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YRLS 2023 Congress
Jonathan Weitzman's lab was present at the YRLS 2023 conference held on the Pierre et Marie Curie campus (Sorbonne University) from 11 to 13 June 2023.On this occasion, Aristeidis Panagiotou (PhD) had the opportunity to present a Poster during the day "Today's...

EMBO-XCI meeting in Berlin
Rougeulle lab gathering at the EMBO meeting “X-chromosome inactivation: New insights on its 60th anniversary” held in Berlin 19-22 June 2023. ...

Congratulations to the Defossez team for their paper accepted in NSMB
Congratulations to the Defossez team for their paper "A genome-wide screen reveals new regulators of the 2-cell-like cell state" by Gupta, Yakhou et al., which was accepted in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology. Figure 7, panel E Model for role of novel...

Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship
June 8th 2023: Congratulations to Juliette Dabin for being awarded a postdoctoral fellowship as part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions of Horizon Europe to characterize epigenome establishment and maintenance of the inactive X chromosome in response to DNA...

Review on the DNA damage response in chromatin
June 8th 2023: Our review entitled "The DNA damage response in the chromatin context: a coordinated process" is just out in Current Opinion in Cell Biology as part of the Cell Nucleus special issue. À lire aussi

Agathe Subtil seminar – June 7, 2023
Wednesday, June 7th, 2023, at 11:00 am Agathe Subtil CNRS UMR3691, Institut Pasteur, ParisInvited by Slimane Ait-Si-Ali and Sophie Polo “Imprint of Chlamydia infection on the metabolism and epigenome of epithelial host cells” The seminar will take place in the...

Helping the “Palais de la Découverte” for their future exhibition
Katia, research engineer and CRISPR/Cas9 expert, welcomed a team from the "Palais de la Découverte" to help them prepare a future exhibition about genetics in the museum. Discover their visit through this short video (in French): Read more

Maria Rostovskaya seminar – April 26, 2023
Wednesday, April 26th, 2023, at 11:00 am Maria Rostovskaya Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UKInvited by Claire Rougeulle “Molecular timetables of differentiation: making the right shape at the right time” The seminar will take place in the Institut Jacques Monod...

Pierre-Antoine Defossez is nominated to the Editorial Board of “Epigenetics and Chromatin”
April 2023: Pierre-Antoine Defossez is nominated to the Editorial Board of “Epigenetics and Chromatin”. Congratulations! More about the journal's editorial board here:https://epigeneticsandchromatin.biomedcentral.com/about/editorial-board Epigenetics & Chromatin...

Guillaume Lamour seminar – April 19, 2023
Wednesday, April 19th, 2023, at 11:00 am Guillaume Lamour Evry University, FranceInvited by Slimane Ait-Si-Ali “Nanomechanics of stiff and soft biomaterials by atomic force microscopy” The seminar will take place in the Institut Jacques Monod seminar room (RB-18B)....

Ines Drinnenberg seminar – April 5, 2023
Wednesday, April 5th, 2023, at 11:00 am Ines Drinnenberg Institut Curie, ParisInvited by Pierre-Antoine Defossez “Evolution of centromeres and chromosome segregation” The seminar will take place in the Institut Jacques Monod seminar room (RB-18B). Bâtiment Buffon, 15...

Funding support from the French Society for Pediatric Cancers
March 17th 2023: Sophie Polo and Beatrice Rondinelli received 80,000 € funding support from the French Society for Pediatric Cancers (SFCE), joint contribution from Imagine for Margo and Enfants Cancer Santé. This will help validating a new therapeutic target in...