Center for Structural Biology (CBS Montpellier)
@cbsmontpellier.bsky.social
CBS : A research lab in structural biology, biophysics and synthetic biology.
CNRS, INSERM, Université de Montpellier
Located in Montpellier, France.
www.cbs.cnrs.fr
CNRS, INSERM, Université de Montpellier
Located in Montpellier, France.
www.cbs.cnrs.fr
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Interdisciplinary access call is back!
The 3 infrastructures ProFi, FBI and FRISBI together with the GIS IBiSA announce the 4th call for funded access to IBiSA-labelled facilities for transdisciplinary projects!🤝
Apply here before Feb 13, 2026 👉 france-bioimaging.org/announcement...
The 3 infrastructures ProFi, FBI and FRISBI together with the GIS IBiSA announce the 4th call for funded access to IBiSA-labelled facilities for transdisciplinary projects!🤝
Apply here before Feb 13, 2026 👉 france-bioimaging.org/announcement...
January 13, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Interdisciplinary access call is back!
The 3 infrastructures ProFi, FBI and FRISBI together with the GIS IBiSA announce the 4th call for funded access to IBiSA-labelled facilities for transdisciplinary projects!🤝
Apply here before Feb 13, 2026 👉 france-bioimaging.org/announcement...
The 3 infrastructures ProFi, FBI and FRISBI together with the GIS IBiSA announce the 4th call for funded access to IBiSA-labelled facilities for transdisciplinary projects!🤝
Apply here before Feb 13, 2026 👉 france-bioimaging.org/announcement...
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Delighted to be attending (and sharing our latest results!) at the Journées Jean Chevaugeon (@sfp-france.bsky.social) #JJC2026 this week 🌱
Looking forward to the great science and connecting with fellow researchers over the coming days - all in this wonderful location!
Looking forward to the great science and connecting with fellow researchers over the coming days - all in this wonderful location!
January 13, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Delighted to be attending (and sharing our latest results!) at the Journées Jean Chevaugeon (@sfp-france.bsky.social) #JJC2026 this week 🌱
Looking forward to the great science and connecting with fellow researchers over the coming days - all in this wonderful location!
Looking forward to the great science and connecting with fellow researchers over the coming days - all in this wonderful location!
Join us in Montpellier in June 2026 for the second edition of the European South Atlantic Biophysical conference
#ESAB2026
#ESAB2026
#ESAB2026 is opening !
👉 Registration is now available for the second edition of the European South Atlantic Biophysical conference.
👉 esab2026.cbs.cnrs.fr
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👉 Registration is now available for the second edition of the European South Atlantic Biophysical conference.
👉 esab2026.cbs.cnrs.fr
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January 8, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Join us in Montpellier in June 2026 for the second edition of the European South Atlantic Biophysical conference
#ESAB2026
#ESAB2026
It's Christmas in advance in the lab, as we recieved the first ever #Luminosa from @picoquant.bsky.social to be installed in France. It will be available on the PIBBS facility, as a combo with a Brucker Atomic force microscope for #mecanobiology, #smFRET, #FLIM, #FCS, #AFM applications and more.
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December 6, 2025 at 9:31 AM
It's Christmas in advance in the lab, as we recieved the first ever #Luminosa from @picoquant.bsky.social to be installed in France. It will be available on the PIBBS facility, as a combo with a Brucker Atomic force microscope for #mecanobiology, #smFRET, #FLIM, #FCS, #AFM applications and more.
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Watch Robert Quast @rbquast.bsky.social from our Team presenting our work on single molecule #FRET on #GPCR in the first FBI Connect webainar !
The replay of the 1st edition of FBI Connect is now available!◀️
In this webinar, we welcomed Robert Quast from the CBS in Montpellier. He presented his latest project and an unique multicolor smFRET technique to study GPCR dynamics!
🔗Watch it here: youtu.be/pgU_3VhMutk
In this webinar, we welcomed Robert Quast from the CBS in Montpellier. He presented his latest project and an unique multicolor smFRET technique to study GPCR dynamics!
🔗Watch it here: youtu.be/pgU_3VhMutk
December 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Watch Robert Quast @rbquast.bsky.social from our Team presenting our work on single molecule #FRET on #GPCR in the first FBI Connect webainar !
A new postdoctoral position offered at CBS Montpellier
We are hiring a 2-year postdoctoral researcher to join our Membrane Biophysics team at the CBS in Montpellier. Join us to reinvent Atomic Force Microscopy to image the most common interface on our planet: the surface of water @membranesbiophy.bsky.social @cbsmontpellier.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
A new postdoctoral position offered at CBS Montpellier
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We are hiring a 2-year postdoctoral researcher to join our Membrane Biophysics team at the CBS in Montpellier. Join us to reinvent Atomic Force Microscopy to image the most common interface on our planet: the surface of water @membranesbiophy.bsky.social @cbsmontpellier.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
We are hiring a 2-year postdoctoral researcher to join our Membrane Biophysics team at the CBS in Montpellier. Join us to reinvent Atomic Force Microscopy to image the most common interface on our planet: the surface of water @membranesbiophy.bsky.social @cbsmontpellier.bsky.social
In two weeks, our #qbio #Master students learned to build, from drawing to full realization, their own : confocal FCS, TIRF microscope, and optical tweezers setup ! This is hand-on #microscopy !
Interested ? Join the qbio master next year at the Montpellier University !
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Interested ? Join the qbio master next year at the Montpellier University !
qbio.umontpellier.fr
November 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM
In two weeks, our #qbio #Master students learned to build, from drawing to full realization, their own : confocal FCS, TIRF microscope, and optical tweezers setup ! This is hand-on #microscopy !
Interested ? Join the qbio master next year at the Montpellier University !
qbio.umontpellier.fr
Interested ? Join the qbio master next year at the Montpellier University !
qbio.umontpellier.fr
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At the @cbsmontpellier.bsky.social we equipped the JKP atomic force microscope, mounted on an inverted microscope, with photothermal excitation. This custom-built optical pathway focuses a laser onto the cantilever in our correlative AFM–fluorescence microscopy setup. @costaluca.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
At the @cbsmontpellier.bsky.social we equipped the JKP atomic force microscope, mounted on an inverted microscope, with photothermal excitation. This custom-built optical pathway focuses a laser onto the cantilever in our correlative AFM–fluorescence microscopy setup. @costaluca.bsky.social
Postdoctoral position in the team of Alessandro Barducci in the CBS, focusing on multiscale simulations of RNA-driven condensates, with applications in synthetic biology.
More information :
www.cbs.cnrs.fr/images/jobs/...
The position is expected to start in early 2026, with some flexibility.
More information :
www.cbs.cnrs.fr/images/jobs/...
The position is expected to start in early 2026, with some flexibility.
November 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Postdoctoral position in the team of Alessandro Barducci in the CBS, focusing on multiscale simulations of RNA-driven condensates, with applications in synthetic biology.
More information :
www.cbs.cnrs.fr/images/jobs/...
The position is expected to start in early 2026, with some flexibility.
More information :
www.cbs.cnrs.fr/images/jobs/...
The position is expected to start in early 2026, with some flexibility.
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Excited to share our new preprint on Myxococcus xanthus!
We show that two distinct motility motors can propel the same bacterial cell simultaneously, and that this dual propulsion is tunable by environmental calcium. 🧵 1/6
📄 Read it here →https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.29.685086v1
We show that two distinct motility motors can propel the same bacterial cell simultaneously, and that this dual propulsion is tunable by environmental calcium. 🧵 1/6
📄 Read it here →https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.29.685086v1
October 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Excited to share our new preprint on Myxococcus xanthus!
We show that two distinct motility motors can propel the same bacterial cell simultaneously, and that this dual propulsion is tunable by environmental calcium. 🧵 1/6
📄 Read it here →https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.29.685086v1
We show that two distinct motility motors can propel the same bacterial cell simultaneously, and that this dual propulsion is tunable by environmental calcium. 🧵 1/6
📄 Read it here →https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.29.685086v1
A new preprint from our lab, from @antoinelegentil.bsky.social , on Myxococcus Xanthus motility.
Excited to share our new preprint on Myxococcus xanthus!
We show that two distinct motility motors can propel the same bacterial cell simultaneously, and that this dual propulsion is tunable by environmental calcium. 🧵 1/6
📄 Read it here →https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.29.685086v1
We show that two distinct motility motors can propel the same bacterial cell simultaneously, and that this dual propulsion is tunable by environmental calcium. 🧵 1/6
📄 Read it here →https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.29.685086v1
November 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
A new preprint from our lab, from @antoinelegentil.bsky.social , on Myxococcus Xanthus motility.
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Please repost. Only a few days left to apply to the “Ecole de Physique des Houches” on Fluorescence Markers for Advanced Microscopies, a WE-Heraeus seminar. Deadline October 31th.
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October 17, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Please repost. Only a few days left to apply to the “Ecole de Physique des Houches” on Fluorescence Markers for Advanced Microscopies, a WE-Heraeus seminar. Deadline October 31th.
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#microscopy #fluorescence #superresolution
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#microscopy #fluorescence #superresolution
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New preprint by @lavagnae.bsky.social from Barducci lab (@cbsmontpellier.bsky.social): we show how energy-consuming enzymatic reactions, like phosphorylation, regulate biomolecular condensates with complex effects on condensate stability and reactive interfaces. Any feedback welcome!
Uncovering the thermodynamic principles of enzymaticregulation in biomolecular condensates with reactivesimulations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.13.682073v1
October 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
New preprint by @lavagnae.bsky.social from Barducci lab (@cbsmontpellier.bsky.social): we show how energy-consuming enzymatic reactions, like phosphorylation, regulate biomolecular condensates with complex effects on condensate stability and reactive interfaces. Any feedback welcome!
Lancement ce jour du projet d'extension de notre laboratoire. 1100m² de nouveaux espaces et 280m² rehabilités.
Merci pour leur soutien à nos tutelles et nos partenaires.
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& l'Etat
Merci pour leur soutien à nos tutelles et nos partenaires.
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@occitanie.bsky.social @villedemontpellier.bsky.social
& l'Etat
September 20, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Lancement ce jour du projet d'extension de notre laboratoire. 1100m² de nouveaux espaces et 280m² rehabilités.
Merci pour leur soutien à nos tutelles et nos partenaires.
@inserm.fr @cnrs.fr @umontpellier.bsky.social
@occitanie.bsky.social @villedemontpellier.bsky.social
& l'Etat
Merci pour leur soutien à nos tutelles et nos partenaires.
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& l'Etat
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Please share: The application for Les Houches is open (until Oct 31)
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*This is for you, if you ever wanted to learn all about fluorescence markers & how to apply them for your biological research!*
PS: no fees this year, you just need to get there, that's all!
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*This is for you, if you ever wanted to learn all about fluorescence markers & how to apply them for your biological research!*
PS: no fees this year, you just need to get there, that's all!
French-German WE-Heraeus-Seminar "Fluorescence markers for advanced microscopy : From photophysics to biology - 2026"
March 15-20 2026, Les Houches, France
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September 12, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Please share: The application for Les Houches is open (until Oct 31)
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*This is for you, if you ever wanted to learn all about fluorescence markers & how to apply them for your biological research!*
PS: no fees this year, you just need to get there, that's all!
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*This is for you, if you ever wanted to learn all about fluorescence markers & how to apply them for your biological research!*
PS: no fees this year, you just need to get there, that's all!
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A new book chapter on
"Imaging Nuclear Envelopes Using Correlative AFM/Fluorescence Microscopy"
from our team members
@emiliecostes.bsky.social @chrisdoucet.bsky.social @pemcbs.bsky.social
link.springer.com/protocol/10....
#NPC #AFM #fluorescence #microscopy
"Imaging Nuclear Envelopes Using Correlative AFM/Fluorescence Microscopy"
from our team members
@emiliecostes.bsky.social @chrisdoucet.bsky.social @pemcbs.bsky.social
link.springer.com/protocol/10....
#NPC #AFM #fluorescence #microscopy
Imaging Nuclear Envelopes Using Correlative AFM/Fluorescence Microscopy
The nuclear envelope (NE) is the hallmark of eukaryotic cells. It is a complex structure composed of two concentric lipid bilayers separated by a 50 nm lumen. While the outer nuclear membrane is ...
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September 3, 2025 at 5:36 AM
A new book chapter on
"Imaging Nuclear Envelopes Using Correlative AFM/Fluorescence Microscopy"
from our team members
@emiliecostes.bsky.social @chrisdoucet.bsky.social @pemcbs.bsky.social
link.springer.com/protocol/10....
#NPC #AFM #fluorescence #microscopy
"Imaging Nuclear Envelopes Using Correlative AFM/Fluorescence Microscopy"
from our team members
@emiliecostes.bsky.social @chrisdoucet.bsky.social @pemcbs.bsky.social
link.springer.com/protocol/10....
#NPC #AFM #fluorescence #microscopy
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Our team contributed to this study :
"Automated identification of honey bee pollen loads for field‐applied palynological studies"
New Phytologist - nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Congrats @chrisdoucet.bsky.social & collaborators from LMGC, LIRMM, CEFE & IBMM @umontpellier.bsky.social
"Automated identification of honey bee pollen loads for field‐applied palynological studies"
New Phytologist - nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Congrats @chrisdoucet.bsky.social & collaborators from LMGC, LIRMM, CEFE & IBMM @umontpellier.bsky.social
Automated identification of honey bee pollen loads for field‐applied palynological studies
In a changing world, it is crucial to characterise communities and their evolution over time. Because social insect pollinators forage on flowering plants around the colony, the nest potentially con.....
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September 3, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Our team contributed to this study :
"Automated identification of honey bee pollen loads for field‐applied palynological studies"
New Phytologist - nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Congrats @chrisdoucet.bsky.social & collaborators from LMGC, LIRMM, CEFE & IBMM @umontpellier.bsky.social
"Automated identification of honey bee pollen loads for field‐applied palynological studies"
New Phytologist - nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Congrats @chrisdoucet.bsky.social & collaborators from LMGC, LIRMM, CEFE & IBMM @umontpellier.bsky.social
New paper alert from the CBS !
Picomolar bivalent inhibitors of protein kinase CK2 active against β-coronavirus replication www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Picomolar bivalent inhibitors of protein kinase CK2 active against β-coronavirus replication www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Picomolar bivalent inhibitors of protein kinase CK2 active against β-coronavirus replication
The protein casein kinase 2 (CK2) has been shown to be upregulated in SARS-CoV-2 infections. However, few inhibitors have been tested for antiviral ac…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 14, 2025 at 9:21 AM
New paper alert from the CBS !
Picomolar bivalent inhibitors of protein kinase CK2 active against β-coronavirus replication www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Picomolar bivalent inhibitors of protein kinase CK2 active against β-coronavirus replication www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
It was a pleasure to welcome you at the CBS for your great talk on molecular condensates !
Had an amazing 2-day stay in Montpellier & gave 2 seminars at IBMM, Université de Montpellier & CBS (Centre de Biologie Structurale), CNRS. Thanks to my amazing hosts, Joseph Chamieh (IBMM) & Emmanuel Margeat (CBS). I just arrived in Paris and on my way to Metz to visit the Université de Lorraine.
July 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
It was a pleasure to welcome you at the CBS for your great talk on molecular condensates !
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A great study by the team of @mickael-blaise.bsky.social that uses the Electron Microscopy facility of our institute ! Congrats !
Glad to share J.Couston's @juliecouston.bsky.social
work published at The FEBS Letters @febsletters.bsky.social and done at @irim-life.bsky.social
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work published at The FEBS Letters @febsletters.bsky.social and done at @irim-life.bsky.social
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Most MmpLs transport lipids and glycolipids of the complex mycomembrane of mycobacteria. This study shows that MmpL10 from Mycobacterium smegmatis, the transporter of the trehalose polyphosphate prec...
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June 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
A great study by the team of @mickael-blaise.bsky.social that uses the Electron Microscopy facility of our institute ! Congrats !
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Applications are now open for the 4th edition of the “Ecole de Physique des Houches” on Fluorescence Markers for Advanced Microscopies, a WE-Heraeus seminar.
March 15th-20th 2026
Join us to learn everything you wanted to know about Fluorescent Markers for advanced microscopies.
March 15th-20th 2026
Join us to learn everything you wanted to know about Fluorescent Markers for advanced microscopies.
May 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Applications are now open for the 4th edition of the “Ecole de Physique des Houches” on Fluorescence Markers for Advanced Microscopies, a WE-Heraeus seminar.
March 15th-20th 2026
Join us to learn everything you wanted to know about Fluorescent Markers for advanced microscopies.
March 15th-20th 2026
Join us to learn everything you wanted to know about Fluorescent Markers for advanced microscopies.
Felicitations à Pierre-Emmanuel Milhiet, ancien directeur du CBS et directeur du Pole Biologie-Santé de l'Université de Montpellier, reçu mardi dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques.
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May 26, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Felicitations à Pierre-Emmanuel Milhiet, ancien directeur du CBS et directeur du Pole Biologie-Santé de l'Université de Montpellier, reçu mardi dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques.
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@cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
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