New collaborative paper accepted in Scientific Reports for the Defossez group

Congratulations to Laure and Pierre-Antoine for their collaborative paper accepted in Scientific Reports:

“Unchanged PCNA and DNMT1 dynamics during replication in DNA ligase I-deficient cells but abnormal chromatin levels of non-replicative histone H1”

Bhandari SK, Wiest N, Sallmyr A, Du R, Ferry L, Defossez PA, and Tomkinson AE
Sci Rep 13, 4363 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-31367-4

Welcome to Orlane

Weitzman group

Today, we welcome a new member to the team: Orlane. She's a student from the first year of the Brevet de Technicien Supérieur Biotechnologies en Recherche et Production (Two-year technical degree - Biotechnologies in Research and Production).Orlane will be working...

4th year PhD fellowships for Anaëlle

Defossez group, Epigenetics & Cell Fate

Congratulations to Anaëlle Azogui for obtaining a 4th year PhD fellowships from the "Fondation pour la recherche sur le cancer" (Fondation ARC). Read more

Congratulations to the Defossez team for their article published in Nature Communication

Defossez group, Epigenetics & Cell Fate, Publications

Congratulations to the Defossez team for their article “DNA methylation protects cancer cells against senescence” by Chen, Yamaguchi, et al., which has been accepted in Nature Communication. Read it here: doi:doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.23.609297...

Welcome to Delphine, new post-doc in the team!

Polo group

Delphine joins the lab as a post-doctoral fellow. She completed her PhD at the Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon (CRCL) under the supervision of Virginie Petrilli. Her doctoral work focused on the pro-inflammatory protein NLRP3, for which she highlighted a...