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. …

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…

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

A member of the Pintard team at the Institut Jacques Monod (UMR7592 CNRS/University of Paris), and a CNRS research fellow, Nicolas Joly has just been awarded the Maurice Nicloux 2021 prize by the French Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Society (SFBBM).   This prize commemorates the first president and founder of the French Society of Biological Chemistry created…