• Congratulations to those who have obtained ANR funding.

    Andrey Kajava, Daniel Bouvard, Dom Helmlinger, Fabien Alpy, Fred Landmann, François Fagotto et María Moriel-Carretero.

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  • A switch to non-proliferative growth sustains Drosophila wing development during the early pupal stage

    Team Boulan, Current Biology 2025

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  • Progastrin Promotes Colorectal Cancer Stem Cell-Like Properties via the Receptor PZR

    Team Roche, ADVANCE SCIENCE 2025

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  • A CRISPR-Cas9-based system for the dose-dependent study of DNA double-strand break sensing and repair

    Team Moriel-Carretero, The FEBS Journal 2025

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  • Remodeling of cadherin contacts in embryonic mesenchymal tissues during differential cell migration

    Team Fagotto, Developmental Cell 2025

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  • Lipid-driven Src self-association modulates its transformation capacity

    Team Roche, Life Sci Alliance 2025

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  • An EpCAM/Trop2 mechanostat differentially regulates collective behaviour of human carcinoma cells

    Team Fagotto, EMBO Journal 2025

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  • A nuclear protein quality control system for elimination of nucleolus-related inclusions

    Team Xirodimas, EMBO Journal 2024

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  • Proteomic study identifies Aurora-A mediated regulation of alternative splicing through multiple splicing factors.

    Team Prigent, Journal of Biological Chemistry 2024

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  • Surface tension-driven sorting of human perilipins on lipid droplets.

    Team Čopič, Journal of Cell Biology 2024

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  • Phosphorylation of the F-BAR protein Hof1 drives septin ring splitting in budding yeast

    Team Piatti, Nat Commun 2024

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  • Storage cell proliferation during somatic growth establishes that tardigrades are not eutelic organisms

    Team Moriel-Carretero, Biology Open 2024

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  • Congratulation to Dr Gonzalo Quiroga-Artigas for the 2nd prize of the France BioImaging contest 2023

    Team MORIEL-CARRETERO

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The CRBM hosts 19 research teams

Laura BOULAN

Growth control during development

Anne BLANGY & Cécile GAUTHIER-ROUVIÈRE

Cytoskeleton and membrane trafficking dynamics in cellular adhesion

Anna CASTRO & Thierry LORCA

Phosphatases in cell cycle and signaling

Alenka ČOPIČ

Cell biology of lipid storage and transfer

Anne DEBANT

Signalling and cytoskeleton dynamics

Bénédicte DELAVAL

Centrosome, cilia and pathologies

Francois FAGOTTO

Cell adhesion and migration in embryonic development

Dominique HELMLINGER

Regulation of gene expression

Andrey KAJAVA

Structural bioinformatics and molecular modelling

Frédéric LANDMANN

Mechanisms of symbiosis with Wolbachia

Patrick LEMAIRE

Transcriptional control of chordate morphogenesis

Dimitris LIAKOPOULOS

Spindle positioning and organization

María MORIEL-CARRETERO

Cytoplasmic control of genome stability

Simonetta PIATTI

Mitotic regulation of chromosome partitioning and cell division

Claude PRIGENT

Cell Cycle (team closed)

Serge ROCHE

Cancer cell signaling

Albert TSAI

Nuclear organization of transcription in embryos

Dimitris XIRODIMAS

Ubiquitin/Ubiquitin-like molecules and Protein Quality Control

MT-act

Start up MT-act :
From Discovery to Therapeutics

Pierre ROUX

Team R&D :
Dynamics of cell invasion in cancer

In few numbers

160

people

40%

of the group leaders
are women

15

Different
Nationalities

24

Pathologies
studied

Montpellier Cell Biology Research Center

The CRBM has acquired its credentials in particular through the “cell cycle” theme, which has made the laboratory internationally renowned thanks to the discovery of the molecular mechanisms that control cell division with the work initiated by Marcel Dorée and his team.
This theme is still extremely active at the CRBM, and the research projects developed aim at understanding the molecular mechanisms governing mitosis, under normal conditions or during tumorigenesis.

The CRBM, this is also