Christine Girard Blanc

Discover more about our dear Daniel: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
His paper can be found here
doi.org/10.1242/jcs....
Many thanks to @jcellsci.bsky.social for giving visibility to young scientists!

15.07.2025 06:37 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Mass Spectrometry Reveals Novel Features of Tubulin Polyglutamylation in the Flagellum of Trypanosoma brucei Tubulin polyglutamylation is a key feature of eukaryotic cilia and flagella that is essential for their function. The diversity of enzymes catalyzing polyglutamylation with different specificities ins...

Finally out! Mass spec analysis of #trypanosome flagellar tubulins reveals some surprises including a new #glutamylation site on beta-tubulin! Many thanks to the teams of Julia Chamot-Rooke and Mariette Matondo!
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

11.07.2025 06:38 — 👍 27    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

On Friday, Daniel left us after more than 4 happy years in the lab @pasteur.fr and a great paper published today in @jcellsci.bsky.social as well as other contributions!
Many thanks for everything!
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article-...

07.07.2025 12:36 — 👍 15    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Wonderful time at our PIV departmental retreat @pasteur.fr, congratulations to @chrisgirardb.bsky.social and her dream team @fernando-batista.bsky.social, Francisco Martinez-Blazquez and Marcela Fuentes Carias for the organisation! And a great vision talk by Daniel 👍

27.06.2025 20:51 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Congratulations Parul for your brilliant PhD !

21.06.2025 15:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Daniel's paper is now published in @jcellsci.bsky.social, great experience with @reviewcommons.org 😀

Want to know everything tubulin assembly in trypanosome flagella and other microtubules? Here is the link:

journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

12.06.2025 08:49 — 👍 43    🔁 20    💬 1    📌 0

Exposition sur des femmes scientifiques d'Issy-les-Moulineaux pour les enfants 🥰

12.02.2025 22:31 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Solving 25 years of frustration, Daniel Abbühl managed to tag trypanosome tubulin and to express it in an inducible manner, hence revealing flagellum assembly! A tour-de-force!
Preprint here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

11.02.2025 08:53 — 👍 46    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 3

We propose a model where the new flagellum grows in a linear manner while the old one is locked but shrinks slightly, hence requiring unlocking and compensation after cell division, leading to such multicoloured flagella following induction/deinduction/reinduction of tagged tubulin 😉

11.02.2025 08:53 — 👍 12    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Follow our French #cilia network! Only on BlueSky!

27.01.2025 16:45 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

First talk at the cilia symposium today ☺️

22.01.2025 21:40 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How do #trypanosomes restrict #IFT to only 4 doublet microtubules? Two hypotheses were proposed (restriction @ the flagellum base or @ the injection) but in this preprint, Aline Alves reveals it is a third way! It all happens in the proximal portion of the flagellum!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

17.12.2024 14:57 — 👍 18    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

We said goodbye to our lovely Aline who is heading back to Brazil after 4.5 happy years with us. Watch this space for her manuscripts coming soon!

26.11.2024 21:20 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Here we are! To celebrate our arrival, here is a #trypanosome expanded ~13 times & stained for tubulin, individual cortical #microtubules can be recognised, what was only achievable by EM before. Images: Christine Girard-Blanc & Thierry Blisnick. Many thanks to @centriolelab.bsky.social for training

26.11.2024 21:12 — 👍 74    🔁 14    💬 7    📌 3