Bringing together science & art, @manuelthery.bsky.social & the CytoMorpho lab describe their project on how cells adapt their shape to their environment using the Musée d’Orsay as their template! The full performance was presented over two nights at the museum earlier this year. #sciart #cellbio

Is there a size limit for cells ? How can cells replicate inside the architecture of their environment? Why do cells self-destroy ? This 15-minute movie vimeo.com/1173229237 shows our 2026 edition of the Living Architectures project at the @museeorsay.bsky.social

Aga Kendrick and I are co-chairing a session, “Intracellular Transport Logistics across Scales” at #CellBio2026, December 12-16, in San Diego this year! 🔬🌞 Abstract deadline for talks is JUNE 9. To be considered for our session, select “Cytoskeleton and Motility” as a topic area. See you there!

📢 Institut Jacques Monod Seminar 📅 June 12th 📍 Institut Jacques Monod Invited by the @romet-jegou-lab.bsky.social Lab, @lblanchoin.bsky.social and @manuelthery.bsky.social will present the IJM seminar "The self-renewing cell: how actin networks are built, sized, and dismantled " ➡️ buff.ly/T8li591

Interdisciplinary course on Artificial Cells next fall in Paris. Registrations are open : www.edu.bio.ens.psl.eu/spip.php?art... For masters, PhD students and postdocs. Every wednesday, 5 to 7 PM, @espciparispsl.bsky.social from September to December. See below for the list of great teachers!

Nice 🧵, lovely movies. Now published advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... from the group of @lauraschaedel.bsky.social

We will have the pleasure of welcoming @manuelthery.bsky.social from @cea.fr to Luminy, Marseille as a keynote speaker. 🕧 Friday 17th April 2026, 11:30, Amphi 12 🔬 From Morphogenesis to Space Partitioning by Microtubules and Motors Save the date! 🙌

🧫 Et si la science devenait une œuvre d’art ? Au @museeorsay.bsky.social, des images de cellules observées au microscope deviennent une performance visuelle pour faire sortir la biologie du laboratoire et révéler l’architecture du vivant. 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNQM...

How does a cell move when it carries cargo larger than its own organelles? Excited to share our findings: cells can mechanoadapt their force architecture to move oversized cargo Watch the bulky parasite (red) within an immune cell squeezing through a tiny pore www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/6

Last days to apply this position in our group! Do join us in this great Institute @crg.eu, with great colleagues, and help shaping the science and culture of our lab!

Updating a 56 year-old JCB paper with digitized videos from 16 mm film 😍. Well done first author Tom Pollard!!

A few seconds of eternity: From microscope to museum❣️ It was truly delightful to be part of this project, celebrating life as a continuous dance of creation, collapse, and renewal. 🔄 Kudos to @manuelthery.bsky.social @lblanchoin.bsky.social #cytomorpholab members, and @museeorsay.bsky.social

Huge congrats to @manuelthery.bsky.social and all the Cytomorpho lab. The "Living Architectures" performance at @museeorsay.bsky.social was breathtakingly beautiful

#LivingArchitectures Congratulations @manuelthery.bsky.social @lblanchoin.bsky.social and all Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab for their poetic vision of the microscopic level.

#Addendum to 1970 paper, “CYTOPLASMIC FILAMENTS OF AMOEBA PROTEUS: I. The Role of Filaments in Consistency Changes and Movement,” includes eight video sequences originally recorded on 16-mm films. No technology was available at the time to include this data. 🎞️ rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Actin

Author Tom Pollard: “I hope readers will enjoy movies from our 1970 JCB paper showing dramatic cytoplasmic movements in cell-free extracts. Electron micrographs in the paper related these movements to the assembly of actin filaments. This addendum is a tribute to my very generous mentor Sus Ito.”

#art 🎨 | Quand l’art devient expérimental & que chaque spectateur devient 🧑‍🔬. A l'occasion du spectacle 'Architectures vivantes’ du @museeorsay.bsky.social qui aura lieu les 24 et 25 janvier prochains, @manuelthery.bsky.social, directeur scientifique du projet revient sur cette expérimentation en 📽️

"Perhaps the most exciting place to be is just beyond the trend: informed by it but not confined by it."

📣 #Job alert! Looking to establish your own independent research in cell biology, development or evo-devo? The @cnrs.fr is recruiting 7 scientists in that area of research. Here are updated unofficial guidelines. Reach out to members of the committee if you have questions c3n-cn.fr/section-24-w...

#Communiqué 🗞️ En 2026, pour célébrer ses 40 ans, le @museeorsay.bsky.social devient un véritable théâtre du vivant. Deux soirées dans la Nef plongeront le public dans un spectacle immersif au coeur des dynamiques cellulaires donnant vie à l’architecture de la gare. 👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/un...

#RejoignezleCNRS 🫵 Envie de repousser les limites de la science ? Le #CNRS recrute des chercheurs (F/H) passionnés. 📅 Concours ouverts jusqu’au 12 janvier 2026. Candidatez dès maintenant ! 👉 carrieres.cnrs.fr/concours-ext... #Recrutement #Innovation #Recherche #Icicarecrute

#LivingArchitectures We put cells and cytoskeleton filaments on the architecture of the musée d'Orsay. www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/agenda/ev... Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab adapted their protocols to illustrate the questions that keep them awake at night. -> Two shows on the 24th and 25th of January.

Today, our animation synthesizing decades of research on actin-mediated endocytosis in budding yeast was published: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... The result of a fantastic Iwasa-Drubin lab collaboration. @margotriggi.bsky.social @jiwasa.bsky.social movie.biologists.com/video/10.124...

 I'm heading to ASCB in Philadelphia this year and If you'd like to chat about your research, please get in touch and we can schedule a time to meet.

“Cellular Olympics” our catalog of freeky ultra fast cellular superhero’s is freely available “Ann Rev of microbiology” www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... This is a compilation of world’s fastest single cell organisms - enjoy this buffet of rare delightful protists with mind bending speeds. 🧪

⚡Ready to grow and be inspired as a scientist? We’re looking for a *PhD student* to join our lab at @crg.eu in Barcelona and explore how cells self-organize, uncovering life’s inner design💡 We offer strong mentoring, cutting-edge science, and a vibrant international team🌍 Check the link below!

Perspective from Richard McIntosh describing the history of research on #microtubule polymerization in terms of the ideas, technologies, and observations that have emerged as countless researchers have studied the dynamics of these essential cytoskeletal polymers. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

Tomorrow at @ISTAresearch.bsky.social in Vienna at 4:30 PM I will show and discuss how shapes can emerge (and disappear) from mixture of microtubules and molecular motors. #morphogenesis

We hire! The CytoMorpho Lab is looking for an engineer with a background in cell and molecular biology to join our team in Paris. This is a 18-month contract position, but we're open to exploring long-term opportunities. More details here: cytomorpholab.com/index.php/jo...

Very excited that my final postdoctoral work is now online in Cell @cellpress.bsky.social. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Using 16 (!) cryo-EM structures, we uncovered how the three proteins coronin, cofilin and AIP1 work together to rapidly disassemble actin filaments.

Yusuke Maeda, from the department of Chemical Engineering of Kyoto University for a seminar on Tuesday the 21st of October at 12:00 in the main amphitheatre of the IPGG (6 rue Jean Calvin). Title and abstract: From Flow to Shape: Biophysical Principles of Confined Actomyosin

Want to hear a mid-career PI pontificate about science, career and cooking? Today's your lucky day thanks to The Microscopists podcast! Thanks Peter @yorkbioimaging.bsky.social for having me 🎙️🎧 themicroscopists.bitesizebio.com/episodes/chr...

Dialogue is so important in science engagement. “Our responsibility is … to speak with humility, to listen with care, and to earn the trust of those we hope to reach… To change what people believe, we must first understand why they believe it and what purpose that belief serves in their lives.”

La vie est belle! vous attend à la maison des relations internationales à Montpellier! Une initiative des @addictauxsciences.bsky.social qui présente les images de Montpellier Ressources Imagerie dans ce cadre exceptionnel 🤩 Festival What a trip! Jeu-Sam 10-18h @eurobioimaging.bsky.social

The actin-binding/-bundling protein #anillin can also interact with microtubules to crosslink the two types of filaments and slide them along each other @marileend.bsky.social @gijsjekoenderink.bsky.social and colleagues www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

We also give examples of imaging and functionalization to study actin-related processes.

We detail the equipment and protocol for microwell manufacture, as well as characterization and quality control.

We have used many microwells to confine biochemical reactions in our recent studies. We wanted to share the protocol for preparing and characterizing microwells; this protocol is now published here : www.frontiersin.org/journals/cel... @manuelthery.bsky.social @lblanchoin.bsky.social

🔬 From JCB’s July issue (rupress.org/jcb/issue/22...): a PtK2 cell plated on a micropattern and injected with low doses of soluble actin (orange) and tubulin (blue) in order to generate speckles along the corresponding filaments. From @manuelthery.bsky.social group (rupress.org/jcb/article/...).

BEHOLD! One of Earth's greatest lineages of life: the lil wiggle arm guys, Meteora. These single-celled critters, originally found in deep-sea sediments, are SO DIFFERENT from other lifeforms on Earth that they're likely in their own kingdom (as in, the Animal Kingdom, the Plant Kingdom etc). 🧪🌿

Interested in reconstitution methods? Love cell biology? Check out the accepted manuscripts in our Research Topic on Reconstitution Methods in Cell Biology! We are still open for submissions so if you're writing something exciting this summer, send it here: www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

Registration and abstract submission for the 2025 SFP Physics & Life days are now open! The meeting will be held on October 2-3 at the Institute Jacques Monod, Paris. Deadline: September 5. phys-life-2025.sciencesconf.org?lang=en @sfp-physique.bsky.social @ijmonod.bsky.social

The 2025 @cnrs.fr medal are out! Bronze medals for early career researchers: congrats to Aurélie Tchoghandjian at our institute @inp-marseille.bsky.social, and to @alexandra-colin.bsky.social who was nominated by the Cell biology section 🎉

Chaque année, le CNRS récompense les femmes et les hommes qui ont le plus contribué à son rayonnement et à l’avancée de la recherche. Les médaillés d’argent, de bronze et de cristal individuels viennent d’être annoncés. 👏 Félicitations à toutes et tous ! 👉 cnrs.fr/fr/actualite... #TalentsCNRS

Mark your calendars for May 18-22, 2026- in Roscoff, Brittany, for the next iteration of the Developmental Biology Conference Jacques Monod!

We wrote a review for the Biochemical Journal on the importance of using macroscopic reconstructions at the network level to better understand key issues related to the actin cytoskeleton: portlandpress.com/biochemj/art...

Congrats to Thomas D. Pollard (Drubin Lab) who received the 2025 Connecticut Medal of Science! 👏🧪 @drubin.bsky.social ctcase.org/thomas-d-pol...

Anne-Betty N'diaye from our #CytoMorphoLab received the best poster prize for her cell monsters at @embo.org workshop on Cellular Matters !

In @jcb.org: Unlike eggs & mitotic cells, in adherent interphasic cells the centrosome is NOT positioned by a balance of forces along #microtubules, but by cell shape organization around the #centrosome: rupress.org/jcb/article/... @lblanchoin.bsky.social @manuelthery.bsky.social

Unlike eggs & mitotic cells, in adherent interphasic cells the centrosome is NOT positioned by a balance of forces along #microtubules, but by cell shape organization around the #centrosome: rupress.org/jcb/article/... @lblanchoin.bsky.social @manuelthery.bsky.social @gelinmatthieu.bsky.social