Christine Girard-Blanc @chrisgirardb.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Very nice lab retreat of @bastinlab.bsky.social in Île de Ré ! Lot of science and fun 😍 020
Reposted by Christine Girard-BlancPhilippe Bastin's Lab @bastinlab.bsky.social · 11/06/2026@chrisgirardb.bsky.social Christine’s first manuscript is on BioRXiv! She investigated the CCDC40 protein in trypanosomes with superb expansion images and unexpected findings! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1153
Christine Girard-Blanc @chrisgirardb.bsky.social · 11/06/2026My first Trypanosoma manuscript is on BioRXiv ! I would like to express my sincere gratitude to @bastinlab.bsky.social for entrusting me with this project. I am truly proud of this publication ! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 030
Reposted by Christine Girard-BlancPhilippe Bastin's Lab @bastinlab.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Flagella can be assembled by IFT without the canonical heterotrimeric kinesin! Grab a cup of tea or coffee and follow a story that started 25 years ago 1137
Reposted by Christine Girard-BlancbioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Life without heterotrimeric kinesins: trypanosomatids use a combination of homodimeric kinesin-2 motors to drive intraflagellar transport www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 036
Reposted by Christine Girard-Blancclub CFC @club-cfc.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Hello everyone, we had a great meeting yesterday @institutimagine.bsky.social , thanks again to all the speakers for their very interesting talks on primary and motile #cilia #flagella #ciliopathies! Next one is organized by Caroline Brun, Marine Laporte, Véronique Morel in Aussois in September! 1107
Reposted by Christine Girard-BlancPhilippe Bastin's Lab @bastinlab.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Happy New Year from the Trypanosome Cell Biology Unit! @pasteur.fr @inserm.fr 181
Reposted by Christine Girard-BlancPhilippe Bastin's Lab @bastinlab.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Daniel's interview! 061
Reposted by Christine Girard-BlancPhilippe Bastin's Lab @bastinlab.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Special thanks to our keynote lectures for fantastic talks! @micromotility.bsky.social @mick-lab.bsky.social 073
Reposted by Christine Girard-BlancPhilippe Bastin's Lab @bastinlab.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Many thanks to all participants to the CFC2025 meeting last week for having made it such a vibrant experience! So much exciting research on #cilia 1156
Christine Girard-Blanc @chrisgirardb.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Thank you to the organizers of the CFC meeting 2025 in Oberbronn! See you next year in Lyon! @club-cfc.bsky.social 092
Reposted by Christine Girard-BlancPhilippe Bastin's Lab @bastinlab.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Discover 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! 1104
Reposted by Christine Girard-BlancPhilippe Bastin's Lab @bastinlab.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Finally 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/...pubs.acs.orgMass Spectrometry Reveals Novel Features of Tubulin Polyglutamylation in the Flagellum of Trypanosoma bruceiTubulin 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... 0258
Reposted by Christine Girard-BlancPhilippe Bastin's Lab @bastinlab.bsky.social · 07/07/2025On 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-... 1143
Reposted by Christine Girard-BlancPhilippe Bastin's Lab @bastinlab.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Wonderful 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 👍 091
Christine Girard-Blanc @chrisgirardb.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Congratulations Parul for your brilliant PhD ! 020
Reposted by Christine Girard-BlancPhilippe Bastin's Lab @bastinlab.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Daniel's paper is now published in @jcellsci.bsky.social, great experience with @reviewcommons.org 😀 Want to know everything tubulin assembly in trypanosome flagella and other microtubules? Here is the link: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... 14320
Christine Girard-Blanc @chrisgirardb.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Exposition sur des femmes scientifiques d'Issy-les-Moulineaux pour les enfants 🥰 050
Reposted by Christine Girard-BlancPhilippe Bastin's Lab @bastinlab.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Solving 25 years of frustration, Daniel Abbühl 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... 24514
Reposted by Christine Girard-BlancPhilippe Bastin's Lab @bastinlab.bsky.social · 11/02/2025We 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 😉 0125
Reposted by Christine Girard-BlancPhilippe Bastin's Lab @bastinlab.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Follow our French #cilia network! Only on BlueSky! 022
Christine Girard-Blanc @chrisgirardb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025First talk at the cilia symposium today ☺️ 050
Reposted by Christine Girard-BlancPhilippe Bastin's Lab @bastinlab.bsky.social · 17/12/2024How 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... 1185
Reposted by Christine Girard-BlancPhilippe Bastin's Lab @bastinlab.bsky.social · 26/11/2024We 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! 071
Reposted by Christine Girard-BlancPhilippe Bastin's Lab @bastinlab.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Here 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 77315
