The European Research Council (ERC) announced on Thursday 22 April 2021 the list of the 209 winners selected in the framework of the Advanced Grant 2020 call. These ERC grants enable established scientists, recognised as exceptional leaders, to carry out ground-breaking projects over a five-year period, opening up new avenues in their field.
Co-leader of the…

The "Grandes Avancées Françaises en Biologie" (prizes endowed by the Mergier Bourdeix Foundation) of the French Academy of Sciences reward twelve young researchers, authors of major scientific advances in biology published in 2019, 2020 and 2021 in very high level journals
During an exceptional online session on 22 June, the laureates, introduced by their research directors,…

Following the success of last year’s Platynereis virtual conference, we are organizing the 2nd Virtual Platynereis Conference to keep the community together, learn about each other’s projects, promote collaborations and continue the discussions about the future of our community resources. The meeting will be held online and will run on the 8th, 9th, and 10th of December 2021, 14:00-18:00 CET.
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As part of the 30th edition of the Fête de la Science 2021, Eva-Maria-Geigl, co-leader of the "Epigenome and Paleogenome" team at the Institut Jacques Monod, gave a lecture for the general public on the theme "The genetics of European settlement since the Ice Age".
The study of DNA preserved in the fossils of individuals from…

01/12/2020
Nicolas Minc, Head of the "Spatial Organisation of the Cell" team at the Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS Research Director, has just received the Bettencourt Coups d'élan Prize for French research.
The "Coups d'élan pour la recherche française" prize was created by the Foundation in 2000. Since then, 74 French laboratories and more than 800 researchers have…

We are looking for postdoctoral candidates interested in working on transcriptional regulation of cell fate decisions, with expertise in biochemistry and molecular biology.
Applicants should email to vanessa.ribes (at) ijm.fr with their CV, motivation letter and contact details for 2-3 referees.

Line Manceau defended her thesis on 24 September "Study of the molecular and cellular mechanisms by which the paralogous transcription factors PAX3-FOXO1 and PAX7-FOXO1 exert their oncogenic activity".

Post-doc position available
Join the Palancade Lab to investigate how mRNA translation can occur at nuclearpores!
Contact: benoit.palancade (at) ijm.fr

Research engineer position available to join the Labex "Whom am I" Decoders (decoding locus-specific molecular interaction networks) project hosted at Institut Jacques Monod
>> towards the systematic decryption of the proteomic content of single loci
Contact: benoit.palancade (at) ijm.fr

Support for Benoît PALANCADE's research project on genomic instability
The Ligue contre le Cancer supports cancer research with the funding of €1,600,000 for 45 regional projects, several national projects and doctoral grants.
This month, it is presenting the project led by Benoit Palancade's team on genomic instability, which should lead to a better understanding of the mechanisms…