Thomas Lecuit
@thomaslecuit.bsky.social
How are biological forms encoded? Group leader at IBDM Marseille, director of Turing Center for living systems (CENTURI). Professor at Collège de France, Paris: Dynamics of living systems
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Pleasure to announce the program of my new series of lectures at the College de France in Nov-Dec. Continuing on the theme of Biological information. I will focus on the computational aspects, building on David Marr's tri-level of analysis in biological systems. YouTube link sent when it starts.
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#Science #Biologie
🧬 « Qu’est-ce que l’information biologique (suite) ? »
📌 Cours du Pr @thomaslecuit.bsky.social, titulaire de la chaire Dynamiques du vivant.
⏰ 20 novembre → 18 décembre 2025
👉 https://tinyurl.com/bddcxahd
🧬 « Qu’est-ce que l’information biologique (suite) ? »
📌 Cours du Pr @thomaslecuit.bsky.social, titulaire de la chaire Dynamiques du vivant.
⏰ 20 novembre → 18 décembre 2025
👉 https://tinyurl.com/bddcxahd
November 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM
#Science #Biologie
🧬 « Qu’est-ce que l’information biologique (suite) ? »
📌 Cours du Pr @thomaslecuit.bsky.social, titulaire de la chaire Dynamiques du vivant.
⏰ 20 novembre → 18 décembre 2025
👉 https://tinyurl.com/bddcxahd
🧬 « Qu’est-ce que l’information biologique (suite) ? »
📌 Cours du Pr @thomaslecuit.bsky.social, titulaire de la chaire Dynamiques du vivant.
⏰ 20 novembre → 18 décembre 2025
👉 https://tinyurl.com/bddcxahd
Exciting @centuri-ls.bsky.social internal seminar by @efeilker-phys.bsky.social on energetics and scaling during development 🤩
November 4, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Exciting @centuri-ls.bsky.social internal seminar by @efeilker-phys.bsky.social on energetics and scaling during development 🤩
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📣 We are moving to Barcelona to join the amazing @crg.eu and explore how centrosomes & cilia work, evolve & respond to the environment. We are looking for
PhD students www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
Postdocs gimm.pt/jobs/postdoc...
Other calls to open, also for an experienced lab manager.
Get in touch!
PhD students www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
Postdocs gimm.pt/jobs/postdoc...
Other calls to open, also for an experienced lab manager.
Get in touch!
October 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
📣 We are moving to Barcelona to join the amazing @crg.eu and explore how centrosomes & cilia work, evolve & respond to the environment. We are looking for
PhD students www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
Postdocs gimm.pt/jobs/postdoc...
Other calls to open, also for an experienced lab manager.
Get in touch!
PhD students www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
Postdocs gimm.pt/jobs/postdoc...
Other calls to open, also for an experienced lab manager.
Get in touch!
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[Last month to register]
📣 Forces at Play: Emerging Themes in Mechanobiology – In Memoriam of Professor Michael P. Sheetz
📆 January 19-21
📍Institut Jacques Monod, Paris
Registrations at 🔗 mikeinmemoriam.sciencesconf.org?lang=en
📣 Forces at Play: Emerging Themes in Mechanobiology – In Memoriam of Professor Michael P. Sheetz
📆 January 19-21
📍Institut Jacques Monod, Paris
Registrations at 🔗 mikeinmemoriam.sciencesconf.org?lang=en
October 29, 2025 at 2:49 PM
[Last month to register]
📣 Forces at Play: Emerging Themes in Mechanobiology – In Memoriam of Professor Michael P. Sheetz
📆 January 19-21
📍Institut Jacques Monod, Paris
Registrations at 🔗 mikeinmemoriam.sciencesconf.org?lang=en
📣 Forces at Play: Emerging Themes in Mechanobiology – In Memoriam of Professor Michael P. Sheetz
📆 January 19-21
📍Institut Jacques Monod, Paris
Registrations at 🔗 mikeinmemoriam.sciencesconf.org?lang=en
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Tomorrow Wednesday 29th at 11am, lesson #3 of @neilshubin.bsky.social guest Professor @college-de-france.fr on ‘The evolutionary origin of bones and teeth’. The second lesson is available @ www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B6y... . No registration, Free access, dentures accepted.
October 28, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Tomorrow Wednesday 29th at 11am, lesson #3 of @neilshubin.bsky.social guest Professor @college-de-france.fr on ‘The evolutionary origin of bones and teeth’. The second lesson is available @ www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B6y... . No registration, Free access, dentures accepted.
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La @socneuro.bsky.social a publié avec plusieurs Sociétés savantes et Associations de patients une tribune dans Le Monde « Budget 2026 : La taxation des expérimentations animales mettrait en péril la recherche en France » : www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...
#plf2026 @sneuroendo.bsky.social
#plf2026 @sneuroendo.bsky.social
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 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
La @socneuro.bsky.social a publié avec plusieurs Sociétés savantes et Associations de patients une tribune dans Le Monde « Budget 2026 : La taxation des expérimentations animales mettrait en péril la recherche en France » : www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...
#plf2026 @sneuroendo.bsky.social
#plf2026 @sneuroendo.bsky.social
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#Conférence #Biologie
« Le vivant dévoilé. Avec Blaise Pascal, Robert Hooke et Buffon »
📌 Conférence du Pr @thomaslecuit.bsky.social en partenariat avec la @labnf.bsky.social
⏰ Mardi 4 novembre 2025, 18 h 30
📍 BnF François-Mitterrand
Sur inscription 👉 https://tinyurl.com/48vpt9jb
« Le vivant dévoilé. Avec Blaise Pascal, Robert Hooke et Buffon »
📌 Conférence du Pr @thomaslecuit.bsky.social en partenariat avec la @labnf.bsky.social
⏰ Mardi 4 novembre 2025, 18 h 30
📍 BnF François-Mitterrand
Sur inscription 👉 https://tinyurl.com/48vpt9jb
October 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
#Conférence #Biologie
« Le vivant dévoilé. Avec Blaise Pascal, Robert Hooke et Buffon »
📌 Conférence du Pr @thomaslecuit.bsky.social en partenariat avec la @labnf.bsky.social
⏰ Mardi 4 novembre 2025, 18 h 30
📍 BnF François-Mitterrand
Sur inscription 👉 https://tinyurl.com/48vpt9jb
« Le vivant dévoilé. Avec Blaise Pascal, Robert Hooke et Buffon »
📌 Conférence du Pr @thomaslecuit.bsky.social en partenariat avec la @labnf.bsky.social
⏰ Mardi 4 novembre 2025, 18 h 30
📍 BnF François-Mitterrand
Sur inscription 👉 https://tinyurl.com/48vpt9jb
Week-end by sea and mountains near Nice 🤩 it felt like a whole week…
October 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Week-end by sea and mountains near Nice 🤩 it felt like a whole week…
Thank you Ankita for visiting us! Your energy and humour are a gift I keep with me preciously. 🙏🏼🤩
It's always lovely to see you 💕 @thomaslecuit.bsky.social
It's amazing how some things never change and we like it that way 😀
It's amazing how some things never change and we like it that way 😀
October 23, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Thank you Ankita for visiting us! Your energy and humour are a gift I keep with me preciously. 🙏🏼🤩
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#Science #Colloque
🧠 « Formes de l#’intelligence : #IA, connaissance, déduction, apprentissage »
📌 Colloque de rentrée du Collège de France
⏰ 16 et 17 octobre 2025
👉 https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/colloque/formes-de-intelligence
🧠 « Formes de l#’intelligence : #IA, connaissance, déduction, apprentissage »
📌 Colloque de rentrée du Collège de France
⏰ 16 et 17 octobre 2025
👉 https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/colloque/formes-de-intelligence
October 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
#Science #Colloque
🧠 « Formes de l#’intelligence : #IA, connaissance, déduction, apprentissage »
📌 Colloque de rentrée du Collège de France
⏰ 16 et 17 octobre 2025
👉 https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/colloque/formes-de-intelligence
🧠 « Formes de l#’intelligence : #IA, connaissance, déduction, apprentissage »
📌 Colloque de rentrée du Collège de France
⏰ 16 et 17 octobre 2025
👉 https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/colloque/formes-de-intelligence
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It is with great sadness that we share the news of the death of our founder, colleague, mentor and friend, Professor Sir John Gurdon. His vision and dedication will continue to inspire generations of scientists.
🔗 www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/nobel-laurea...
🔗 www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/nobel-laurea...
October 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
It is with great sadness that we share the news of the death of our founder, colleague, mentor and friend, Professor Sir John Gurdon. His vision and dedication will continue to inspire generations of scientists.
🔗 www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/nobel-laurea...
🔗 www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/nobel-laurea...
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With deep sadness, we share that Prof. Jochen Guck, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light passed away on October 3. His visionary work bridged physics and medicine. We have lost a brilliant scientist and dear friend.
mpl.mpg.de/news/article...
@fau.de
📸 Stephan Spangenberg
mpl.mpg.de/news/article...
@fau.de
📸 Stephan Spangenberg
October 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
With deep sadness, we share that Prof. Jochen Guck, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light passed away on October 3. His visionary work bridged physics and medicine. We have lost a brilliant scientist and dear friend.
mpl.mpg.de/news/article...
@fau.de
📸 Stephan Spangenberg
mpl.mpg.de/news/article...
@fau.de
📸 Stephan Spangenberg
Pleasure to announce the program of my new series of lectures at the College de France in Nov-Dec. Continuing on the theme of Biological information. I will focus on the computational aspects, building on David Marr's tri-level of analysis in biological systems. YouTube link sent when it starts.
October 7, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Pleasure to announce the program of my new series of lectures at the College de France in Nov-Dec. Continuing on the theme of Biological information. I will focus on the computational aspects, building on David Marr's tri-level of analysis in biological systems. YouTube link sent when it starts.
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Latest from ours: www.cell.com/cell-reports...
This is two stories in one: a case study/cautionary tale on developing genetic tools in new organisms, and the first hint at a gene regulatory network for choanoflagellate multicellular development (which turn out to involve a Hippo/YAP/ECM loop!) A 🧵
This is two stories in one: a case study/cautionary tale on developing genetic tools in new organisms, and the first hint at a gene regulatory network for choanoflagellate multicellular development (which turn out to involve a Hippo/YAP/ECM loop!) A 🧵
October 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Latest from ours: www.cell.com/cell-reports...
This is two stories in one: a case study/cautionary tale on developing genetic tools in new organisms, and the first hint at a gene regulatory network for choanoflagellate multicellular development (which turn out to involve a Hippo/YAP/ECM loop!) A 🧵
This is two stories in one: a case study/cautionary tale on developing genetic tools in new organisms, and the first hint at a gene regulatory network for choanoflagellate multicellular development (which turn out to involve a Hippo/YAP/ECM loop!) A 🧵
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🔥 En 1523, la Sorbonne interdit… l’enseignement du grec ! Scandale pour les érudits. Guillaume Budé convainc alors François Ier de fonder un collège libre : le Collège de France.
🔥 Sa fière statue de marbre trône aujourd’hui face à la Sorbonne, comme un défi lancé au conformisme académique.
#JEP2025
🔥 Sa fière statue de marbre trône aujourd’hui face à la Sorbonne, comme un défi lancé au conformisme académique.
#JEP2025
September 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
🔥 En 1523, la Sorbonne interdit… l’enseignement du grec ! Scandale pour les érudits. Guillaume Budé convainc alors François Ier de fonder un collège libre : le Collège de France.
🔥 Sa fière statue de marbre trône aujourd’hui face à la Sorbonne, comme un défi lancé au conformisme académique.
#JEP2025
🔥 Sa fière statue de marbre trône aujourd’hui face à la Sorbonne, comme un défi lancé au conformisme académique.
#JEP2025
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For last 10 years - we have worked with thousands of organizations around the world helping support them in integrating foldscope programs.
To bring in a new cohort of organizations - we are re-launching “fast and curious” 2025 edition - apply and get a Foldscope trainer and Foldscopes for free!
To bring in a new cohort of organizations - we are re-launching “fast and curious” 2025 edition - apply and get a Foldscope trainer and Foldscopes for free!
🔬 Free microscopes + teacher training!
📅 Applications are now open. To apply, visit www.foldscope.com or scan the QR code (video)
✉️ Any questions? Email us at training@foldscope.com
#stem #education #science #teachers #training #free #microscopy #educators #professionaldevelopment #microscope
📅 Applications are now open. To apply, visit www.foldscope.com or scan the QR code (video)
✉️ Any questions? Email us at training@foldscope.com
#stem #education #science #teachers #training #free #microscopy #educators #professionaldevelopment #microscope
September 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
For last 10 years - we have worked with thousands of organizations around the world helping support them in integrating foldscope programs.
To bring in a new cohort of organizations - we are re-launching “fast and curious” 2025 edition - apply and get a Foldscope trainer and Foldscopes for free!
To bring in a new cohort of organizations - we are re-launching “fast and curious” 2025 edition - apply and get a Foldscope trainer and Foldscopes for free!
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🥇 La médaille d'or 2025 du @cnrs.fr distingue le Pr Stéphane Mallat !
👨🏫 Titulaire de la chaire Science des données du Collège de France, il est mondialement reconnu pour ses travaux autour des #mathématiques appliquées au traitement du signal et à l’#IA.
👉 https://tinyurl.com/4kktjru9
👨🏫 Titulaire de la chaire Science des données du Collège de France, il est mondialement reconnu pour ses travaux autour des #mathématiques appliquées au traitement du signal et à l’#IA.
👉 https://tinyurl.com/4kktjru9
September 15, 2025 at 9:02 AM
🥇 La médaille d'or 2025 du @cnrs.fr distingue le Pr Stéphane Mallat !
👨🏫 Titulaire de la chaire Science des données du Collège de France, il est mondialement reconnu pour ses travaux autour des #mathématiques appliquées au traitement du signal et à l’#IA.
👉 https://tinyurl.com/4kktjru9
👨🏫 Titulaire de la chaire Science des données du Collège de France, il est mondialement reconnu pour ses travaux autour des #mathématiques appliquées au traitement du signal et à l’#IA.
👉 https://tinyurl.com/4kktjru9
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Out today. 🙏 again to everyone for this wonderful piece of work, in particular to Aurelie @aurhin.bsky.social Chase @chasebolt.bsky.social and Brent @homeobox.bsky.social. 🙏 also to the Harris lab @fish4walking.bsky.social and @neilshubin.bsky.social @biology-unige.bsky.social @college-de-france.fr
September 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Out today. 🙏 again to everyone for this wonderful piece of work, in particular to Aurelie @aurhin.bsky.social Chase @chasebolt.bsky.social and Brent @homeobox.bsky.social. 🙏 also to the Harris lab @fish4walking.bsky.social and @neilshubin.bsky.social @biology-unige.bsky.social @college-de-france.fr
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🐟 Nos doigts viendraient… du cloaque des #poissons !
✌️ Une étude publiée dans @nature.com par une équipe de #recherche internationale conduite par le Pr @denisduboule.bsky.social révèle comment l’évolution a recyclé un ancien #génome pour façonner mains et pieds.
👉 https://tinyurl.com/y778skwf
✌️ Une étude publiée dans @nature.com par une équipe de #recherche internationale conduite par le Pr @denisduboule.bsky.social révèle comment l’évolution a recyclé un ancien #génome pour façonner mains et pieds.
👉 https://tinyurl.com/y778skwf
September 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
🐟 Nos doigts viendraient… du cloaque des #poissons !
✌️ Une étude publiée dans @nature.com par une équipe de #recherche internationale conduite par le Pr @denisduboule.bsky.social révèle comment l’évolution a recyclé un ancien #génome pour façonner mains et pieds.
👉 https://tinyurl.com/y778skwf
✌️ Une étude publiée dans @nature.com par une équipe de #recherche internationale conduite par le Pr @denisduboule.bsky.social révèle comment l’évolution a recyclé un ancien #génome pour façonner mains et pieds.
👉 https://tinyurl.com/y778skwf
Welcome to Postdoc Zhongya Lin (right) coming from Tsinghua University and joining the lab to work with Postdoc Soichi Hirokawa (center) on wing morphogenesis.
September 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Welcome to Postdoc Zhongya Lin (right) coming from Tsinghua University and joining the lab to work with Postdoc Soichi Hirokawa (center) on wing morphogenesis.
CENTURI days with Alumni and present members of our community @centuri-ls.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
CENTURI days with Alumni and present members of our community @centuri-ls.bsky.social
Marseille in fire tonight 🤩
September 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Marseille in fire tonight 🤩
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💌 La meilleure façon de suivre les actualités du Collège de France ?
💌 Sa #newsletter hebdomadaire !
Abonnez-vous 👉 http://eepurl.com/heO5XT
💌 Sa #newsletter hebdomadaire !
Abonnez-vous 👉 http://eepurl.com/heO5XT
September 12, 2025 at 11:10 AM
💌 La meilleure façon de suivre les actualités du Collège de France ?
💌 Sa #newsletter hebdomadaire !
Abonnez-vous 👉 http://eepurl.com/heO5XT
💌 Sa #newsletter hebdomadaire !
Abonnez-vous 👉 http://eepurl.com/heO5XT
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We are all super happy and proud to see our work on the function and evolution of the #cephalic #furrow published in @nature.com. Let me say a few things about the background and history of this work on the #Evolution_of_Morphogenesis (1/12)
September 4, 2025 at 8:22 AM
We are all super happy and proud to see our work on the function and evolution of the #cephalic #furrow published in @nature.com. Let me say a few things about the background and history of this work on the #Evolution_of_Morphogenesis (1/12)