Paul Conduit, CNRS Research Fellow and head of the "Regulation of microtubules in multicellular animals" team, was awarded the Impulscience 2023 prize by the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation last night. Paul Conduit's laboratory seeks to gain a fundamental understanding of how microtubule nucleation is spatio-temporally regulated in the context of multicellular animals. Paul Conduit - Fondation Bettencourt Schueller…

Magid Badaoui (Minc Lab) will defend his PhD: Multiscale analysis of the mechanics of branched actin material   The defense will take place on Friday, November 24th at 2pm in François Jacob's room and will be in English. The jury will be composed of: Verena RUPRECHT - Group Leader, CRG Barcelona - Reviewer Ulrich SCHWARZ - Full…

Mélanie Aubry (Dumont Lab) will defend ther PhD defense: Mechanisms of chromosome orientation, congression and segregation in the Caenorhabditis elegans oocyte   The PhD defense which will be held on Thursday, November 23th at 1:30 pm, in Pierre-Gilles de Gennes amphitheater (bâtiment Condorcet, 4 rue Elsa Morante, 75013 Paris) and will be in French.   The jury is composed…

On December 8, 2023, the Conférence Monod-Diderot will welcome Erin Schuman (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 within dendrites and…

Invited by the Palancade Lab, Alain Nicolas (Institute for Research on Cancer and Aging, Nice, France) will present an IJM seminar on the theme: Mutators and mutational landscapes: from yeast to cancers   Abstract: Genome sequencing in model organisms and tumors allowed the extraction of mutational landscapes. Our study of numerous S. cerevisiae mutator strains revealed the diversity,…