Christine Girard-Blanc
@chrisgirardb.bsky.social
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Research engineer - Institut Pasteur - EM-Cilia-Trypanosoma
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Christine Girard-Blanc
Philippe Bastin's Lab
12 days ago
Happy New Year from the Trypanosome Cell Biology Unit!
@pasteur.fr
@inserm.fr
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20 years in
@pasteur.fr
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about 1 month ago
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Christine Girard-Blanc
Philippe Bastin's Lab
3 months ago
Daniel's interview!
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Christine Girard-Blanc
Philippe Bastin's Lab
3 months ago
Special thanks to our keynote lectures for fantastic talks!
@micromotility.bsky.social
@mick-lab.bsky.social
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Christine Girard-Blanc
Philippe Bastin's Lab
3 months ago
Many thanks to all participants to the CFC2025 meeting last week for having made it such a vibrant experience! So much exciting research on
#cilia
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Thank you to the organizers of the CFC meeting 2025 in Oberbronn! See you next year in Lyon!
@club-cfc.bsky.social
3 months ago
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Christine Girard-Blanc
Philippe Bastin's Lab
6 months ago
Discover more about our dear Daniel:
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
His paper can be found here
doi.org/10.1242/jcs....
Many thanks to
@jcellsci.bsky.social
for giving visibility to young scientists!
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Christine Girard-Blanc
Philippe Bastin's Lab
6 months ago
Finally out! Mass spec analysis of
#trypanosome
flagellar tubulins reveals some surprises including a new
#glutamylation
site on beta-tubulin! Many thanks to the teams of Julia Chamot-Rooke and Mariette Matondo!
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Mass Spectrometry Reveals Novel Features of Tubulin Polyglutamylation in the Flagellum of Trypanosoma brucei
Tubulin polyglutamylation is a key feature of eukaryotic cilia and flagella that is essential for their function. The diversity of enzymes catalyzing polyglutamylation with different specificities ins...
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jproteome.5c00107
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Christine Girard-Blanc
Philippe Bastin's Lab
7 months ago
On Friday, Daniel left us after more than 4 happy years in the lab
@pasteur.fr
and a great paper published today in
@jcellsci.bsky.social
as well as other contributions! Many thanks for everything!
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article-...
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Christine Girard-Blanc
Philippe Bastin's Lab
7 months ago
Wonderful time at our PIV departmental retreat
@pasteur.fr
, congratulations to
@chrisgirardb.bsky.social
and her dream team
@fernando-batista.bsky.social
, Francisco Martinez-Blazquez and Marcela Fuentes Carias for the organisation! And a great vision talk by Daniel π
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Congratulations Parul for your brilliant PhD !
7 months ago
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Christine Girard-Blanc
Philippe Bastin's Lab
7 months ago
Daniel's paper is now published in
@jcellsci.bsky.social
, great experience with
@reviewcommons.org
π Want to know everything tubulin assembly in trypanosome flagella and other microtubules? Here is the link:
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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Exposition sur des femmes scientifiques d'Issy-les-Moulineaux pour les enfants π₯°
11 months ago
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Christine Girard-Blanc
Philippe Bastin's Lab
11 months ago
Solving 25 years of frustration, Daniel AbbΓΌhl managed to tag trypanosome tubulin and to express it in an inducible manner, hence revealing flagellum assembly! A tour-de-force! Preprint here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Christine Girard-Blanc
Philippe Bastin's Lab
11 months ago
We propose a model where the new flagellum grows in a linear manner while the old one is locked but shrinks slightly, hence requiring unlocking and compensation after cell division, leading to such multicoloured flagella following induction/deinduction/reinduction of tagged tubulin π
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Christine Girard-Blanc
Philippe Bastin's Lab
12 months ago
Follow our French
#cilia
network! Only on BlueSky!
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First talk at the cilia symposium today βΊοΈ
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12 months ago
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Christine Girard-Blanc
Philippe Bastin's Lab
about 1 year ago
How do
#trypanosomes
restrict
#IFT
to only 4 doublet microtubules? Two hypotheses were proposed (restriction @ the flagellum base or @ the injection) but in this preprint, Aline Alves reveals it is a third way! It all happens in the proximal portion of the flagellum!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Christine Girard-Blanc
Philippe Bastin's Lab
about 1 year ago
We said goodbye to our lovely Aline who is heading back to Brazil after 4.5 happy years with us. Watch this space for her manuscripts coming soon!
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Christine Girard-Blanc
Philippe Bastin's Lab
about 1 year ago
Here we are! To celebrate our arrival, here is a
#trypanosome
expanded ~13 times & stained for tubulin, individual cortical
#microtubules
can be recognised, what was only achievable by EM before. Images: Christine Girard-Blanc & Thierry Blisnick. Many thanks to
@centriolelab.bsky.social
for training
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