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Assistant professor at Utrecht University. All things weird cell division, football, cheese. Mostly 🇫🇷, a bit 🇬🇧🇺🇲🇳🇱. Terrible hockey player. Mom of 2. She|her. https://cellbiology.science.uu.nl/research-groups/agathe-chaigne-cell-division-
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Excited to announce the 10th "Choanoflagellates & Friends Workshop" over May 20-22 in our own Institut Pasteur in Paris: 2025choanocon.wordpress.com Registrations open til March 15, abstract til March 5. Pre-conference event for students/postdocs on 19/05. Plenty of slots for selected talks/posters!

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Asked similar question before but I try again. Anyone knows proteins that localize like this? This protein is present in diplonemids/bodonids/euglenids/Naegleria, which have two flagella, but not in trypanosomatids that have just one flagellum. Potentially interesting for flagella/cilia community?

submitted 24 days ago • 7 comments

Very excited that the lab's first paper is out! We showed that in stem cells, Aurora B controls abscission dynamics by regulating microtubules stability and MCAK recruitment. Very happy with this streamlined version of our 2024 preprint. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

submitted 32 days ago • 18 comments

Racky MacGruyereFace is back!

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Someone stole my favorite tube rack, alert the authorities!!

submitted 43 days ago • 3 comments

As I finally made it back to the Netherlands (50h late ...), I will summarize my holiday with this one picture.

submitted 50 days ago • 4 comments

It really saddens me when I come to France to realize how much my people are unwelcoming to children in the public space.

submitted 51 days ago • 2 comments

Our lab has multiple open positions for post-docs to study the regulation and function of cytoplasm mechanics during embryo development. Details below 👇👇 Please Repost !!! @ijmonod.bsky.social @cnrs.bsky.social

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

As a final word for 2024, I asked my son and daughter what they wished for in 2024. My 4 yo daughter wishes for summer. My 2 yo son wishes for trams. Happy new year!

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

Rounding up 2024: This year, we (Amber) published a nice graphical review with FEBS. I got the ERC StG to start to understand why cells delay abscission, with an evolutionary perspective. 2 new people are starting in the lab next week on this project! (1/n)

submitted 56 days ago • 2 comments

We tried to play with a game my 2 year old received for Christmas and I'm sad to report that either it's absolutely unwinnable or we're total morons.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Only by running in my home town, which is by no means the Alps, do I truly grasp how incredibly flat the Netherlands are.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Merry Christmas to those celebrating! My grandmother's log, edition 2024. Heavy decorations courtesy of my little ones.

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

Academia broke: I love you Academia woke: you're a conflict of interest.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Watch @jpassmore.bsky.social make cells run around like headless chickens! Congrats all!

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

I'm in need of book recommendations! Because I'm often tired and do a ton of multitasking, I'm having trouble sticking with anything. Can be any fiction genre with preference for historical thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy, and not too depressing.

submitted 72 days ago • 15 comments

We have an opening for a 4 yr PhD interested in membrane remodelling and cryo-EM/ET of a minimal cell division machinery: edu.nl/bukan You will be part of the EVOLF consortium in which 30 leading biochemists/biophysicists work together to explore if and how we can build autonomous synthetic cells.

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment