Invited by the Borghi, Marie Breau (CRCN INSERM, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine (IBPS), Sorbonne Université, Laboratoire de Biologie du Développement) will present an Institut Jacques Monod Seminars on the theme: Mechanical interactions between tissues during the morphogenesis of the zebrafish olfactory placode   Abstract: Neuronal circuit assembly requires neuronal migration and axon/dendrite growth, which are believed to be…

The next Cytoskeleton club meeting will take place on Wednesday, 24th of April at 9.30 am at the Curie Institute (Amphithéâtre Burg). During this meeting, Abir Elfarkouchi (Ph Student, Conduit Lab, IJM) will present "Spatiotemporal regulation of microtubule nucleation during cell division" Baghyanath Suresh (PhD Student, Thery Lab, ESPCI / Institut Pierre-Gilles De Gennes)  will present…

Invited by the Konstantinides Lab, Dafni Hadjieconomou (Team leader at the GutSense lab, Paris Brain Institute (ICM)) will present an Institut Jacques Monod Seminars on the theme: "Mind the gut" a tale of two brains   Abstract: A series of tightly controlled processes ensure that energy is either stored or consumed within an organism. This control is central…

Invited by the Prioleau Lab, Ichiro Hiratani (RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (RIKEN BDR), Kobe, Japan) will present an Institut Jacques Monod Seminar on the theme: Unraveling the dynamic 3D genome architecture through single-cell DNA replication profiling   Abstract: Hi-C technology has revolutionized genome biology, revealing that mammalian chromosomes are partitioned into megabase-sized topologically associating domains (TADs).…

Invited by the Ribes Lab, Mustafa Mir (Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute) will present an Institut Jacques Monod Seminar on the theme: Molecular kinetics of gene regulation during embryonic development   Abstract: During early development gene expression patterns progressively emerge as cell fates are…

Invited by the Ladoux/Mège Lab, Jacopo Di Russo (REMeD lab - Interdisciplinary Centre for Clinical Research, RWTH Aachen University and DWI – Leibniz-Institute for Interactive Materials) will present an IJM seminar on the theme: Mesoscale Epithelial Mechanobiology and Cellular Interfaces   Abstract: Mechanical properties regulate tissue functions at a multicellular length scale or mesoscale. These properties depend on…

Invited by the Ladoux/Mège Lab, Raymond E. Goldstein (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences,University of Cambridge), will present an IJM seminar on the theme: Geometrical aspects of evolutionary transitions to multicellularity   Abstract: This talk will describe recent experimental and theoretical advances in understanding the dynamics and architecture of organisms that serve as models…