Herve Celia

Herve Celia

@hervecelia.bsky.social

Structural biologist, mostly cryoEM, mostly working on the Ton membrane motor protein, father of two

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Le Prix Pritzker distingue Smiljan Radic, architecte de l’intériorité Dix après Alejandro Aravena, il s’agit du deuxième Chilien récompensé par l’équivalent du Nobel, dans le domaine de l’architecture.

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La Chine, nouvelle superpuissance scientifique Le pays ambitionne d’être au premier plan dans toutes les disciplines scientifiques, en particulier l’astronomie, avec le télescope FAST, symbole de ce changement d’échelle. Si ses institutions et ses...

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De Vannes aux portes de Mars : un voyage scolaire exceptionnel au Japon Financement participatif organisé par OGEC ST PAUL-ST GEORGES 56 - Voyage scolaire de 29 lycéens au Japon en oct. 2026 pour découvrir la culture nippone et assister au décollage d’une mission martienn...

🚀 Assister au lancement de la mission martienne MMX depuis l'île de Tanegashima : c'est l'objectif un peu fou du voyage scolaire que j'organise pour 29 élèves.
Forcément cela a un coût, aussi je fais appel à votre générosité pour nous aider à réaliser ce projet !
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Université Grenoble Alpes has opened a full professorship in microbiology. The selected candidate will develop their research program on quantitative approaches in microbiology in the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique. For more information 👉🏻 liphy.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/sites/defaul...

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What about the Marsupilami?

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L’Iran a-t-il encore des alliés sur qui compter ? L’Iran est-il seul au monde face aux Etats-Unis et à Israël ? Ses alliés étatiques que sont la Russie et la Chine condamnent avec véhémence mais n’interviendront pas, et probablement même, n’aideront ...

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L’Iran a-t-il encore des alliés sur qui compter ?

Sur @franceculture.fr, @quentinlafay.bsky.social recevra Agnès Levallois, présidente de l’iReMMO et Adel Bakawan, président de EISMENA

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Guerre au Moyen-Orient : les pays du Golfe belligérants malgré eux ? Alors qu’Israël et les États-Unis ont frappé l’Iran, Téhéran a riposté en visant des bases américaines en Arabie Saoudite, au Qatar et aux Émirats arabes unis. Ces monarchies du Golfe, alliées de Wash...

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Guerre au Moyen-Orient : les pays du Golfe belligérants malgré eux ?

Sur @franceculture.fr, @quentinlafay.bsky.social recevra @dazihenifatiha.bsky.social, chercheuse spécialiste des monarchies de la péninsule arabique à l’IRSEM et à Sciences Po Lille

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A montage of comics and graphic novel covers from work dealing with trans lives.

If you want to go straight to our tagged list of trans and non-binary comics resources you can do so from the link here. www.brokenfrontier.com/tag/trans-an... Again, this is vital work and a great resource for library collection development. Reposts appreciated.

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New preprint by @alok-bharadwaj.bsky.social explaining the workings of SURFER, a simple tool to segment membrane, micelle or nanodisc densities in cryoEM maps.

Try it via the @chimerax.ucsf.edu ToolShed:

cxtoolshed.rbvi.ucsf.edu/apps/chimera...

Despite LocScale in the name, it works on any map.

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We’re recruiting new Research Group Leaders!
We offer:
🔬 Core funding
💻 Access to world-leading infrastructure
👩🏽‍🔬A network of world-leading scientists
…and much more.
Apply by 11 April: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
#ResearchCareers #Bioinformatics @timcoorens.bsky.social @embl.org

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David W. Bates, spécialiste de cybernétique : « Le cerveau n’est pas un ordinateur » Face à l’intelligence artificielle, l’universitaire américain cherche à éviter les écueils de la technophobie comme du transhumanisme. Il faut, selon lui, dépasser une opposition schématique entre « i...

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Une fouille de l'Inrap dans le centre-ville de Strasbourg a permis de révéler des vestiges d’habitat liés aux légions romaines, puis à la corporation des Drapiers au Moyen Âge, ainsi que de multiples remaniements de la période moderne et contemporaine 👉 inrap.fr/un-quartier-...

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Membrane-associated effluxosomes coordinate multi-metal resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis - The EMBO Journal Bacterial pathogens must withstand metal-induced stress during infection, yet the mechanisms by which they sense and respond to toxic metal ions remain incompletely understood. Here, we uncover a prev...

🎉 𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐎 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥!

After 8 months of revision, our work is now online: shorturl.at/WHmFq

We uncover a previously unrecognized way that 𝑀𝑦𝑐𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑢𝑚 𝑡𝑢𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑠 survives toxic metal stress during infection.
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Cheat sheet for ChimeraX.

ChimeraX cheat sheet brought to you by Alejandro Pereira. www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/dat...

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We are hiring at UGA! We’re looking for a full professor & director of the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (based right on the coast in Savannah, GA). Please pass on the job ad to anyone in your networks who may be interested: www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/468...

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Research Group Leader Tenure Track - Structural Studies - LMB 2775 - Medical Research Council Location: Cambridge. Vacancy: Research Group Leader Tenure Track - Structural Studies - LMB 2775. Closing Date: 16/03/2026, 23:55

Please spread the word: the Structural Studies Division @mrclmb.bsky.social is looking for a new tenure-track, independent group leader with an exciting plan in any area of Structural (Molecular & Cell) biology, in discovery biology and/or methods development. 🥳

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Advances in EPR Approaches for Studying Structural Properties of Membrane Proteins Energy level splitting of a nitroxide spin label under an external magnetic field (B), showing the effects of Zeeman and 14N (I = 1) hyperfine interactions and the corresponding electron paramagnetic...

REVIEW, Advances in EPR Approaches for Studying Structural Properties of Membrane Proteins, Indra D. Sahu*, Gary A. Lorigan* analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #NMRchat #NMR #EPR #ESR 🧲

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We are pleased to be a media partner for the @embo.org @embl.org Symposium - Microtubules: from atoms to complex systems
Abstract submission: 11 Mar 2026
Registration (On-site): 6 May 2026
Registration (Virtual): 10 Jun 2026

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#EESMicrotubules

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In vitro reconstitution in membrane environment reveals critical lipid dependence of substrate S-acylation by protein palmitoyltransferase enzymes Protein S-acylation, also known as protein palmitoylation, is a common form of post-translational modification and the most abundant form of lipid modification of proteins with several thousands of su...

New paper from our lab !
Thousands of proteins are targets of a form of post translational lipid attachment known as protein S-acylation, commonly as protein palmitoylation. 23 transmembrane zDHHC enzymes catalyze protein S-acylation in humans.

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I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated.
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Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) 

But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Ces prisonnières du camp d'Auschwitz ont décidé de faire parler la poudre ⤵️

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Save the date 🤩🤩🤩!

Our student-led Young Scientist Symposium will take place on the 4th & 5th of June this summer!

More information and registration available soon!

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Bacteriocin biophysics: From protein-protein interaction models to navigators of the bacterial cell envelope Bacteriocins are toxins deployed by bacteria to kill their competitors. Here, I reflect on my laboratory’s work on protein bacteriocins and their immunity proteins from Gram-negative bacteria. We unco...

A gift of an article from the inimitable Colin Kleanthous as he says a moving farewell to his laboratory. A brave, unrepentant and scientifically brilliant journey is described - please have a read, friends.

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We are hiring!

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« La course au grotesque géopolitique doit être prise très au sérieux » TRIBUNE. Plusieurs chefs d’Etat – Donald Trump, Javier Milei, Nayib Bukele, Vladimir Poutine – transgressent en permanence les codes démocratiques par la provocation, l’outrance et le spectacle. Il s’...

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Molecular Determinants of Selective and High-affinity Binding of the Scaffold Protein PDZK1 to the Urate Transporter URAT1 The renal solute carrier URAT1 (SLC22A12) is essential for urate homeostasis, with loss-of-function linked to renal hypouricemia, nephrolithiasis and …

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Very excited for this in-person #CryoSPARC workshop in partnership with @sickkidsto.bsky.social and the Canadian #CryoEM Nexus! Register today!

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Postdoctoral position - Synthetic Biology / Bacterial Immunity - Research The Bikard lab at Institut Pasteur in Paris is seeking to hire postdoctoral researchers. We are investigating bacteria / bacteriophages interactions, and the genetic innovation that happens at this in...

🚨 Hiring Alert! 🚨My lab at Institut Pasteur is recruiting several Postdocs! We have exciting open projects in: 🦠 Synthetic Biology and🛡️ Bacterial Immunity. Come do great science with us in the middle of Paris! 🇫🇷🥐 research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...

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« Nous avons documenté les cas de 30 304 civils tués en Iran » ENTRETIEN. Le médecin irano-allemand Amir Mobarez Parasta, qui dispose d’un vaste réseau de confrères à l’intérieur du pays, explique au « Point » pourquoi leur bilan humain de la répression surpasse ...

EFFROYABLE. 30 304 civils tués : voici le bilan provisoire de la répression des manifestations en #Iran documenté par le Dr Amir Mobarez Parasta et ses équipes dans le pays.

Ce médecin explique @lepoint.fr pourquoi leurs chiffres surpassent ceux des ONG⬇️.

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