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11 March 2026 – Anne SENTENAC – RIM (super-resolution) random fluorescence microscopy

Anne SENTENAC – Equipe: SEMO, Institut Fresnel, Marseille

SPPIN’s seminar series winter-spring 2026

RIM (super-resolution) random fluorescence microscopy

Fluorescence microscopy plays a crucial role in biology due to its ability to provide functional images of living samples. Numerous techniques have… Continue reading →

23 February 2026 – Erdem KARATEKIN – Going with the flow: how cell membrane tension dynamics impact cellular processes from bacteria to neurons

Erdem KARATEKIN – Yale School of Medicine

SPPIN’s seminar series winter-spring 2026

Going with the flow: how cell membrane tension dynamics impact cellular processes from bacteria to neurons

The plasma membrane receives and responds to mechanical signals, arising from cytoskeleton… Continue reading →

Semaine du Cerveau 2026 – conference and lab visit : “Enlightening the mind: optogenetics at the service of brain research”

Lecture and tour of the neural imaging laboratory

Neural circuits exhibit complex spatiotemporal patterns of activity during behavior. Understanding how these patterns of activity determine behavior is a fundamental problem in neuroscience and remains a major challenge due to the… Continue reading →

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New research links Subcellular transport & Local Protein Synthesis in Neurons to Presynaptic Plasticity & Memory

Nicolas Panayotis (head of SPPIN Team7) has published a new paper in Science Signaling

The new study ¹ reveals that subcellular localization of Importin β1 plays a crucial role in memory by supporting local translation at neuronal synapses. While Importin… Continue reading →

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New SPPIN paper in Nature Neuroscience: Population coding in Purkinje cells drives one-shot motor learning.

The Stell team has published a new paper in Nature Neuroscience : Rapid motor skill adjustment is associated with population-level modulation of cerebellar error signals. Nguyen V, Gros C, Stell BM : Nat Neurosci, 2025

This paper set out to… Continue reading →

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Celebrating Kaitlin Szederkenyi’s PhD Achievement in Cerebral Organoid Research

On Friday Kaitlin Szederkenyi defended brilliantly her PhD thesis “Morphological and functional characterisation of astrocytes in cerebral organdies” at the Donnelly Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Research of the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering of the University of Toronto.… Continue reading →