Sandra Duharcourt, head of the Programmed Genome Elimination team, was awarded the CNRS silver medal yesterday by André Le Bivic, director of the INSB CNRS. Research Director at the Institut Jacques Monod, expert in combining genomics, cell biology and biochemistry approaches to study genome dynamics in eukaryotes. In order to understand the fundamental principles that govern chromosome…

Arnau Sebé-Pedrós, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, will give an IJM seminar entitled " Diversity, Regulation and Evolution of cell types in early Metazoa" on Friday , December 16th at 11:45 am in the François Jacob seminar room.   Comparative regulatory genomics We study the evolution of cell type programs and associated genome regulation (transcription factors, histone…

The Greenberg Lab is recruiting! Place: Institut Jacques Monod, Paris 13th district Duration: Full time, one year Start of contract: February 1, 2023 During early mammalian development, the DNA methylation landscape is profoundly remodeled. The candidate will use molecular biology and embryonic cell culture to help us explore non-conventional ways that DNA methylation can impact gene regulation and genome organization during this…

Co-leader of the "Regulation of actin assembly dynamics" team, Antoine JEGOU, CNRS Research Director at the Institut Jacques Monod, has just received the Impulscience 2022 prize awarded by the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation.   The Impulscience Prize Since this year, the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation has been offering a new programme to support the great French talents in life sciences…

 Priscillia Lhoumaud, a research fellow at the Institut Jacques Monod in the "Chromatin Dynamics in Mammalian Development" team led by Maxim Greenberg, was awarded the Georges Brahms Prize of the CNRS Foundation by Antoine Petit, CEO of the CNRS, on 16 November! Priscillia Lhoumaud obtained her PhD in 2014 at the Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire Eucaryote…

The Institut Jacques Monod will celebrate on 29 November the 40th anniversary of its nomination in honour of Jacques Monod. Founded in 1966 by Jacques Monod and François Jacob as the Institut de Biologie Moléculaire, François Chapeville, then director, proposed in 1982 to rename it the Institut Jacques Monod. This prestigious filiation makes the Institute a…