The Cytoskeleton Club is back for a new season!  Join us on October 19th at 9:30am in François Jacob room with: Magid Badaoui, PhD Student, Minc Lab (Institut Jacques Monod) : "A force-velocity relationship of branched actin based on simulations" Mariya Genova, PhD Student, Janke Lab (Institut Curie) : "Tubulin polyglutamylation differentially regulates microtubule-interacting proteins   Contact : …

Invited by Jérôme Collignon, Takashi Hiiragi (Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands /ASHBi Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan) will give a seminar entitled: Multicellular coordination in context   The Hiiragi group studies robustness in development and aims to understand the design principle of self-organising multi-cellular systems. Self-organisation is a defining feature of living systems and entails complex interplay between molecular,…

Invited by Benoit Ladoux, Ada Cavalcanti (Max Planck Institute for Medical Research) will give a seminar entitled: Mechanical regulation of receptor-mediated cell adhesion   Growth Factor Mechanobiology Group leader: Priv. Doz. Dr. Dr. E. Ada Cavalcanti-Adam Mechanical forces exerted by cells during adhesion and migration are adjusted through molecular interactions of receptors at the cell membrane. Adhesive molecules…

Invited by Virginie Courtier, Olivier Tenaillon (Inserm, Université Paris Cité) will give on October 14th a seminar entitled : "Molecular determinants of bacterial adaptation in vitro, in vivo, in infectio. " Research interests     With the rise of antibiotic resistance and the emergence of new forms of virulence, it has become clear that microbial evolution is…

The CNRS Foundation has just awarded the Georges Brahms Prize to Priscillia Lhoumaud, Research Fellow at the Institut Jacques Monod in the team "Chromatin Dynamics in Mammalian Development", directed by Maxim Greenberg.   Priscillia Lhoumaud got her PhD in 2014 in the Laboratory of Eucaryotic Molecular Biology at Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, in the team of Olivier…

The Conduit Lab is looking for a postdoc as part of an ANR grant Application deadline 21st Nov 2022 Apply now! paul.conduit at ijm.fr More: IJM_postdoc_advert_2022

Virginie Courtier has been appointed to the Annual Chair of Biodiversity and Ecosystems at the Collège de France. This appointment is a recognition of the high quality of her work. She will give her inaugural lecture "Penser le vivant autrement" on 9 February 2023 at 6 pm. Director of research at the CNRS, Virginie Courtier and her…