In her talk, Valérie Verhasselt will emphasise the uniqueness of the infant immune system and show how a deeper understanding of its distinct physiology is essential to meeting the infant’s specific needs. She will […]
The emergence of new display technologies, analyses and data types encourages the need within scientific and medical communities to streamline the interpretation of multidimensional visual data such as point clouds (\eg localization microscopy, single-particle […]
Friday 30th September — at 12.00 pm — Salle Monod (Bât.66) Invited Speaker : Professor Denise Montell From Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology – University of California Hosted by Philippe Herbomel Abstract : My […]
Genetic mutations in the gene Optic Atrophy 1 (OPA1) cause autosomal dominant optic atrophy (DOA), one of the most common forms of mitochondrial disease where mitochondria are fragmented in small vesicles. While most of […]
Competition between lysogenic and sensitive bacteria is determined by the fitness costs of the different emerging phage-resistance strategies eLife 12:e83479. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.83479 Rendueles, O., De Sousa, J. and Rocha, E. Microbial community dynamics are deeply […]
In two companion papers published in Cell Reports (27601299) and Genes & Development (27798842), the Deriano lab at the Institut Pasteur Paris and the Jackson lab at the University of Cambridge UK reveal the […]
“Large phylogenies” is a half-day module withing the “Bioinformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology” (VEME) workshop. This module aims discusses approaches to reconstruct large trees and to perform downstream cluster analyses on […]
Patrick C. Phillips, Ph.D. Acting Executive Director | Professor of Biology Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact https://www.uoregon.edu/accelerate https://www.uoregon.edu/~pphi Abstract: Aging is the inevitable fate of all organisms yet is […]
“Temporal construction and deconstruction of neuronal identities in development and disease: a human pluripotent stem cell perspective” Targeted differentiations of pluripotent stem cells open new avenues to study the development, evolution and disease of […]
Shahragim Tajbakhsh, head of the unit “Stem Cells and Development”, was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced grant for his project STENIPATH – Stem and niche cell dynamics in normal and pathological conditions. […]
Tuesday 26 March 2019 at 2.00 pm AUDITORIUM CENTRE F. JACOB – CFJ RdC 17c Dr. Tomoyasu AIZAWA Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University, 060-0810 Sapporo, Japan Development of Novel Expression Systems […]
Thursday 18 April @ 11:00 am Auditorium F. Jacob (CFJ building) Clare M. SMITH Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University, Durham – USA Host vs Pathogen: discovering genetic drivers of diverse tuberculosis outcomes. Abstract: Genetic diversity […]
The study of the Buruli ulcer caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans led Caroline Demangel and her team to mycolactone, a toxin secreted by the pathogen. They’ve recently discovered that mycolactone operates by inhibiting the mammalian […]
Asthma is the most common chronic lung disease, caused in half the cases by exposures to allergens such as mites. Allergic asthma is characterized by eosinophilia and high levels of IgE and type 2 […]
We are pleased to welcome Aude Bernheim as a new head of a G5 research group in our department. Aude will lead the Molecular Diversity of Microbes unit. Few words about Aude: Aude is […]
Allon Weiner – Faculté de Médecine Sorbonne Université, Site Pitié-Salpêtrière – Cimi Paris Many pathogens possess the ability to invade host tissues using complex strategies that allow breaching of host barriers, subversion of host […]
