Oh! Here's a combined PDF of all three papers: www.mskcc.org/teaser/1953-...

I am seeing a lot of posts about Rosalind Franklin that themselves ignore her publication record on DNA! In fact Franklin and Gosling's paper, including the famous Photograph #51, was published, along with Wilkins's paper, back-to-back with the Watson and Crick paper in Nature in 1953.

I learned a lot from reading the posts over the last 2 days. I was struck by how much we are influenced by scientific mythology, some of it rooted in what we learned as far back as high school.

Just read the full letter. Wow ! « But the point of science is what is discovered, not how it was discovered or by whom. It is the results which need to be brought home to the public. » F. Crick.

I recommend reading this thread from F. Crick’s granddaughter. Apparently even the scene at the Eagle pub, where we all went as scientific pilgrims, is not true? Just mythology

You know what? I did not read “The Double Helix.” I was converted to molecular biology by the books from Monod and Jacob, real decent and courageous men in addition to being exceptional scientists. For me, one cannot go without the other!!

Some still praise James Watson despite his racism. Same with colleagues who won’t condemn Elon Musk’s politics, hiding behind “scientists shouldn’t mix science and politics.”

X Thinking about Rosalind (and Maurice)

Not sure to miss him…

Many thanks to the folks at the San Diego Supercomputer Center for highlighting our project!

Great collaboration with @guo-lab.bsky.social to determine an in situ architectural model of the Tad pilus machine. Be on the lookout soon for a preprint on the same topic by Grant Jensen and @viollierpat.bsky.social. #microsky

panic mode activated. Deadline @erc.europa.eu Synergy grant deadline <24h !

Please RT. Post-doc opportunity alert! 💥 closing 10th December.. Come join our team (www.thelowlab.org) at Imperial, London, working on the structure and mechanism of bacterial secretion systems. For more details and to apply please see www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

christoph: 👇made my day 👏

Congratulations to the new Doctor Chloé Dugelay ! Massive thanks to all collaborators @xavierdebolle.bsky.social @suzanasalcedo.bsky.social @cascaleslab.bsky.social J.Celli and J. Ugalde. Thanks to the excellent jury members @fronzeslab.bsky.social R.Vouillhoux, P.Doublet and L.Journet

Structures of rotary ATP synthase from Thermus thermophilus during proton powered ATP synthesis | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Folks, this is really important: Humanity AI Commits $500 Million to Build a People-Centered Future for AI A broad coalition of philanthropic leaders today announced Humanity AI, a $500M 5-year initiative dedicated to making sure people have a stake in the future of artificial intelligence (AI).

@iecb.bsky.social fête la science. Atelier fluorescence, cryo-microcopie électronique et extraction d’ADN par des membres de notre équipe.

Entretien pour Brut sur la vie Miroir, l'ingénierie génétique et l'éthique de ces recherches: www.brut.media/fr/videos/sc...

A recent cool preprint by John Whitney's lab on a new family of antibacterial proteins secreted by Gram-positive bacteria that enter and kill a broad spectrum of bacteria. Cell entry is receptor-independent and relies on cleavage by a co-secreted protease and the PMF. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

20 years of hard work by the Waksman group in London. So happy that I could modestly contribute to this scientific adventure.

Open position to work on Type IX secretion (#T9SS) in our lab, in collaboration withe the group of Eric Reynolds at the Dental School of the University of Melbourne. Please spread the word, and forward to anyone potentially interested ! Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

🧐Checkout our preprint revealing the stepwise firing💥 mechanism of a Contractile Injection System @xujwet.bsky.social&@chipericson.bsky.social trapped the complex by structure-guided engineering🧪 in multiple intermediate states and imaged them by multimodal #cryoEM❄️🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

scary !!!

Let's explore the #Mifobio2025 programme ! 👉 Focus on the seminars ✨ We are delighted to welcome Professor Ralf JUNGMANN @lmumuenchen.bsky.social 🎤Talk -“From DNA Nanotechnology to biomedical insight : Towards single-molecule spatial omics” 👉 imabio-cnrs.fr #GDRImaBio @mpibiochem.bsky.social

Check it out! A proper team effort from past and present group members and a great collaboration with @sergemostowylab.bsky.social

late to the party (Not really into series) Pretty good stuff. Very funny.

When (We) the People start to uncover the real nature of these clowns

Imagine all cars were electric, and then one Volkswagen engineer comes up with another idea … #EMobility

Acclaimed conservationist and chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall has died, leaving behind a legacy of empathy for primates and the natural world

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make"

despicable

Still Time to read this new study form Mathilde Guzzo’s Lab post doc @cjresearch.bsky.social with our structural contribution !

We will have soon an Open position for a PhD thesis position to work on bacterial secretion systems ! Stay tuned !!

Global warming is not a “con job.” It is a fact. In the face of Donald Trump’s new denial of climate change, CNRS scientists have reacted by pointing to the facts and levers for action to halt this planetary crisis.

Le jeudi est le pire jour de la semaine.

Une université américaine lance une enquête sur un professeur d’archéologie suspecté d'être un « antifa » www.legorafi.fr/2025/09/19/u...

A new #CryoET study shows that the protein ZapD helps organise FtsZ filaments into stable ring-like structures in building bacterial division machinery. buff.ly/saLPqJM

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

We should do the same at @iecb.bsky.social. So much underestimated potential for modern art in our building !!! 😆🤣

I don’t know what to think about this …

Finally !!! Let’s hope he will be kicked out. Newton and Elon have nothing to do in the same scientific society.

Really excited to share my first paper from the Whitney lab, alongside an amazing grad student, Polina. Here we identify a chaperone family required for the folding of a central domain of T7SS toxins, and solve the structure of the chaperone-toxin complex. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Very happy to see Dukas Jurenas and his Fun-ContRoll project in the list. Congrats Dukas !

#NewResearch Opposing forces generated by exopolysaccharide trail binding versus type IV pilus retraction generate a high cyclic diGMP–high cyclic AMP state in Pseudomonas aeruginosa that promotes social motility. #MicroSky 🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nice evening walk with stunning sunset and lunar eclipse

Preprint: De-novo design of proteins that inhibit bacterial defenses Our approach allows silencing defense systems of choice. We show how this approach enables programming of “untransformable” bacteria, and how it can enhance phage therapy applications Congrats Jeremy Garb! tinyurl.com/Syttt 🧵