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I just published: ERC-Plus: jackpot science or missed chance to fix academia? My reflections on ERC-Plus, Europe’s newest ultra-competitive research grant and what it tells us about the academic culture we’re building. medium.com/p/erc-plus-j...

More and new about the connection between lipids and genome integrity pathways… for many more to come! 🥂

20 years already… It is true it looks like long ago when we started populating those empty rooms… and making the first agar plates look as normal ones…

EXCELLENT graphic on the drain of scientific publishing! zenodo.org/records/1759...

Janaki Ammal was born 128 years ago today! A legend of botanical genetics, she studied how polyploidy plays into the resilience of agricultural crops, compiled a sprawling chromosomal atlas of plants, and fought for the preservation of India's natural legacy. tinyurl.com/2j9hxmjb #WomenInSTEM

Sharing a new in-depth review article on intrinsic lipid curvature and models of lipidome adaptation to the environment that I recently wrote with Jacob Winnikoff for Progress in Lipid Research (open access). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

After years in the making, Joe McKellar @viroscope.bsky.social’s final PhD paper is finally out today in PNAS! 🎉 🎉🎉 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Did you know that all nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) are not the same? @luskinglab.bsky.social propose a new hypothesis for how nuclear mechanics may impact the compositional plasticity of NPCs with implications for tissue-specific diseases caused by NPC dysfunction. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A significant conceptual advance in the field of DNA recombination… great work by the labs of @brookscrickard1.bsky.social and Michelle Wang

Our PhD students @albamena.bsky.social & @annasjung.bsky.social wrote a thing on our ongoing efforts for understanding adipocytes & metabolism @erc.europa.eu 👇 www.europeandissemination.eu/article/fat-...

I am very happy to share that my PhD work in the Mansfeld lab (www.mansfeldlab.com) was published yesterday! 🎉 In this study, we characterized a novel redox switch on p21 that regulates proliferation: www.cell.com/molecular-ce... Huge thanks to everyone involved for making this possible 🙏@icr.ac.uk

New work from stellar scientists Jeremy Williams and Roman Camarda. Many contributors including the amazing Zena Werb and Atul Butte Work explores how breast cancer cells interact directly with adipocytes via gap junctions, leading to lipid release. @ctbatucsf.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social

Ne manquez pas le 20e GERLI International Lipid Meeting, Strasbourg, 3-5 nov 2025 Rejoignez chercheurs et experts pour explorer les dernières avancées en biologie des lipides, assistez à des conférences, posters et prix scientifiques ! Plus d'info : : www.gerli.com/congres/welc...

Ryosuke Seino, Kai Nishikubo and Hisanori Fukunaga interrogate cell cycle- and dose-dependent effects on mitochondrial DNA copy number variation following irradiation. #OpenAccess #ReadandPublish journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Boumard, B., Le Meur, G., Aboutine, L., Stefanutti, M., Maalouf, T., El-Hajj, M., Choi, B. J., Bauer, R., Bardin, A. J. (2025). Cell-type-specific nucleotide sharing through gap junctions impacts sensitivity to replication stress in #Drosophila. Dev Cell, www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@morielab.bsky.social proudly presents a tool to induce, in S. cerevisiae, DNA double strand breaks in a site-specific AND in a dose-dependent manner, in a very simple way: just transform two plasmids!!! It allows you to assess many aspects of DNA damage signaling & repair! doi.org/10.1111/febs...

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Reminiscent to how mitochondria can selectively extrude damaged mtDNA, locally, along with mitochondrial membranes (or through them) towards the cytoplasm… DNA-lipids interactions at play!!

🚀 Today we're launching the 'Night Science Institute', a non-for-profit organization to lead a cultural shift in science! You may say we're dreamers 😉, but we think we're not the only ones. Perhaps today you will join us to make the Day Science and Night Science parts of the process live as one!

I am happy to share our last preprint, where we identified FASN as an endogenous dsRNA-associated factor and demonstrated that its depletion triggers endodsRNA accumulation and a stronger antiviral response to exogenous dsRNAs,#RNA, #interferon,#immunometabolism www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

New preprint from @morielab.bsky.social: tardigrades are super resistant to DNA insult, yet are not immortal. We asked: why & how do they die? We have discovered their Achilles’ heel! Check it to know (spoiler: it has to do of course with DNA… but also lipids!! 😍) www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

New preprint from @morielab.bsky.social: tardigrades are super resistant to DNA insult, yet are not immortal. We asked: why & how do they die? We have discovered their Achilles’ heel! Check it to know (spoiler: it has to do of course with DNA… but also lipids!! 😍) www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Phase II of our Fast & Fair peer review experiment is testing scalability. Results so far are promising. Read more at bit.ly/41N31tO. #FastandFairPeerReview #PeerReview #ScientificPublishing

Excited for our next special issue and looking forward to working with Abby Buchwalter (@abbybuch.bsky.social) and Megan King (@luskinglab.bsky.social)! Working on the cell biology of the nucleus? Send your papers our way! #notforprofit

Moutushi Islam, Masato Kanemaki and colleagues describe their single-chain antibody-based auxin-inducible degron system which enables degradation of GFP-tagged and untagged proteins. Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

They are a REMARKABLE supporter of scientists and the community. In addition to their five journals, they support dozens of scientific meetings each year, and provide travel grants and other support 2/n www.biologists.com/grants/

@morielab.bsky.social proudly presents a tool to induce, in S. cerevisiae, DNA double strand breaks in a site-specific AND in a dose-dependent manner, in a very simple way: just transform two plasmids!!! It allows you to assess many aspects of DNA damage signaling & repair! doi.org/10.1111/febs...

Have a nice #FluorescenceFriday! This is the tip of a fig wasp antenna with auto-fluorescence in blue and DNA in red! These insects are very very tiny

Spots are filling up!!!! Join us at our workshop at @cabimer.bsky.social !!!

Excited to share the first paper of my PhD with @marcofumasoni.bsky.social ‬, now published in @molsystbiol.org 🥳! We explored how nutrient levels influence adaptation to perturbed DNA replication. Here’s what we learned 🧵👇 www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

We are very, very lucky at CRBM to get this awesome visitor!!! Ask for a QRCode if you want to join on-site!!

#art #science #biology @morielab.bsky.social

I’m very happy to see part of my postdoctoral work published! In this study, we developed a pipeline to measure absolute protein numbers at DNA double-strand break sites from confocal images. @jcellsci.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jcs/article-...

🎓 31e Colloque des Thésards du CRBM 🎉 Bravo à Dimitra, Jana, Janélie, Luisa, Rekia, Sotiria et Symeon pour l’orga au top ! Talks passionnants, lieu sublime, soirée mémorable. Merci à toutes et tous pour ce bel événement 👏 #CRBM #Science

Come to join us at this fantastic workshop at @cabimer.bsky.social on October 17th.

If you have a nice idea, go for it! One of the best experiences in a career!!! ❤️

#La_vie_est_belle est aux jardins suspendus du Havre!! MRI est présent au festival Photo Nature!! Tout est monté, tout est prêt pour le 23 mai!! @addictosciences.bsky.social‬

The abstract submission deadline for the 2nd edition of our #EMBOLipidDroplets Workshop (21-26 September 2025) is approaching. Check out the agenda with an amazing lineup of speakers and submit your abstract before 10 June 2025! @embo.org @biologists.bsky.social meetings.embo.org/event/25-lip...

⚠️ Discovery of a new mode of viral transmission: Deltaviruses spread through a viral Trojan Horse ! These viral satellites that do not encode their own glycoproteins, are in fact physically encapsulated within their helper virus particles! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A thread 1/14

"E. coli nucleoid adopts a condensed, membrane-proximal configuration during rapid growth, an active role of transertion (coupled transcription, translation, and membrane insertion) in nucleoid organization" #microsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New preprint from the Lab at @cabimer.bsky.social. We present PLAMseq, using TurboID to do like ChIPseq and proximity proteomics in the same protocol with extra powers like mapping protein interactions in the genome. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Out today, we report how small chemical modifications in the metabolism of ergosterol are needed for yeast membranes to phase seperate into ordered yet fluid domains www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (1/n)

Nature research paper: Histone H1 deamidation facilitates chromatin relaxation for DNA repair https://go.nature.com/42iGjda

On April 19, 1898, Camillo Golgi described what we now know as the #Golgi apparatus - a structure so pretty and unusual it took over fifty years for the scientific community to agree it wasn’t just an artefact. April 19 is #GolgiDay! Mark your calendars to honour the best organelle.

+ “automation is likely essential to efficiently link cellular to planetary scales: many cells need to be studied!”…

Yes, we are! #EMBOclimateresilience Cell biology Work at interfaces Do things in depth Fundamental & Applied Research together Driven by curiosity Not the time to be discouraged Science is about hope & optimism Researchers must expect & accept their work to be challenged Invest today in Research

We are following #EMBOclimateresilience online because cell biology matters

Nuclear-envelope-associated lipid droplets are enriched in cholesteryl esters and increase during inflammatory signaling – regulating the speed of NF-kB entry into the nucleus! Elina Ikonen and coworkers www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....