Paul & Virginie - Centriole Lab

📢 Happy to share our new preprint from @sophiemartinlab.bsky.social !
Check our latest work on cell–cell fusion, uncovering how PAK kinases promote cell-cell fusion irreversibility by preventing cell wall repair.

Please REPOST (“likes” don’t help in diffusion!) and consider applying: we work in such a fantastic context, we ask so interesting questions, and we have such a collegial and best-willing atmosphere… CRBM = Happy & Good Science

3D reconstruction of an ATTR-F64S amyloid fibril extracted from skin tissue of a living patient. © UNIGE

Andreas #Boland's group and collaborators diagnosed a rare genetic disease (ATTR) using a simple skin biopsy. This work paves the way for new diagnostic methods for degenerative diseases. @mocel.bsky.social @sciencesunige.bsky.social @natcomms.nature.com www.unige.ch/medias/en/20...

📣 Please spread: we’re hiring a Lab Manager! It is a critical position in our new lab. As our lab moves to Barcelona and joins the @crg.eu, we’re looking for a Lab Manager to help build the lab and set the lab atmosphere.
🔗 Apply here 👉 recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...

Don't miss the spotlight that @hiralshah.bsky.social wrote :D

@marineluciano.bsky.social recreates intestinal Villi geometry by growing epithelial cells on wavy rolling substrates. Unexpected intrication of curvature effects is observed. Thanks to all! @caterinatomba.bsky.social @sgabriele.bsky.social @sciencesunige.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Presenting at the HFSP Awardees Meeting is more than a talk, it’s about exchanging ideas, cross-disciplinary feedback, and building new connections.

🧪 Call for Abstracts is open: zurl.co/AFFCZ
📍 Geneva, Switzerland
📅 8–10 July 2026
🗓 Deadline: 1 March 2026


#sts #HFSPmtg2026

🔬 Postdoc position – Infection Biology & Cryo-ET (Zurich) 🇨🇭
We are looking for a motivated Postdoc to join our interdisciplinary team.
📩 Interested? Check out the job advert:
www.imm.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:cb17...

👉 More info on the lab: www.weiss-laboratory.com
Please share with interested colleagues!

The EMBO Workshop "#Centrosomes: From fundamentals to diseases" in #Lausanne, Switzerland, 1–4 September 2026 will highlight the advances in the field of centrosome #research. Register now!

Deadline: 1 June

https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-centrosomes
#EMBOCentrosomes #EMBOevents #conference 🧪

Professor position in Global Health at the University of Geneva, Institute of Global Health!

This is really an exciting opportunity with lots of possibilities for collaborations, e.g. with our Centre, in the field of infectious diseases, international Geneva, WHO...

jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...

Amazing to hold @lottepedersen.bsky.social & my @jcellsci.bsky.social Special Issue on #Cilia and #Flagella in all its glossy glory & muscle-engaging brain-boosting weight! So much fabulous content from the community! Fab cover @centriolelab.bsky.social 🥰🥰 journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/ci...

In remembrance of Peer Bork  | EMBL EMBL and its community are deeply saddened by the death of Peer Bork, the organisation’s Interim Director General.

This is such hard news to process. Such an amazing scientist and inspiration for so many of us.
www.embl.org/news/embl-an...

📢 The Louis-Jeantet Foundation is happy to announce the 2026 #LouisJeantetPrizes, awarded to YASMINE BELKAID @pasteur.fr and to FIONA DOETSCH @doetschlab.bsky.social hlab.bsky.social @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
👉 jeantet.ch/en
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Poster of the EM course in Naples with marine samples. The Electron Microscopy Hands-On Course: sample preparation and imaging of marine environmental samples arises from a very strong and active collaboration between the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn and the EMBL in Heidelberg. The aim of the course is to provide a theoretical and practical training on electron microscopy starting from the basics to the preparation of samples with high pressure freezing and image acquisition using TEM and SEM.

If you are interested in electron microscopy, registration is still open for the

"Electron Microscopy Hands-On Course: sample preparation and imaging of marine environmental samples"

at Stazione Zoologica in Naples.

WIth great teachers from Naples […]

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New preprint from the lab 🎉: γ-tubulin is a novel target of the tubulin autoregulation pathway! Previously thought to exclusively target α- and β-tubulin mRNAs, we show that the TTC5–SCAPER–CNOT11 axis also degrades γ-tubulin mRNA, expanding the scope of this fundamental regulatory mechanism.

This is the cover proposal I made for our recent paper!

It’s Pyramimonas diskoicola — a very beautiful green flagellate and one of those cells that makes you stop and stare for a while.

I tried to capture its shape, symmetry, and general vibe :)

#FluorescenceFriday
#BioArt #SciArt
#Illustration

If you’re looking to stain DNA in ExM and in particular U-ExM, Spirochrome offers a broad range of dyes that work really well 👍

Just over a week to our FIRST event for 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣- 13/01/2026 15:00-17:30 GMT. What better way to fire up those neural circuits than dipping into the latest breaking #Cilia and #Centrosome science 🧪? Free and open to everyone- /1

Another #notTHECover unfortunately.

But this gorgeous, Tron-like vibe, drawn by the amazing @munafomarzia.bsky.social for our recent #ExM work with @gautamdey.bsky.social & @centriolelab.bsky.social will still be printed out in the lab.

Read here: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

As a Christmas present, our Jove paper with @ebertiaux.bsky.social is out and available for everyone ! Check this out & thanks @centriolelab.bsky.social for the nice highlight

A super detailed protocol + video on Cryo-ExM - Cryo-Expansion Microscopy, led by the labs of our former postdocs @marinelap.bsky.social & @ebertiaux.bsky.social.
Clear, practical, and very useful for anyone doing nanoscale imaging 🚀 app.jove.com/t/68595/expa...

Tired of drawing cilia or centrioles for slides and papers? I feel you.

Check out CiliaBuilder for ChimeraX → cxtoolshed.rbvi.ucsf.edu/apps/chimera...

Build custom 3D cilia & centriole models (tips + primary cilia included).

Are you a long-time fan of Archaea, an extremophile-phile, or are you simply curious?

Either way, we have good news.
We’re delighted to announce the 2026 EMBO Workshop on Archaea, 6–10 July.

Sign up: meetings.embo.org/event/26-arc...

We look forward to seeing you in Cambridge, UK.

Please repost!

JOB ALERT: Operations Director (DCI–Lausanne).
The DCI, a joint initiative of EPFL, UNIL, UNIGE and UNIBE, is recruiting an Operations Director to lead the cryo-EM facility in Lausanne.
📩 Questions: CEO of the DCI: @chgenoud.bsky.social
🔗 Apply here: careers.epfl.ch/job/Lausanne...

Honored to receive the FEBS Booster Funds 2025.
My sincere thanks to FEBS for this recognition and their support of early-career researchers.

This funding will greatly help advance my work.
Congratulations as well to all fellow 2025 awardees.

Christmas party 🎄- The lab went full senior mode (and won the best costume). You all rock 😄 !!!!!! (If you’re wondering where the youth went… check who’s been quietly draining the lab’s energy 😈)

Thanks to @tischi.bsky.social, BVB is now part of the MoBIE, you can load remote ZARR, use collection tables, arrange datasets in grids and many other awesome MoBIE features. Here is real-time remote browsing of data from the recent @centriolelab.bsky.social , @dudinlab.bsky.social & co paper (3/4)

We’re excited to announce the opening of the Geneva Expansion Microscopy Facility (GenExM)!

GenExM is a full-service U-ExM platform (U-ExM, Cryo-ExM, iU-ExM), delivering nanoscale imaging.

Led by Dr. Olivier Mercey, GenExM welcomes academic & industrial collaborations.

👉 www.unige.ch/genexm/

🥳 Our new paper on C2CD3 is out in @plosbiology.org
With the labs of @cellarchlab.com , @chgenoud.bsky.social , and @stearnslab.bsky.social , we revealed the mammalian centriole Distal Ring architecture by combining #UExM and in situ #CryoET.
Big congrats to @ebertiaux.bsky.social and all involved.