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Quentin Frenger
@frengerquentin.bsky.social
PhD.
Cell biologist.
Interested in all flavors of #Autophagy.
Postdoc in the MEMBRAMICS Lab @membramics-lab.bsky.social at INEM @inem-necker.bsky.social‬
Paris, France
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What a truly beautiful time at the European Intermediate Filament Meeting 2025 in Lyon! I was so glad to meet such a welcoming community.

I'm honored to have won the Best Oral Communication Prize for my recent postdoc project on Vimentin and Autophagy!

Huge thanks to the organizers!
September 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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New paper alert! I’m very excited to share our paper published in @embojournal.org! @pdc-lab.bsky.social @yaleneuro.bsky.social
Bridge-like lipid transfer protein 3A (BLTP3A) participates in endomembrane repair as an effector of #ATG8 conjugation to single membranes (CASM) - helping repair or minimize #lysosome damage
@mike-hanna.bsky.social et al, @pdc-lab.bsky.social
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
September 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Super happy to see CLEM-Reg out in @natmethods.nature.com! A short thread on the algorithm behind it and how to try it out for yourself🧵(1/9)

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
CLEM-Reg: an automated point cloud-based registration algorithm for volume correlative light and electron microscopy - Nature Methods
CLEM-Reg automates the three-dimensional alignment of volume correlative light and electron microscopy datasets by leveraging probabilistic point cloud registration techniques for fast and accurate re...
www.nature.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:37 AM
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Important study!
Authors identify PDZD8 (renamed LYVAC) as an ER-anchored lipid transfer protein.
In response to lysosomal osmotic stress, it provides lipids to support lysosome swelling.
Unlike ATG2, LYVAC does not supply lipids to damaged lysosomes.
LYVAC/PDZD8 is a lysosomal vacuolator
Lysosomal vacuolation is commonly found in many pathophysiological conditions, but its molecular mechanisms and functions remain largely unknown. Here, we show that the endoplasmic reticulum (ER)–anch...
www.science.org
August 22, 2025 at 7:55 AM
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
EBV-expanded B cells home to the CNS where they attract T cells, mainly via CXCR3 expression, to trigger multiple sclerosis.
Congrats to the authors !
EBV induces CNS homing of B cells attracting inflammatory T cells - Nature
Epstein–Barr virus infection generates a neuroinvasive B cell subset, which recruits activated T cells to the central nervous system, promoting multiple sclerosis.
www.nature.com
August 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
August 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
You know it's going to be good when it says 'ATG16L1-dependent'😜!
Congrats on the great work @carlaalemany.bsky.social, @julianedagraca.bsky.social !!!
(again!) new publication for @membramics-lab.bsky.social, by @carlaalemany.bsky.social & @julianedagraca.bsky.social

in collaboration with N Naffakh & JB Brault, we show that Influenza virus triggers an ATG16L1/Rab11 PI4P response at ER membrane for viral export

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
July 18, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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FINALLY OUT ! After a long journey (of PhD and publication process) my paper on the role of ER-endosomes contact sites in autophagosome formation is officially out 🥳🥳 www.cell.com/cell-reports...
ER-endosome contacts generate a local environment promoting phagophore formation
Da Graça et al. identify ER-endosome contact sites as critical hubs for autophagosome biogenesis, where starvation triggers sequential endosome tethering to ER exit sites. This spatiotemporal coordina...
www.cell.com
July 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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🎉 Congratulations to @julianedagraca.bsky.social, recipient of the 2025 Beth Levine #ThesisPrize! Her outstanding research @membramics-lab.bsky.social on the role of ER/Endosome contact sites in the regulation of #autophagy captures the award's spirit of excellence and innovation. 👏
July 11, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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dear all! The Membrane Band (www.membraneband.com) will give a concert for the 30th Anniversary of the "Cell biology & Cancer Research Unit" (aka UMR144 for close friends) ‪of Curie Institute on Monday 23th fo June! @institutcurie.bsky.social

see you there?
June 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Our Immune Cell Biology collection emphasizes cellular dynamics, immune regulation, and disease mechanisms. Explore research on the mechanisms of dendritic cell regulation, T cell migration, neutrophil spreading and macrophage motility in tumor invasion, & more: rupress.org/jcb/collecti...
#AAI2025
April 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Quiescent cell re-entry is limited by macroautophagy-induced lysosomal damage: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Quiescent cell re-entry is limited by macroautophagy-induced lysosomal damage
Lysosomes are damaged in quiescent cells, and UPR regulators, IRE-1/XBP-1, promote lysosome repair for cell-cycle re-entry. Lysosome damage in quiescent cells is caused in part by macroautophagy and i...
www.cell.com
May 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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The prizes for best presentations went to Léa Ripoll for her work on adenylate cyclase and dopamine signalling in neurons and Quentin Frenger for his work on ATG16L1 and B cell antigen receptor trafficking. Congratulations !!
May 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I was very happy to present part of my thesis work at the 27th @clubexo-endo.bsky.social meeting and to win one of the prizes for the best oral communication! It was an excellent meeting packed with friendly people doing amazing science!
May 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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The V-ATPase/ATG16L1 axis drives membrane remodeling during epithelial morphogenesis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The V-ATPase/ATG16L1 axis drives membrane remodeling during epithelial morphogenesis
Epithelial tubulogenesis shapes internal organs by transforming flat epithelial sheets or unpolarized cords into hollow tubes with central lumens. A key example is the formation of the posterior neura...
www.biorxiv.org
April 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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New lab preprint! Unveiling the Molecular Architecture of T Cells and Immune Synapses with Cryo-Expansion Microscopy (Cryo-ExM). A fantastic collaboration with Dr. Benita Wolf. Congratulations to all authors, especially Florent Lemaitre, for leading this amazing work! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
April 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The microtubules of a B cell (magenta hot) relocalize upon recognition of an antigen (green) by the BCR.
April 23, 2025 at 7:17 AM
At this level, it's witchcraft!
Congrats !
Happy to officially introduce FilaBuster - a strategy for rapid, light-mediated intermediate filament disassembly. Compatible with multiple IF types, modular in design, and precise enough to induce localized filament disassembly in live cells.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
April 22, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Happy to officially introduce FilaBuster - a strategy for rapid, light-mediated intermediate filament disassembly. Compatible with multiple IF types, modular in design, and precise enough to induce localized filament disassembly in live cells.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
April 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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We dedicated this paper to Michel Bornens who passed away 3 years ago. He would have enjoyed this movie so much!
Unlike eggs & mitotic cells, in adherent interphasic cells the centrosome is NOT positioned by a balance of forces along #microtubules, but by cell shape organization around the #centrosome: rupress.org/jcb/article/...
@lblanchoin.bsky.social
@manuelthery.bsky.social
@gelinmatthieu.bsky.social
April 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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"The bridge-like lipid transport protein VPS13C/PARK23 mediates ER–lysosome contacts following lysosome damage" out now in Nature Cell Biology
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The bridge-like lipid transport protein VPS13C/PARK23 mediates ER–lysosome contacts following lysosome damage
Nature Cell Biology - Wang et al. show the recruitment of the lipid channel protein VPS13C and formation of VPS13C-dependent contacts between endoplasmic reticulum and lysosomes after lysosomal...
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April 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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My postdoc journey ... 2 labs, 2 cities, 2 animal models and 4 years of work, concentrated in 16 pages → my paper is out 🤩 @naturecomms.bsky.social #lysosomes #melanoma #metastasis #zebrafish #mouse #patientsamples #microscopy
April 10, 2025 at 6:26 AM