Emmanuel Margeat
@emmanuelmargeat.bsky.social
CNRS Research Director
Single molecule fluorescence & smFRET of membrane proteins.
Director of the Center for Structural Biology. (@cbsmontpellier.bsky.social).
I collect photons nights & days (in the wild & in the lab)
Biophysics & Astrophotography here
Single molecule fluorescence & smFRET of membrane proteins.
Director of the Center for Structural Biology. (@cbsmontpellier.bsky.social).
I collect photons nights & days (in the wild & in the lab)
Biophysics & Astrophotography here
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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
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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Don’t miss this opportunity to work with a fantastic mentor, a great team, in a beautiful city of France!
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 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Don’t miss this opportunity to work with a fantastic mentor, a great team, in a beautiful city of France!
Reposted by Emmanuel Margeat
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.
Reposted by Emmanuel Margeat
Single-molecule friends!
The prelim. program of next year's sm- #Gordon conference in Switzerland is online: www.grc.org/single-molec...
It'll be 3x fantastic: science, people, place in the alps ⛰️. Kevin & I hope to see you all next June:
Have a look, tell your friends, and register!
The prelim. program of next year's sm- #Gordon conference in Switzerland is online: www.grc.org/single-molec...
It'll be 3x fantastic: science, people, place in the alps ⛰️. Kevin & I hope to see you all next June:
Have a look, tell your friends, and register!
2026 Single Molecule Approaches to Biology Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Single Molecule Approaches to Biology will be held in Les Diablerets, Vaud (fr) Switzerland. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
November 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Single-molecule friends!
The prelim. program of next year's sm- #Gordon conference in Switzerland is online: www.grc.org/single-molec...
It'll be 3x fantastic: science, people, place in the alps ⛰️. Kevin & I hope to see you all next June:
Have a look, tell your friends, and register!
The prelim. program of next year's sm- #Gordon conference in Switzerland is online: www.grc.org/single-molec...
It'll be 3x fantastic: science, people, place in the alps ⛰️. Kevin & I hope to see you all next June:
Have a look, tell your friends, and register!
Reposted by Emmanuel Margeat
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
The Python Software Foundation declines a 1.5M$ grant from NSF, to remain faithful to its diversity, equity, and inclusion values.
If you are a Python user, you can contribute financially to the foundation here :
psfmember.org/civicrm/cont...
If you are a Python user, you can contribute financially to the foundation here :
psfmember.org/civicrm/cont...
October 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The Python Software Foundation declines a 1.5M$ grant from NSF, to remain faithful to its diversity, equity, and inclusion values.
If you are a Python user, you can contribute financially to the foundation here :
psfmember.org/civicrm/cont...
If you are a Python user, you can contribute financially to the foundation here :
psfmember.org/civicrm/cont...
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You might have noticed lots of activity in the napari project recently! 🚀 We're grateful for a grant from CZI that's keeping us going, but grants don't last forever: we're trying to figure out sustainable long term funding. Read our blog post to find out how you can help:
napari.org/island-dispa...
napari.org/island-dispa...
October 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
You might have noticed lots of activity in the napari project recently! 🚀 We're grateful for a grant from CZI that's keeping us going, but grants don't last forever: we're trying to figure out sustainable long term funding. Read our blog post to find out how you can help:
napari.org/island-dispa...
napari.org/island-dispa...
#Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) tonight next to #Montpellier. Just one picture before the clouds ;-(
#astrophotography
C8 + reducer + motorized mount, 25s, EOS60D, 1600Iso
#astrophotography
C8 + reducer + motorized mount, 25s, EOS60D, 1600Iso
October 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
#Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) tonight next to #Montpellier. Just one picture before the clouds ;-(
#astrophotography
C8 + reducer + motorized mount, 25s, EOS60D, 1600Iso
#astrophotography
C8 + reducer + motorized mount, 25s, EOS60D, 1600Iso
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Our photoswitchable HaloTag is out in Angewandte Chemie @angewandtechemie.bsky.social ! We now also show that this system can be used to control emitter density in SMLM. Congrats to Franzi, Bego, and our amazing collaborators. Check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
A Photoswitchable HaloTag for Spatiotemporal Control of Fluorescence in Living Cells
Photoswitchable fluorophores are critical for advanced bioimaging. Here, we develop a photoswitchable self-labeling HaloTag that can reversibly modulate the emission of a bound fluorogenic dye via a ....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Our photoswitchable HaloTag is out in Angewandte Chemie @angewandtechemie.bsky.social ! We now also show that this system can be used to control emitter density in SMLM. Congrats to Franzi, Bego, and our amazing collaborators. Check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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.
fluorescenceleshouches.wordpress.com
#microscopy #fluorescence #superresolution
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#microscopy #fluorescence #superresolution
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.
fluorescenceleshouches.wordpress.com
#microscopy #fluorescence #superresolution
fluorescenceleshouches.wordpress.com
#microscopy #fluorescence #superresolution
My version of #Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) from #Montpellier yesterday. A lot of light pollution makes it difficult to catch !
#astrophotography
Refractor 72/420 + motorized mount, 15x10sec exposure, EOS60D, 1600Iso, DeepSkyStacker
#astrophotography
Refractor 72/420 + motorized mount, 15x10sec exposure, EOS60D, 1600Iso, DeepSkyStacker
October 17, 2025 at 7:28 AM
My version of #Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) from #Montpellier yesterday. A lot of light pollution makes it difficult to catch !
#astrophotography
Refractor 72/420 + motorized mount, 15x10sec exposure, EOS60D, 1600Iso, DeepSkyStacker
#astrophotography
Refractor 72/420 + motorized mount, 15x10sec exposure, EOS60D, 1600Iso, DeepSkyStacker
Soon... a new building for our laboratory, with 1400m² extra and renovated space to host new equipements such as cryoEM, CryoFIB-SEM, optical microscopies in biosafe confined environment, and a synthetic biology labs.
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.
@inserm.fr @cnrs.fr @umontpellier.bsky.social
@occitanie.bsky.social @villedemontpellier.bsky.social
& l'Etat
September 20, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Soon... a new building for our laboratory, with 1400m² extra and renovated space to host new equipements such as cryoEM, CryoFIB-SEM, optical microscopies in biosafe confined environment, and a synthetic biology labs.
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Dear colleagues, positions at CNRS (and INRIA) will (in all probability) be announced this winter. By then it will however be too late to properly prepare an application. Recent PhDs, postdocs etc interested in such positions should get right now in contact with teams who would like to recruit them.
September 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Dear colleagues, positions at CNRS (and INRIA) will (in all probability) be announced this winter. By then it will however be too late to properly prepare an application. Recent PhDs, postdocs etc interested in such positions should get right now in contact with teams who would like to recruit them.
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Please share: The application for Les Houches is open (until Oct 31)
fluorescenceleshouches.wordpress.com
*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!
fluorescenceleshouches.wordpress.com
*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
fluorescenceleshouches.wordpress.com
September 12, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Please share: The application for Les Houches is open (until Oct 31)
fluorescenceleshouches.wordpress.com
*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!
fluorescenceleshouches.wordpress.com
*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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Want to attend #bps2026 in San Francisco but need help with funding to get there? BPS offers travel awards for students and scientists at every career level.
Deadline to apply is October 3
(and you have to submit your abstract by October 1!)
Deadline to apply is October 3
(and you have to submit your abstract by October 1!)
BPS2026 Travel Awards | Biophysical Society
Travel Award FAQs
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September 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Want to attend #bps2026 in San Francisco but need help with funding to get there? BPS offers travel awards for students and scientists at every career level.
Deadline to apply is October 3
(and you have to submit your abstract by October 1!)
Deadline to apply is October 3
(and you have to submit your abstract by October 1!)
Too cloudy in Montpellier to catch the totality phase of the #eclipse... a nice evening though looking at the pink flamingos, the "lighthouse" of Palavas, and finally, a bit of the moon escaping from the clouds.
September 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Too cloudy in Montpellier to catch the totality phase of the #eclipse... a nice evening though looking at the pink flamingos, the "lighthouse" of Palavas, and finally, a bit of the moon escaping from the clouds.
Check this book chapter from my team collegues, explaining how they combine #AFM and #supperresolution #microscopy to investigate human nuclear envelopes structure & dynamics.
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 ...
link.springer.com
September 6, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Check this book chapter from my team collegues, explaining how they combine #AFM and #supperresolution #microscopy to investigate human nuclear envelopes structure & dynamics.
Reposted by Emmanuel Margeat
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.....
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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
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While you're on holiday, the EU is dismantling environmental protections 🏖️➡️💔 #HandsOffNature
You have until 10 September to tell the Commission what you think. Your voice matters: www.wwf.eu/campaigns/it...
You have until 10 September to tell the Commission what you think. Your voice matters: www.wwf.eu/campaigns/it...
#ItsOurNature
#ItsOurNature
www.wwf.eu
September 6, 2025 at 4:23 AM
While you're on holiday, the EU is dismantling environmental protections 🏖️➡️💔 #HandsOffNature
You have until 10 September to tell the Commission what you think. Your voice matters: www.wwf.eu/campaigns/it...
You have until 10 September to tell the Commission what you think. Your voice matters: www.wwf.eu/campaigns/it...
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Join BPS and your STEM colleagues at the 2025 Rally for Medical Research in Washington, DC. The Rally on September 17-18 is your chance to urge Congress to protect the NIH and support basic and biomedical research and preserve US scientific endeavors
Policy & Advocacy - Take Action | The Biophysical Society
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August 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Join BPS and your STEM colleagues at the 2025 Rally for Medical Research in Washington, DC. The Rally on September 17-18 is your chance to urge Congress to protect the NIH and support basic and biomedical research and preserve US scientific endeavors
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🚨
New Preprint!
Ex-dSTORM resolves fine details of the molecular architecture of CCPs, the 8-nm periodicity of microtubules, and the docking site of synaptic vesicles at the presynapse of hippocampal neurons.
▶️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
New Preprint!
Ex-dSTORM resolves fine details of the molecular architecture of CCPs, the 8-nm periodicity of microtubules, and the docking site of synaptic vesicles at the presynapse of hippocampal neurons.
▶️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
🚨
New Preprint!
Ex-dSTORM resolves fine details of the molecular architecture of CCPs, the 8-nm periodicity of microtubules, and the docking site of synaptic vesicles at the presynapse of hippocampal neurons.
▶️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
New Preprint!
Ex-dSTORM resolves fine details of the molecular architecture of CCPs, the 8-nm periodicity of microtubules, and the docking site of synaptic vesicles at the presynapse of hippocampal neurons.
▶️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Emmanuel Margeat
Happy to share our community note published in Nature Communications @natcomms.nature.com. In this 14-page article (34 authors from 9 countries), we discuss current practices in phase separation. We hope it will be useful to the biomolecular condensate community.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 20, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Happy to share our community note published in Nature Communications @natcomms.nature.com. In this 14-page article (34 authors from 9 countries), we discuss current practices in phase separation. We hope it will be useful to the biomolecular condensate community.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Emmanuel Margeat
Want to attend #bps2026 in San Francisco but need help with funding to get there? BPS offers travel awards for students and scientists at every career level.
Deadline to apply is October 3
(and you have to submit your abstract by October 1!)
Deadline to apply is October 3
(and you have to submit your abstract by October 1!)
BPS2026 Travel Awards | Biophysical Society
Travel Award FAQs
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August 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Want to attend #bps2026 in San Francisco but need help with funding to get there? BPS offers travel awards for students and scientists at every career level.
Deadline to apply is October 3
(and you have to submit your abstract by October 1!)
Deadline to apply is October 3
(and you have to submit your abstract by October 1!)
Reposted by Emmanuel Margeat
11th European Conference on Tetraspanins
The 2025 Conference on Tetraspanins will take place in Montpellier, France from September 17-19, 2025. Information & registration at tsmontp.sciencesconf.org
The 2025 Conference on Tetraspanins will take place in Montpellier, France from September 17-19, 2025. Information & registration at tsmontp.sciencesconf.org
July 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
11th European Conference on Tetraspanins
The 2025 Conference on Tetraspanins will take place in Montpellier, France from September 17-19, 2025. Information & registration at tsmontp.sciencesconf.org
The 2025 Conference on Tetraspanins will take place in Montpellier, France from September 17-19, 2025. Information & registration at tsmontp.sciencesconf.org
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Interested in gaining first-hand experience in public policy? Want to lend your scientific expertise to lawmakers? Apply to serve as a BPS Congressional Science & Technology Policy Fellow www.biophysics.org/policy-advoc...
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August 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Interested in gaining first-hand experience in public policy? Want to lend your scientific expertise to lawmakers? Apply to serve as a BPS Congressional Science & Technology Policy Fellow www.biophysics.org/policy-advoc...