Events

Registration for the VIP & DIF Day #5 is open ! Where: Institut Jacques Monod (Amphi  Buffon - 15 rue Hélène Brion - 75013 Paris) When: Monday 23rd of June…

The conference “Mechanobiology Conference III: From Fundamental Research to Applications” that will be held at the conference center in ICISE Quy Nhon, central Vietnam on July 06-12, 2025. Three members…

Safia El Jailani (Wassmann Lab) will defense her PhD thesis on Monday, July 7th: Mechanisms ensuring tight control of cohesin cleavage to prevent aneuploidies in oocytes   The defense will…

Invited by the Wassmann lab, Professor Adele L. Marston (Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh) will present an Institut Jacques Monod seminar on the theme: Functional organisation of pericentromeres…

On July 11th, Gijsje Koenderink (Department of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, Delft University of Technology) will present an Institut Jacques Monod lecture on the theme:How cytoskeletal crosstalk makes…

Neuro/evo/devo in Japan and Paris Meeting regarding the latest research on development, evolution and neurobiology using as model organisms birds, fishes, butterflies and Drosophila Organised by Virginie Courtier (contact) Program 10:30:…

Invited by the Ribes / Nedelec lab, Olivier Destaing (PhD-HDR (DR2 CNRS), Group INVADE à l'institut pour l'avancée des Biosciences UMR 5309 (CNRS, Inserm, UGA) ) will present an Institut…

Invited by the Ladoux/Mege, Stéphanie Ellis (Max Perutz Labs/University of Vienna/Vienna Biocenter Campus) will present an Institut Jacques Monod on the theme: Understanding mosaic tissue dynamics through cell competition.  …

Invited by the Ladoux/Mege, Stéphanie Ellis (Max Perutz Labs/University of Vienna/Vienna Biocenter Campus) will present an Institut Jacques Monod Seminar on the theme: Understanding mosaic tissue dynamics through cell competition…

Andreas Schoenit (Ladoux/Mège Lab) will defense his PhD thesis: Mechanical forces in cell competition and epidermal stratification The jury will be composed of: Pierre-François LENNE, DR - IBDM Marseille -…

Invited by the équipe Minc Lab, Jan Brugues (Physics of Life Excellence Cluster, TU Dresden ) will present an Institut Jacques Monod seminar: Self-organization of the cytoplasm by physical instabilities…

Sandra Touati (Wassmann Lab) will defend her Authorization to supervise research (HDR) : « Cell cycle regulation – Let’s crack the phosphocode »   The defense will take place on Friday…

Fanny Roland-Gosselin (Guichet Lab) will defend her PhD thesis : Caractérisation d'un réseau membranaire de microtubules impliqué dans le positionnement du noyau de l'ovocyte de Drosophila melanogaster The jury will…

Invited by the Duharcourt Lab, Peter Andersen (Associate Professor at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Aarhus University) will present an Institut Jacques Monod seminar on the theme:…

Meriem Boumendjel (Azimzadeh Lab) will defense her PhD thesis defense: Élucider les bases moléculaires de l'asymétrie rotationnelle des centrioles et son rôle au centrosome et au cil primaire The jury…

Thomas Balan (Duharcourt Lab) will defense his PhD defense: Characterization of proteins involved in the dynamics of histone modifications during programmed DNA elimination in Paramecium tetraurelia The jury will be…

Teresa Urli (Greenberg Lab) will defend her PhD thesis defense: Unraveling the functions and mechanisms of epigenetic switching in mammals The jury will be composed of: Reporters: Dr Courtney HANNA, Research…

Invited by the Greenberg, Courtney Hanna (Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) will present an Institut Jacques Monod seminar: Epigenetic regulation of…

Jiu Xiao (Romet-Lemonne/Jégou Lab) will defense her PhD thesis: Impact of Arp2/3 aging on the mechanical stability of actin branch junctions The jury will be composed of: Antoine JÉGOU, DR,…

Robin Rondon ( Ribes/Nedelec Lab) will defend his PhD thesis: "De la répression à l'activation : le double jeu transcriptionnel de PAX3 et PAX7 au cours de la spécification des…

The division Physics and Life of the French Physical Society (SFP) organizes its third annual meeting. This year, it will take place on the 2nd and 3rd of October in Paris, at the Institut…

Invited by the Gazave Lab, Can Aztekin (Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society) will present an Institut Jacques Monod seminar: Signaling centers of appendage regeneration: from single cells…

Zoé Velasquillo Ramirez ( Gazave Lab)  will defend her PhD thesis: Unraveling regeneration success in Platynereis dumerilii through a single-cell RNA-seq approach The jury will be composed of: Cédric MAURANGE,…

Invited by the Courtier Lab, Nicolas Rode, (Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations, INRAE, Montpellier) will present the Institut Jacques Monod seminar on the theme: Investigating microbiota-induced plastic…

The next cytoskeleton club meeting will take place on Wednesday, October 15th at the Institut Jacques Monod: Izeta Kankadze (PhD student, Fassier/Nicol’s team, Institut de la Vision) présentera "Compartmentalized Second…

On October 17th, Bruno Lemaitre (Global Health Institute, School of Life Science, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland) will present Institut Jacques Monod lecture on the theme: A retrospective…

The Magistère Européen de Génétique, with the support of Circle U and the Institut Jacques Monod, is organizing an International Workshop from December 3rd to December 9th, which will be…

Anaïs Vertueux ( Jackson/Verbavatz Lab) will defend her PhD defense: Rôle de la protéine ORP3 dans la régulation des phosphoinositides à la membrane plasmique pendant la mitose The jury will…

Invited by the Guichet Lab, Beniamino Trombetta will present an Institut Jacques Monod seminar on the theme: Ancient DNA: techniques, data, and new perspectives on human biological and cultural evolution…

Invited by theI nstitut Jacques Monod, Dennis Wörthmüller will present a Paris Postdoc Seminar on the theme: When Actin Meets Curvature: Modeling Free-Standing Cell Protrusions Abstract: Cell shape changes are…

Ludivine Roumbo ( Pintard Lab) will defend her PhD thesis: Identification et caractérisation fonctionnelle d'une voie d'inhibition de la phosphatase PP2A-B55 chez C. elegans The jury will be composed of:…

The Paris Cytoskeleton Day is a scientific one-day symposium open to all types of cytoskeletal components and all types of approaches. This year is the fifth edition. It will take place…

Invited by the Duharcourt Lab, Cécile Courret (Department of Genome Biology, I2BC - Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS UMR 9198, Gif sur Yvette, France) …

Registrations to the 6th Fungal Genetics Ile-de-France Symposium and abstract submission are open!   The symposium will be organized the 18 of November at the Institut Jacques Monod, amphitheater Buffon,…

Invited by the Ladoux/Mege Lab, Magali Suzanne (University of Toulouse, CNRS, Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), Toulouse, France) will present an Institut Jacques Monod on the theme: Spatio-temporal control of…

Fanny Wodrascka ( Ladoux-Mège lab) will defend her PhD thesis: Mechanical control of epithelial cell extrusion via RhoA-dependent contractility The jury will be composed of: Elsa Bazelières, Sylvie Henon, Pere…

This seminar is organized by the Institut Jacques Monod and the Epigenetics and Cell Fate Centre as part of inIdEx FORMULA. Raphaël Guerrois (Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA,…

Anaïs Pillan (Pintard Lab) will defend her PhD thesis: Étude des mécanismes moléculaires d’activation des kinases mitotiques Plk1 et Aurora A lors de l’entrée en mitose The jury will be…

Invited by the Institut Jacques Monod, Nike Walther (Institut Curie) will present the Paris Postdoc Seminar: "Transcription factors in action during cell state transitions – quantitative insights from live-cell single-molecule…

Futura Gattobigio ( Collignon Lab ) will defend her PhD defense: NODAL is required for blastocyst development in the mouse The jury will be composed of: Pierre OSTEIL, MCF-HDR, Université…

Ludovic Mousseron (Veitia Lab) will defend his PhD thesis: Interaction entre les voies de signalisation PKA et PKC et le facteur de transcription FOXL2 dans l'ovaire The jury will be…

Pierre Kerner ( Gazave Lab)  will defend his Authorization to supervise research (HDR): Le paysage régulatoire de la régénération Le jury sera composé de : Mr Sébastien Bloyer, PU, UParis-Saclay…

Invited by the Gazave Lab, Mélanie Débiais-Thibaud (Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, 34090 Montpellier, France) will present an Institut Jacques Monod seminar on…

The next cytoskeleton club meeting will take place on Wednesday December 17th. Léa Mayeur, PhD student , Guillaume Montagna's team, Institut Gustave Roussy will present "The role of epigenetic modifications…

Gabriel Krasovec ( Gazave Lab) will defense his Authorization to supervise research (HDR): Fonctions et régulation de l'apoptose lors de la régénération postérieure de l'annélide Platynereis dumerilii The jury will…

MOVE YOUR SCIENCE dance conference Thursday, 15 January 2026 at 7 p.m. in the Buffon Hall, Jacques Monod Institute.  Since September 2025, eight doctoral students from Paris Cité University, representing…

We are pleased to announce the upcoming international conference: « Forces at Play : Emerging Themes in Mechanobiology – In Memoriam of Professor Michael P. Sheetz »  which will take…

The next cytoskeleton club meeting will take place on January Wednesday 21st at the Pasteur Institute: Shreyangi CHAKRABORTY (PhD student, C. Janke’s team, Institut Curie Orsay) présentera "The role of…

Next week, Seema Grewal, Executive Editor of Journal of Cell Science will present the seminar: The Future of Publishing Abstract: The publishing landscape is constantly evolving, being reshaped by new technologies,…

Invited by the Ladoux/Mege Lab, Jennifer Young (Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering Department, Principal Investigator, Mechanobiology Institute National University of Singapore) will present an Institut Jacques Monod seminar on the theme:…