A special seminar in Marseille, reuniting with two incredible lab alumni: Aziz Moqrich, my first postdoc, and Bertrand Coste, who identified PIEZOs in my lab. The students brought food from their home countries for lunch. How brilliant!
Tiny worlds under the microscope last week: tardigrades, nematodes, and the curiosity of Marseille elementary school students. Very happy to share this with my colleague
@precouvreux.bsky.social 🔬
🧪 We had the pleasure of hosting @steinaerts.bsky.social from @vibneuroleuven.bsky.social as a keynote speaker!
🧬 A fantastic talk on modelling genome regulation using single-cell atlases, with great discussions on gene regulation, modelling and AI, neural development, and atlases.
How do sperm and egg fuse? Surprisingly, we still don’t fully know…
Our field has uncovered many pieces of the fertilization puzzle, but not how they fit together.
We identify ✨ SPARK ✨ - a conserved sperm complex that couples sperm-egg binding to fusion.
tinyurl.com/34cm4xat
Read on! 🧵👇
📢 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.
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Interested in meiosis or reproductive cell biology?
Consider submitting your work to #Meiosis4Eva: The Cell Biology of Reproduction, a Minisymposium at ASCB | EMBO Cell Bio 2026!
📅 Abstract deadline for talk consideration: June 9, 2026.
#CellBio2026 #ASCB
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💪 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!
Our work on Trichoplax locomotion and mechanosensing capabilities is out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social.
Congrats Marvin Leria & all co-authors!
authors.elsevier.com/c/1n8Ig3QW8S...
Ardem Patapoutian
Ever wondered why anaphase onset looks so rapid (but maybe not perfectly synchronous). As it turns out, separase is playing a small numbers game - at least in fission yeast. Thanks to Wendi Williams, @silkehauflab.bsky.social , and everybody involved.
New insights into #fertilization from the @pauligroup.bsky.social & Ikawa labs! In a tour-de-force study, we discovered ✨ SPARK ✨, a conserved sperm fertilization complex that couples sperm-egg binding to membrane fusion.
Read on 🧵👇 and check out our preprint for more details!
tinyurl.com/34cm4xat
Sham Tlili
IBDM, Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille
Victoria Deneke
Lara Krüger
IBDM, Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille
Chenshu Liu
Raphaël Clément
tinyurl.com
How do sperm and egg fuse? Surprisingly, we still don’t fully know…
Our field has uncovered many pieces of the fertilization puzzle, but not how they fit together.
We identify ✨ SPARK ✨ - a conserved sperm complex that couples sperm-egg binding to fusion.
tinyurl.com/34cm4xat
Read on! 🧵👇
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Victoria Deneke
Julia Kamenz
Pauli Group (posts by Andi Pauli)
Chromosome segregation synchrony in S. pombe is noise-limited and arises without positive feedback. New study from Wendi Williams, Julia Kamenz @kamenzlab.bsky.social, Silke Hauf @silkehauflab.bsky.social @virginiatech.bsky.social and colleagues:
rupress.org/jcb/article/...
#CellDivision #Mitosis
