News
Here you will find archives of the information published in our News section from November 2009 onwards.
- Monod Diderot Conferences
The Institut Jacques Monod invites renowned scientists to give seminars of wide biological interest. The next speaker will be Edith HEARD, on Friday July 5, 2013.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Friday May 31, 2013: Scientific Colloquium Jean-Antoine LEPESANT,
former Director of the Institut Jacques Monod
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - March 2013: Protein crowding slows down intracellular signaling
Published in PNAS, this study was led by researchers from the "Laboratoire de matière et systèmes complexes" (MSC, CNRS/Université Paris Diderot), notably in collaboration with Sébastien Léon from the Institut Jacques Monod
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - April 2013: Registration is opened for the EMBO Workshop "Green viruses, from gene to landscape", 7-11 September 2013, Hyères-les-Palmiers, France
This workshop is organized by Isabelle Jupin, leader of the group Molecular Virology at the Institut Jacques Monod
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - March 2013: Thierry Galli has been appointed deputy director of the ITMO Cell biology, Development and Evolution of AVIESAN
Thierry Galli is PI (Principal Investigator) of the group Membrane trafficking and neuronal and epithelial morphogenesis, at the Institut Jacques Monod
- March 2013: Camilla Arguelles won a silver medal in women's doubles at the Latin-American championships in table tennis!
Camilla Arguelles is a PhD student in the group of Anne Plessis
- February 2013: Maïté Coppey, winner of the Gregorio Weber Award
Maïté Coppey is responsible for the group Macromolecular Complexes in Living Cells and the scientific supervisor of the core facility ImagoSeine at the Institut Jacques Monod
- In the first part of 2013, four new groups will join the IJM
These recruitments follow the international call launched in March 2012 to accept junior groups and senior groups at the Institut Jacques Monod.
- October 2012: A few mutations made a fly species dependent on a cactus
Virginie Orgogozo and her team explained how a fly species became dependent on a cactus from North American's Sonoran desert. Due to mutations in a single gene, this fly became unable to produce important molecules required for growth and reproduction and is now dependent on particular compounds that are only found in the cactus. Surprisingly, the mutations responsible for this cactus dependence also confer a short-term advantage to flies living on the cactus.
This work was published in Science on September 28th 2012.
- September 2012: Watching the initial stages of a DNA repair mechanism in real-time to better understand how cancers arise
The research team led by Terence Strick of the Institut Jacques Monod, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Bristol (UK) and Rockefeller University (USA), has for the first time been able to watch unfold in real-time the initial stages of a DNA repair mechanism which is still not yet well understood. Using a single-molecule method applied to a bacterial model of transcription-coupled repair, the researchers have understood how multiple actors come together to initiate DNA repair with high fidelity.
These studies are published online on September 9 2012 in the journal Nature.
- July 2012: Alessandra Pierani has been awarded the "grand prix Foulon" of the Académie des sciences
Alessandra Pierani is responsible for the group Genetics and Development of the Cerebral Cortex at the Institut Jacques Monod
- July 2012: Giuseppe Baldacci has been named president of the national scientific Council of the national League against cancer and national administrator
Giuseppe Baldacci is the director of the Institut Jacques Monod
- June 2012: Julien Dumont is prizewinner of the call for projects "Emergence(s)" of Paris
Julien Dumont is responsible for the group Cell division and reproduction, at the Institut Jacques Monod
- June 2012: Thierry Galli has been elected to the Inserm Scientific Advisory Board
Thierry Galli is responsible for the group Membrane trafficking and neuronal and epithelial morphogenesis, at the Institut Jacques Monod
- June 2012: Therry Galli has been awarded the "Grand Prix" of fundamental orientation of the Association Robert Debré
- May 2012: the Director and the personnel of the Institut Jacques Monod congratulate Marie-Anne Félix for the Silver Medal of the CNRS awarded to her
Marie-Anne Félix spent most of her scientific career at the Institut Jacques Monod...
- March 2012: The Institut Jacques Monod (IJM) of Paris
is seeking to appoint several new group leaders
We are looking to recruit both young investigators and established scientists.
- May 14-16, 2012: The international Young Researchers in Life Sciences Conference will take place at Université Paris Diderot (Paris, France)
The Young Researchers in Life Sciences (YRLS) organizing team is comprised of the young researchers associations of Institut Curie (AdIC), Institut Pasteur (StaPa), Université Paris Diderot dont Institut Jacques Monod (DiDoc), ...
- February 2012: the film "Palaeogenomics. The double helix as time machine" is on line.
It shows the working procedures of the palaeogenomics group (Eva-Maria Geigl) of the Institut Jacques Monod.
- 2011: an excellent year for the permanent recruitment of young scientists at the Institut Jacques Monod
This year, 6 young scientists working at the IJM obtained permanent public research or university positions.
- The book entitled "Molecular Methods for Evolutionary Genetics" is now published
The editors are Dr. Virginie Orgogozo, team leader at the Institut Jacques Monod, and Dr. Matthew Rockman, team leader at New-York University in the USA.
- Catherine Dargemont elected to EMBO Membership
The prestigious European Organisation in Molecular Biology, EMBO, brings together the best scientists worldwide in the area of Molecular Biology.
- The book entitled "Viruses Responsible for Emerging Diseases in South-East Asia"
sponsored by the direction of the Institut Jacques Monod.
- In September 2011, the Institut Jacques Monod welcomed a new research group whose leader is Julien Dumont.
This recruitment follows an international offer launched in January 2011 for a group working in cell and developmental biology using the nematode C. elegans as model system.
- October 17-21, 2011: Workshop "Palaeogenomics", Cargèse, Corsica
CNRS workshop on next generation sequencing of the genomes of extinct species. Organizers: Eva-Maria Geigl and Thierry Grange, Institut Jacques Monod.
- July 11: Lionel Pintard, CNRS Bronze Medal Winner
The CNRS Bronze Medal recognizes a researcher's first work, which makes that person a specialist with talent in a particular field. This medal is a way for the CNRS to encourage the researcher to continue work that has met with initial success and already produced fruitful results.
- The project France-BioImaging*, borne by Maïté Coppey of the Institut Jacques Monod, is winner of the call for projects "National Research Infrastructures in Biology and Health" within the program Investments in the Future.
* Infrastructure for photonic and electronic cell bio-imaging directed toward innovation, training and transfer of technology.
- Friday June 17, 2011: Jubilee of Jean Cartaud: A life studying the synapse
Meeting on membrane trafficking and dynamics in honour of Jean Cartaud, group leader at the Institut Jacques Monod
- Thursday June 9 and Friday June 10, 2011: Conférence "Genetics, Epigenetics and Evolution of Sex Chromosomes"
organized under the auspices of the Société Française de Génétique (SFG) & the Institut Jacques Monod
- Leuven (Belgium) from 25 - 27 May 2011 - Lineage Commitments: Emphasis on Extraembryonic-Embryonic Interfaces
a EMBO workshop notably organized by Anne Camus from the Institut Jacques Monod
- 9-11 May 2011 : the International Meeting "Young Researchers in Life Sciences",
organized by the Young Researchers in Life Sciences (YRLS) Federation, will take at the Institut Pasteur in Paris.
- January 2011: Group Leader Position in the areas of Bioinformatics & Genome Function
The Institut Jacques Monod of Paris is seeking to recruit a highly motivated scientist or research team to carry out independent research in the areas of Bioinformatics & Genome Function.
The call is now closed. Numerous applications have been received from all over the world.
- January 2011: Group Leader Position in cell and developmental biology using C. elegans
The Institut Jacques Monod of Paris is seeking to recruit an outstanding and highly motivated young scientist to run an independent research group working on cell and developmental biology using the nematode C. elegans as a model system.
The call is now closed. Numerous applications have been received from all over the world.
- February 18, 2011: “Ver Midi XIV” Conference
The C. elegans meeting “Ver Midi XIV”, which will assemble French researchers studying the nematode as a model system, will take place at the Institut Jacques Monod on February 18th 2011.
- From January 10th to January 22th 2011, the Monod-Diderot Course for M2 students
Every year the Institut Jacques Monod proposes a 6-credit course entitled: « Gene expression from cell to organism ».
- November 25 and 26, 2010: Colloquium "miRNAs in plant and animal development"
organized, at the Institut Jacques Monod, by the SFBD (French Society for developmental Biology), the SFG (French Society for Genetic) and the Institut Jacques Monod.
- Michel Vervoort, co-leader of the team "Evolution and Development of Metazoans", has been appointed a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France,
in recognition of the quality of his research on the evolution of animals.
- Reiner A. Veitia, awarded the 2010 Jacques Salat-Baroux Prize by the French National Academy of Medicine
for his work on FOXL2, a key transcription factor in the development, maintenance and aging of the ovary.
- Thursday October 21st - Meeting, at the Institut Jacques Monod, in homage to Jacques Monod
for the centenary of his birth.
- Segmentation is the secret behind the extraordinary diversification of animals.
Segmentation, the repetition of identical anatomical units, seems to be the secret behind the diversity and longevity of the largest and most common animal groups on Earth. Investigators from the CNRS and Université Paris Diderot (amongst others Guillaume Balavoine et Michel Vervoort at the Institut Jacques Monod) have shown that this characteristic was inherited from a common segmented ancestor thought to have lived 600 million years ago and whose presence “changed the face of the world”.
This discovery was published in Science on 16 July 2010.
- June 7 - 9 2010 - 13th Meeting "Young Researchers in Life Sciences"
organized by the associations of young researchers of the Institut Jacques Monod, Institut Curie, Institut de Biologie de l'ENS, Institut Pasteur, Unité Biologie Fonctionnelle et Adaptative, UMR Epigénétique et Destin Cellulaire, and the French Association of Scientific Physicians and Pharmacists.
- Friday June 4, 2010 - Symposium sRNAs EVERYWHERE!
This Symposium highlights the increasingly diverse roles attributed to RNAs in all walks of life.
- Secretory pathway's role in the internalization and signaling of EGF receptor
A novel mode of regulation of internalization (endocytosis) and signaling of EGFR involved in tumor cell proliferation has been revealed by investigators at the Institut Jacques Monod.
Article published in Journal of Cell Science - Cells in the flesh and in microtubules !
Investigators in Antoine Guichet's team at the Institut Jacques Monod have used the developing drosophila to study the importance of microtubule reorganization in organ formation.
Article published in Developmental Cell.
- Thursday May 20 and Friday 21, 2010 - International workshop organized within the scope of the Network of Excellence "Rubicon" : Role of various types of ubiquitin chains in membrane trafficking
This workshop, sponsored by the European network Rubicon, was an opportunity for researchers to summarize present knowledge on the involvement in protein trafficking of oligo- or polyubiquitin chains differing from UbK48.
- Friday January 22nd, 2010: Conference “Ver Midi XIII”
Dernière modification 23/11/2012
