Center for Structural Biology (CBS Montpellier)

Happy International Women’s Day!
There’s no better way to celebrate than at our networking event next week! 😊🧬

Discover the research of Melissa Birol, a former PhD student from @cbsmontpellier.bsky.social, now a group leader in @mdc-berlin.bsky.social

Join us for a WONDER networking event during FNANO 2026!
🗓 Monday, March 16
🕗 8:00 PM
📍 Hans im Glück Isarpost (Sonnenstraße 24–26, Munich)

Light refreshments will be provided thanks to our sponsor ISNSCE

Also, stop by our poster during Wednesday’s FNANO poster session!

#HappyFluorescenceFriday #microscopycommunity - into Expansion Microscopy? Come to the Expansion Microscopy User Group Community Discussion Series! First session, Tue, March 10, on “Expansion Microscopy in Practice Series: Choosing the Right Protocol”

Learn more: buff.ly/V4umk5E

Sharepic for a seminar at the MPI-IE: Green-blue gradient background. The top left shows the name of the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics and its logo. Below is the heading 'MAX PLANCK SEMINAR FREIBURG'. The center displays the lecture title: 'INSPECTING THE ROLES OF CHROMATIN ORGANIZATION IN TRANSCRIPTION REVEALED BY SPATIAL GENOMICS'. The lower left lists the date, time, and venue: 'WED, 11 MARCH 2026, 15:00', 'MPI-IE, LECTURE HALL', 'Stübeweg 51, 79108 Freiburg, Germany'. The lower right shows the speaker's name and affiliation: 'Marcelo Nollmann, Center for Structural Biology, CNRS/INSERM, University of Montpellier, France'.

🤗 Next week, we are happy to welcome Marcelo Nollmann from @cbsmontpellier.bsky.social | @cnrs.fr | @umontpellier.bsky.social.

His lab develops single-molecule and advanced imaging methods to investigate DNA organization, segregation and transcription in multicellular organisms.

Join us at 3pm. ⬇️

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.