Invited by the Ladoux/Mège team, Prisca Liberali (Senior Group Leader, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research -FMI) will an IJM seminar entitled: Design principles of tissue organization   SELF-ORGANISATION DURING COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOUR Robust experimental model systems have recently been developed from adult or induced pluripotent stem cells that self-organise into organoid structures in vitro. In particular, intestinal organoids…

Invited by Paul Conduit, Susana Godinho (Barts Cancer Institute, London, UK) will give an IJM Seminar entitled : Microtubules as mediators of stress responses and repair Research Cancer cells often contain extra centrosomes. The centrosome is the main microtubule-organizing centre in animal cells, an essential component of the cytoskeleton. In normal cells, centrosome number is tightly regulated,…

Invited by Sandra Duharcourt, Antoine Hocher (MRC, London Institute of Medical Sciences) will give on January 6th a seminar entitled : Histones, beyond eukaryotes   Research Our goal is to understand how what is happening inside the cell biases the incidence of mutations, affects their persistence, and, ultimately, shapes patterns of natural variation within and between species. Some…

Invited the Grange/Geigl team, Garrett Hellenthal (UCL Division of Biosciences, London) will give a seminar entitled: Leveraging DNA to infer intermixing among human populations and signatures of adaptation   Research summary I am currently a Sir Henry Dale Fellow (jointly funded by the Wellcome Trust and Royal Society) working at the UCL Genetics Institute (UGI) on constructing…

Arnau Sebé-Pedrós, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, will give an IJM seminar entitled " Diversity, Regulation and Evolution of cell types in early Metazoa" on Friday , December 16th at 11:45 am in the François Jacob seminar room.   Comparative regulatory genomics We study the evolution of cell type programs and associated genome regulation (transcription factors, histone…

Richard Dorell (Institut de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure (IBENS) will give on November 25th a seminar entitled: Towards a Horizontal View of Algal Evolution   Research interests Horizontal evolution of microalgae in the global ocean “Life did not take over the world by combat, but by networking”- Lynn Margulis The most dramatic evolutionary transition across the tree of…