Wednesday, April 5th, 2023, at 11:00 am
Ines Drinnenberg
Institut Curie, Paris
Invited 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 rue Hélène Brion, Paris 13th.
Zoom link for remote attendees:
https://u-paris.zoom.us/j/86114422072?pwd=VzJ0c2pxcHl4OWppekx3MldlM2Y4QT09
Contact : sophie.polo@univ-paris-diderot.fr
Relevant publications from the speaker:
Formation of the CenH3-Deficient Holocentromere in Lepidoptera Avoids Active Chromatin.
Senaratne AP, Muller H, Fryer KA, Kawamoto M, Katsuma S, Drinnenberg IA. Curr Biol. 2021 Jan 11;31(1):173-181.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.09.078. Epub 2020 Oct 29.
CenH3-Independent Kinetochore Assembly in Lepidoptera Requires CCAN, Including CENP-T.
Cortes-Silva N, Ulmer J, Kiuchi T, Hsieh E, Cornilleau G, Ladid I, Dingli F, Loew D, Katsuma S, Drinnenberg IA. Curr Biol. 2020 Feb 24;30(4):561-572.e10. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.12.014. Epub 2020 Feb 6.
EvoChromo: towards a synthesis of chromatin biology and evolution.
Drinnenberg IA, Berger F, Elsässer SJ, Andersen PR, Ausió J, Bickmore WA, Blackwell AR, Erwin DH, Gahan JM, Gaut BS, Harvey ZH, Henikoff S, Kao JY, Kurdistani SK, Lemos B, Levine MT, Luger K, Malik HS, Martín-Durán JM, Peichel CL, Renfree MB, Rutowicz K, Sarkies P, Schmitz RJ, Technau U, Thornton JW, Warnecke T, Wolfe KH. Development. 2019 Sep 26;146(19):dev178962. doi: 10.1242/dev.178962.
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