We have a new preprint out! Want to do good super-resolution images? We have put together all our single molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) tips and tricks. This is a methods paper that describes our SMLM workflow, using benchmark samples such as microtubules and clathrin-coated pits. 

Our latest work (previously on bioRxiv) is now published in the Journal of Cell Biology. We collaborated with the Roy lab (UW Madison, USA) and the Jung lab (Ohio University, USA) to reveal a new mechanism of slow axonal transport, based on our previous discovery of actin hotspots and trails. 

Christophe was lucky to spend a whole week at the “Microscopie Fonctionnelle en Biologie” aka MiFoBio workshop. Lots of fun attending dozens of cutting-edge workshops, trying super-resolution microscopes, discussing, DJing (!), and presenting the latest work from the lab.

More on Twitter: #MiFoBio2018

The popularization of science is one of the missions of academic research. This article authored by Aurélie Soubéran is intended for children aged 12-13 years and more broadly for the general public, and focuses on a preclinical study on glioblastoma model.

To access it, please download the pdf version.

François Devred has presented his PINT/INP work on non-conventional use of nanoDSF in less than 180 seconds at the 3rd Arbre Mobieu plenary meeting in Zagreb.

See his flash presentation here and the meeting program on Arbre Mobieu website.

This partnership will marry the expertise of Vect-Horus in targeting tumors with its technology VECTrans® and the know-how of RadioMedix in developing and conducting pre-clinical evaluation and clinical trials with radiopharmaceuticals.

For more information, please follow this link or download the pdf version.

In the context of the Euronanomed projects for Action on Nanomedicine under Horizon 2020, a Symposium will be held at the Luminy campus in Marseille on March 8, 2019. Dr. Khrestchatisky will give a talk titled "Molecular vectors for drug delivery into the brain and tumors".

For more information, please visit the symposium website or download the pdf version of the program.

In an interview published by "La Provence" on November 30, 2018 Yvon Bertrand, President of Aix-Marseille University, explains that AMU is very proud of its contribution to the field of Artificial Intelligence but also to the development of companies such as "First Light Imaging", VECT-HORUS or Innate-Pharma. They are real success stories from public research.

INP Cytoskeleton and Neurophysiopathology team, together with several leading groups in tau biology, has participated in a joint review of the field that just came out in Acta Neuropathologica Communications. This review summarizes the recent breakthroughs in deciphering the molecular structures, both physiological and pathological, of the elusive protein tau. 

Read online (open access) : https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40478-019-0682-x

The last work of team 9 "Tau regulates the microtubule-dependent migration of glioblastoma cells via Rho-ROCK signaling pathway" is now published in J. cell. Science. This work identifies for the first time the role and mechanisms implicating the tau protein in the invasion processes of glioblastomas, very aggressive brain tumors. This work highlights the role of the Tau protein as a common target between cancers and neurodegeneration.