@emmanuelmargeat
CNRS Research Director Single molecule fluorescence & smFRET of membrane proteins. Director of the Center for Structural Biology. (@cbsmontpellier.bsky.social). I collect photons nights & days (in the wild & in the lab) Biophysics & Astrophotography here
👀 At #BPS but haven’t stopped by booth 401 yet? Meet the team to discover how you can unlock the ultimate #single-molecule resolution at your benchtop, generating high-impact insights into #biomolecular interactions and dynamics. See you there! @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social #biophysics #lifescience
Expansion microscopy improves resolution, but integration with SMLM remains challenging.
In our new preprint, we present a simplified strategy using spontaneously blinking dyes, validated against well-defined reference structures including NPCs and PicoRulers!
➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🚀 Big news from @timcraggs.bsky.social x #BPS2026: meet the new EI-FLEX Pro! Automated alignment + focus, real-time analysis with publication-ready plots, modular upgrade to 96/384 wells, no darkroom or optical table, compact benchtop. Meet us at booth 401 or get in touch for a demo! #singlemolecule
Don't miss the President’s Symposium: Communicating the Value of Biophysics in a Changing World! Speakers will discuss perspectives on the current crisis in US investment in science, approaches for conveying the value of research, and provide examples of effective outreach activities buff.ly/qcRp51M
Discover all the posters & talks related to the category “Biophysics for sustainability”
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Join us on Sunday for a panel discussion :
"Small Actions, Big Impact: Practical steps to a sustainable laboratory"
Connect with the Committee on Sustainability of the Biophysical Society at the Annual meeting 2026 #BPS2026
@biophysicalsoc.bsky.social
Discover and share the CBS Montpellier starter pack, to follow current and formers members of the Centre de Biologie Structurale on Bluesky.
go.bsky.app/G682pvP
@cnrs.fr
@inserm.fr
@umontpellier.bsky.social
As one of the leading scientists in super-resolution microscopy and a truly remarkable individual, Markus is at the forefront of the field. I highly recommend this to anyone interested in the future of bioimaging!
Excited to be speaking at this year’s Biophysical Society Presidential Symposium on the importance of communicating science to the public 👩🏾🔬🧫🧬🔬🥼🧪👩🏾🔬
The President’s Symposium at #bps2026 serves to empower biophysicists to tell stories that build public confidence in science. Speakers will discuss perspectives on the crisis in US investment in science, and approaches for conveying the value of research to human health and prosperity
BPS is seeking the next Editor-in-Chief of the Society’s flagship publication, Biophysical Journal
Interdisciplinary access call is back!
The 3 infrastructures ProFi, FBI and FRISBI together with the GIS IBiSA announce the 4th call for funded access to IBiSA-labelled facilities for transdisciplinary projects!🤝
Apply here before Feb 13, 2026 👉 france-bioimaging.org/announcement...
Join us in Montpellier in June 2026 for the second edition of the European South Atlantic Biophysical conference
#ESAB2026
I will be on vacation. Period. It should be enough :-)
Looking forward for new developments in our team !
Exciting projects in perspective from @rbquast.bsky.social, @chrisdoucet.bsky.social , @emmanuelmargeat.bsky.social , @costaluca.bsky.social
The Luminosa includes 3color smFRET, PIE-FCCS, FLIMbee for fast FLIM & time resolved SMLM
Watch Robert Quast @rbquast.bsky.social from our Team presenting our work on single molecule #FRET on #GPCR in the first FBI Connect webainar !
The replay of the 1st edition of FBI Connect is now available!◀️
In this webinar, we welcomed Robert Quast from the CBS in Montpellier. He presented his latest project and an unique multicolor smFRET technique to study GPCR dynamics!
🔗Watch it here: youtu.be/pgU_3VhMutk
We are hiring a 2-year postdoctoral researcher to join our Membrane Biophysics team at the CBS in Montpellier. Join us to reinvent Atomic Force Microscopy to image the most common interface on our planet: the surface of water @membranesbiophy.bsky.social @cbsmontpellier.bsky.social
Picture of a student's made TIRF microscope
Picture of a student's made optical tweezers microscope
Picture of a student's made confocal FCS microscope
In two weeks, our #qbio #Master students learned to build, from drawing to full realization, their own : confocal FCS, TIRF microscope, and optical tweezers setup ! This is hand-on #microscopy !
Interested ? Join the qbio master next year at the Montpellier University !
qbio.umontpellier.fr
Don’t miss this opportunity to work with a fantastic mentor, a great team, in a beautiful city of France!
Postdoctoral position in the team of Alessandro Barducci in the CBS, focusing on multiscale simulations of RNA-driven condensates, with applications in synthetic biology.
More information :
www.cbs.cnrs.fr/images/jobs/...
The position is expected to start in early 2026, with some flexibility.
Single-molecule friends!
The prelim. program of next year's sm- #Gordon conference in Switzerland is online: www.grc.org/single-molec...
It'll be 3x fantastic: science, people, place in the alps ⛰️. Kevin & I hope to see you all next June:
Have a look, tell your friends, and register!
Excited to share our new preprint on Myxococcus xanthus!
We show that two distinct motility motors can propel the same bacterial cell simultaneously, and that this dual propulsion is tunable by environmental calcium. 🧵 1/6
📄 Read it here →https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.29.685086v1
The Python Software Foundation declines a 1.5M$ grant from NSF, to remain faithful to its diversity, equity, and inclusion values.
If you are a Python user, you can contribute financially to the foundation here :
psfmember.org/civicrm/cont...
You might have noticed lots of activity in the napari project recently! 🚀 We're grateful for a grant from CZI that's keeping us going, but grants don't last forever: we're trying to figure out sustainable long term funding. Read our blog post to find out how you can help:
napari.org/island-dispa...
#Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) tonight next to #Montpellier. Just one picture before the clouds ;-(
#astrophotography
C8 + reducer + motorized mount, 25s, EOS60D, 1600Iso
Our photoswitchable HaloTag is out in Angewandte Chemie @angewandtechemie.bsky.social ! We now also show that this system can be used to control emitter density in SMLM. Congrats to Franzi, Bego, and our amazing collaborators. Check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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