Mélanie Hamon, head of the unit “Chromatin and infection”, was awarded a Chaire d’excellence by the French Ministry of Research for her project ‘ChromaBac – Bacteria driven chromatin modifications in health and disease’. Mélanie […]
We are pleased to welcome Benoit Chassaing as a new head of a G5 research group in our department ! Benoit will lead the Microbiome-Host Interactions (MHI) unit. Benoit obtained his PhD in microbiology at […]
Prof. Edward C. HOLMES NHMRC Australia Fellow, University of Sydney, Australia Redefining the Virosphere Our knowledge of RNA virus biodiversity is both biased and fragmentary. Here I will describe a meta-transcriptomic study of ~220 […]
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a globally spreading alphavirus against which there is no commercially available vaccine or therapy. A study conducted in our laboratory, in collaboration with Thomas Meyer and colleagues at the Max […]
Increasing clinical reports show that major depression is characterized by pronounced olfactory deficits, yet the underlying mechanisms remain unknown. In this work, we used an endocrine model of depression to study whether hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis […]
Department of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology 2017 Seminar Series Friday 10th March — at 12.00 pm @ Amphi Jacques Monod (Bât.66) SEMINAR ” ESCRT-positive exovesicles in animal development “ Invited Speaker ⇒ Maximilian […]
Congratulation to Zeynep Baharoglu (Department Genomes and Genetic), Céline Fabret (I2BC, U. Orsay) and Virginie Marchand (IBSL, U. Lorraine) whose project “ModRNAntibio” will be financed by the Agence National de la Recherche in its 2021 […]
Abstract The adaptive immune system requires an enormously diverse repertoire of antigen receptors (AgRs) on T and B cells. This diversity is generated by DNA rearrangement in each developing lymphocyte that combines randomly chosen gene segments and introduces […]
Department of Structural Biology and Chemistry SEMINAR Vendredi 11 Oct. 2019 at 11:30 Chamberland room Pr. James Conway University of Pittsburgh – USA Probing the common architectures of bacteriophage T5 and herpesvirus by […]
Department of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology 2017 Seminar Series Friday 28th April— at 12.00 pm @ Amphi Jacques Monod (Bât.66) SEMINAR “Stem cells, diet, and physiology” Invited Speaker ⇒ Daniela Drummond-Barbosa Department of […]
This four-week intensive course, featuring both laboratory work and lectures, focuses on presenting current concepts and new experimental techniques in the study of cellular functions. For more information and program, please, visit the course […]
The 2nd one-week practical course on Image Processing for Electron Microscopy focused on Cryo-Tomography (IPEMcryotomo) will be held at Institut Pasteur, Paris, October 3-7, 2022. Electron tomography combined with image processing is one of […]
Integrative stem cell engineering approaches to rejuvenate aging skeletal muscle Dr. Jang’s lab uses multi-disciplinary approaches to study muscle stem cell biology and develops bioactive stem cell delivery vehicles for use in regenerative medicine. […]
Broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) develop in rare HIV-1 infected humans, and neutralize a large panel of viral quasi-species. Over the past decade, hundreds of bNAbs have been isolated, some of which can protect non-human […]
Previous works showed that bacteria encoding capsules are better colonizers and are dominant in most environments suggesting a positive role for capsules in the genetic diversification of bacteria. Yet, it has been repeatedly suggested, […]
Guillaume Dumenil, head of the unit “Pathogenesis of vascular infections”, was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced grant for his project ‘DESTOP – Destabilizing vascular colonization to stop meningitis’. Invasive meningococcemia, caused by […]
