Skip to content Skip to footer

Cytoskeleton club – 18/10/23

The first cytoskeleton club meeting will take place on Wednesday October 18 of October at 9.30 am at  the Pasteur Institute (salle Bordet Metchnikoff - 25 rue du Dr Roux 75015 Paris.   For this first meeting: - Guillaume MONTAGNAC, (Group leader of the « Endocytosis, cytoskeleton and cell migration » lab, Institute Gustave Roussy) will talk about :…

Read More

IJM Seminar – Joao Matos – 10/10/2023

Invited by the Wassmann Lab, Joao Matos (Max Perutz Labs, University of Vienna) will present an IJM seminar on the theme: Building, maintaining and discarding large macromolecular assemblies during gametogenesis The life cycle of sexually reproducing eukaryotes depends on two specialized chromosome segregation programs: mitosis and meiosis. Whereas mitosis drives cellular proliferation and the stable propagation…

Read More

Thesis defense –  Dunja Čelebić – 09/10/2023 

Dunja Čelebić (Wassmann Lab) will defend her thesis: "Exploring the phosphoproteome landscape at the transition from the first to the second meiotic division"  The thesis defense will be held in English on October, 9 at 2pm in the François Jacob room at the Institut Jacques Monod The jury will be composed of: Dr Jean-Paul Javerzat, Directeur…

Read More

IJM Seminar – Ana Rita Gomes – 06/10/2023

Invited by the Prioleau Lab, Ana Rita Gomes (LPHI - Laboratory of Pathogens and Host Immunity, Université de Montpellier) will present an IJM seminar on the theme: The genetic landscape of origins of replication in P. falciparum   A variety of origin mapping approaches have enabled genome-wide identification of origins of replication (ORI) in model organisms, but…

Read More

IJM Seminar – Daniel J. Cohen – 25/09/2023

Invited by the Ladoux/Mège team, Daniel J. Cohen (Princeton University) will present an IJM seminar on the theme: ‘Chiens de berger’ cellulaires: understanding and controlling collective cell behaviors Collective cell behaviors are fundamental to the coordinated migration, proliferation, and decision-making of cells in a multicellular organism. Imagine if we could program these behaviors, effectively ‘herding’ cells…

Read More

Selection of Nikos Konstantinides into The Federation of European Neuroscience Societies-Kavli Network of Excellence

The Institut Jacques Monod is very proud to announce the selection and integration of Nikos Konstantinides into The Federation of European Neuroscience Societies-Kavli Network of Excellence. Congratulations! The FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence brings together independent, early-career neuroscience researchers based in Europe. They are chosen for their scientific excellence, originality and leadership. This year, a cohort of…

Read More

IJM Seminar – Alexander Woglar – 19/09/2023

Invited by Julien Dumont, Alexander Woglar (ETH Zurich) will present an IJM seminar on the theme: Deciphering the dynamic molecular architecture of centrioles and meiotic chromosomes "Uncovering the architecture of complex, multi-protein containing macromolecular assemblies such as chromosomes or centrioles is key to understand the mechanism of their biogenesis and modes of function. To answerer open…

Read More

IJM Seminar – Peter Sarkies – 15/09/2023

Invited by Sandra Duharcourt, Peter Sarkies (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford) will give an IJM Seminar entitled: Using evolution to understand epigenetic mechanisms   Epigenetics and Evolution Epigenetics allows different types of cells in the body to turn different sets of genes on or off without changing the underlying DNA sequence.  As a result, epigenetics is fundamental…

Read More

IJM Seminar – Michael Perry – 26/07/2023

Invited by Nikos Konstantinides, Michael Perry (University of California San Diego) will present an IJM seminar on the theme: The insect visual system as a model for neural development and evolution Abstract: Animal genomes provide instructions for producing an amazing diversity of cell types during development, perhaps especially in the brain. One of the most surprising findings…

Read More