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Publications and Book Chapters
2023
(13) Jaffar-Bandjee, M., Figon, F., Clémençon, P., Renard, J.-B. & Casas, J. (2023) Aerosol Alteration of Behavioral Response to Pheromone in Bombyx mori. Journal of Chemical Ecology. 1–10. DOI: 10.1007/s10886-023-01431-4 
2022
(12) Figon, F. & Dessart, F. (2022) Prise en compte d’un obstacle didactique en formation initiale d’enseignants de SVT : Vers une typologie du finalisme dans les écrits d’étudiants en master MEEF. Actes des 12e rencontres scientifiques de l'Association pour la recherche en didactique des sciences et des technologies (Ardist). 173–178. PDF des actes
2021
(11) Figon, F., Deravi, L. F., & Casas, J. (2021) Barriers and promises of the developing pigment organelle field. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 61(4), 1481–1489. DOI: 10.1093/icb/icab164
(10) Figon, F., & Casas, J. (2021) The integrative biology of pigment organelles, a quantum chemical approach. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 61(4), 1490–1501. DOI: 10.1093/icb/icab045
(9) Figon, F., Hurbain, I., Heiligenstein, X., Trépout, S., Lanoue, A., Medjoubi, K., Somogyi, A., Delevoye, C., Raposo, G. & Casas, J. (2021) Catabolism of lysosome-related organelles in color-changing spiders supports intracellular turnover of pigments. PNAS. 118(35), e2103020118. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2103020118
Coverage (in French): communiqués de presse de l'université de Tours et du Synchrotron SOLEIL.
Coverage (in English): News from the Synchrotron SOLEIL.
(8) Figon, F., Casas, J., Ciofini, I. & Adamo, C. (2021) Electronic coupling in the reduced state lies at the origin of color changes of ommochromes. Dyes and Pigments. 185, 108661. DOI: 10.1016/j.dyepig.2020.108661
More information here.
(7) Figon, F., Baldwin, I. T. & Gaquerel, E. (2021) Ethylene is a local modulator of jasmonate-dependent phenolamide accumulation during Manduca sexta herbivory in Nicotiana attenuata. Plant, Cell and Environment. 44(3), 964–981. DOI: 10.1111/pce.13955
2020
(6) Figon, F., Munsch, T., Croix, C., Viaud-Massuard, M.-C., Lanoue, A. & Casas, J. (2020) Uncyclized xanthommatin is a key ommochrome intermediate in invertebrate coloration. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 124, 103403. DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2020.103403
More information here.
2019
(5) Figon, F. & Casas, J. (2019) Ommochromes in invertebrates: biochemistry and cell biology. Biological Reviews. 94, 156–183. DOI: 10.1111/brv.12441
2018
(4) Figon, F. & Casas, J. (2018) Morphological and Physiological Colour Changes in the Animal Kingdom. In eLS, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd (Ed.). DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0028065
(3) Ripoll, L., Heiligenstein, X., Hurbain, I., Domingues, L., Figon, F., Petersen, K. J., Dennis, M. K., Houdusse, A., Marks, M. S., Raposo, G. & Delevoye, C. (2018) Myosin VI and branched actin filaments mediate membrane constriction and fission of melanosomal tubule carriers. The Journal of Cell Biology. 217(8), 2709–2726. DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201709055
(2) Ripoll, L., Figon, F. & Delevoye, C. (2018) Mécanismes inter- et intracellulaires contrôlant la pigmentation des mélanocytes de la peau. In Biologie cutanée CoBIP: fonctions normales et pathologiques de la barrière cutanée (ed: M Haftek); Lyon, France: Matrix. 4-28.
2013
(1) Llandres, A. L., Figon, F., Christidès, J.-P., Mandon, N. & Casas, J. (2013) Environmental and hormonal factors controlling reversible colour change in crab spiders. Journal of Experimental Biology. 216, 3886–3895. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.086470
Coverage: Inside JEB
Preprints (advocating for Rapid Dissemination and Open Science!)
Figon, F., Hurbain, I., Heiligenstein, X., Trépout, S., Medjoubi, K., Somogyi, A., Delevoye, C., Raposo, G. & Casas, J. (2021) Catabolism of lysosome-related organelles in color-changing spiders supports intracellular turnover of pigments. bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2021.02.22.432296
- Now publishedin PNAS!
Figon, F., Baldwin, I. T. & Gaquerel, E. (2020) Ethylene is a local modulator of jasmonate-dependent phenolamide accumulation during Manduca sexta herbivory in Nicotiana attenuata. bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2020.07.21.213371
- Now publishedin Plant, Cell and Environment!
Figon, F., Casas, J., Ciofini, I. & Adamo, C. (2020) Electronic Couplings in the Reduced State Lie at the Origin of Color Changes of Ommochromes. ChemRxiv. DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv.12294146.v1
- Now publishedin Dyes and Pigments!
Figon, F., Munsch, T., Croix, C., Viaud-Massuard, M.-C., Lanoue, A. & Casas, J. (2020) Uncyclized xanthommatin is a key ommochrome intermediate in invertebrate coloration. bioRxiv 666529. DOI: 10.1101/666529
- Now publishedin Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology!
Conferences
2022
(7) Présentation orale aux 12e rencontres scientifiques de l'Ardist, Toulouse, France. (November 15-18, 2022) Figon, F. & Dessart, F. Prise en compte d’un obstacle didactique en formation initiale d’enseignants de SVT : Vers une typologie du finalisme dans les écrits d’étudiants en master MEEF.
(6) Poster at the 25th International Conference on Subterranean Biology, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. (July 18-22, 2022) Jovović, L., Figon, F. & Bilandžija, H. Mechanisms underlying albinism as a consequence of ommochrome deficiency in cave isopods. ARPHA Conference Abstracts 5: e87043. DOI: 10.3897/aca.5.e87043. Abstracts proceedings PDF
(5) Oral presentation at the 3rd Dinaric Symposium on Subterranean Biology, Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. (April 9-10, 2022) Jovović, L., Figon, F. & Bilandžija, H. Ommochrome pigments in surface isopods (Isopoda, Crustacea) and their loss in cave-adapted albino relatives. Abstract proceedings PDF
2021
Co-organizer of the Society-wide symposium "S7 – The integrative biology of pigment organelles" (with Prof. Jérôme Casas and Prof. Leila F. Deravi) at the Annual Meeting 2021 of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB). Supported by SICB divisions, the American Microscopical Society and the Company of Biologists.
- (4) Oral presentation. (January 6, 2021) Figon, F., Hurbain, I., Heiligenstein, X., Trépout, S., Medjoubi, K., Somogyi, A., Delevoye, C., Raposo, G. & Casas, J. Within-cell cycle of endolysosome-related pigment organelles in crab spiders leads to reversible color changes.
- (3) Oral presentation. (January 6, 2021) Figon, F., Casas, J. & Deravi, L. F. Introduction to the Symposium: The integrative biology of pigment organelles.
2019
(2) Oral presentation at the 32nd Biotechnocentre symposium, Seillac, France. (October 10-11, 2019) Figon, F., Munsch, T., Croix, C., Viaud-Massuard, M.-C., Lanoue, A. & Casas, J. Identification de la xanthommatine non cyclisée, un intermédiaire clé de la biosynthèse pigmentaire des ommochromes chez les invertébrés. Best oral communication award.
2018
(1) Poster and flash-talk at the 21st meeting of the European Society for Pigment Cell Research (ESPCR), Rennes, France. (September 24-27, 2018) Figon, F., Insausti, T. & Casas, J. How the Ommochromasome Life Cycle of Colour-Changing Crab Spiders Can Enlighten Melanosome Catabolism.
Seminars
2022
(6) Seminar of the Gur lab, Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. (July 21, 2022) Figon, F. Cell biology of (changing) coloration.
(5) Séminaire de l'équipe Justice sociale du laboratoire PACTE, UMR 5194 CNRS–UGA–Sciences Po Grenoble. (May 24, 2022) Figon, F. Présentation de la Conférence des praticiens de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche (CPESR).
2021
(4) Seminar of the Alpine Ecology Lab, UMR 5553 CNRS–UGA–USMB, Grenoble, France. (May 12, 2021) Figon, F. Ecophysiology of pigmentation: from color changes to global change.
2019
(3) Seminar of the Institute of Chemistry for Life and Health Sciences, Chimie ParisTech, CNRS–PSL, Paris, France. (December 10, 2019) Figon, F. & Casas, J. Investigating the color-changing properties of ommochrome pigments by quantum chemistry.
(2) Seminar of the UMR 144 CNRS–Curie Institute, Paris, France. (September 09, 2019) Figon, F. & Casas, J. Color-changing Crab Spiders: Classical Ecological Model, New Cell Biology Tools.
2018
(1) Seminar of the Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l’Insecte, UMR 7261 CNRS–université de Tours, Tours, France. (June 26, 2018) Figon, F. Formation et catabolisme des organites à ommochromes : biologie cellulaire, photobiochimie et implications dans le changement de couleur.
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