Laetitia Mony
laetitiamony.bsky.social
Laetitia Mony
@laetitiamony.bsky.social
Molecular neurobiologist working on glutamate receptors at Ecole normale supérieure, PSL University, CNRS, INSERM.
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#Introduction I am a molecular neuroscientist studying the molecular and functional diversity of ionotropic glutamate receptors. I develop approaches based on #fluorescence and #photopharmacology. I will mainly talk about lab life and publications, maybe a bit of cooking from time to time...
Ce sentiment que notre temps ne compte pas et qu’on nous en demande toujours plus, à budget constat voire décroissant :
- on doit être ecolo mais les postes de laverie ne sont pas renouvelés
- on ajoute des nouvelles fonctions (ex référent.e égalité) mais on n’embauche pas de nouveaux personnels 1/
Quels sont d'après-vous les principaux problèmes rencontrés par les enseignants-chercheurs et les chercheurs en France aujourd'hui ?
November 2, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Come work with us! I am available if you need more information. @ibensens.bsky.social
@psl-univ.bsky.social
#iGlur
The Paoletti team is hiring a Postdoc position - IBENS Paris !

#neuroscience
#electrophysiology
#imaging
October 31, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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How are NMDA receptor channel conductance states regulated? We uncover a mechanism for tuning ion flow and reveal striking diversity in neurosteroid binding. Our structures captured two distinct open-channel states. A fantastic collaboration with the Traynelis lab.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Mechanism of conductance control and neurosteroid binding in NMDA receptors - Nature
Ion-channel conductance levels are controlled by the bending patterns of pore-forming transmembrane helices in the heterotetrameric neuronal channel GluN1a-2B N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor.
www.nature.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Les dératiseurs ont pignon sur rue avec des méthodes d'extermination souvent cruelles,
Les Français sont majoritairement carnivores,
Nous sommes déjà très dépendants d'autres pays en matière de santé,
Mais... Faudrait-il arrêter l'expérimentation animale ?
www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...
Budget 2026 : « La taxation des expérimentations animales mettrait en péril la recherche en France »
TRIBUNE. Dans une tribune au « Monde », des représentants de sociétés savantes, de fondations, d’associations et de réseaux scientifiques mettent en garde contre le dépôt d’amendements au projet de lo...
www.lemonde.fr
October 29, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Happy to share our new review of kainate receptor structure and gating. www.frontiersin.org/journals/pha...
October 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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We have postdoctoral positions available for patch-clampers and structural biologists #cryo-EM #electrophysiology #cancer-neuroimmunology #neuropharmacology jobrxiv.org/job/cold-spr...
--Postdoctoral Fellowship in Structural Neurophysiology at CSHL—
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jobrxiv.org
October 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Comprendre le cerveau, c'est maintenant !
October 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Job Opp: Do you want to be the driver of those next steps as a PhD student?

If you have a strong background in synthetic chemistry & chemical biology, we want to hear from you - hiring for 2026!

tu-dresden.de/mn/chemie/oc...
October 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Pour un dialogue éclairé et raisonné sur l’expérimentation en neurosciences, ses progrès, ses promesses !
Ça se passe à l’Hotel de Ville de Paris ce lundi 6 octobre à 17 h !
Ouvert à tous publics, sur inscription gratuite.
Rejoignez nous !
October 1, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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academic.oup.com/brain/advanc... with Hongjie Yuan and Steve Traynelis. We went back to x-ray crystallography to capture radiprodil, a classic psychiatric compound.
Inhibition of GluN2B-containing N-methyl-d-aspartate receptors by radiprodil
Banke et al. identified the structural determinants of radiprodil binding and the mechanism by which it inhibits GluN2B-NMDARs. They found that radiprodil
academic.oup.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Paris, this big construction field.
September 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Cryo-EM snapshots of NMDA receptor activation illuminate sequential rearrangements | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Cryo-EM snapshots of NMDA receptor activation illuminate sequential rearrangements
Opening of the NMDA receptor involves bending of the helices lining the ion channel gate.
www.science.org
September 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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👩‍🔬J'ai commencé un kit de démarrage "chercheuses en France" go.bsky.app/TBEzKC #FemmesEnScience

J'ai besoin de votre aide pour le remplir et donner de la visibilité aux chercheuses que vous connaissez et qui sont sur Bluesky !
▶️Taguez celles que vous connaissez, je les ajoute !
September 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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🥁Out on @pnas.org
👉Excitatory glycine receptors control ventral hippocampus synaptic plasticity and anxiety-related behaviors
🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
👏Congratulations to Lara Pizzamiglio, Pierre Paoletti and all authors and collaborators!
September 19, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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📢Call for Junior Group Leader in Functional Genomics

The Institute of Biology of the École Normale Supérieure is seeking to recruit a junior group leader in the area of Functional Genomics.

Deadline: October 31st, 2025

#IBENS #joboffer

🔗 www.bio.ens.psl.eu/depbio/spip....
September 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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The last article of Paoletti team has just been published on PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Congratulations to Lara Pizzamiglio, and all co-authors for this work 👏🏻
September 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Chaotic and beautiful skies tonight in Paris
September 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I am not self-confident enough to watch myself, but if you want to watch me present our latest work on #photopharma of #NMDA receptors, it’s here, along with other great ion channel topics 👉 sophion.com/publications...
September 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Kainate receptor modulation by Neto including an open state. Surprising, to me: I would never have imagined that Neto works like a membrane-tethered lectin (ConA). Auxiliary proteins influence dimer-dimer interactions, as we and others also showed in AMPARs.

#iGluRs

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Activation of kainate receptor GluK2–Neto2 complex - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Gangwar et al. present cryo-electron microscopy structures of GluK2 kainate receptors with auxiliary subunit Neto2 and reveal the basis of receptor activation.
www.nature.com
August 26, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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La longue histoire des tests de grossesse : de l’Égypte antique à Margaret Crane, l’inventrice du test à domicile
La longue histoire des tests de grossesse : de l’Égypte antique à Margaret Crane, l’inventrice du test à domicile
Depuis la pandémie de Covid-19, nous connaissons tous très bien les tests antigéniques, mais saviez-vous que les premiers tests de ce type ont été développés, pour la grossesse, grâce à Margaret Crane ?
theconversation.com
August 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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[SAVOIRS ENS] 🎧 Réécoutez la conférence « Un GPS dans le cerveau ? Mais où ? » donnée par Ana Margarida Pinto, doctorante au sein de l'équipe Neurophysiologie des Circuits Cérébraux du département de biologie de l'ENS.
👉 Lien : https://bit.pulse.ly/pzghbfvec4
August 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Interested in how calcium permeates #AMPAreceptors (or not)? Check out our latest collaboration with @hansunlab.bsky.social from @fmp-berlin.de, now online in its final form. Congrats to former students Florian, Johann and Ece!
@humboldtuni.bsky.social @dfg.de #iGluRs

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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August 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Come and join us at ENS Paris! Call for a Junior Professor position in Neuroscience. Please RT
📢Call for Junior Professor Chair in Neuroscience (tenure track position)

@psl-univ.bsky.social is launching a call for applications for a Junior Professor Chair in Life Sciences entitled “Neurosciences”, to be based at #IBENS

Deadline: September 30th, 2025 4pm

www.bio.ens.psl.eu/depbio/spip....
July 31, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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🥁Out on @embojournal.org
👉Optochemical profiling of NMDAR molecular diversity at synaptic and extrasynaptic sites
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s44318-025-00498-x
👏Congratulations to Antoine Sicard, Pierre Paoletti*, @laetitiamony.bsky.social and all authors and collaborators!
July 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM