Gaël Simon (Collignon Lab) will defend his thesis: In vitro study of BMP, WNT and NODAL signalling pathways during primitive streak formation and specification using mouse 2D Gastruloids   The thesis defense will take place on Tuesday, December 19th at 2 pm in François Jacob's room, Institut Jacques Monod, 15 rue Hélène Brion, 75013 Paris and will…

Invited by the Collignon, Antonio Scialdone (Institute of Epigenetics and Stem Cells, Helmholtz Munich), will present an IJM seminar on the theme: Making heads or tails of mouse embryonic development using single-cell transcriptomics and physical modeling   "Before the body plan can be laid down, a “coordinate system" must be established to distinguish the anterior from the…

Jeanne Mattei (Grange/Geigl Lab) will defend her thesis entitled: Paleogenomic study of the domestication process of cats   The defense will be held in French on Wednesday 20th December, at 2 pm in the room 05 (ground floor) of the Condorcet building, (4 Rue Elsa Morante, 75013 Paris) The jury is composed of Catherine ANDRE, Head of Research…

The next meeting of the Cytoskeleton club will be on Wednesday 13th of December at 9.30 am at the Institut Pasteur For this meeting: Maite Freire Delgado ( PhD student, Thibaut Brunet lab, Institut Pasteur) will tell us about:  "Through the Understanding of Phenotype Transition in Choanoflagellates  Aude Nommick (post-doc, Nicola Minc lab, Institut Jacques Monod)…

On December 8th 2023, the Conférences Monod-Diderot will welcome Erin Schuman (co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research) who will speak on the theme: Local Neuronal Transcriptomes and Proteomes   Abstract: The complex morphology of neurons, with synapses located 100’s of microns from the cell body, necessitates the localization of important cell biological machines and processes…

Invited by the Wassmann lab, Julie Welburn (Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh) will present an IJM seminar, on December 20th at 11 am, on the theme: Mitotic motor multitasking from chromosome alignment to central spindle stability   Julie's group studies the molecular transport mechanisms underlying cell division and organisation.  She is studying how…

Antoine Langeoire (Wassmann Lab) will defend his thesis: Étude de la correction des erreurs d’attachement durant la deuxième division de méiose dans l’ovocyte de souris   The defense will take place on Wednesday, December 20th at 2pm in the Salle François Jacob (Institut Jacques Monod, 15 rue Hélène Brion 75013 Paris) and will be in French. The jury…

Aude Nommick and Sandra Carvalho received a 2023 photo award from the Société de Biologie Cellulaire de France!   © Aude Nommick The image selected by SBCF members was taken by Aude Nommick, a post-doctoral researcher in Nicolas Minc’s team. This confocal microscopy image shows a Parancentrotus lividus sea urchin embryo at blastula stage. Most cells are in…

Simon De Beco (Ladoux/Mège Lab) will defend his HDR ("Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches"): Quantitative optobiology as a way to study cell mechanics and migration during epithelial homeostasis   The defense will take place on December 15th at 2:00 PM in the François Jacob room at the Institut Jacques Monod. The jury will be composed of: Dr. Kristine…