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Fanny Le Blanc

@fannyleblanc.bsky.social

PhD candidate in the Engel lab, Biozentrum, using cryo-ET to study photosynthesis in green algae 🌱 #TeamTomo

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We’re back with the next DinoSphere Online Seminar!

Join us on Nov 4th, we're hosting:

Edmée Royen (ULiège) - Symbiodinium

Nicolas dos Santos Pacheco (Cambridge) - Perkinsids

πŸ“… Tue, Nov 4 - 4 PM CET/3 PM GMT
β€¨πŸ’» Zoom link: sites.google.com/view/dinosphere


Please spread the word!
#protistonsky

28.10.2025 15:29 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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That’s a wrap of the 2nd edition of our one of a kind structural biology block course at the @biozentrum.unibas.ch! In just 6 short weeks students designed protein oligomers; rotated in cryo-ET, cryo-EM SPA, AFM, and NMR labs; and expressed, purified, and structurally characterized their designs

25.10.2025 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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A toolkit for testing membrane-localising tags across species Transgenic markers and tools have revolutionised how we study cells and developing organisms. Some of the elements needed to construct those tools are universally applicable (e.g. fluorescent proteins...

How can we see the cells that make up a living organism? Membrane-localising tags can drive fluorescent proteins to the cell's outer membrane, making their outlines visible. But the tags don't work well in all organisms. How do you find one for your species of interest? 🧡

Check our latest preprint

23.10.2025 08:16 β€” πŸ‘ 85    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 5
Young Swiss Tomo Organizers
Elda, Zanetta, Leonie and Florent

Young Swiss Tomo Organizers Elda, Zanetta, Leonie and Florent

Kuppelraum, University of Bern

Kuppelraum, University of Bern

David Kalbermatter from Bern

David Kalbermatter from Bern

Jean Daraspe from Lausanne

Jean Daraspe from Lausanne

Last Friday (17th), we had an amazing first Young Swiss Tomo meeting in Bern, organized with Elda Bauda, Zanetta Kechagia, and @leonieanton.bsky.social!
Over 70 people from πŸ‡¨πŸ‡­ gathered to talk about cryo-electron tomography πŸ”¬.
Huge thanks to the DCI for making the event possible! See you next year! πŸ‘‹

19.10.2025 09:16 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pretty excited to share our new preprint!
Non-photosynthetic Plastid Replacement by a Primary Plastid in the Making
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

10.10.2025 03:34 β€” πŸ‘ 91    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
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Nudibranchs as pictured by a Japanese illustrator named Kumataro Ito, artist for the USS Albatross’ Philippine Expedition, 1907–10. More of his stunning images here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/k...

30.09.2025 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 423    πŸ” 141    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 6
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🌱 Using β€˜compelling’ methods, including #CryoET, researchers mapped spinach thylakoid membranes at single-molecule precision, revealing how photosynthetic complexes are organised and settling long-standing debates on chloroplast architecture.
buff.ly/j3TSIkn

20.09.2025 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 68    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 7
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New paper is out! We have studied the cute tiny Discocelia plataet sp. n. to obtain the first molecular data of the order Discocelida and clarify its cell structure. All this for a better understanding of the evolution of Cercozoa.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

26.08.2025 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3
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Out today in @nature.com: Together with the Honigmann, Shevchenko, Drobot and Hof labs, we present a general workflow for imaging the localization and transport of individual lipids in cells and mapping their metabolism.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

21.08.2025 05:18 β€” πŸ‘ 343    πŸ” 129    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 23
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Structural insights into transcriptional regulation by the helicase RECQL5 - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology Florez Ariza and Lue et al. use cryo-electron microscopy to investigate how the RECQL5 helicase regulates transcription. Their structural findings suggest that RECQL5 can modulate RNA polymerase II’s ...


Our work, co-led by @alfredo0712.bsky.social and @nlue8.bsky.social is out in @natsmb.nature.com Shout out to coauthors P.Grob, B. Kaeser, J.Fang, and S. Kassube for their contributions and thanks to the reviewers for the suggestions that led to the final work.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

07.07.2025 10:34 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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We’re kicking off the DinoSphere Online Seminar Series! Join us for our first session with Karel Mockaer (Heidelberg) & Yong Heng Phua (OIST)

πŸ“… 1 July 9AM CEST
πŸ”— tinyurl.com/4mjaverj

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@protistwtmostest.bsky.social @ehehenberger.bsky.social @chandnibhickta.bsky.social&Norico Yamada

04.06.2025 04:34 β€” πŸ‘ 50    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3

The final version of our work on the in-cell architecture of the mitochondrial respiratory chain is now online in @science.org πŸŽ‰
You can find the full story here www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@verenaresch.bsky.social did a wonderful job on the cover and animation, she really brought it to life πŸ‘©β€πŸŽ¨

20.03.2025 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 278    πŸ” 87    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 7
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We (@cellarchlab.com peeps, @manondemulder.bsky.social @phaips.vd.st @fannyleblanc.bsky.social @computingcaitie.bsky.social and Ricardo) had a blast at the EMBO in situ meeting in Heidelberg! Meeting old friends and making new ones! Lots of cool science and new ideas to try πŸ‘¨πŸ»β€πŸ”¬πŸ”¬

06.02.2025 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Molecular architecture of thylakoid membranes within intact spinach chloroplasts Thylakoid membranes coordinate the light reactions of photosynthesis across multiple scales, coupling the architecture of an elaborate membrane network to the spatial organization of individual protei...

This one was delayed for a while… apologies to the musicians. Collab with Matt, Will and Lorna (over on Twitter). And a great dev effort from Lorenz @lorenzlamm.bsky.social. Ofc @cellarchlab.com team. Comment if you want to help. #teamthylakoid

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

27.11.2024 06:55 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 5
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Feeling super grateful to have participated in the #EMBOStructBio workshop in Hamburg last week! The talks and tutorials were top-notch and it was great fun connecting with everyone :)

25.11.2024 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

#JeSuisUneMitocondriac

22.11.2024 13:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Say hi πŸ‘‹ to @fannyleblanc.bsky.social! Five CellAchLab members on bskyπŸ’™ so far, including @computingcaitie.bsky.social @sofie-dot-rec.bsky.social @florentwaltz.bsky.social @wojwie.bsky.social. Science party!πŸ‘©β€πŸ”¬πŸ•Ί

#TeamTomo #CryoEMπŸ§ͺπŸ”¬πŸ§ΆπŸ§¬πŸŒΎ

21.11.2024 07:50 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

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