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…

Richard Dorell (Institut de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure (IBENS) will give on November 25th a seminar entitled: Towards a Horizontal View of Algal Evolution   Research interests Horizontal evolution of microalgae in the global ocean “Life did not take over the world by combat, but by networking”- Lynn Margulis The most dramatic evolutionary transition across the tree of…

The next Cytoskeleton Club will take place at the Institut Pasteur on 16 November 2022 in the Agnès Ullmann amphitheatre – 25, rue du Dr Roux 75015 Paris.   With: Grizelda Velez Aguilera (post-doc, Pintard 's lab, IJM) "Role of the Polo-like kinase (PLK-1) in Nuclear Envelope Breakdown in the C. elegans zygote".   Fanny Roland-Gosselin (phD…

Invited byRoshan Kumar Vijendravarma (Courtier Lab), Jan Clemens (European Neuroscience Institute, University Medical Center, Göttingen, Germany) will give a seminar entitled : Neural computations underlying social behavior in Drosophila    Neural Computation and Behavior Our brain is constantly confronted with sensory information, yet it manages to filter out relevant bits to produce appropriate behavior. Our lab is interested in…