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Benoit Ladoux

@bladoux.bsky.social

Biophysics / Cell Migration / Active matter / Mechanobiology https://mpzpm.mpg.de/research/benoit-ladoux https://ladoux-mege-lab.cnrs.fr

808 Followers  |  215 Following  |  67 Posts  |  Joined: 21.11.2024  |  1.8932

Latest posts by bladoux.bsky.social on Bluesky

Reviewing process has always been painfull, but it will just become useless and impossible to publish if we start accepting this (we are not helping science...and better refusing to review if you have no time rather than using these tools without filter)

04.12.2025 08:25 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Are you investigating cell tissues and interested in stress patterns? TFM + BISM reveals them! 👇

With @luanger.bsky.social and P. Marcq, we summarise the applicability across different exp. conditions regularly used in the @bladoux.bsky.social @rmmege.bsky.social lab.
Full pipeline on Lucas GitHub!

03.12.2025 19:37 — 👍 16    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Dynamic protrusions mediate unique crawling motility in Asgard Archaea (Promethearchaeota) Crawling motility is a hallmark of eukaryotic cells and requires a dynamic actin cytoskeleton, regulated adhesion, and spatially organized signalling pathways. Asgard archaea (phylum Promethearchaeota...

And another Asgard paper. Cells in motion! Wow! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

02.12.2025 17:04 — 👍 39    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 1
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Come join us in beautiful Roscoff for this Conference Jacques Monod on Developmental regulation: from molecular to ecological niches
May 18-22, 2026 Roscoff, France
Abstract deadline: January 31, 2026
Apply here: cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en

03.12.2025 08:00 — 👍 27    🔁 23    💬 0    📌 0
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The NIH grant cuts in 2025
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

02.12.2025 15:16 — 👍 138    🔁 69    💬 7    📌 4
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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...

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!

02.12.2025 11:15 — 👍 23    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 1
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www.icbp2026.org

01.12.2025 17:36 — 👍 18    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 0
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ERC’s new €7m Plus Grants open to researchers at any career stage - Research Professional News European Research Council president describes scheme as part attempt to lure US talent

· #AcademicSky ·
The European Research Council is launching €7m Plus Grants for ambitious, long‑term research — open to researchers at any career stage but limited to about 30 awards; current ERC grantees and applicants are ineligible, reports @clanicholson.bsky.social.

28.11.2025 20:27 — 👍 25    🔁 20    💬 0    📌 12
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Mark your calendars! The next SFB 1348 International Meeting will take place in #Münster from May 27-29, 2026, with a focus on #Mechanochemical signals at cellular interfaces. Stay tuned for more details and updates at www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en/m...

27.10.2025 07:00 — 👍 43    🔁 25    💬 0    📌 3
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The wide-ranging influence of the Bohr effect While not a Nobel prize-winning discovery in itself, this challenge to the reductionist view of physiology has links to several other winners

The Bohr effect had nothing to do with Niels but was discovered by his physiologist father Christian. Taught now as the first example of allostery in protein action, it touched on deeper questions about the nature of living organisms. My lastest column for CW
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/the-...

28.11.2025 10:48 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 2
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🧪 Geometry beats chemistry: we show that self-assembly can be controlled by tuning large-scale geometric parameters rather than molecular binding energies.
PNAS: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Video summary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FS3...
#SelfAssembly #Biophysics #PhysicsOfLife

27.11.2025 16:49 — 👍 102    🔁 26    💬 5    📌 0
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2nd meeting of France-BioImaging Mechanobiology Working Group The second meeting of the FBI Mechanobiology WG will take place on the 26 and 27 of March 2026 at the Institut de Biologie Paris Seine and the Institut Jacques Monod in Paris. The programme will in…

📣 2nd meeting of France-BioImaging Mechanobiology Working Group

📆 March 26-27th, 2026
📍Institut Jacques Monod, Buffon amphitheater

Registration are open until December 31st 🔗 buff.ly/cVzaoId

@upcite.bsky.social @sbcf.bsky.social @gdraqv.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @psl-univ.bsky.social

27.11.2025 15:26 — 👍 4    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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XIST Drives X-Chromosome Inactivation and Safeguards Female Extraembryonic Cells in Humans Dosage compensation of sex chromosomes through X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) is required for mice extra-embryonic tissue growth and embryo development. The species specificity in mechanisms and timi...

𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭! 🎉
“𝐗𝐈𝐒𝐓 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐗-𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐅𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬” 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐑𝐱𝐢𝐯!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

25.11.2025 16:37 — 👍 20    🔁 3    💬 5    📌 3

Congrats! Grandement mérité!

26.11.2025 12:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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.

26.11.2025 12:02 — 👍 2    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

26.11.2025 08:52 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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SurFlex microscopy: Measuring flexibility of surface-tethered biomolecules | PNAS The flexibility of tethered molecules, such as those bound to biological membranes, is an important property that can influence molecular height, m...

Check out our latest published manuscript: SurFlex microscopy, a new technique to measure molecular flexibility. Congrats to Aymeric, @sid592.bsky.social, @blenackmon.bsky.social, and Andres! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

25.11.2025 19:40 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

✍️ 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-...

25.11.2025 16:07 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

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

25.11.2025 15:00 — 👍 23    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0
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📢 PhD Thesis defense

📅 November 26th
📍Institut Jacques Monod

Tomorrow, Fanny Wodrascka ( @fanny-wodrascka.bsky.social @bladoux.bsky.social @rmmege.bsky.social ) will defend her PhD thesis "Mechanical control of epithelial cell extrusion via RhoA-dependent contractility "

➡️ buff.ly/f5VaVah

25.11.2025 09:01 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

There's only one week left to apply to our Integrated MSc/PhD program - apply now! mattertolife.maxplanckschools.org/application

24.11.2025 15:18 — 👍 2    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

This is a great example of what not do to when you write a headline—especially a cover story.

This is irresponsible. He is not in science he’s against science. He’s killing people because he is so AGAINST science.

Press—do better. Do not repeat their messaging. Do not repeat the lies.

24.11.2025 15:55 — 👍 140    🔁 26    💬 7    📌 0
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is there a direct crosstalk between actin and vimentin intermediate filaments? Our work shows that vimentin promotes actin assembly by stabilizing ATP-subunits at the barbed end.
Fantastic work done by @lilianpaty.bsky.social with @romet-jegou-lab.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

24.11.2025 10:15 — 👍 35    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 0
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📢 Institut Jacques Monod Seminar

📅 November 25th
📍 Institut Jacques Monod

Tomorrow, Magali Suzanne will present the Institut Jacques Monod seminar « Spatio-temporal control of nuclear Mechanotransduction during Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal transition »

➡️ buff.ly/ajrwbxo

24.11.2025 09:01 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Qu’est-ce que l’information biologique (suite) ? (1) - Thomas Lecuit (2025-2026) Enseignement 2025-2026 : Qu’est-ce que l’information biologique (suite) ? Cours du 20 décembre 2025 : Introduction : approche computationelle du vivant Professeur : Thomas Lecuit Chaire Dynamiques du vivant Retrouvez les enregistrements audios et vidéos du cycle : https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/cours/qu-est-ce-que-information-biologique Tous les enseignements du Pr Thomas Lecuit : https://www.college-de-france.fr/chaire/thomas-lecuit-dynamiques-du-vivant-chaire-statutaire https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOj9pZ2YNGZ84uMY6DhPnqpL1rq5qNAVJ Le Collège de France est une institution de recherche fondamentale dans tous les domaines de la connaissance et un lieu de diffusion du « savoir en train de se faire » ouvert à tous. Les cours, séminaires, colloques sont enregistrés puis mis à disposition du public sur le site internet du Collège de France. Découvrez toutes les ressources du Collège de France : https://www.college-de-france.fr Soutenir le Collège de France : https://www.fondation-cdf.fr/faire-un-don Suivez-nous sur : Threads : https://www.threads.net/@collegedefrance Bluesky : https://bsky.app/profile/college-de-france.fr Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/College.de.France Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/collegedefrance LinkedIn : https://fr.linkedin.com/company/coll%C3%A8gedefrance

Very happy to share video of 1st lecture @college-de-france.fr on Biological computation 😊. I defend the necessity to access Algorithmic & Computational levels of analysis in cell & developmental biol. proposed by David Marr in neuroscience. Logic & Function matter 🤩.
Video: tinyurl.com/55yejk5f

24.11.2025 09:42 — 👍 37    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 0
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« Faut leur tirer dans la gueule ! » : la manifestation de Sainte-Soline vue par les gendarmes Mediapart et « Libération » révèlent des images inédites du 25 mars 2023, filmées par les caméras-piétons des gendarmes. Elles montrent des consignes prohibées et dangereuses données par la hiérarchi…

Sidérant.
À voir, absolument.

www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

05.11.2025 12:32 — 👍 440    🔁 202    💬 16    📌 8
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📢 PhD Thesis defense

📅 November 26th
📍Institut Jacques Monod

Next week, Fanny Wodrascka ( @fanny-wodrascka.bsky.social @bladoux.bsky.social @rmmege.bsky.social ) will defend her PhD thesis "Mechanical control of epithelial cell extrusion via RhoA-dependent contractility "

➡️ buff.ly/f5VaVah

20.11.2025 09:01 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

If you are interested in an interdisciplinary project connecting tissue mechanics, synthetic approaches and dev bio, this is the position for you! we are excited to get this colaboration started!!👇👇🤩🤓👇👇

19.11.2025 10:20 — 👍 4    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Le Collège de France annule un colloque sur la Palestine « en réaction à la polémique entourant » l’événement Le Collège de France « ne prône, ni n’encourage, ni ne soutient aucune forme de militantisme », a affirmé l’établissement qui assure de sa « stricte neutralité (…) au regard des questions de nature po...

⚠️🇵🇸🇮🇱 Ça pue. Ça enfle et ça pue. Un mois après l'annonce du cessez-le-feu à Gaza, les rages se libèrent au lieu de s'apaiser, les censures se déchainent au lieu de se calmer:
www.lemonde.fr/education/ar...

09.11.2025 19:58 — 👍 77    🔁 36    💬 10    📌 1
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I guess it never gets old...bc we love #CellMigration

ATP has many roles: energy currency, hydrotrope, and *danger signal*

Immune cells are faster after ATP exposure, F-actin (cyan) goes to the rear for nitro boost!

www.science.org/doi/full/10....
@focalplane.bsky.social #fluorescencefriday 🧪🔬

14.11.2025 20:38 — 👍 53    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 0

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