One of our founding directors Anthony Hyman @hymanlab.bsky.social will become @embl.org Director General: www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

🧪 Geometry beats chemistry: we show that self-assembly can be controlled by tuning large-scale geometric parameters rather than molecular binding energies. PNAS: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... Video summary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FS3... #SelfAssembly #Biophysics #PhysicsOfLife

Boris Shraiman points a physicist’s eye on biological quandaries news.ucsb.edu/2025/022264/... 🧪

And here is the link to access the whole pdf. Enjoy! I strongly believe that focusing on information & computation during Development provides an important framework, that encapsulates the genetic, chemistry & mechanics, but focusses on organisation, dynamics & logic. PDF: tinyurl.com/4hn34t8w

Very happy to share video of 1st lecture @college-de-france.fr on Biological computation 😊. I defend the necessity to access Algorithmic & Computational levels of analysis in cell & developmental biol. proposed by David Marr in neuroscience. Logic & Function matter 🤩. Video: tinyurl.com/55yejk5f

Great talk @ibdm.bsky.social today by Kristian Franze @franzelab.bsky.social from MPI Erlangen and Cambridge 🤩! Thank you for visiting!

#Science #Biologie 🧬 « Qu’est-ce que l’information biologique (suite) ? »  📌 Cours du Pr @thomaslecuit.bsky.social#Science#Biologietitulaire de la chaire Dynamiques du vivant.  ⏰ 20 novembre → 18 décembre 2025 👉 https://tinyurl.com/bddcxahd

Exciting @centuri-ls.bsky.social internal seminar by @efeilker-phys.bsky.social on energetics and scaling during development 🤩

📣 We are moving to Barcelona to join the amazing @crg.eu and explore how centrosomes & cilia work, evolve & respond to the environment. We are looking for PhD students www.crg.eu/en/content/t... Postdocs gimm.pt/jobs/postdoc... Other calls to open, also for an experienced lab manager. Get in touch!

[Last month to register] 📣 Forces at Play: Emerging Themes in Mechanobiology – In Memoriam of Professor Michael P. Sheetz 📆 January 19-21 📍Institut Jacques Monod, Paris Registrations at 🔗 mikeinmemoriam.sciencesconf.org?lang=en

Tomorrow Wednesday 29th at 11am, lesson #3 of @neilshubin.bsky.social guest Professor @college-de-france.fr on ‘The evolutionary origin of bones and teeth’. The second lesson is available @ www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B6y... . No registration, Free access, dentures accepted.

La @socneuro.bsky.social a publié avec plusieurs Sociétés savantes et Associations de patients une tribune dans Le Monde « Budget 2026 : La taxation des expérimentations animales mettrait en péril la recherche en France » : www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art... #plf2026 @sneuroendo.bsky.social

#Conférence #Biologie  « Le vivant dévoilé. Avec Blaise Pascal, Robert Hooke et Buffon » 📌 Conférence du Pr @thomaslecuit.bsky.social en partenariat avec la @labnf.bsky.social#Conférence⏰ Mardi 4 novembre 2025, 18 h 30 📍 BnF François-Mitterrand Sur inscription 👉 https://tinyurl.com/48vpt9jb

Week-end by sea and mountains near Nice 🤩 it felt like a whole week…

Thank you Ankita for visiting us! Your energy and humour are a gift I keep with me preciously. 🙏🏼🤩

#Science #Colloque  🧠 « Formes de l#’intelligence : #IA, connaissance, déduction, apprentissage » 📌 Colloque de rentrée du Collège de France ⏰ 16 et 17 octobre 2025 👉 https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/colloque/formes-de-intelligence

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the death of our founder, colleague, mentor and friend, Professor Sir John Gurdon. His vision and dedication will continue to inspire generations of scientists. 🔗 www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/nobel-laurea...

With deep sadness, we share that Prof. Jochen Guck, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light passed away on October 3. His visionary work bridged physics and medicine. We have lost a brilliant scientist and dear friend. mpl.mpg.de/news/article... @fau.de 📸 Stephan Spangenberg

Pleasure to announce the program of my new series of lectures at the College de France in Nov-Dec. Continuing on the theme of Biological information. I will focus on the computational aspects, building on David Marr's tri-level of analysis in biological systems. YouTube link sent when it starts.

Latest from ours: www.cell.com/cell-reports... This is two stories in one: a case study/cautionary tale on developing genetic tools in new organisms, and the first hint at a gene regulatory network for choanoflagellate multicellular development (which turn out to involve a Hippo/YAP/ECM loop!) A 🧵

🔥 En 1523, la Sorbonne interdit… l’enseignement du grec ! Scandale pour les érudits. Guillaume Budé convainc alors François Ier de fonder un collège libre : le Collège de France. 🔥 Sa fière statue de marbre trône aujourd’hui face à la Sorbonne, comme un défi lancé au conformisme académique. #JEP2025

For last 10 years - we have worked with thousands of organizations around the world helping support them in integrating foldscope programs. To bring in a new cohort of organizations - we are re-launching “fast and curious” 2025 edition - apply and get a Foldscope trainer and Foldscopes for free!

🥇 La médaille d'or 2025 du @cnrs.fr distingue le Pr Stéphane Mallat ! 👨‍🏫 Titulaire de la chaire Science des données du Collège de France, il est mondialement reconnu pour ses travaux autour des #mathématiques appliquées au traitement du signal et à l’#IA. 👉 https://tinyurl.com/4kktjru9

Out today. 🙏 again to everyone for this wonderful piece of work, in particular to Aurelie @aurhin.bsky.social Chase @chasebolt.bsky.social and Brent @homeobox.bsky.social. 🙏 also to the Harris lab @fish4walking.bsky.social and @neilshubin.bsky.social @biology-unige.bsky.social @college-de-france.fr

🐟 Nos doigts viendraient… du cloaque des #poissons ! ✌️ Une étude publiée dans @nature.com par une équipe de #recherche internationale conduite par le Pr @denisduboule.bsky.social révèle comment l’évolution a recyclé un ancien #génome pour façonner mains et pieds.  👉 https://tinyurl.com/y778skwf

Welcome to Postdoc Zhongya Lin (right) coming from Tsinghua University and joining the lab to work with Postdoc Soichi Hirokawa (center) on wing morphogenesis.

CENTURI days with Alumni and present members of our community @centuri-ls.bsky.social

Marseille in fire tonight 🤩

💌 La meilleure façon de suivre les actualités du Collège de France ?  💌 Sa #newsletter hebdomadaire !  Abonnez-vous 👉 http://eepurl.com/heO5XT

We are all super happy and proud to see our work on the function and evolution of the #cephalic #furrow published in @nature.com. Let me say a few things about the background and history of this work on the #Evolution_of_Morphogenesis (1/12)

Paris 🇫🇷

Exciting day for @crick.ac.uk today: Edith Heard takes over as Director We're looking forward to this new chapter in the story www.crick.ac.uk/about-us/lea...

Japanese sunset in Bretagne 🤩

Very promising news on the next seven-year EU budget, with a proposed substantial increase for Horizon Europe including the ERC. We are analysing the other parts of this proposal in more detail. @Vonderleyen @EZaharievaEU research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/news/all-res...

🕘 Retour sur l'année du Collège de France !  🙏 Qu’est-ce que l’information #biologique ? Dans son cours, le Pr @thomaslecuit.bsky.social mêle sciences biologiques, physiques et computationnelles pour comprendre la morphogenèse. 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/kyovixjugn

(1/10) I am excited to finally share our work on avian left/right symmetry breaking with you. We reveal a tissue-scale active torque dipole generated at the Hensen’s node, thanks to crazy experiments by Julia @juliapfanzelter.bsky.social and some analysis by me. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Patrick Breier and Claire Bertet doing some stretching…

Marseille MUCEM and Cassis Cape Canaille 🤩

Congratulations to all the new members! 👏👏👏

🥇Sham Tlili has been awarded the CNRS 2025 Bronze Medal! She studies how physical forces shape living tissues by using mouse stem cell models known as gastruloids. A unique blend of physics & biology. 🔗 Read more: www.ibdm.univ-amu.fr/sham-tlili-w...

Symposium @crick.ac.uk today celebrating the life of David Ish-Horowicz. Much missed dear colleague and friend.

This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

This was a truly exciting talk! 🤩. Physical-chemistry of signalling at its best: T cell receptor signalling is really amazing in terms of precision and sensitivity. Kinetic proofreading, kinetic phase transition and amplification. Thank you for visiting us 🙏🏼

At #ShapingLife3 conference with Mounia @laghalab.bsky.social, my first summer intern 22 or 23 years ago 😎. Cap Canaille in background.

# ShapingLife3

Exciting science in Cassis in a wonderful location! 🤩 Group discussions on carrier development with students, postdocs, Jean-Léon Maître & Bruno Hudry by the sea… 🌊😎☀️

These are fantastic talks! What a fun and inspiring break from paper writing this week. Thank you for posting.

The talks from the symposium on Information processing at the Collège de France are also available on the Youtube channel. Link to the 1st Talk here, others easy to find: tinyurl.com/2emnr8rh Talks were really inspirational and prompted exciting discussions among participants and speakers Enjoy 🤩

This was a truly exciting talk from Aurelien Roux @rouxlab.bsky.social from Univ. Geneva 👏👏. From his landmark work on membranes to tissues now, the continuing theme is the role of geometry, topology and curvature in morphogenesis. Thanks for visiting us 🤩

New preprint from the lab! 👇