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About

morphogenesis, cell fate transitions and patterning dynamics in living flies

Looking at living organisms is an ever-ending source of wonders and questions. Looking at embryos under the microscope, we see cells adopting unique identities and beautiful shapes. They form tissues of reproducible size and shape and produce stereotyped patterns of cel fates. Looking at living adults, we see cells responding to environmental and physiological cues  to maintain tissues in face of the insults of time and injuries. So, how  do all these developmental events happen in a stereotyped, hence predictable, manner?

Of course, we can only see what we understand (see video below from famous research by J. Piaget), so describing is already one first step towards understanding. And as shape determines function, a better understanding of shape formation at various scales (cells, tissues…) is critical for a mechanistic understanding of physiology in normal and disease contexts.

 

While our research is largely curiosity- and observation-driven, we would like to go beyond observations and try to decipher the inner logic of these living processes. To make this possible, our laboratory is using fruit flies. This organism has been extremely useful to discover many of the important genes that are conserved in all animals, including humans, to build and maintain tissues. In the post-genomic era, fruit flies are very useful to study the fundamental principles of living systems as they provide outstanding tools to examine in a rapid and cost-efficient manner and with unsurpassed temporal and spatial resolutions the effects of controlled perturbations. We are therefore using and developing approaches in genome engineering, microscopy and computational  biology to observe, measure, perturb (mostly through controlled genetic perturbations) and model a few specific cell fate transition and patterning events which involve cell-cell interactions mediated by the Notch receptor.

Our current research aims at understanding how neural stem cells are produced via coordinated changes in cell fate and morphology at the tissue level; how Notch receptor activation is regulated in vivo, notably in the context of asymmetric cell division; and how cells self-organize via  cell-cell interactions mediated by Notch to produce stereotyped patterns of cell fates (see projects and recent publications below).

Parc Montsouris, June 2019

The lab at La Table, October 2021

Oleron, May 2022

Former Members

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Name
Position
2017
2022
Jang-mi Kim
PhD student
2008
2021
Lydie Couturier
Research Engineer
2017
2021
Juan Luna
Post-doc
2017
2020
Chloe Shard
Post-doc
2019
2020
Phuong-Khanh Nguyen
Undergraduate Student
2014
2019
Mateusz Trylinski
PhD Student
2019
2019
Adela Ralbovska
Undergraduate Student
2018
2018
Tin Kocijan
Undergraduate Student
2017
2018
Georgios Tsoumpekos
Post-doc
2012
2018
Vanessa Roca
Technician
2017
2017
Alexis Villars
Undergraduate Student
2016
2017
Gantas Perez Mockus
Post-doc
2014
2016
Elodie Reynaud
Post-doc
2015
2016
Laure Mancini
Undergraduate Student
2012
2016
Gantas Perez Mockus
PhD Student
2014
2015
Alyona Keder
Post-doc
2009
2015
Stéphanie Pontier
Post-doc
2011
2014
Frederic Bernard
Post-doc
2010
2014
Charlotte Besson
PhD Student
2010
2012
Hervé Rouault
Post-doc
2011
2012
Soline Chanet
Post-doc
2007
2011
Soline Chanet
PhD Student
2008
2009
Franck Coumailleau
Post-doc
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Projects

Transversal Project

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Pictures & Media

120925_9_MOVIE_NUMBGF     

3-color movie showing symmetric (epidermal cells) and asymmetric cell divisions (SOPs, magenta) in the notum of living pupae expressing Histone2A-RFP (red) and NumbGFP in all cells (green) and nuclear eqFP670 (magenta) in SOPs

Contact

Email: francois.schweisguth@pasteur.fr Address: 25-28 Rue du Docteur Roux F-75015, Paris, France