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Yohanns Bellaïche

Yohanns Bellaïche

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
48
Citations
11542
World Ranking
18252
National Ranking
828

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Richard Lounsbery Award, National Academy of Sciences and the French Academy of Sciences for his work on the genetic and mechanical regulation that underlies tissue proliferation homeostasis and repair in physiological and pathological conditions (using a combination of interdisciplinary approaches involving sophisticated imaging genetics large-scale molecular approaches and computational analyses) including the mechanisms of local and long-range mechano-sensing during cytokinesis that remodel the dividing cell adherens junction.
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Yohanns Bellaïche is affiliated with the Institute Curie in France, where their research focuses on cellular mechanics, developmental biology, and molecular biology. Their work spans several interconnected fields, including cell biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, immunology, and physiology, contributing to a broad understanding of biological processes at the molecular and cellular levels.

The scientist's research topics encompass:

  • Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
  • Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
  • Microtubule and Mitosis Dynamics
  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
  • Wnt/β-catenin Signaling in Development and Cancer
  • Heat Shock Proteins Research
  • Neurogenesis and Neuroplasticity Mechanisms

Yohanns Bellaïche has published extensively, with 51 publications under the broad field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Key subfields include 26 publications in Cell Biology and 21 in Molecular Biology. Their frequent publication venues reflect a focus on cell and developmental biology and include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Current Biology
  • Developmental Cell
  • Nature Cell Biology
  • The Journal of Cell Biology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by them illustrate a range of topics relevant to cell mechanics, gene regulation, and developmental processes:

  • "Apical stress fibers enable a scaling between cell mechanical response and area in epithelial tissue," 2020, Science
  • "Frizzled-Dependent Planar Cell Polarity without Secreted Wnt Ligands," 2020, Developmental Cell
  • "Skin-resident immune cells actively coordinate their distribution with epidermal cells during homeostasis," 2021, Nature Cell Biology
  • "Rapid and robust optogenetic control of gene expression in Drosophila," 2021, Developmental Cell
  • "Tricellular junctions," 2020, Current Biology

Their work often involves collaboration with frequent co-authors in related fields, including:

  • Floris Bosveld
  • Isabelle Gaugué
  • Florencia di Pietro
  • Boris Guirao
  • Stéphane Pelletier

Yohanns Bellaïche has been recognized by several awards and memberships. Notably, they received the Richard Lounsbery Award from the National Academy of Sciences and the French Academy of Sciences in 2018 for contributions to understanding genetic and mechanical regulation of tissue proliferation and homeostasis through interdisciplinary methodologies. They are also a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • Forces in Tissue Morphogenesis and Patterning

    Carl-Philipp Heisenberg;Yohanns Bellaïche

  • Protein interaction mapping: A Drosophila case study

    Etienne Formstecher;Sandra Aresta;Vincent Collura;Alexandre Hamburger

  • Tout-velu is a Drosophila homologue of the putative tumour suppressor EXT-1 and is needed for Hh diffusion

    Yohanns Bellaiche;Norbert Perrimon

  • Mitotic spindle orientation in asymmetric and symmetric cell divisions during animal development.

    Xavier Morin;Xavier Morin;Xavier Morin;Yohanns Bellaïche;Yohanns Bellaïche;Yohanns Bellaïche

  • Tracking individual kinesin motors in living cells using single quantum-dot imaging.

    Sébastien Courty;Camilla Luccardini;Yohanns Bellaiche;Giovanni Cappello

  • Mechanical control of morphogenesis by fat/dachsous/four-jointed planar cell polarity pathway

    Floris Bosveld;Isabelle Bonnet;Boris Guirao;Sham Tlili

  • Hedgehog Movement Is Regulated through tout velu–Dependent Synthesis of a Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycan

    Yohanns Bellaiche;Norbert Perrimon;Norbert Perrimon

  • Huntingtin Is Required for Mitotic Spindle Orientation and Mammalian Neurogenesis

    Juliette D. Godin;Kelly Colombo;Kelly Colombo;Kelly Colombo;Maria Molina-Calavita;Maria Molina-Calavita;Maria Molina-Calavita;Guy Keryer;Guy Keryer;Guy Keryer

  • Drosophila Exocyst Components Sec5, Sec6, and Sec15 Regulate DE-Cadherin Trafficking from Recycling Endosomes to the Plasma Membrane

    Johanna Langevin;Matthew J. Morgan;Carine Rossé;Victor Racine

  • Revisiting the Drosophila microchaete lineage: a novel intrinsically asymmetric cell division generates a glial cell.

    Michel Gho;Yohanns Bellaïche;François Schweisguth

  • Frizzled regulates localization of cell-fate determinants and mitotic spindle rotation during asymmetric cell division.

    Yohanns Bellaïche;Michel Gho;Julia A. Kaltschmidt;Andrea H. Brand

  • The Partner of Inscuteable/Discs-large complex is required to establish planar polarity during asymmetric cell division in Drosophila.

    Yohanns Bellaı̈che;Anna Radovic;Daniel F. Woods;Colleen D. Hough

  • Drosophila Cip4 and WASp define a branch of the Cdc42-Par6-aPKC pathway regulating E-cadherin endocytosis.

    Andrea Leibfried;Robert Fricke;Matthew J. Morgan;Sven Bogdan

  • Mammalian Scribble Forms a Tight Complex with the βPIX Exchange Factor

    Stéphane Audebert;Christel Navarro;Claire Nourry;Sylvette Chasserot-Golaz

  • Epithelial tricellular junctions act as interphase cell shape sensors to orient mitosis

    Floris Bosveld;Olga Markova;Boris Guirao;Charlotte Martin

  • Mechanical Force-Driven Adherens Junction Remodeling and Epithelial Dynamics

    Diana Pinheiro;Diana Pinheiro;Yohanns Bellaïche;Yohanns Bellaïche

  • Temperature-sensitive control of protein activity by conditionally splicing inteins

    Martin P Zeidler;Change Tan;Yohanns Bellaiche;Sara Cherry

  • Tissue-scale coordination of cellular behaviour promotes epidermal wound repair in live mice

    Sangbum Park;David G. Gonzalez;Boris Guirao;Jonathan D. Boucher

  • Polarized secretion of lysosomes at the B cell synapse couples antigen extraction to processing and presentation.

    Maria-Isabel Yuseff;Anne Reversat;Danielle Lankar;Jheimmy Diaz

  • Unified quantitative characterization of epithelial tissue development

    Boris Guirao;Stéphane U Rigaud;Floris Bosveld;Anaïs Bailles

Frequent Co-Authors

François Schweisguth
François Schweisguth Institut Pasteur
Norbert Perrimon
Norbert Perrimon Harvard University
Jacques Camonis
Jacques Camonis Institute Curie
Sandrine Humbert
Sandrine Humbert Grenoble Alpes University
Richard G. Fehon
Richard G. Fehon University of Chicago
Michael A. White
Michael A. White Ideaya Biosciences (United States)
Frédéric Saudou
Frédéric Saudou Grenoble Alpes University
Olivier Delattre
Olivier Delattre PSL University

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