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Drosophila researcher at Institut Curie, dedicated to the pursuit of the scientific way of life.
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Nicoletta Petridou
9 days ago
Less than a week left for abstract submission for
#EESMechanobiology
- join us in this long-standing meeting on the mechanics of life.
add a skeleton here at some point
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Bardin Lab
9 days ago
Don’t deprioritize curiosity-driven research
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Don’t deprioritize curiosity-driven research
Around the world, governments are demanding that research funding follow broader political priorities. They should be careful what they wish for.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00469-0
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Bertrand Benazeraf
17 days ago
Group Leader Call at the
@cbitoulouse.bsky.social
in Genome biology, projects at the interface with devbio will be given particular attention. please share :)
cbi-toulouse.fr/wp-content/u...
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Lale Alpar, PhD
17 days ago
It was a pleasure to work on this graphical abstract. Very interesting work from
@florisbosveld.bsky.social
et al, as always. A thorough look on how tissues deal with asymmetric cell divisions. Find and read the full work here :
www.cell.com/developmenta...
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How resilient are tissues to cell mispositioning and loss, and how do they restore their cell numbers? Check our latest work, from
@ybellaichelab.bsky.social
Congratulations to all authors. Artwork from the artist
@lale-alpar.bsky.social
(
lalealpar.com
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www.cell.com/developmenta...
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Tissue mechanics and systemic signaling safeguard epithelial tissue against spindle misorientation
Bosveld et al. identified a multilayered system of safeguards that reuses homeostatic mechanisms to maintain epithelial integrity and cell number in the face of spindle misorientation. This work delin...
https://www.cell.com/developmental-cell/abstract/S1534-5807(26)00035-3
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preLights
about 1 month ago
The threefold way an epithelium copes with cell misplacement: pulling them up, killing them less, and removing the unwanted. Ruoheng Li discusses a
#preprint
from
@florisbosveld.bsky.social
& colleagues
@ybellaichelab.bsky.social
Check out the
#preLight
⬇️👀
prelights.biologists.com/highlights/t...
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Tissue mechanics and systemic signaling safeguard epithelial tissue against spindle misorientation - preLights
The threefold way an epithelium copes with cell misplacement: pulling them up, killing them less, and removing the unwanted.
https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/tissue-mechanics-and-systemic-signaling-safeguard-epithelial-tissue-against-spindle-misorientation/
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XIII European Congress of Entomology
3 months ago
🎄✨ Early Christmas gift! The abstract submission deadline for
#ECE2026Tours
has been extended to 31 January 2026 🎁🐜 For more information about the XIII European Congress of Entomology ➡️
www.ece2026.org
@irbi-tours.bsky.social
@cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
@royentsoc.bsky.social
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ECE 2026 - XIII European Congress of Entomology
It is our great pleasure to welcome you to Tours, France, in the heart of the Loire Valley, from June 29 to July 3, 2026.
https://www.ece2026.org/
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Don't forget to register for
#ECE2026
! Early bird registration until December 15th 2025. Great opportunity to learn about insect biology. In wonderful setting (Tours, FR) and great speaker lineup. Keynote Speaker: Insect development Yohanns Bellaiche
@ybellaichelab.bsky.social
www.ece2026.org
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ECE 2026 - XIII European Congress of Entomology
It is our great pleasure to welcome you to Tours, France, in the heart of the Loire Valley, from June 29 to July 3, 2026.
https://www.ece2026.org
3 months ago
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Interested in insects? Every topic will be covered in the upcoming ECE2026 meeting. In beautiful Tours (France) during early summer. June 29th – July 3rd 2026 Abstract submission & early bird registration until December 15th 2025
www.ece2026.org
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ECE 2026 - XIII European Congress of Entomology
It is our great pleasure to welcome you to Tours, France, in the heart of the Loire Valley, from June 29 to July 3, 2026.
https://www.ece2026.org/
4 months ago
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How do epithelia regulate cell number upon cell loss? Check it out our new preprint! THX to
@b-tesson.bsky.social
, Eric van Leen, Sam Amirebrahimi, Raphael Thinat and
@ybellaichelab.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Tissue mechanics and systemic signaling safeguard epithelial tissue against spindle misorientation.
Multicellular organisms possess conserved safeguard mechanisms that ensure the maintenance of tissue integrity. Exploring these mechanisms has proven instrumental in understanding how tissues robustly...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.18.682384v1
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FlyBase needs help. Similar article last week in Science
www.science.org/content/arti...
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#standupforscience2025
Institut Curie Developmental Biology Unit
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Journal of Cell Science
about 1 year ago
In her Essay, Renata Basto highlights the huge budget cuts facing the scientific community in France. In response to the cuts, a group of researchers has formed the ‘Pour une Recherche d'Avenir’ initiative to secure the future of French research.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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The importance of delivering Recherche d'Avenir – research for the future
In recent years, several European countries, including France, have reduced their investment in scientific research, with biomedical research taking a significant hit. The primary casualty is basic re...
https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/138/4/jcs263909/367071/The-importance-of-delivering-Recherche-d-Avenir
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Janelia Research Campus
about 1 year ago
📢 Submissions are now open for the CellMap Segmentation Challenge. Build the best method for segmenting cellular organelles in vEM using our 289 annotated volumes, 40 organelle classes, and 22 diverse cell and tissue types. 🔗
hhmi.news/410evJQ
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Eurico Morais-de-Sá
over 1 year ago
First official post! A new paper out about
#cytokinesis
in
#epithelia
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
Explore our journey as we uncover how regulators of cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions modulate cytokinesis efficiency, while revealing new roles for the Dystrophin-Dystroglycan complex.
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Kasia Siudeja
about 1 year ago
To kick start the New Year, I'm delighted to share the lab's first preprint - now online:
biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
See below for a couple of highlights👇 Any feedback is welcome! "TEsky" HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone! 🥂
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An endogenous retroviral element co-opts an upstream regulatory sequence to achieve somatic expression and mobility
Retrotransposons, multi-copy sequences that propagate via copy-and-paste mechanisms involving an RNA intermediate, occupy large portions of all eukaryotic genomes. A great majority of their manifold c...
https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2025.01.02.631056v1
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Levayer Lab
about 1 year ago
Looking for a job still connected to acamedia and research ? Do you like interacting with a lot of people, outreach activity, organising scientific events ? Do you have good writing and organisation skills ? We may have a job for you👇 (permanent position)
emploi.pasteur.fr/offre-de-emp...
🙏RT
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Levayer Lab
about 1 year ago
For the dev bio crowd : there is a call for junior group leader at Institut Pasteur in Paris and one of the axis covered is related to development. Come and join us in this exciting place and become one of our colleague
@devstempasteur.bsky.social
Please RT !!
research.pasteur.fr/fr/call/call...
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Call for applications 2025 – Creation of new research groups at the Institut Pasteur | Research - Institut Pasteur
https://research.pasteur.fr/fr/call/call-for-applications-2025-creation-of-new-research-groups-at-the-institut-pasteur/
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Bellaiche Lab
over 1 year ago
📢We have a 3y postdoc position available in our interdisciplinary team at the Institut Curie. Join us if you're interested in epithelial tissue morphogenesis using live imaging, quantitative biology & (opto)genetics.
institut-curie.org/team/bellaiche
Please spread the word.
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