Marie-Cécile Caillaud
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Marie-Cécile Caillaud
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Research director at CNRS 🇨🇵 | RDP laboratory | @ERC research | Plant cell biology | cytoskeleton | phosphoinositides | biophysics 🌿🧪🧫🔬🧬 | Passionate about cell division 🤓
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In WT plants, expansion microscopy with spindle immunolabeling showed microtubule connections between spindle poles and the apicobasal cortex.
August 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Actin perturbation disrupts the alignment between the PPB and the division site.

Time-lapse analysis of dividing trichoblast in root expressing the microtubule reporter IQD8-GFP (green) and the plasma membrane marker 2xmCh2xPHFAPP1 (magenta), after 2h-LatB.
August 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM
PPB-defective mutants (ton1a, trm678) show tilted but laterally confined divisions, suggesting safeguards prevent apicobasal division

F-actin (cyan) accumulates at apicobasal cell faces during division, supporting a potential instructive role for F-actin in orienting the division plane
August 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM