Flow and Computation in Living Systems » 🖥️ Les vidéos du colloque organisé par le Pr @thomaslecuit.bsky.social, titulaire de chaire Dynamiques du vivant, sont disponibles. 👉 https://tinyurl.com/v7mb5kjp
Final Eastern VGZT session of the season! ☀️ Join us for the keynote by Thomas Lecuit (@thomaslecuit.bsky.social)! “The interplay between geometry and mechanics during Drosophila gastrulation” 🗓️ Wednesday, July 8th ⏰ 9:00 BST / 10:00 CEST / 13:30 IST / 17:00 JST / 18:00 AEST See you there! 👋
We just celebrated with alumni & current members the 25yrs anniversary of our group @ibdm.bsky.social and @centuri-ls.bsky.social. Lots of joy to witness the scientific paths of so many talented ex members. Big smiles, laughs and fun 🤩. So thankful for having had such colleagues. Let’s keep going 😊
It is out 😍 check it out!! Multiscale integration of tissue and chromatin context converts cell heterogeneity into stable intestinal patterning. @cschwayer.bsky.social @silviabarbiero.bsky.social @davidbrueckner.bsky.social @ehannezo.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Multiscale integration of tissue and chromatin context converts cell heterogeneity into stable intestinal patterning
During regeneration, tissues must translate transient cellular variability into stable spatial organization. Tissue architecture generates a density-dependent window of heterogeneity in the mechanosen...
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It was wonderful to host Mukund Thattai from @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social to give a seminar @centuri-ls.bsky.social. Thank you for entertaining us on how information is encoded at the cell surface. 🙏🏼
L’un des textes à commenter au bac de philo aujourd’hui. « Ils n’ont pas cette défiance instinctive contre les écarts de la pensée »…
This will be on 26 June in Paris! 🤩You are welcome to join and participate in this exciting 1-day conference at the College de France on Biological computational accross areas of biology. Fantastic speakers. Free, no registration, at the heart of Paris on a lovely season. Worth planning a weekend…?
Thomas Lecuit@thomaslecuit.bsky.social · 3mo agoHere is the announcement of a Symposium @college-de-france.fr on 26 June on Information Flow and Computation in Biological systems. A great line of speakers on a variety of topics from embryogenesis to neuroscience, immunology and microbiology. Free entrance, come if you are in Paris end of June 🤩
💪 Great pleasure to host @ardemp.bskyverified.social from @scripps.edu this week. 🧪 Fantastic keynote on PIEZO ion channels as essential pressure sensors for touch, pain and beyond. Excellent discussions on proprioception, pain, parturition, mechanobiology, and cell & molecular biology!
Visiting Duke Univ. yesterday. What a treat to be hosted by @akankshi.bsky.social Munjal (former PhD std) 🤩 and spending time with fantastic trainees & wonderful faculty, such as Stefano di Talia @ditalialab.bsky.social. Many thanks for the invitation 🙏🏼. A place full of talent & energy.
🏆 Le prix Shaw pour les sciences biologiques et médicales 2026 (Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine) a été décerné au Pr Hugues de Thé, titulaire de la chaire Oncologie cellulaire et moléculaire. 👉 https://tinyurl.com/4buh5nmv
Glad to see this out in its final form! www.nature.com/articles/s41... What changed since the preprint? Wonderful experiments disentangling the effect of receptor binding vs tissue porosity on Nodal diffusion, plus one of the smoothest review experiences! Thanks @natcellbio.nature.com & reviewers 🙏
Tissue rigidity phase transition shapes morphogen gradients - Nature Cell Biology
Autorino et al. report a feedback loop between Nodal signalling and tissue phase transitions in zebrafish embryos. Nodal alters adhesion, triggering tissue rigidification and reduced porosity, which l...
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Nicoletta Petridou@nicolettapetridou.bsky.social · last yr.Here our latest work on how morphogens trigger tissue phase transitions to tune their own length-scales and time-scales - An exciting collaboration with @zhvas.bsky.social @dianakhorom.bsky.social Bernat Corominas-Murtra and heroic experiments by the incredible @cami-autorino.bsky.social @embl.org
Many thanks @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social from @embl.org Heidelberg for visiting us @centuri-ls.bsky.social and giving a truly exciting talk on cell division timing and phase transition during embryogenesis 🤩! Developmental biology is really cool 😎
Pierre Chambon was a great scientist. And a good man too. He alone opposed to leading British embryologists during the evaluation of a case of scientific misconduct more than 40 years ago, to defend young scientists against an establishment to which he belonged. An unforgettable lesson. RIP Pierre 💐
« Comme on voit sur la branche au mois de mai la rose, En sa belle jeunesse, en sa première fleur, Rendre le ciel jaloux de sa vive couleur, Quand l’Aube de ses pleurs au point du jour l’arrose »
Here is the announcement of a Symposium @college-de-france.fr on 26 June on Information Flow and Computation in Biological systems. A great line of speakers on a variety of topics from embryogenesis to neuroscience, immunology and microbiology. Free entrance, come if you are in Paris end of June 🤩
#TalentsCNRS Découvrez les médaillés d'argent et de bronze 2026 de CNRS Biologie ! Félicitations aux lauréates et lauréats ! 🎉 👉 www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...
Médailles CNRS Biologie 2026 : les lauréats dévoilés
Chaque année, l’attribution des médailles du CNRS distingue des scientifiques et des personnels dont les travaux et l’engagement contribuent de manièr
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And of course, ot was good to feel in the path of d’Arcy Thompson at St Andrews, in a place he moved to after publishing his famous opus 😊
Thomas Lecuit@thomaslecuit.bsky.social · 4mo agoWonderful visit at the university of St Andrews, beautiful campus and city 🤩. Thank you Marcus Bischoff for the invitation, and the great discussions with you and your colleagues, especially Jochen Kursawe.
Wonderful visit at the university of St Andrews, beautiful campus and city 🤩. Thank you Marcus Bischoff for the invitation, and the great discussions with you and your colleagues, especially Jochen Kursawe.
📢 Registrations are open for the 𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐈 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔! 🗓️ Oct 26–30, 2026 📍Institut d'Études Scientifiques de Cargèse, Corsica Topic: 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚-𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨: centuri-livingsystems.org/csm-2026/
Data-Driven Biological Modeling — CSM 2026 - Centuri Living Systems
Data-Driven Biological Modeling CENTURI Scientific Meeting – 2026 The Event – CENTURI Scientific Meeting CENTURI is pleased to announce the 2026 Edition of its Scientific Meeting, once again bringing ...
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A question I get asked all the time by @dev-journal.bsky.social authors "Why does it cost so much to publish a paper?" We break down the finances and explain where the money goes Spoiler: quality publishing takes a village (people + infrastructure) journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
‘Why is publishing so expensive?’
For many of us who work in scientific publishing, the title of this Editorial is a question we hear all the time when we're out talking to academics. And it's a perfectly reasonable one. After all, re...
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This was a terrific talk. Thank you for visiting us in Marseille. 🤩🙏🏼
CENTURI - Turing Centre for Living Systems@centuri-ls.bsky.social · 4mo ago𝑨𝒍𝒈𝒂𝒍 𝑷𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒐𝒕𝒂𝒙𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝑴𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒚 Ray Goldstein's (Cambridge University) CENTURI Seminar is going now, in the Hexagone Auditorium, on the Luminy Campus! #SEMINAR #CENTURI
The mistral was very strong yesterday… this iconic pine tree near our home, so majestic that the street was built around it, is a sad victim 😢. No human casualty and the house was left intact…
🧫 Et si la science devenait une œuvre d’art ? Au @museeorsay.bsky.social, des images de cellules observées au microscope deviennent une performance visuelle pour faire sortir la biologie du laboratoire et révéler l’architecture du vivant. 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNQM...
Les cellules s'exposent au Musée d'Orsay | Reportage CNRS
YouTube video by CNRS
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CNRS@cnrs.fr · 5mo agoAu Musée d’Orsay, des chercheurs ont transformé des images de cellules observées au microscope en une performance visuelle monumentale. Mais comment fait-on pour projeter des filaments minuscules à l’échelle d’une nef ? Et quels secrets ces images révèlent-elles sur l’organisation du vivant ?
Our study on shape diversity in cnidarians is now published. The final version includes extensive new data that substantially extend the original bioRxiv preprint. Congrats to everyone who contributed to this work! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... @embl.org
Deciphering mechanical determinants of morphological evolution
A comparative analysis of cnidarian larval morphogenesis combined with active surface theory identifies a set of mesoscale mechanical modules that predict species-specific shapes. Manipulating these m...
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