Pujol lab @pujol-lab.bsky.social · 28/06/2026getting ready for #EWM26 ceneuroeuro2026.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag... 042
Reposted by Pujol labpreLights @prelights.bsky.social · 01/09/2025🚨 New call for preLighters!🚨 Help us highlight the most exciting biological #preprints. Share your insights, build your profile, and be part of a supportive community! 🌍 Interested? Apply today & help shape the future of science publishing! 📢 More info: prelights.biologists.com/news/join-th... 22927
Pujol lab @pujol-lab.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Spatial memory in tissue architecture: how a transient extracellular scaffold propagates positional information #aECM #Celegans @plos.org 🙏to talented Sophie Mazzoli @ciml.bsky.social @centuri-ls.bsky.social @univ-amu.fr & great collaborations @dynamo-lab.bsky.social @meera-sundaram.bsky.social 🧵👇 3114
Reposted by Pujol labEuropean Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 17/04/2026The number of grant applications is rising sharply. Our capacity for their evaluation isn’t. ERC President Maria Leptin explains why stricter resubmission limits are being introduced for 2027 calls and what they mean for applicants. 🔗 link.europa.eu/xF7kjclink.europa.euERC President explains stricter application measures amid rising demand for fundingThe text of an open letter sent by ERC President Maria Leptin to ERC panel members, grantees and other stakeholders on 16 April 2026. 34649
Pujol lab @pujol-lab.bsky.social · 10/04/2026👉 3rd aECM club Apr 14th 10 am NYC-4 pm Paris #aECM invertebrate cuticle and molt cycle @gotworms.bsky.social @labgrosshans.bsky.social program sundaramlab.com/blog/aecm-cl... 👉 join our Slack forms.gle/Y6UjbnXPH1pD...sundaramlab.comaECM Club SeminarsA virtual seminar series to highlight work on apical ECM across different systems Organizers: Meera Sundaram, UPennMax Heiman, Boston Children’s, Harvard U.Nathalie Pujol, U. Aix MarseilleJor… 023
Reposted by Pujol labJean Léon Maître @maitrejl.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Congratulations to these excellent CNRS PIs 🤩 for their promotion (pending a lot of bureaucracy🥲)! Full details in the link c3n-cn.fr/2025/12/12/c... 1225
Reposted by Pujol labJean Léon Maître @maitrejl.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Congratulations to the shortlisted candidates at section 24 of CNRS! c3n-cn.fr/2025/12/12/c... 4465
Reposted by Pujol labPLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 19/03/2026What concrete steps can we take to reinforce #biorisk management? In this Perspective, an international group of experts advocate for better global standards for #pathogen research. 🧪 #MicroSky #DURC plos.io/3NN7451 134
Reposted by Pujol labAlfredo Sciortino @asciortino.bsky.social · 27/01/2026This weekend we projected cells and filaments on the roof of the @museeorsay.bsky.social in Paris, then we contracted it with a pinch of myosin. And it was fabulous! Grateful to have been part of this art/science project & thx to @manuelthery.bsky.social @lblanchoin.bsky.social & the CytoMorphoLab 24211
Pujol lab @pujol-lab.bsky.social · 02/01/2026👉unofficial guidelines for CNRS application in cell biology, development or evo-devo c3n-cn.fr/section-24-w...c3n-cn.frSection 24 – Competition – Coordination des instances du Comité National 011
Reposted by Pujol labOded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Read this inspiring perspectives coauthored by the Worm Resource directors and worm Nobel Laureates! 4 Nobel Prizes and how they were enabled by major NIH-supported research resources (the Caenorhabditis Genetics Center, WormBase, and WormAtlas) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 14328
Reposted by Pujol labMeera Sundaram @meera-sundaram.bsky.social · 14/11/2025#aECM Cub starts next week Nov 18 with talks on patterning the Drosophila lens, mouse tectorial membrane, and C.elegans cuticle furrows. You can still sign up for access using the link below. 174
Pujol lab @pujol-lab.bsky.social · 23/09/2025another #TEM beauty in #aECM🙏 @nibr3dem.bsky.social @ibdm.bsky.social and @meera-sundaram.bsky.social 081
Pujol lab @pujol-lab.bsky.social · 16/07/2025... a new virtual seminar series on apical extracellular matrix #aECM on different #organisms 🪱🪰🐁🌱🦠will start in Fall 2025, with short talks and discussions If you are interested 👉https://forms.gle/Y6UjbnXPH1pDHAE97 @meera-sundaram.bsky.social @gotworms.bsky.social @heiman.bsky.social 2137
Reposted by Pujol labChristophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Isotropic STED resolution (~70 nm) with a single objective using a new type of light modulator. "m-order vortex retarder" sounds like a Star Trek contraption but the images are stunning! arxiv.org/abs/2507.06718 14710
Reposted by Pujol labBaris Tursun @baristursun.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Fantastic Nobel Moment at #worm25 with Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun. 16415
Reposted by Pujol labBruce Hinze @brucehinze.bsky.social · 14/06/2025“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco 390454399407
Reposted by Pujol labepithelial mechanics fan club @epimechfc.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Oil form droplets when mixed with alcohol, your monolayers dewet to form spherical aggregates, your friends dancing in a club form a circle, why? I’m @challopeau.bsky.social and I will tell you about the origins and consequences of interfacial tension in tissues. 1249
Reposted by Pujol labBuzz Baum @buzzbaum.bsky.social · 11/04/2025With a heavy heart I have decided not to attend a meeting in the US this June. I can’t act as if things are normal when science, universities, dissent & truth are all under threat. And I feel I can’t attend when there are scientists who are not able to travel to the US without fear of arrest. 818432
Pujol lab @pujol-lab.bsky.social · 07/04/2025#fluorescenceMonday another nice example of regionalization of #aECM, during development #celegans vulv(a), of one of the Cystein Cradle domain # ECM protein, a familiar shape in Marseille😉 🙏to Sophie Mazzoli, @france-bioimaging.bsky.social platform @ciml.bsky.social & www.excitingworms.eu/SEGiCel/ 051
Pujol lab @pujol-lab.bsky.social · 01/04/2025in a new micropub 🙏 @micropub7n.bsky.social we shows the secretion of the Antimicrobial Peptide nlp-29 in the apical extracellular matrix #aECM upon several aECM damage in #Celegans 🙏Henrik Bringmann @cmcb-tud.bsky.social for the KI strain doi.org/10.17912/mic... 0102
Reposted by Pujol labepithelial mechanics fan club @epimechfc.bsky.social · 30/03/2025How is extrusion of infected host cells related to ERK (extracellular signal-regulated kinase) activity? Hi, I’m @hundsdorfer.bsky.social from the @effiebastounis.bsky.social lab. Let’s follow the recent development of bacterially-infected cell extrusion & mechanochemical ERK activity waves. 2279
Pujol lab @pujol-lab.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Intriguing #EM observation: in mouse type I hair cells, #SBF shows elongated mitochondria (yellow) apposed to the plasma membrane, a membrane contact site of 10 nm 122
Pujol lab @pujol-lab.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Our new paper out @plos.org @ciml.bsky.social @centuri-ls.bsky.social Fantastic collaborations 👏Antonina Andreeva #EBI-EMBL, Claire Valotteau @DyNaMo @felix_rico, Andrew Chisholm, Jordan Ward @gotworms.bsky.social, and great discussions with @meera-sundaram.bsky.social dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... 291
Pujol lab @pujol-lab.bsky.social · 21/03/2025#FluorescenceFriday 🎁@meera-sundaram.bsky.social L4.4 #aECM #mucin #C.elegans 092
Reposted by Pujol labLe Monde @lemonde.fr · 19/03/2025Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »lemonde.frEtats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »Le ministre de la recherche a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant que son ordinateur et son téléphone ne soient fouillés. 35251216
Reposted by Pujol labWolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Interested in doing a sabbatical at EMBL, at one of its 6 sites in Barcelona, Cambridge, Grenoble, Hamburg, Heidelberg or Rome? Funding call with deadline 15 June, decisions in July. www.embl.org/about/info/s... 110485
Reposted by Pujol labDr. Ahna Skop @ahnaskop.bsky.social · 18/03/2025science.orgOverseas universities see opportunity in U.S. ‘brain drain’But many U.S.-based scientists seeking to leave may struggle to find positions in countries grappling with funding issues of their own 062
Reposted by Pujol labPierre-François Lenne @pflenne.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Excited to share that IBDM (Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille) is expanding its research groups this year! A great place for developmental biology and interdisciplinary research located on the beautiful Marseille-Luminy campus! Deadline for applications: March 30th, 2025 25751
Reposted by Pujol labGdR AQV @gdraqv.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Registration for the next GdR AQV days is now open until April 18th. The conference will take place in Sète - May 26th to 28th. aqv-days-2025.sciencesconf.org There are many slots for oral communication. Come and join the French biophysics community! 01316
Reposted by Pujol labRichard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 11/03/2025"exciting to see this key piece of infrastructure really get the attention that it deserves" @katiecorker.bsky.social on the new non-profit that will run bioRxiv and medRxiv www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comPreprint sites bioRxiv and medRxiv launch new era of independenceThe popular repositories, where life scientists post research before peer review, will be managed by a new organization called openRxiv. 410731
Pujol lab @pujol-lab.bsky.social · 07/03/2025#standupforscience2025 @ciml @amu @cnrs.fr #marseille 050
Pujol lab @pujol-lab.bsky.social · 05/03/2025www.univ-amu.fr/fr/public/ac...univ-amu.frSafe Place For Science : Aix Marseille Université prête à accueillir les scientifiques américains | Aix Marseille UniversitéDans un contexte où certains scientifiques aux États-Unis peuvent se sentir menacés ou entravés dans leurs recherches, notre université annonce mettre en place le programme Safe Place For Science dédi... 011
Reposted by Pujol labCellMech2025 @cellmech2025.bsky.social · 26/02/20254 more days to submit your abstract!! Don't miss the opportunity to come to Leuven and enjoy 4 days of #Mechanobiology: 🗣️ 15 amazing keynote speakers 🎤 Oral talks and poster sessions 📷 SciArt contest 🍻 Social activities 👉 Submit by 2nd March!! buff.ly/3CH94pW 095
Reposted by Pujol labIgor Brodsky @brodskyigorlab.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Despite court order, NIH grants remain frozen. Newly awarded grants, grants with fundable scores, & funds for a new budget cycle of a current project are all *FROZEN*🥶 and not being released. US research is being choked to death & is on life support right now www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comNIH is again throttling research funding in defiance of a federal court orderA freeze on "new and continuation awards" will "remain in place" pending DEI review, states a new internal memo. 17338361572
Reposted by Pujol labStand Up For Science France @standupforscifr.bsky.social · 23/02/2025On March 7, let's stand up for science! 🔬✊ In solidarity with Stand Up For Science US (@standupforscience.bsky.social) and in response to threats against scientific institutions, actions will take place in every university city in France. Info & registration 👉 standupforscience.fr 310855
Reposted by Pujol labStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/02/2025Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence 289114575402
Reposted by Pujol labColeen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 18/02/2025In just 3 weeks, this admin'n has made it clear their intent to destroy airline safety, science funding, public health, virus surveillance, health, food safety, national parks, workers' safety, climate change stds, weather information, disability rights, LGBTQ rights, minority rights, and more 12811
Pujol lab @pujol-lab.bsky.social · 07/02/2025#fluorescencefriday still puzzled how to build such a beautifull periodic pattern #aECM 0193
Reposted by Pujol lab🦋 Gourdon Lab 🦠🔬 @delphe.bsky.social · 03/02/2025🔔🧪 I'm deeply saddened by the passing of Michael Sheetz, a true pioneer in #mechanobiology. I'll always cherish our lovely times in NYC, Singapore, Zurich, and Sydney. My heartfelt condolences to his family and friends in this difficult time. So long, Mike 🥺😔 05414
Reposted by Pujol labRory Cooper @rorylcooper.bsky.social · 11/12/2024🚨Hyped to share our new article in @natureportfolio.bsky.social! We show that crocodile head scales develop from compressive folding that arises from constrained skin growth 🐊🔬 Really proud of this one - it's cool 😎 Please read & share! 🧪 @genevunige.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comSelf-organized patterning of crocodile head scales by compressive folding - NatureCrocodile head scales self-organize through purely mechanical compressive skin folding rather than a patterning process controlled by gene interactions. 512738
Reposted by Pujol labMiriam B. Goodman, PhD @wormsense.bsky.social · 01/01/2025How hard do bacteria-eating nematodes bite in order to break the bacterial cell wall? Check out our new paper, led by Jason Casar & collab with Jen Dionne, using pressure sensing beads that change color upon compression (bluetorial coming soon) rdcu.be/d5n7vrdcu.beUpconverting microgauges reveal intraluminal force dynamics in vivoNature - Nanoparticle-based ‘microgauges’ are developed for in vivo force sensing and deployed in C. elegans to investigate how mechanical force correlates with electrical signalling in... 910838
Reposted by Pujol labCellMech2025 @cellmech2025.bsky.social · 10/12/2024👋Hello #mechanobiology community in 🦋! This is the official account of the 10th Edition of the Cell Mech conference! 🔧We will soon announce the invited speaker list! Visit our website, subscribe to the mailing list, and follow us!: cellmech2025.org 😍Join us in Leuven 2025!cellmech2025.orgThe organizing committee, Sylvain Gabriele, Marine Luciano, Jorge Barrasa Fano, Yohalie Kalukula, Bart Smeets, Apeksha Shapeti, Hans Van Oosterwyck 16433
Reposted by Pujol labMeera Sundaram @meera-sundaram.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Watch Ambros and Ruvkun Nobel lectures happening now! www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...nobelprize.orgThe Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024 was awarded jointly to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun "for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation" 073
Pujol lab @pujol-lab.bsky.social · 06/12/2024#fluorescenceFriday our favorite giant cell secreting abnormal #aECM 0101
Pujol lab @pujol-lab.bsky.social · 05/12/2024today I discovered ribbons and floating ribbons what a beautiful structure #EM www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv6b...youtube.comPhysiologie de la synapse CCI-nerf auditifYouTube video by rp34510 000
Reposted by Pujol labCarsten Schulte @carstenschulte4.bsky.social · 30/11/2024I just tried that with one of my recent papers... A bit over-enthusiatic and over-selling, but overall absolutely mind-blowing (the full paper is linked below) 1/2🤯: notebooklm.google.com/notebook/63e...notebooklm.google.comSign in - Google Accounts 3172
Reposted by Pujol labCarsten Schulte @carstenschulte4.bsky.social · 21/11/2024I didn't find a specific mechanotransduction starter pack, so I open one myself😊. There are still a lot of people to be added, but it's late, so please drop me a message or post here to nominate yourself for the Mechanotransduction community. go.bsky.app/2PXf5SC 399043