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  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

François Nédélec is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. The scientist's research primarily focuses on the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant concentration within subfields such as Cell Biology, Condensed Matter Physics, Molecular Biology, Plant Science, and Epidemiology.

The main topics addressed in Nédélec's work include:

  • Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
  • Micro and Nano Robotics
  • Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
  • Cellular Automata and Applications

The scientist has published extensively, with frequent publications in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Biophysical Journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, and Nature Communications.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by François Nédélec include:

  • The 2020 motile active matter roadmap, 2020, Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
  • Rab27a co-ordinates actin-dependent transport by controlling organelle-associated motors and track assembly proteins, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Bond Type and Discretization of Nonmuscle Myosin II Are Critical for Simulated Contractile Dynamics, 2020, Biophysical Journal
  • Cross-linker design determines microtubule network organization by opposing motors, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Insights from graph theory on the morphologies of actomyosin networks with multilinkers, 2020, Physical review. E

Collaboration is a notable element in Nédélec's body of work, with frequent co-authors including Wei-Xiang Chew, Thomas Surrey, Gil Henkin, Daniel B. Cortes, and Amy Shaub Maddox.

Among distinctions, François Nédélec is a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • The 2020 motile active matter roadmap

    Gerhard Gompper;Roland G Winkler;Thomas Speck;Alexandre Solon

  • Asymmetric division of contractile domains couples cell positioning and fate specification

    Jean-Léon Maître;Hervé Turlier;Rukshala Illukkumbura;Björn Eismann

  • Pulsatile cell-autonomous contractility drives compaction in the mouse embryo.

    Jean-Léon Maître;Ritsuya Niwayama;Hervé Turlier;François Nédélec

  • Mechanisms for focusing mitotic spindle poles by minus end-directed motor proteins.

    Gohta Goshima;François Nédélec;Ronald D. Vale

  • Crosslinkers and motors organize dynamic microtubules to form stable bipolar arrays in fission yeast.

    Marcel E. Janson;Rose Loughlin;Isabelle Loïodice;Chuanhai Fu

  • Collective Langevin dynamics of flexible cytoskeletal fibers

    Francois Nedelec;Dietrich Foethke

  • Cortical microtubule contacts position the spindle in C. elegans embryos.

    Cleopatra Kozlowski;Martin Srayko;Francois Nedelec

  • Architecture and Connectivity Govern Actin Network Contractility.

    Hajer Ennomani;Gaëlle Letort;Christophe Guérin;Jean-Louis Martiel

  • Computer simulations reveal motor properties generating stable antiparallel microtubule interactions

    François Nédélec

  • Katanin Contributes to Interspecies Spindle Length Scaling in Xenopus

    Rose Loughlin;Jeremy D. Wilbur;Francis J. McNally;François J. Nédélec

  • Systematic Nanoscale Analysis of Endocytosis Links Efficient Vesicle Formation to Patterned Actin Nucleation.

    Markus Mund;Johannes Albertus van der Beek;Joran Deschamps;Serge Dmitrieff

  • Self-organisation and forces in the microtubule cytoskeleton.

    François Nédélec;Thomas Surrey;Eric Karsenti

  • A computational model predicts Xenopus meiotic spindle organization

    Rose Loughlin;Rose Loughlin;Rebecca Heald;François Nédélec

  • Phospho-regulated interaction between kinesin-6 Klp9p and microtubule bundler Ase1p promotes spindle elongation.

    Chuanhai Fu;Jonathan J. Ward;Isabelle Loiodice;Isabelle Loiodice;Guilhem Velve-Casquillas;Guilhem Velve-Casquillas

  • A self-organization framework for symmetry breaking in the mammalian embryo

    Sebastian Wennekamp;Sven Mesecke;François Nédélec;Takashi Hiiragi

  • A theory that predicts behaviors of disordered cytoskeletal networks

    Julio M Belmonte;Maria Leptin;François Nédélec

  • Visualizing the functional architecture of the endocytic machinery.

    Andrea Picco;Markus Mund;Jonas Ries;François Nédélec

  • Nesprin-1α-Dependent Microtubule Nucleation from the Nuclear Envelope via Akap450 Is Necessary for Nuclear Positioning in Muscle Cells.

    Petra Gimpel;Yin Loon Lee;Radoslaw M. Sobota;Alessandra Calvi

  • Modelling microtubule patterns

    Eric Karsenti;François Nédélec;Thomas Surrey

  • Effects of Confinement on the Self-Organization of Microtubules and Motors

    Mathieu Pinot;Franck Chesnel;Jacek Kubiak;Isabelle Arnal

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Surrey
Thomas Surrey The Francis Crick Institute
Eric Karsenti
Eric Karsenti École Normale Supérieure
Laurent Blanchoin
Laurent Blanchoin Grenoble Alpes University
Marko Kaksonen
Marko Kaksonen University of Geneva
Herbert Levine
Herbert Levine Northeastern University
Manuel Théry
Manuel Théry Grenoble Alpes University
Maria Leptin
Maria Leptin University of Cologne
Paul S. Maddox
Paul S. Maddox University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Claude Antony
Claude Antony Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Wilson C. K. Poon
Wilson C. K. Poon University of Edinburgh

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