The next meeting of the Cytoskeleton club will be on Wednesday 13th of December at 9.30 am at the Institut Pasteur
For this meeting:
 	Maite Freire Delgado ( PhD student, Thibaut Brunet lab, Institut Pasteur) will tell us about:  "Through the Understanding of Phenotype Transition in Choanoflagellates  
 	 Aude Nommick (post-doc, Nicola Minc lab, Institut Jacques Monod)…
		On December 8th 2023, the Conférences Monod-Diderot will welcome Erin Schuman (co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research) who will speak on the theme:
Local Neuronal Transcriptomes and Proteomes 
 
Abstract:
The complex morphology of neurons, with synapses located 100’s of microns from the cell body, necessitates the localization of important cell biological machines and processes…
		Invited by the Wassmann lab, Julie Welburn (Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh) will present an IJM seminar, on December 20th at 11 am, on the theme:
Mitotic motor multitasking from chromosome alignment to central spindle stability 
 
Julie's group studies the molecular transport mechanisms underlying cell division and organisation.  She is studying how…
		Antoine Langeoire (Wassmann Lab) will defend his thesis:
Étude de la correction des erreurs d’attachement durant la deuxième division de méiose dans l’ovocyte de souris 
 
The defense will take place on Wednesday, December 20th at 2pm in the Salle François Jacob (Institut Jacques Monod, 15 rue Hélène Brion 75013 Paris) and will be in French.
The jury…
		Aude Nommick and Sandra Carvalho received a 2023 photo award from the Société de Biologie Cellulaire de France!
 
© Aude Nommick 
The image selected by SBCF members was taken by Aude Nommick, a post-doctoral researcher in Nicolas Minc’s team.
This confocal microscopy image shows a Parancentrotus lividus sea urchin embryo at blastula stage. Most cells are in…
		Simon De Beco (Ladoux/Mège Lab) will defend his HDR ("Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches"):
Quantitative optobiology as a way to study cell mechanics and migration during epithelial homeostasis 
 
The defense will take place on December 15th at 2:00 PM in the François Jacob room at the Institut Jacques Monod.
The jury will be composed of:
 	Dr. Kristine…
		The Collignon Lab recently published a new article in Non-coding RNA :
LADON , a Natural Antisense Transcript of NODAL , Promotes Tumour Progression and Metastasis in Melanoma 
 
Abstract:
The TGFβ family member NODAL, repeatedly required during embryonic development, has also been associated with tumour progression. Our aim was to clarify the controversy surrounding its involvement in melanoma…
		The Minc Lab recently published a new article in Cell Dynamics:
Cytoplasm mechanics and cellular organization  
 
Abstract:
As cells organize spatially or divide, they translocate many micron-scale organelles in their cytoplasm. These include endomembrane vesicles, nuclei, microtubule asters, mitotic spindles, or chromosomes. Organelle motion is powered by cytoskeleton forces but is opposed by viscoelastic forces imparted by the surrounding…
		The Cadoret Lab contributed to the publication of a new article in EMBO reports:
The nucleolar protein GNL3 prevents resection of stalled replication forks 
 
Abstract:
Faithful DNA replication requires specific proteins that protect replication forks and so prevent the formation of DNA lesions that may damage the genome. Identification of new proteins involved in this process is…
		Loïc Bideau (Gazave Lab) will defend his thesis:
Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying posterior regeneration in the annelid Platynereis dumerilii 
 
The thesis defense will take place on Wednesday December 6th at 2pm in François Jacob room and will be in French.
The jury will be composed of:
 	Hector ESCRIVA, DR, Sorbonne Université, Rapporteur 
 	Stefano TIOZZO, DR, Sorbonne Université,…
		