Nicolas Minc

Congrats to @jesalle.bsky.social and others lab members for putting together this beautiful preprint that revisits mechanisms for microtubule aster centration at fertilization !

The Endoplasmic Reticulum as a Cytoplasmic Anchor for Microtubule-Driven Aster Centration https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.22.760944v1

Call for a group leader in Evolutionary Biology The IGFL @igflyon.bsky.social in Lyon, France, is recruiting a group leader in Evolutionary Biology. An exciting place for exploring the interfaces of evolution with physiology and development. #EvolBiol #ecoevo #evodevo tinyurl.com/evolbiol

How does a predatory fungus build a trap to capture a nematode? This work by @fungi-worms.bsky.social lab reveals how prey signals reorganize conserved polarity and cytoskeletal machinery to redirect hyphal growth, form a trap, and then switch gears to penetrate the prey. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

Bravo @erc.europa.eu 🙄

📣L'Institut Jacques Monod ( @cnrs.fr | @upcite.bsky.social ) est fier de vous annoncer l’élection de Eva-Maria Geigl, directrice de recherche émérite CNRS, en tant que membre titulaire de la 4ᵉ section de l’Académie des sciences d’outre-mer ! Plus d'informations 🔗 www.ijm.fr/eva-maria-ge...

Bloop 🫧 bloop 🫧 bloop 🫧 Fluid-filled lumens are everywhere in our body How do they get soooo big? We find that osmotic pressure vastly dominates mechanical forces in controlling lumen swelling in mouse embryos biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @louise-dagher.bsky.social @matteo-bassanini.bsky.social

We are updating our Expansion Microscopy (U-ExM) website with : - Protocols tips to help you get started - Examples of applications across different biological systems. - work in progress - an antibody database 👉 mocel.unige.ch/research-gro...

🔬 We're hiring a Laboratory Manager! Join our growing international team at the Max Planck Center for Physics and Medicine in Erlangen! 🧬 Cell & molecular biology 🧪 Lab coordination & experimental research 📩 Apply now: [https://www.fau-jobs.de/jobposting/8173a98034c48d53d57bce14503883cbdbf6f3b80]

Happy to share our review on ROS evolution, regeneration and therapeutics, published in Cell Mol Life Sciences. Led by our former PhD student Aurore Vullien, co-supervised with @rottingerlab.bsky.social in collab. with @christinerampon.bsky.social and J. John & E. Amaya. doi.org/10.1007/s000...

Happy to share our latest work showing that fungal cell fusion not only requires local cell wall digestion but also inhibition of cell wall repair! PAK-family kinases promote cell fusion irreversibility by preventing cell-wall repair doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... Led by @juliacoronasserna.bsky.social

We have a position open in our core facility in the @pasteur.fr . Please share it and / or apply! forum.image.sc/t/research-e...

📣Our department is hiring a new group leader!📣 Want to start your team in a vibrant scientific environment in the center of Paris? I was very lucky to do that 10 years ago, reach out if you have any question. Apply by December 18th: jpi-recruitment-curie-umr3215-u934.curie.fr

📣 Registration are open for the International symposium – Division and Cycling Across Biological Scales 📆 October, 19-23 📍Institut Jacques Monod Free registration mendatory before October 15th🔗 buff.ly/YqZKLeR @circleu.bsky.social @euerasmusplus.bsky.social

✍️ The Bonazzi Lab published a new article 📖 @natcomms.nature.com 📃Bacterial growth under confinement requires transcriptional adaptation to resist turgor pressure build-up 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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...

We are looking for a research assistant! Come join the team: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSZ826/r...

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-...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Softer when Thicker: a Conserved Scaling Law Governs Actin Cortex Mechanics

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/...

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

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

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/🧵

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.

Local fluidization of an active cytoplasmic gel partitions large cells https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.11.744254v1

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!

✍️ New preprint from the @minclab.bsky.social 📃 A Composite Endomembrane Suspension Governs Cytoplasm Rheology 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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

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/...

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...

✍️ 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...

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

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. 🧪 https://www.embo.org/press-releases/seventy-one-leading-scientists-elected-to-the-embo-membership/ #EMBOMembers2026

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)

Awesome to see @minclab.bsky.social @ijmonod.bsky.social and @polosophie.bsky.social @upcite.bsky.social on this list!!! Very well deserved 🍾

📣 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

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

📣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

Getting nuclear size just right – emerging mechanisms regulating nuclear scaling and morphology @jcellsci.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

🚨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...

📢 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.

🔬⚙️💻 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

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...

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...

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...

✍️ New preprint from the @minclab.bsky.social 📃 Mechanosensation Promotes Local Cell Wall Repair 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Mechanosensation Promotes Local Cell Wall Repair https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.23.720310v1

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...

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