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Congratulations to Delphine and Julia for their research funding
Congratulations to Delphine Burlet on getting a postdoctoral grant from the Fondation de France and to Julia Roche Dupuy who obtained a fellowship from the HOB doctoral school to finance her PhD thesis. Delphine Burlet, Julia Roche Dupuy À lire aussi

Welcome to Annabelle, new post-doc in the team!
Annabelle joins the lab as a post-doctoral fellow. She completed her PhD at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Prof. Monika Gullerova. Her doctoral work focused on the role of small non-coding Y RNAs and the RNA-binding protein, YBX1, in intracellular...

Welcome to Orlane
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
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
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!
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...

New research article on how chromatin marking governs DNA damage segregation in mitosis
In this paper, we uncover a damaged chromatin marking mechanism that drives the non-random segregation of UV damage through mitosis with potential consequences on daughter cell fate. Thus, we reveal that chromatin alterations impinge on genome stability not only by...

Welcome to Julia
Julia Roche Dupuy joined the lab for her second year Master's internship. Julia Roche Dupuy Second year Master's student À lire aussi

Welcome Caroline to our team!
We're excited to have Caroline joining Dr. Ait-si-Ali's team! She comes to us as an M2 student from the GENE2 master's program at Université Paris-Saclay. Working with Dr. Guillaume Velasco, Caroline will study the regulation of nuclear stiffness by H3K9...

Welcome Minh to Slimane Ait-si-ali’s team!
We are delighted to welcome Mynh, an M2 student from the GENE2 master's program at Université Paris-Saclay, to Dr. Ait-si-Ali's team. Mynh will be investigating the role of SETDB1 in Duchenne muscular dystrophy phenotype development.

Welcome to Steve
Today, we welcome a new member to the team: Steve, a M2 student from the Magistère Européen de Génétique and an EUR GENE fellow.Steve will be working on the interactions of recently identified new parasite protein.Read more

New review: X chromosome regulation and female functional specificities: Are two Xs better than one?
What if the presence of two X chromosomes confers functional specificities on female cells and contributes to the different susceptibilites of men and women to certain diseases? One of the X chromosomes is randomly silenced in each female cell from the embryonic...