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Grange/Geigl Lab – Analysis of Ancient Microbial DNA

Home publis, News4 January 2023
The Grange/Geigl team recently published a book chapter i Microbial Environmental Genomics (Part of the Methods in Molecular Biology book series (MIMB,volume 2605) Analysis of Ancient Microbial DNA Abstract The development of next-generation sequencing has led to a breakthrough in the analysis of ancient genomes, and the subsequent genomic analyses of ancient human skeletal remains have…

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IJM Seminar – Susana Godinho – 24/01/2023

News4 January 2023
Invited by Paul Conduit, Susana Godinho (Barts Cancer Institute, London, UK) will give an IJM Seminar entitled : Microtubules as mediators of stress responses and repair Research Cancer cells often contain extra centrosomes. The centrosome is the main microtubule-organizing centre in animal cells, an essential component of the cytoskeleton. In normal cells, centrosome number is tightly regulated,…

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Monod-Diderot Conference – Yves Barral – 10/01/2023

News3 January 2023
The first Monod-Diderot Lecture of the year will welcome Yves Barral (ETH Zürich) for a presentation entitled : Mechanisms of microtubule specialization and its role in asymmetric cell division Free access in Amphi Buffon - 15, rue Hélène Brion - 75013 Paris   Barral Lab: Cells are the basic unit of life and have acquired in evolution not only…

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Cytoskeleton Club – 18/01/2023

News3 January 2023
The next Cytoskeleton Club session will be held on January 18th at the Institut Curie (Amphi Burg) with : Foad Ghasemi (PhD Student, Romet-Lemonne / Jégou Lab - Institut Jacques Monod) : "New surprises from an old friend: Arp2/3, nucleation of actin filament branches and beyond" Aurore Maciejewski (PhD Student, Jaulin Lab - Institut…

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IJM Seminar – Antoine Hocher – 06/01/2023

News2 January 2023
Invited by Sandra Duharcourt, Antoine Hocher (MRC, London Institute of Medical Sciences) will give on January 6th a seminar entitled : Histones, beyond eukaryotes   Research Our goal is to understand how what is happening inside the cell biases the incidence of mutations, affects their persistence, and, ultimately, shapes patterns of natural variation within and between species. Some…

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Ladoux/Mège Lab – Bioengineering a miniaturized in vitro 3D myotube contraction monitoring chip to model muscular dystrophies

Home publis, News15 December 2022
The Ladoux/Mège Team has just published a new paper in Biomaterials   Bioengineering a miniaturized in vitro 3D myotube contraction monitoring chip to model muscular dystrophies   Abstract Quantification of skeletal muscle functional contraction is essential to assess the outcomes of therapeutic procedures for neuromuscular disorders. Muscle three-dimensional “Organ-on-chip” models usually require a substantial amount of biological…

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Prof. Michel Vervoort passed away

News14 December 2022
The death on Thursday, December 8, 2022 of Michel Vervoort at the age of 52, leaves a huge void in the French scientific community, especially in the fields of Evo-Devo and in regeneration and stem cell research. Michel was Professor in Developmental Genetics at Université Paris Cité, director of the Stem Cells, Development and Evolution team…

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Séminaire IJM – Garrett Hellenthal – 20/12/2022

News7 December 2022
Invited the Grange/Geigl team, Garrett Hellenthal (UCL Division of Biosciences, London) will give a seminar entitled: Leveraging DNA to infer intermixing among human populations and signatures of adaptation   Research summary I am currently a Sir Henry Dale Fellow (jointly funded by the Wellcome Trust and Royal Society) working at the UCL Genetics Institute (UGI) on constructing…

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Sandra Duharcourt receives the CNRS silver medal

News7 December 2022
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…

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