It is with infinite sadness that we learned of the passing of Clarisse Orniacki. Clarisse, a master student from Magistère de Génétique, joined the lab "Non-Conventional Functions of Nuclear Pores"as a doctoral student and successfully defended her thesis in December 2022. She was a young woman full of life, motivated, determined, brilliant, committed, but also modest…

🏃 This Sunday, June 15, members of the Institut Jacques Monod joined forces for Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale by walking and running in the Course des Héros race! 🎖️ Congratulations to all the participants! More information on the Course des héros race: https://www.coursedesheros.com/paris/

On June 4, 2025, the Institut Jacques Monod, the Functional and Adaptive Biology laboratory and the Epigenetics and Cell Fate laboratory held their apprentis chercheur Conference! On this occasion, the 15 students from the Camille Claudel school,  the Pierre Gilles de Gennes high school and the Gabriel Fauré  high school presented their research work carried out…

Retrouverez l'intervention de Eva-Maria Geigl dans un podcast diffusé dans l'émissions La Science, CQFD : Domestication : le jeu du chat et de l'Homme Avec sa popularité grandissante, le chat est devenu un animal de compagnie très prisé. Les premières traces de sa cohabitation avec l’humain remontent au Néolithique. Comment étudier son long processus de domestication ?…

On 15 May 2025, Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo was promoted to the rank of Officier dans l’Ordre National du Mérite by decree of the French President. This prestigious distinction recognises her scientific excellence in the field of biology. Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo is interested in the mechanisms involved in the evolution of species, in order to better understand our origins…

Watch a replay of two Twitch broadcasted by Sciences et Avenir: Qu’est-ce qu’une espèce ? avec Diane Dabir-Moghaddam et Pierre Kerner Mardi 18 mars, à 18h30, sur la chaîne Twitch de Sciences et Avenir, Diane Dabir-Moghaddam et Pierre Kerner (équipe Gazave) on discuté de la notion d’espèce... C’est quoi la définition d’une espèce ? Comment étudier les…

Every year, the Fondation des Treilles awards a prize for excellence to young researchers at the end of their thesis, in recognition of the originality and relevance of their research. This year, Zoé Velasquillo Ramirez was awarded the Young Researcher Prize. Zoé Velasquillo Ramirez is a PhD student in Eve Gazave's team, working on the following…

Saturday February 15 is World Pediatric Cancer Day. The cancer-fighters of the Ribes/Nedelec lab join forces with 2500 voices. The collective is organizing a fund-raising event, with all proceeds going to the React 4 kids research network! To mark the occasion, a tifo will be created at the Théâtre de Fourvière in Lyon, and 2500 voix…

Institut Jacques Monod leaves the X/Twitter platform Paris, January 20, 2025 For several years, the Institut Jacques Monod has used Twitter/X to share its scientific publications, communicate about its events and with the general public. However, after considering the evolution of the platform, we have decided, like many scientists, to suspend our communications on Twitter/X. We invite you…