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Nicolas Minc

@minclab.bsky.social
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Cell division and morphognesis minclab.fr

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Benoit Ladoux @bladoux.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What determines how epithelial cells divide when shape cues disappear? Our new work in @natcomms.nature.com shows that divisions follow maximal stress anisotropy — a “principal-stress rule” beyond Hertwig’s long-axis rule. Fantastic work led by @luanger.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Buzz Baum @buzzbaum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We are looking for a research assistant! Come join the team: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSZ826/r...
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Research Support Officer | Cell Biology | Dr Buzz Baum | LMB 2904 at MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...
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Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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myosinactncrazy.bsky.social @myosinactncrazy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Softer when Thicker: a Conserved Scaling Law Governs Actin Cortex Mechanics
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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 08/09/2026
Qian et al. @buenoscience.bsky.social determine that proper spatial patterning of zygotic genome activation is required for #embryogenesis & the existence of a surveillance system for embryo quality control exquisitely tuned to spatiotemporal ordering of genome activation rupress.org/jcb/article/...
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sandraduharcourt.bsky.social @sandraduharcourt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Very happy to see our Nature Reviews Genetics article on programmed DNA elimination across eukaryotes out! A fantastic collective effort with an amazing group of colleagues, born from inspiring discussions at the Fondation des Treilles. rdcu.be/tmvKgsPZNhBa @laurarossevo.bsky.social
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Delarue Research @delarueresearch.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Our collaborative paper, with Daria Bonazzi and @dumenillab.bsky.social is finally out in Nat Comms! Using microfluidic confiners, amazing Laure Leblanc found that confined growth of E. coli uncouples growth and division, as well as pressure and biomass production. tinyurl.com/4zdwrp39
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A massive update: At least ~15 companies~ are selling scientists antibodies using faked validation data. We've documented 18,000+ manipulated images on 17,000+ products sold by leading laboratory suppliers including Thermo Fisher, Abcam, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Millipore Sigma and Bio-Techne. 1/🧵
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Stefano Di Talia @ditalialab.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We would like to add one or two postdocs to our lab in the next couple of years. If you are close to finishing your PhD and interested in the science we do, feel free to reach out to discuss opportunities.
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bioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Local fluidization of an active cytoplasmic gel partitions large cells www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Cees Dekker @ceesdekker.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
We built a a self-dividing synthetic cell ! Check out this #CDlab preprint on BioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Great work by 1st author Charu Sharma who encoded dynaminA in a genome and expressed that in liposomes that then divide into daughter cells! Collaboration with Koenderink lab!
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Institut Jacques Monod @ijmonod.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
✍️ New preprint from the @minclab.bsky.social 📃 A Composite Endomembrane Suspension Governs Cytoplasm Rheology 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Nicolas Minc @minclab.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Latest work from the team driven by our fantastic post-doc Maribel Arjona. Using cytoplasm extract fractions and active rheology, we adress how endomembranes, that pack the cell interior, influence the mechanics of the cytoplasm! @ijmonod.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
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Jean-Yves Tinevez @jytinevez.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Congratulations to superstar and awesome colleague Gaëlle Letort @gaellel.bsky.social, bioimage analyst extraordinaire for THE CRYSTAL MEDAL OF THE CNRS 2026!!! 🥳🎉🕺🦄🥳 We work with amazing people www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/personne/...
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Benoit Ladoux @bladoux.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Thrilled to share our new paper on cell extrusion. A beautiful study with a tremendous amount of data, led by the fantastic @fanny-wodrascka.bsky.social ! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Institut Jacques Monod @ijmonod.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
✍️ The @minclab.bsky.social published a new article 📖 @currentbiology.bsky.social 📃 A cell size-dependent competition between geometry and polarity governs nuclear and spindle positioning in early embryos 🔗 www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Nicolas Minc @minclab.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Our work on size scaling for centrosome positioning in early embryos is now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social Congratulations to Aude et al. ! www.cell.com/current-biol... @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @ijmonod.bsky.social @upcite.bsky.social
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EMBO @embo.org · 30/06/2026
Welcome and congratulations to the 60 new members and 11 associate members who have been elected to the EMBO Membership! They join a community of more than 2,200 leading scientists. 🧪 www.embo.org/press-releases/seventy… #EMBOMembers2026
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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Happy to see many admired colleagues in here! congrats @audeber.bsky.social @frelab.bsky.social @centriolelab.bsky.social @sulianamanley.bsky.social @minclab.bsky.social @yehumoran.bsky.social @matosches.bsky.social (and many healthily offline ones)
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Maxim Greenberg @maxvcg.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Awesome to see @minclab.bsky.social @ijmonod.bsky.social and @polosophie.bsky.social @upcite.bsky.social on this list!!! Very well deserved 🍾
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Institut Jacques Monod @ijmonod.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
📣 The Institut Jacques Monod ( @cnrs.fr | @upcite.bsky.social ) is proud to announce the election of Dr. Nicolas Minc ( @minclab.bsky.social ) as a new member of the EMBO community! Congratulations! #EMBOMembers2026 More informations 🔗 buff.ly/2HSXoSd @embo.org @cnrs-idf-villejuif.bsky.social
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Levayer Lab @levayerr.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Un pétition du collège des sociétés savantes pour mettre en avant le rôle de la recherche dans la campagne politique à venir et rappeler le sous investissement chronique en France depuis 20 ans. N'hésitez pas à faire ciculer recherche-publique-2027.fr
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Recherche Publique 2027 – Appel des scientifiques pour la place de la recherche dans la société
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Jean Léon Maître @maitrejl.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
📣Join us for the DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY COURSE @institutcurie.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr We have fantastic speakers and registration is free! training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve... @karinayaniv.bsky.social @doetschlab.bsky.social @eileen-furlong.bsky.social @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social
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Alexis Lomakin, Ph.D. @alexis-lomakin.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Getting nuclear size just right – emerging mechanisms regulating nuclear scaling and morphology @jcellsci.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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Maxim Greenberg @maxvcg.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
🚨Preprint Drop🚨 We are very pleased to release our study on DNA methylation dynamics at enhancers during ESC differentiation! This work was led by Marlet Morales-Franco and Priscillia Lhoumaud 🧵(1/13) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Dual profiling of DNA modifications with enhancer features during the exit of naive pluripotency
Cis-regulatory elements, such as enhancers, play an essential role in coordinating gene expression programs during cellular transitions. As such, substantial efforts have been made to characterize enh...
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Olivier Bastien @bass42.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
« Ici, en France, la recherche est une priorité, l’innovation une culture, la science un horizon sans limite » Emmanuel Macron, vendredi 18 Avril 2025. 🤡🤡 #Science #ESR #Research
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Lara Krüger @lara-kruger.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
📢 We are looking for a Junior Group Leader to join us at @institutcurie.bsky.social! Having joined the department just over a year ago, I can honestly say that it is an exceptionally stimulating and supportive scientific environment, filled with outstanding colleagues — all in the heart of Paris.
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Dagmar Iber & CoBi @iberd.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
🔬⚙️💻 Excited to share #OptiCell3D, our new image-based framework for inferring cell mechanical properties with high precision from 3D microscopy. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #ComputationalBiology #CellBiology #Biophysics #OpenSource
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Wallace Marshall @wallaceucsf.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
you've heard alot about how cells are or are not crowded at the molecular scale, but what about at the organelle scale? in her new preprint, @marymirvis.bsky.social develops a quantitative way to ask this question in budding yeast - see her thread below www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Royal Microscopical Society @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
We are very pleased to announce Prof. Paul Guichard and Dr. Virginie Hamel @centriolelab.bsky.social as joint winners of the RMS Award for Light Microscopy 🔬 👏 🏅 Huge congratulations to both! Read more about Paul and Virginie's achievements: www.rms.org.uk/resource/pro...
Prof. Paul Guichard (left) and Dr. Virginie Hamel both pictured smiling against a plain background. Head and shoulders images.
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Institut Curie @institutcurie.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Registration for the Cell Biology and Cancer course at Institut Curie is now open! Explore how biological forms emerge across scales, from intracellular organization to tissues. 📅 November 16th-20th, 2026 (Paris) ⏳ Deadline: September 10th, 2026 🔗 training.institut-curie.org/cours/biolog...
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Institut Jacques Monod @ijmonod.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
✍️ New preprint from the @minclab.bsky.social 📃 Mechanosensation Promotes Local Cell Wall Repair 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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bioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Mechanosensation Promotes Local Cell Wall Repair www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Nicolas Minc @minclab.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Latest work from the lab driven by our talented student @yannis-reignier.bsky.social , in which we characterize mechanisms coupling surface mechanosensation and cell polarity that promote the dynamic repair of Cell Wall damages. @ijmonod.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Turlier lab @turlierlab.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
A real computational tour de force by @ericneiva.bsky.social, carried out as Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow in the team, now published in the Journal of Computational Physics: urlr.me/AuzK86 Congratulations, Eric! @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social Grateful to @ec.europa.eu for funding support
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sandraduharcourt.bsky.social @sandraduharcourt.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Our latest publication is now out at Genome Biology! link.springer.com/article/10.1... We uncover a unique association between a H3K27me3 reader complex and active transcription. A thread with our key findings: (1/8) #TEsky #Polycomb #transcription #smallRNAs
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A H3K27me3 reader complex couples H3K27me3 accumulation to nascent transcription of transposable elements in Paramecium - Genome Biology
Background The ability to deposit histone H3K27-trimethyl (me3) marks is essential for transcriptional repression by Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2). This is largely attributed to Polycomb repres...
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Institut Jacques Monod @ijmonod.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
✍️ The Gazave Lab ( @stemdevevo.bsky.social ) published a new article 📖 @emboreports.org 📃 Multifaceted conserved functions of Notch during post-embryonic neurogenesis in the annelid Platynereis 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1... ⬇️ Scientific news published by @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
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Institut Jacques Monod @ijmonod.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
✍️ The @romet-jegou-lab.bsky.social Lab contributed to a new publication 📖 Science Advances 📃 Mechanisms of CARMIL dimerization, autoinhibition, and capping protein binding 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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André Nadler @nadlerlab.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
It’s incredibly hard to study lipids in biological membranes on the nanoscale. You need near-perfect information on both membrane ultrastructure and lipid density. Lipid-CLEM, now out in @natcellbio.nature.com brought to you by @mathilda95.bsky.social changes that: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Campàs Lab @campaslab.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
If you are interested in doing a postdoc of quantitative biology, biological physics or similar areas… we got you covered 😃 👇🏻
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Charlène Boumendil (She/Her) @charleneboumendil.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
We are looking for a new group leader to join the IGH (Montpellier, France). I can’t wait to meet my future colleague! Apply :-) More infos here: igh.cnrs.fr/join-igh-as-...
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Join IGH as Group Leader - IGH
The Institute of Human Genetics invites applications for a Principal Investigator position in its main research areas. Read more...
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Institut Jacques Monod @ijmonod.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
📢 Institut Jacques Monod Seminar 📅 March 20th 📍 Institut Jacques Monod Tomorrow, Pablo Meyer Rojas will present the Institut Jacques Monod seminar "Pre-training DNA language models to make them understand Biology " ➡️ buff.ly/HIWojfx
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
We have some exciting guests in the @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social lab facility ✨These beautiful E. esculentus sea urchins collected near Bergen will help guest researcher Antoine Rémond from the @minclab.bsky.social better understand cleavage in echinoderms 🥚
Large pink sea urchins in a tub of water, together with some strands of green algae.
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Institut Jacques Monod @ijmonod.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
✍️ The @minclab.bsky.social published a new article 📖 Molecular biology of the cell 📃 A cross-species analysis of cell wall mechanosensors 🔗 www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...
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Sophie G Martin @sophiemartinlab.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
You are finishing your PhD and looking to continue in science? The Martin lab @biology-unige.bsky.social has an open postdoctoral position in cell biology to study cell-cell fusion. For more information, please consult mocel.unige.ch/research-gro.... Thanks for reposting!
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Contact/Job - Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology - UNIGE
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Institut Jacques Monod @ijmonod.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
📢 Institut Jacques Monod Seminar 📅 March 20th 📍 Institut Jacques Monod Invited by the @minclab.bsky.social, Pablo Meyer Rojas will present the Institut Jacques Monod seminar "Pre-training DNA language models to make them understand Biology " ➡️ buff.ly/HIWojfx
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Bertrand Benazeraf @bertrandbenazeraf.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Group Leader Call at the @cbitoulouse.bsky.social in Genome biology, projects at the interface with devbio will be given particular attention. please share :) cbi-toulouse.fr/wp-content/u...
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Floris BOSVELD @florisbosveld.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
How resilient are tissues to cell mispositioning and loss, and how do they restore their cell numbers? Check our latest work, from @ybellaichelab.bsky.social Congratulations to all authors. Artwork from the artist @lale-alpar.bsky.social (lalealpar.com) www.cell.com/developmenta...
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Tissue mechanics and systemic signaling safeguard epithelial tissue against spindle misorientation
Bosveld et al. identified a multilayered system of safeguards that reuses homeostatic mechanisms to maintain epithelial integrity and cell number in the face of spindle misorientation. This work delin...
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Bioconf @bioconf.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Upcoming seminar by Meyer Rojas: Pre-training DNA language modelsto make them understand Biology at Institut Jacques Monod, Friday 20 March 2026 at 11:45. More info
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Nature Cell Biology @natcellbio.nature.com · 08/02/2026
☕Using #pancreatic #organoids, Lee et al. show that the balance between epithelial tissue permeability-driven lumenal pressure and cell proliferation affects ductal morphogenesis. bit.ly/4qozmjG
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Permeability-driven pressure and cell proliferation control lumen morphogenesis in pancreatic organoids - Nature Cell Biology
Using pancreatic organoids, Lee et al. show that the balance between epithelial tissue permeability-driven lumenal pressure and cell proliferation affects ductal morphogenesis.
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