Nicolas Minc
@minclab.bsky.social
Cell division and morphognesis
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Very excited about this new preprint, in which @juliacoronasserna.bsky.social shows how cells ensure that fusion with another cell is irreversible!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
@biology-unige.bsky.social
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@biology-unige.bsky.social
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January 30, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Very excited about this new preprint, in which @juliacoronasserna.bsky.social shows how cells ensure that fusion with another cell is irreversible!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
@biology-unige.bsky.social
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
@biology-unige.bsky.social
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Really excited to share our new paper in @nature.com! We uncovered how a physical instability of the cytoplasm coupled with the cell cycle drives cytoplasmic partitioning in early embryos #zebrafish #drosophila. Read more in this🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤩
@poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de
@poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de
January 28, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Really excited to share our new paper in @nature.com! We uncovered how a physical instability of the cytoplasm coupled with the cell cycle drives cytoplasmic partitioning in early embryos #zebrafish #drosophila. Read more in this🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤩
@poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de
@poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de
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✍️New preprint from the @minclab.bsky.social
📃 A Cell Size-Dependent Competition Between Geometry and Polarity Governs Nuclear and Spindle positioning in Early Embryos
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
📃 A Cell Size-Dependent Competition Between Geometry and Polarity Governs Nuclear and Spindle positioning in Early Embryos
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
January 27, 2026 at 3:12 PM
✍️New preprint from the @minclab.bsky.social
📃 A Cell Size-Dependent Competition Between Geometry and Polarity Governs Nuclear and Spindle positioning in Early Embryos
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
📃 A Cell Size-Dependent Competition Between Geometry and Polarity Governs Nuclear and Spindle positioning in Early Embryos
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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#JobOffer
💼 H/F Gestionnaire financier-e et comptable
📆 1e avril
📍 Institut Jacques Monod
Candidatez sur le portail emploi CNRS avant le 12 février🔗 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
💼 H/F Gestionnaire financier-e et comptable
📆 1e avril
📍 Institut Jacques Monod
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January 27, 2026 at 12:52 PM
#JobOffer
💼 H/F Gestionnaire financier-e et comptable
📆 1e avril
📍 Institut Jacques Monod
Candidatez sur le portail emploi CNRS avant le 12 février🔗 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
💼 H/F Gestionnaire financier-e et comptable
📆 1e avril
📍 Institut Jacques Monod
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Latest work from the lab by Aude Nommick et al., in which we propose a "size-scaling" model for microtubule force exertion that regulates centrosome centration vs decentration during embryo development!
@ijmonod.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
@ijmonod.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
January 26, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Latest work from the lab by Aude Nommick et al., in which we propose a "size-scaling" model for microtubule force exertion that regulates centrosome centration vs decentration during embryo development!
@ijmonod.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
@ijmonod.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Happy to highlight our collaborative work from our @ijmonod.bsky.social team with @destriano.bsky.social, B. Goyeau and M. Chabanon.
Cytoplasmic crowding acts as a porous medium that hinders macromolecular diffusivity.
Plus: a clever way to measure cell volume.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Cytoplasmic crowding acts as a porous medium that hinders macromolecular diffusivity.
Plus: a clever way to measure cell volume.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Cytoplasmic crowding acts as a porous medium reducing macromolecule diffusion | PNAS
Intracellular transport of macromolecules is crucial for the proper functioning of
most cellular processes. Although intracellular crowding is know...
www.pnas.org
January 26, 2026 at 9:42 AM
Happy to highlight our collaborative work from our @ijmonod.bsky.social team with @destriano.bsky.social, B. Goyeau and M. Chabanon.
Cytoplasmic crowding acts as a porous medium that hinders macromolecular diffusivity.
Plus: a clever way to measure cell volume.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Cytoplasmic crowding acts as a porous medium that hinders macromolecular diffusivity.
Plus: a clever way to measure cell volume.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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💼 Cell and Molecular Biology Research Engineer (M/F)
📍Institut Jacques Monod, @minclab.bsky.social
📆 June 1st
Apply on the CNRS job portal before February 13th 🔗 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
📍Institut Jacques Monod, @minclab.bsky.social
📆 June 1st
Apply on the CNRS job portal before February 13th 🔗 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
January 26, 2026 at 2:30 PM
💼 Cell and Molecular Biology Research Engineer (M/F)
📍Institut Jacques Monod, @minclab.bsky.social
📆 June 1st
Apply on the CNRS job portal before February 13th 🔗 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
📍Institut Jacques Monod, @minclab.bsky.social
📆 June 1st
Apply on the CNRS job portal before February 13th 🔗 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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✍️ The Guichet Lab published a new article
📖 @dev-journal.bsky.social
📃 Girdin controls the pace of 3D tracheal cell intercalation by coupling adherens junctions to the actin cytoskeleton in Drosophila
🔗 journals.biologists.com/dev/article-...
📖 @dev-journal.bsky.social
📃 Girdin controls the pace of 3D tracheal cell intercalation by coupling adherens junctions to the actin cytoskeleton in Drosophila
🔗 journals.biologists.com/dev/article-...
January 20, 2026 at 4:01 PM
✍️ The Guichet Lab published a new article
📖 @dev-journal.bsky.social
📃 Girdin controls the pace of 3D tracheal cell intercalation by coupling adherens junctions to the actin cytoskeleton in Drosophila
🔗 journals.biologists.com/dev/article-...
📖 @dev-journal.bsky.social
📃 Girdin controls the pace of 3D tracheal cell intercalation by coupling adherens junctions to the actin cytoskeleton in Drosophila
🔗 journals.biologists.com/dev/article-...
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I am very happy (and a bit scared) to present to you what we have been working on over the last 4 years. This manuscript is exactly what I dreamt of when I started the lab and I could not be happier and prouder of the outcome!
Evolutionary dynamics of temporal transcription factor series in the insect optic lobe https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.08.698497v1
January 10, 2026 at 9:43 AM
I am very happy (and a bit scared) to present to you what we have been working on over the last 4 years. This manuscript is exactly what I dreamt of when I started the lab and I could not be happier and prouder of the outcome!
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📣 Stéphane Peyrégne, responsable d'équipe au sein de l' @ijmonod.bsky.social est lauréat du Prix Georges Brahms 2025 !
Plus d'informations 🔗 www.ijm.fr/prix-georges...
@cnrs-idf-villejuif.bsky.social @upcite.bsky.social
Plus d'informations 🔗 www.ijm.fr/prix-georges...
@cnrs-idf-villejuif.bsky.social @upcite.bsky.social
January 9, 2026 at 11:12 AM
📣 Stéphane Peyrégne, responsable d'équipe au sein de l' @ijmonod.bsky.social est lauréat du Prix Georges Brahms 2025 !
Plus d'informations 🔗 www.ijm.fr/prix-georges...
@cnrs-idf-villejuif.bsky.social @upcite.bsky.social
Plus d'informations 🔗 www.ijm.fr/prix-georges...
@cnrs-idf-villejuif.bsky.social @upcite.bsky.social
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I'm humbled to receive the Paoletti Prize awarded by @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social 😌 and very grateful to present and past mentors !
@francoisrousset.bsky.social, chercheur en microbiologie au @ciri-lyon.bsky.social est lauréat du Prix Paoletti 2025.
👋 @cnrs-rhoneauvergne.bsky.social
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👋 @cnrs-rhoneauvergne.bsky.social
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Francois Rousset, chercheur en microbiologie | Prix Paoletti 2025
Après une thèse en microbiologie à l’Institut Pasteur sous la direction de David Bikard (2017-2020), François Rousset rejoint en 2021 l’équipe de Rotem Sorek au Weizmann Institute of Science pour son…
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January 8, 2026 at 9:12 PM
I'm humbled to receive the Paoletti Prize awarded by @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social 😌 and very grateful to present and past mentors !
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Really happy to see my PhD first-author paper published in @nature.com! I’m very grateful to have worked with such a great team. Huge thanks to Urša Uršič, Michael Staddon, and Jan Brugués, as well as the @brugueslab.bsky.social, and the @poldresden.bsky.social and @mpi-cbg.de community!
Excited to share Alison's @alisonkickuth.bsky.social paper from the lab out in @nature.com this week! We uncovered how a mechanical ratchet mechanism drives cytokinesis in early #zebrafish embryos. Read more in this thread 🧵 and at www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤩
@poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de
@poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de
January 7, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Really happy to see my PhD first-author paper published in @nature.com! I’m very grateful to have worked with such a great team. Huge thanks to Urša Uršič, Michael Staddon, and Jan Brugués, as well as the @brugueslab.bsky.social, and the @poldresden.bsky.social and @mpi-cbg.de community!
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📢 We're hiring a postdoc (33 months) in human evolutionary genomics / paleogenomics / statistical genetics, Paris 🇫🇷
Project on selection on disease-associated variants, integrating ancient genomes, GWAS, and Ancestral Rec. Graphs.
Start May 2026 (flexible).
Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Project on selection on disease-associated variants, integrating ancient genomes, GWAS, and Ancestral Rec. Graphs.
Start May 2026 (flexible).
Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Postdoc in human evolutionary genetics and bioinformatics (M/F)
Assurez-vous que votre profil candidat soit correctement renseigné avant de postuler
emploi.cnrs.fr
December 31, 2025 at 10:26 AM
📢 We're hiring a postdoc (33 months) in human evolutionary genomics / paleogenomics / statistical genetics, Paris 🇫🇷
Project on selection on disease-associated variants, integrating ancient genomes, GWAS, and Ancestral Rec. Graphs.
Start May 2026 (flexible).
Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Project on selection on disease-associated variants, integrating ancient genomes, GWAS, and Ancestral Rec. Graphs.
Start May 2026 (flexible).
Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Reposted by Nicolas Minc
La direction de l'Institut Jacques Monod ainsi ses équipes vous présentent leurs meilleurs vœux pour cette année 2026✨
The management of the Institut Jacques Monod and its teams wish you all the best for 2026✨
The management of the Institut Jacques Monod and its teams wish you all the best for 2026✨
January 1, 2026 at 9:00 AM
La direction de l'Institut Jacques Monod ainsi ses équipes vous présentent leurs meilleurs vœux pour cette année 2026✨
The management of the Institut Jacques Monod and its teams wish you all the best for 2026✨
The management of the Institut Jacques Monod and its teams wish you all the best for 2026✨
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📣 New preprint from the @minclab.bsky.social
📃 A CROSS-SPECIES ANALYSIS OF CELL WALL MECHANOSENSORS
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
📃 A CROSS-SPECIES ANALYSIS OF CELL WALL MECHANOSENSORS
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
December 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
📣 New preprint from the @minclab.bsky.social
📃 A CROSS-SPECIES ANALYSIS OF CELL WALL MECHANOSENSORS
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
📃 A CROSS-SPECIES ANALYSIS OF CELL WALL MECHANOSENSORS
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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👉Excited to share our latest work @natmicrobiol.nature.com, revealing a decrease in cytoplasmic crowding during filamentous growth in the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans. Furthermore we found that inhibition of ribosome biogenesis can trigger filamentous growth in this pathogen
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Decreased cytoplasmic crowding via inhibition of ribosome biogenesis can trigger Candida albicans filamentous growth
Nature Microbiology - During filamentous growth in the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans, a reduction in ribosome concentration leads to a decrease in macromolecular crowding. Inhibition of...
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December 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
👉Excited to share our latest work @natmicrobiol.nature.com, revealing a decrease in cytoplasmic crowding during filamentous growth in the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans. Furthermore we found that inhibition of ribosome biogenesis can trigger filamentous growth in this pathogen
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Incredibly excited to receive an ERC Consolidator Grant. This recognition means a lot for what we’ve built so far and for what’s ahead.
Thank you to all collaborators and supporters.
Looking forward to getting this project going!
Thank you to all collaborators and supporters.
Looking forward to getting this project going!
Congratulations Ina Sonnen on receiving a Consolidator Grant from @erc.europa.eu! It will allow her to strengthen her research group and take on questions such as: how do cells communicate robustly and precisely with each other during development, despite noise? Read more👉 www.hubrecht.eu/erc-sonnen
December 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Incredibly excited to receive an ERC Consolidator Grant. This recognition means a lot for what we’ve built so far and for what’s ahead.
Thank you to all collaborators and supporters.
Looking forward to getting this project going!
Thank you to all collaborators and supporters.
Looking forward to getting this project going!
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Pour la dernière émission de @podcastscience.fm www.podcastscience.fm/emission/202... dont le thème était le carré, j'ai réalisé une chronique où je parle des travaux de @minclab.bsky.social ( @ijmonod.bsky.social ) qui met les cellules en boîte!
À lire et écouter sur SSAFT
ssaft.com/Blog/dotclea...
À lire et écouter sur SSAFT
ssaft.com/Blog/dotclea...
December 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Pour la dernière émission de @podcastscience.fm www.podcastscience.fm/emission/202... dont le thème était le carré, j'ai réalisé une chronique où je parle des travaux de @minclab.bsky.social ( @ijmonod.bsky.social ) qui met les cellules en boîte!
À lire et écouter sur SSAFT
ssaft.com/Blog/dotclea...
À lire et écouter sur SSAFT
ssaft.com/Blog/dotclea...
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Tissue stress measurements — our latest preprint is out: arxiv.org/abs/2512.00550
(publication coming soon!)
Fantastic work by the three musketeers — @luanger.bsky.social, @andreasschoenit.bsky.social and @fanny-wodrascka.bsky.social — in collaboration with P. Marcq!
(publication coming soon!)
Fantastic work by the three musketeers — @luanger.bsky.social, @andreasschoenit.bsky.social and @fanny-wodrascka.bsky.social — in collaboration with P. Marcq!
Tissue stress measurements with Bayesian Inversion Stress Microscopy
Cells within biological tissue are constantly subjected to dynamic mechanical forces. Measuring the internal stress of tissues has proven crucial for our understanding of the role of mechanical forces...
arxiv.org
December 2, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Tissue stress measurements — our latest preprint is out: arxiv.org/abs/2512.00550
(publication coming soon!)
Fantastic work by the three musketeers — @luanger.bsky.social, @andreasschoenit.bsky.social and @fanny-wodrascka.bsky.social — in collaboration with P. Marcq!
(publication coming soon!)
Fantastic work by the three musketeers — @luanger.bsky.social, @andreasschoenit.bsky.social and @fanny-wodrascka.bsky.social — in collaboration with P. Marcq!
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Paper alert! Mechanical conditions preventing live cell extrusion during primary neurulation in amniotes. @sabr-bio.bsky.social article published as pre-proof in @cellsdev.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
November 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Paper alert! Mechanical conditions preventing live cell extrusion during primary neurulation in amniotes. @sabr-bio.bsky.social article published as pre-proof in @cellsdev.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
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Anthony A. Hyman will become EMBL’s next Director General.
He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999.
www.embl.org/news/people-...
He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999.
www.embl.org/news/people-...
November 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Anthony A. Hyman will become EMBL’s next Director General.
He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999.
www.embl.org/news/people-...
He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999.
www.embl.org/news/people-...
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We are looking to hire a postdoc to work on the regulation of microtubule nucleation in neurons. See advert attached. Contact me by email for any extra info.
November 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
We are looking to hire a postdoc to work on the regulation of microtubule nucleation in neurons. See advert attached. Contact me by email for any extra info.
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#JobOffer
💼 Ingénieur de recherche H/F en biophysique de l'infection bactérienne
📆 12 Janvier 2026
📍équipe Bonazzi
Candidatez sur le portail emploi CNRS avant le 15 décembre 🔗 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
💼 Ingénieur de recherche H/F en biophysique de l'infection bactérienne
📆 12 Janvier 2026
📍équipe Bonazzi
Candidatez sur le portail emploi CNRS avant le 15 décembre 🔗 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
November 26, 2025 at 8:52 AM
#JobOffer
💼 Ingénieur de recherche H/F en biophysique de l'infection bactérienne
📆 12 Janvier 2026
📍équipe Bonazzi
Candidatez sur le portail emploi CNRS avant le 15 décembre 🔗 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
💼 Ingénieur de recherche H/F en biophysique de l'infection bactérienne
📆 12 Janvier 2026
📍équipe Bonazzi
Candidatez sur le portail emploi CNRS avant le 15 décembre 🔗 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Reposted by Nicolas Minc
✍️ The Pintard Lab ( @ccdlab.bsky.social ) published a new article
📖 @jcb.org
📃 Intramolecular regulation of the MT-severing enzyme Katanin prevents futile ATP hydrolysis
🔗 rupress.org/jcb/article-...
📖 @jcb.org
📃 Intramolecular regulation of the MT-severing enzyme Katanin prevents futile ATP hydrolysis
🔗 rupress.org/jcb/article-...
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
✍️ The Pintard Lab ( @ccdlab.bsky.social ) published a new article
📖 @jcb.org
📃 Intramolecular regulation of the MT-severing enzyme Katanin prevents futile ATP hydrolysis
🔗 rupress.org/jcb/article-...
📖 @jcb.org
📃 Intramolecular regulation of the MT-severing enzyme Katanin prevents futile ATP hydrolysis
🔗 rupress.org/jcb/article-...
Congratulations to Celia Municio-Diaz in the lab for this new publication, showing that Cell Wall mechanosensors taken from distant yeast species can still function and detect forces in the foreign cell wall of fission yeast cells!
@ijmonod.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
@ijmonod.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Congratulations to Celia Municio-Diaz in the lab for this new publication, showing that Cell Wall mechanosensors taken from distant yeast species can still function and detect forces in the foreign cell wall of fission yeast cells!
@ijmonod.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
@ijmonod.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social