Big welcome to our new PhD students @anitabichisecchi.bsky.social and @petramikec.bsky.social !! 🙌🏼💥🥚📸

Pleased to share my new review:

Ovulation: A cellular symphony in three movements 💥🥚

Ovulation is more than egg release—it's a tightly regulated, tissue-scale process. Here, I present a temporal framework structured as a symphony performed by the cells of the follicle.

🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.se...

A better picture of the beautiful room! 😍

Thanks @Elvira Nikalayevich!

Such a great start to the week at the amazing ‘Fertility, contribution of the maternal inheritance’ meeting at Fondation Singer-Polignac in Paris! Definitely the most beautiful room I’ve ever presented in.

Thank you so much to @mhverlhac.bsky.social and @bokelab.bsky.social for organising! 🥚🙌🏼

Fantastic day yesterday at @cirbcdf.bsky.social @collegedefrance.bsky.social talking about ovulation! 💥🥚

Thank you for hosting me @mhverlhac.bsky.social ! 🙌🏼

🚨 PhD Opportunity! 🚨

Passionate about ovarian biology? This cutting-edge PhD project combines live-cell microscopy & biophysical modelling to explore the dynamic ovary! 🧬🔬

I'm happy to chat more—DM or email me to set up a Zoom call 📩 And please share! 🙌🏼

christopher.thomas@univ-amu.fr

Looking for group leader opportunities at a dynamic and exciting institute set in beautiful surroundings? ☀️⛰️🔬 Come and be our colleague—I couldn’t recommend it more! Deadline for applications: March 30th, 2025.

Had a fantastic time at the Fertility Conference 2025 in Liverpool! And thrilled to have been awarded the British Fertility Society Best Young Scientist Award! 🙌🏼

Interested in starting a PhD to explore ovarian biology through a cross-disciplinary approach combining live-cell microscopy and biophysics?

Get in touch for more details—and please share! 🔬🙌🏼

Big hike from Cassis to Les Goudes to end 2024 🌊⛰️. Time to reflect on all the beautiful changes this year brought ✨. Excited to see what 2025 has in store 🙌🏼.

New followers = time for a fresh intro! 👋

I’m Christopher, a reproductive biologist and group leader at @IBDMmarseille 🇫🇷

My lab uses #LiveImaging to explore how the dynamic #ovary produces healthy #eggs 🔬🥚

Please share & follow as we push the boundaries of #fertility research!

🔗 bit.ly/3zQPEh7

Autumn wine tasting from the Jura region with colleagues from IBDM, Marseille. The joys of working in France! 🍷🍁

A blue sky over Luminy is the perfect backdrop for an afternoon of writing 💙🌞

Had a fantastic time in Prague yesterday at Oocyte Day! 🙌🏼🥚

It was a pleasure to share our work on #Ovulation 💥

A huge thank you to the organisers, David Drutovic and Andrej Susor, for an amazing event. Wonderful to catch up with @cavazzalab.bsky.social and @gzaffagnini.bsky.social as well! 🎉

Absolutely delighted to have my artwork selected for the cover of Nature Cell Biology’s November issue, featuring our work on imaging ovulation from the Schuh lab 💥

Ovulation in bubbles and ink 🫧🐙

🔗 t.co/1mB10FlKAY

Thanks, Julien! In the final frame, in magenta, you can see the nuclei of granulosa cells (yellow arrow), which have been released from the follicle along with the oocyte, as well as the DNA inside the polar body following the first meiotic division of the oocyte (cyan arrow).

Hello! 👋 I’m Christopher, a reproductive biologist and group leader at IBDM, France 🇫🇷

My lab uses #LiveImaging to study how the dynamic #ovary makes healthy #eggs 🔬🥚

Here’s a video from my postdoc in the Schuh lab, where we visualised #ovulation live in isolated mouse follicles 💥

📄 bit.ly/3Ya8dEL