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.
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...
Congratulations to Aris and Angélique !
The graduation of the 2021 and 2022 classes of the European Master of Genetics took place last Saturday during the G.E.N.E symposium 2023.Among the graduates, we are proud to count two members of the team: Aristeidis, PhD and Angélique, AI & Lab manager ! From...
Article : Species-specific regulation of XIST by the JPX/FTX orthologs
Congratulations to the team members for this new article about "Species-specific regulation of XIST by the JPX/FTX orthologs" published in Nucleic Acids Research (Feb 2023). Graphical abstract In contrast to the mouse, human JPX regulates XIST through mechanisms that...
Welcome to Gabrielle
Gabrielle is our new M2 student.She will work on immune-related host genes dowregulated by Theileria parasites. Welcome in the team Gabrielle ! Read more
Welcome Romina !
Romina Facchinello is joining the lab for her Master’s internship (Magistère Européen de Génétique). Welcome Romina!Read more
Brain organoids, new advances in research
"CNRS Le Journal" and "Le Monde" published a video article describing the new technical advances in the field of neurobiology, the preparation of human brain organoïds. They visited the Mezger laboratory to have a look at their experimental set up using cerebral...
Celebrating the 10 years of the Polo group
Jan 13th 2023: We had a wonderful time celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the lab, time flies! It was great to see past and current lab members together and to share warm memories. Great things can only be achieved when sourrounded by great people. Warm thanks to...
Daniele Fachinetti seminar – January 11, 2023
Wednesday January 11th, 2023, at 11:00 am Daniele Fachinetti Institut CurieInvited by Pierre-Antoine Defossez “Centromere instability: causes and consequences” The seminar will take place in the Institut Jacques Monod seminar room (RB-18B). Bâtiment Buffon, 15 rue...
Welcome to Eliane
January 3, 2023: Eliane Petit joined the group as a second year Master student to work on a proteomics project to map the chromatin landscape at sites of UV damage repair in human cells. Read more
Welcome to Sara
Sara is our new M2 student.She will work on the Methylation of ESCRT-III proteins by SMYD3 and its funtion in cell division. Welcome in the team Sara ! Read more
Congratulations to Aurélie De Thonel and the Mezger Lab for their paper in Nature Communications
Aurélie De Thonel and the V Mezger lab released a paper in Nature Communications elucidating the relationship between CBP and HSF2 in a neurodevelopmental disorder, CBP-HSF2 structural and functional interplay in Rubinstein-Taybi neurodevelopmental disorder....
Claire Rougeulle receives the Janine Beisson 2022 medal
The French Society of Genetics (SFG) 2022 medal, Janine BEISSON prize, was awarded to Claire ROUGEULLE by her Professor of genetics Bernard DUJON (former president of the SFG) in the presence of the current vice-presidents of the SFG Clément Carré and Frédéric Bernard...
Team retreat on Tinos island
The team took advantage of a few days on Tinos island to present and discuss its results with the research teams of Edith Heard (EMBL) and Joost Gribnau (Erasmus MC). Nice moments of scientific exchanges between the...