Role of Caveolin-3 and Caveolae Mechanics in Muscle Pathophysiology Melissa Dewulf
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Role of caveolin-3 and caveolae mechanics in muscle pathophysiology Melissa Dewulf To cite this version: Melissa Dewulf. Role of caveolin-3 and caveolae mechanics in muscle pathophysiology. Cellular Biol- ogy. Université Paris-Saclay, 2018. English. NNT : 2018SACLS067. tel-02145218 HAL Id: tel-02145218 https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-02145218 Submitted on 2 Jun 2019 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Thèse de doctorat de l'Université Paris-Saclay préparée à l’Université Paris-Saclay École doctorale n°568 Signalisations et réseaux intégratifs en biologie (Biosigne) Spécialité de doctorat: Biologie cellulaire et moléculaire Thèse présentée et soutenue à Paris, le 29 mars 2018, par Melissa Dewulf Role of caveolin-3 and caveolae mechanics in the muscle pathophysiology Composition du Jury : Pr. Karim Benihoud Président du jury Dr. Soazig Le lay Rapporteur Dr. Edgar Gomes Rapporteur Dr. Julie Dam Examinateur Dr. Stéphane Vassilopoulos Examinateur Dr. Christophe Lamaze Directeur de thèse ! ! ! ! ! ! ! « Et voilà, on a les droits ! » François Pignon Acknowledgements The last four years were probably the most challenging but also the most exciting of my life, and it is time for me to thank many people who were involved, in so many different ways, in this adventure. I will take this opportunity to address my first words to my supervisor. Christophe, thank you so much for trusting me with this project, which was not always easy, but you were always very optimistic and in the end, I believe we made it work! You have always been very supportive concerning the choices I made for my project, but also concerning my “extra- research” projects, which I particularly appreciated. At the personal level, you are a man of all the extremes, extremely scandalous, but also extremely interesting and funny! You are a “personnage haut en couleurs” as we would say in French, and I am very happy Graça put me on your way. I would like now to mention the other person “qui tire les ficelles”. Cédric, I am so grateful that you are such a nice and patient person! I think we can say that we have different standards of organization, clumsiness and the list could go on for a while, but it worked anyway! It probably has to do with the fact that we also share many different interests, food being the most important one, but we cannot exclude that science was also part of the game… You have been a great teacher and thanks to you, I have now quite a list of skills, both useful for the experiments and for trying to do nice illustrations, that I can brag about to a very limited amount of people, but still…Finally, thank you for all the time you invested in making sure my manuscript would be as perfect as possible while you were preparing yourself for the famous concours. I would also like to thank Ludger who would always bring precious feedbacks whenever I would be on stage during our weekly labmeetings. I am also very grateful for your trust with the organization of the unit retreat and different team building events, I enjoyed it a lot! I would like now to warmly thank Dr Soazig Le lay and Dr Edgar Gomes for the time they dedicated to review my manuscript and the nice and pertinent feedback they gave me. I would also like to address a few words to Dr Stéphane Vassilopoulos who I have met a few years ago and who I always enjoyed having animated scientific discussions with. I am thus very happy that he accepted to evaluate my work. I would also like to thank Pr Karim Benihoud who was my PhD tutor and will preside over my thesis jury, and Dr Julie Dam for kindly accepting my invitation. This work wouldn’t have been possible without our collaborators from the Institut de myologie. In addition to Stéphane that I mentioned before, I would like to thank Gillian Butler-Browne for the scientific discussion and support on this project, Anne Bigot who generated all the muscle cell lines we used for our work and who has always been available for advices. Finally, I thank Catherine Coirault who trained and advised me on the use of the Flexcell device, and who also was one of my thesis tutors. Part of the work has also been done through collaborations within our unit. Valérie and Christine, thank you for the precious time you dedicated to reveal the dirty secrets of my cells, our paper looks much more fancy now thanks to you! To me, a good thesis requires a good scientific and human environment, and regarding this, I have been very lucky. The Lamaze and Johannes teams are a melting pot of people, each of them with its own little hint of craziness, and I will definitely remember having a great time and laughing a lot! First, Nicolas, who actually asked me to mention him first, has been my perfect sidekick during this thesis. Although I have never been supportive of his sense of humor, I really hope I have actually been as supportive for everything else as he has been with me during these last four years. PhD sidekicks actually come in different flavors: Carlos, thank you for being you, so annoying and so great at the same time! And Thomas, thank you for always being present whenever I need to tell a story, complain, or just drink a coffee on the terrace, no matter the weather… For great discussions, scientific or others, I could also always count on Cédric, Christine, Estelle, Valérie or Massi! I will always remember Cédric’s enthusiasm for the construction of a new stretcher device with a 3D printer or for the discovery of the saucisson paradise, our games of “which emoji movie am I?”, the long series of quotes from Le diner de con, and we should not forget about our 80’s aerobic moments with Christine, our endless talks on life with Valérie, our mutual teasing with Estelle and our daily rendez-vous with Massi at his bench to do a summary of our day. I will of course remember all of our big laughs, sushi a volonté parties, and many coffee breaks and lunches that are perfect times to talk about anything that crosses our minds. More recently, we got to see many new faces arriving, which fortunately allowed me to expand the number of great people I met during my time in the lab. Satish with his wisdom and his great repartee that makes me laugh so much, Manon la force tranquille with her calm and patience, although as we say in French “il faut se méfier de l’eau qui dort” and our very own tornado Alison who, together with Ewan, brought us a very nice British (and neapolitan) ambiance to our daily life. This is without forgetting about past members of the lab who left us with nice memories. Ma ptite Steph, who has always been a great support and who I shared so much with. Natacha, Weiwei, Henri, Daniela, whose names we can still come across when using old pipetboys or tube racks, as if they never left. I would also like to thank all of the members of the Lamaze and Johannes team, as scientific and non-scientific support was something I could find very easily between the walls that we share. Beyond these walls, I got to meet many other different people, who for some of them became very good friends. Fortunately, I started this adventure in Curie with Léa, with the two other members of the bras cassés, Arthur and Maxence who were never too far away from us. Since university, we were always there to support each other through every single step of the process and I am so happy we got to share all of this together! Léa and Arthur were leading the dance, showing us the way on the road of excellency, while Mikou would always be there to share with us his latest discovery while drinking and spilling beer everywhere. Léa, knowing that your were there, just 5 floors away, made everything easier for me and as we were both trying to make our way into the life of the institute by attending a young scientist retreat, we got to meet the people who would become our good friends. Suddenly, it made me feel like I was going back to school again and I would get to see my friends every day. Camilla is this very calm, precise, and loving person that anyone should have in his life. Luckily for me, since then, she never left me and I am so grateful that she allowed me to integrate her fully in my professional and especially personal life, as I would be completely lost if she ever decided to leave it. She is the definition of a good friend and I am so glad I can count on her for anything. Imène is in the category of person that might seem a little bit inaccessible at first, but it is so worth it to scratch the surface a little, and I am already missing so much our long brainstormings about life and science.