Nicolas Minc

The paper investigates how the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) contributes to microtubule aster centration in sea urchin zygotes through mechanical interactions and 3D modeling.

The paper investigates how composite endomembrane suspensions in eukaryotic cells contribute to cytoplasm rheology, finding that ER structures enable viscoelastic properties through yolk flocculation.

The paper investigates how nuclear and spindle positioning in early sea urchin embryos shifts from geometry-based to polarity-based control as cells shrink during development.

This study shows that mechanosensors detect cell wall defects in fission yeast, triggering polarity regulators to repair the wall.

The paper heterologously expresses fungal Wsc mechanosensors in fission yeast to study cross-species mechanosensing, finding that domain variations affect sensor function.

The paper identifies a novel anaphase A mechanism in C. elegans embryos driven by KLP-7MCAK and opposed by KLP-18, showing its role in asymmetric chromosome segregation and mechanical coordination with anaphase B.

This paper introduces HiFRAP, a method to estimate diffusion and reaction parameters from FRAP experiments with imperfect conditions, providing error estimates and model validation.

The paper measures how cell shape affects mitotic spindle positioning forces in sea urchin embryos, finding that viscoelastic forces increase with cell elongation.

This study investigates how mechanical strategies in fungal cell walls support growth and size diversity across species, finding that wall thickness and turgor scale with cell diameter and growth speed.

The paper shows that length-limited astral microtubules cause planar spindle orientation in intestinal crypts, independent of polarity and geometry cues.

This paper develops a machine learning framework for oocyte phenotyping using transmitted light images, identifying new features to assess maturation potential in mouse and human oocytes.