Congratulations to Dr. Maeva Zamperoni!
On September 15, 2025, Maeva successfully defended her thesis: “Role of the lysine methyltransferase SETDB1 in TGFβ-induced fibrosis in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD).”
Maeva and the jury members: Pascal Maire, Nicolas Reynoird, Sestina Falcone, Frédérique Magdinier, Véronique Joliot, Bert Blaauw, and Slimane Ait-Si-Ali
Congratulations to our dear Dr. Zamperoni! Brava!
Welcome Ariane !
Ariane is our new Postdoc. She will work on the host-parasite interactions project. Welcome in the team Ariane! Read more
Welcome Charles !
Charles is our new ATER (teaching Postdoc). He will work on the SMYD project and, will also be part of the teaching unit for cellular biology and physiology. Welcome in the team Charles! Read more
Dounia Djeghloul seminar – September 6, 2023
Wednesday, September 6, 2023, at 11:00 am Dounia Djeghloul Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UKInvited by Claire Rougeulle “Impact of chromatin changes on mitotic chromosome structure and bookmarking” The seminar will take place on Zoom...
Congratulations Marisol and Camille
Congratulations to both Marisol and Camille on passing the doctoral school competition.Welcome to the team ! À lire aussi
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...
Aurélie finalist of the MT180 competition
Congratulations to Aurélie Richard, a PhD student in the team, for her participation in the Sorbonne Paris Cité Alliance final of "My thesis in 180 secondes". Aurélie Richard © Youtube Université Paris Cité We’re proud of you, Aurélie!À lire...
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,...
Marta Radman-Livaja seminar- March 8, 2023
Wednesday March 8th, 2023, at 11:00 am Marta Radman-Livaja IGMM, MontpellierInvited by Pierre-Antoine Defossez “The hidden lives of nuclear proteins or: how nuclear proteome dynamics influence cellular processes” The seminar will take place in the Institut Jacques...
Sagi Shapira seminar – March 1, 2023
Wednesday March 1st, 2023, at 11:00 am Sagi Shapira Systems Biology Laboratory, INEM, Université Paris CitéInvited by Jonathan Weitzman “Dissecting Viruses: From Cell Circuits to First Drafts” The seminar will take place in the Institut Jacques Monod seminar room...