The number of grant applications is rising sharply. Our capacity for their evaluation isn’t.
ERC President Maria Leptin explains why stricter resubmission limits are being introduced for 2027 calls and what they mean for applicants.
🔗 link.europa.eu/xF7kjc
👉 3rd aECM club Apr 14th 10 am NYC-4 pm Paris
#aECM invertebrate cuticle and molt cycle @gotworms.bsky.social
@labgrosshans.bsky.social
program sundaramlab.com/blog/aecm-cl...
👉 join our Slack forms.gle/Y6UjbnXPH1pD...
Congratulations to these excellent CNRS PIs 🤩 for their promotion (pending a lot of bureaucracy🥲)! Full details in the link
c3n-cn.fr/2025/12/12/c...
Congratulations to the shortlisted candidates at section 24 of CNRS!
c3n-cn.fr/2025/12/12/c...
… but this is not a C.elegans….🤔
No matter where they are performed, studies with infectious agents need ironclad biorisk management. This can be promoted through robust gatekeeping of funding and publication, using a new formal reporting standard for pathogen research.
What concrete steps can we take to reinforce #biorisk management? In this Perspective, an international group of experts advocate for better global standards for #pathogen research.
🧪 #MicroSky #DURC
plos.io/3NN7451
👉 2nd aECM club on Feb 10th 10-11:30 am NYC 4-5.30 pm Paris
#aECM trafficking and processing
program sundaramlab.com/blog/aecm-cl...
👉 join our Slack forms.gle/Y6UjbnXPH1pD...
This weekend we projected cells and filaments on the roof of the @museeorsay.bsky.social in Paris, then we contracted it with a pinch of myosin.
And it was fabulous!
Grateful to have been part of this art/science project & thx to @manuelthery.bsky.social @lblanchoin.bsky.social & the CytoMorphoLab
👉unofficial guidelines for CNRS application in cell biology, development or evo-devo
c3n-cn.fr/section-24-w...
Read this inspiring perspectives coauthored by the Worm Resource directors and worm Nobel Laureates! 4 Nobel Prizes and how they were enabled by major NIH-supported research resources (the Caenorhabditis Genetics Center, WormBase, and WormAtlas) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#aECM Cub starts next week Nov 18 with talks on patterning the Drosophila lens, mouse tectorial membrane, and C.elegans cuticle furrows. You can still sign up for access using the link below.
😱
another #TEM beauty in #aECM🙏 @nibr3dem.bsky.social
@ibdm.bsky.social and @meera-sundaram.bsky.social
... a new virtual seminar series on apical extracellular matrix #aECM on different #organisms 🪱🪰🐁🌱🦠will start in Fall 2025, with short talks and discussions
If you are interested
👉https://forms.gle/Y6UjbnXPH1pDHAE97
@meera-sundaram.bsky.social @gotworms.bsky.social @heiman.bsky.social
Isotropic STED resolution (~70 nm) with a single objective using a new type of light modulator. "m-order vortex retarder" sounds like a Star Trek contraption but the images are stunning! arxiv.org/abs/2507.06718
Fantastic Nobel Moment at #worm25 with Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun.
“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco
So true… so my next goal: simplify/linearize the stories and publish before they leave 😂😂 and Carpe Diem…
Oil form droplets when mixed with alcohol, your monolayers dewet to form spherical aggregates, your friends dancing in a club form a circle, why?
I’m @challopeau.bsky.social and I will tell you about the origins and consequences of interfacial tension in tissues.
With a heavy heart I have decided not to attend a meeting in the US this June. I can’t act as if things are normal when science, universities, dissent & truth are all under threat. And I feel I can’t attend when there are scientists who are not able to travel to the US without fear of arrest.
Same here 😞
#fluorescenceMonday another nice example of regionalization of #aECM, during development #celegans vulv(a), of one of the Cystein Cradle domain # ECM protein, a familiar shape in Marseille😉
🙏to Sophie Mazzoli, @france-bioimaging.bsky.social platform @ciml.bsky.social & www.excitingworms.eu/SEGiCel/
in a new micropub 🙏 @micropub7n.bsky.social we shows the secretion of the Antimicrobial Peptide nlp-29 in the apical extracellular matrix #aECM upon several aECM damage in #Celegans
🙏Henrik Bringmann @cmcb-tud.bsky.social for the KI strain
doi.org/10.17912/mic...
these apposed mitochondria reveal a novel striated contact site
How is extrusion of infected host cells related to ERK (extracellular signal-regulated kinase) activity?
Hi, I’m @hundsdorfer.bsky.social from the @effiebastounis.bsky.social lab. Let’s follow the recent development of bacterially-infected cell extrusion & mechanochemical ERK activity waves.
Amazing non-worm collaboration with great EM experts Nicolas Brouilly @ibdm.bsky.social & Rémy Pujol Institut for Neurosciences Montpellier
see more in our short report www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
...post to be continued...
Intriguing #EM observation: in mouse type I hair cells, #SBF shows elongated mitochondria (yellow) apposed to the plasma membrane, a membrane contact site of 10 nm
👏Antonina Andreeva at EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org
SPIA-1 is an #aECM protein sharing a novel Cysteine-Cradle-Domain with 5 other worm proteins
