Center for Structural Biology (CBS Montpellier)

Connect with the Committee on Sustainability of the Biophysical Society at the Annual meeting 2026 #BPS2026
@biophysicalsoc.bsky.social

Concerned about your lab's footprint? Don't miss today's panel discussion "Small Actions, Big Impact: Practical Steps to a Sustainable Laboratory" from 1:00-2:30PM in Room 153. #bps2026

We are excited to announce the latest release of MorphoNet 🎉 ! Explore a completely remade interface to be clearer, with more features 🧑‍💻! It also contains many bug fixes, and new plugins for you to discover 😉! download at morphonet.org/downloads

Discover and share the CBS Montpellier starter pack, to follow current and formers members of the Centre de Biologie Structurale on Bluesky.

go.bsky.app/G682pvP
@cnrs.fr
@inserm.fr
@umontpellier.bsky.social

The aryl hydrocarbon receptor: structure, signaling, physiology and pathology Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy - The aryl hydrocarbon receptor: structure, signaling, physiology and pathology

A new review from the CBS !

The aryl hydrocarbon receptor: structure, signaling, physiology and pathology

rdcu.be/e4Bzw

A new paper from the CBS !
from @julien-kowalewski.bsky.social & al.

Fragment-based drug design of a bacterial kinase inhibitor capable of increasing the antibiotic sensitivity of clinical isolates

New paper from the CBS !

HEIP1 orchestrates pro-crossover protein activity during mammalian meiosis

PNAS
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New paper from the CBS !

Programming the Optoelectronic Properties of Atomically Precise Gold Nanoclusters Using the Conformational Landscape of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins

chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/DEQKH2...

Thursday February 12th at 11h00 

ENS Chemistry Dpt, Salle R

24, Rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris 

Understanding biomolecular condensates using simulations at multiple resolutions

Dr. Alessandro Barducci 

Centre de Biologie Structurale, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, INSERM, 

Montpellier, France

Interdisciplinary access call is back!

The 3 infrastructures ProFi, FBI and FRISBI together with the GIS IBiSA announce the 4th call for funded access to IBiSA-labelled facilities for transdisciplinary projects!🤝

Apply here before Feb 13, 2026 👉 france-bioimaging.org/announcement...

Delighted to be attending (and sharing our latest results!) at the Journées Jean Chevaugeon (@sfp-france.bsky.social) #JJC2026 this week 🌱

Looking forward to the great science and connecting with fellow researchers over the coming days - all in this wonderful location!

Join us in Montpellier in June 2026 for the second edition of the European South Atlantic Biophysical conference
#ESAB2026

Happy birthday IGF, from your neighbors 🍾

Thanks for their support to
@france-bioimaging.bsky.social
@umontpellier.bsky.social
@inserm.fr
@cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
@occitanie.bsky.social
@ibisa.net

It's Christmas in advance in the lab, as we recieved the first ever #Luminosa from @picoquant.bsky.social to be installed in France. It will be available on the PIBBS facility, as a combo with a Brucker Atomic force microscope for #mecanobiology, #smFRET, #FLIM, #FCS, #AFM applications and more.
🔬

Watch Robert Quast @rbquast.bsky.social from our Team presenting our work on single molecule #FRET on #GPCR in the first FBI Connect webainar !

A new postdoctoral position offered at CBS Montpellier

We are hiring a 2-year postdoctoral researcher to join our Membrane Biophysics team at the CBS in Montpellier. Join us to reinvent Atomic Force Microscopy to image the most common interface on our planet: the surface of water @membranesbiophy.bsky.social @cbsmontpellier.bsky.social

IDIL GRADUATE PROGRAM Search for your IDIL

The qbio #quantitative #biology is part of the IDIL Master program of the Montpellier University.
@umontpellier.bsky.social
idil.edu.umontpellier.fr

Thanks to the teachers and supervisors
@antoinelegall.bsky.social @chrisdoucet.bsky.social @ajroyx.bsky.social @jbfiche.bsky.social @emmanuelmargeat.bsky.social & other @cbsmontpellier.bsky.social members.

Picture of a student's made TIRF microscope

Picture of a student's made optical tweezers microscope

Picture of a student's made confocal FCS microscope

In two weeks, our #qbio #Master students learned to build, from drawing to full realization, their own : confocal FCS, TIRF microscope, and optical tweezers setup ! This is hand-on #microscopy !
Interested ? Join the qbio master next year at the Montpellier University !
qbio.umontpellier.fr

At the @cbsmontpellier.bsky.social we equipped the JKP atomic force microscope, mounted on an inverted microscope, with photothermal excitation. This custom-built optical pathway focuses a laser onto the cantilever in our correlative AFM–fluorescence microscopy setup. @costaluca.bsky.social

Postdoctoral position in the team of Alessandro Barducci in the CBS, focusing on multiscale simulations of RNA-driven condensates, with applications in synthetic biology.

More information :
www.cbs.cnrs.fr/images/jobs/...
The position is expected to start in early 2026, with some flexibility.

Excited to share our new preprint on Myxococcus xanthus!
We show that two distinct motility motors can propel the same bacterial cell simultaneously, and that this dual propulsion is tunable by environmental calcium. 🧵 1/6

📄 Read it here →https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.29.685086v1

A new preprint from our lab, from @antoinelegentil.bsky.social , on Myxococcus Xanthus motility.

Please repost. Only a few days left to apply to the “Ecole de Physique des Houches” on Fluorescence Markers for Advanced Microscopies, a WE-Heraeus seminar. Deadline October 31th.
fluorescenceleshouches.wordpress.com
#microscopy #fluorescence #superresolution

New preprint by @lavagnae.bsky.social from Barducci lab (@cbsmontpellier.bsky.social): we show how energy-consuming enzymatic reactions, like phosphorylation, regulate biomolecular condensates with complex effects on condensate stability and reactive interfaces. Any feedback welcome!

Merci à tous nos partenaires pour leur présence et leur soutien.
François-Xavier Lauch, @michaeldelafosse.bsky.social, Claire Gatecel, Sylvain Bourgoin, Guillaume Rochet, Jacques Mercier
@emmanuelmargeat.bsky.social

Lancement ce jour du projet d'extension de notre laboratoire. 1100m² de nouveaux espaces et 280m² rehabilités.
Merci pour leur soutien à nos tutelles et nos partenaires.
@inserm.fr @cnrs.fr @umontpellier.bsky.social
@occitanie.bsky.social @villedemontpellier.bsky.social
& l'Etat

French-German WE-Heraeus-Seminar "Fluorescence markers for advanced microscopy : From photophysics to biology - 2026" March 15-20 2026, Les Houches, France

Please share: The application for Les Houches is open (until Oct 31)

fluorescenceleshouches.wordpress.com

*This is for you, if you ever wanted to learn all about fluorescence markers & how to apply them for your biological research!*

PS: no fees this year, you just need to get there, that's all!