Invited by Roshan Kumar Vijendravarma (Courtier Lab), Stephen J. Simpson (Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, Australia) will give a seminar on the theme: The protein paradox – resolving the roles of dietary protein in obesity, ageing and age-related disease Abstrat: Reducing protein intake (and that of key amino acids) extends lifespan, especially during mid-life and…

Invited by Sandra Duharcourt, Susana Coelho (Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen) will give an IJM Seminar on the theme: The secret life of brown algae Born in Portugal, Dissertation at the Marine Biological Association in the laboratory of Colin Brownlee (Plymouth, United Kingdom). As a postdoctoral fellow, she worked with Akira Peters and Mark Cock…

Invited by the team Grange/Geigl, Stéphane Peréygne, will give a seminar on the theme :   "Reconstructing the evolutionary and population history of archaic and modern humans." Computational Ancient Genomics (Janet Kelso) The group develops and applies computational approaches for the analysis of ancient and modern human genomes. Ancient genomes In the last 10 years ongoing work in…

Invited by Maxim Greenberg, Ozren Bogdanovic (Andalusian Centre for Developmental Biology, Seville, Spain) will give an IJM Seminar on Friday, May 12 on the theme : Evolutionary conservation and divergence of embryonic DNA methylome remodelling in fishes Methylation of cytosines is the most abundant DNA modification in vertebrates that plays crucial roles in cellular differentiation and…

  Invited by the Young Scientist Club, Antoine Molaro (Université de Clermont Auvergne, France) will give an IJM seminar on April 28 on the theme : Unusual Histones Mediate (epi)Génétic Conflicts during Reproduction Foreword I am broadly interested in understanding the function of the germline epigenome. In mammals, the germline epigenome is key to the inheritance of genetic…

Invited by Eva-Maria Geigl and Thierry Grange, Diyendo Massilani will give and IJM Seminar on Tuesday, April 18th on the theme : "Genomic analysis of a 34,000-year-old human individual from Mongolia" We investigate the evolutionary history of modern and extinct human populations using ancient DNA. Our focus is to retrieve and sequence DNA from archaeological materials…

Invited by Cathy Jackson, Joel Dacks (Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada) will give a seminar entitled: Unsuspected components and ancient origins of the eukaryotic membrane-trafficking system   Biography I am currently an Honorary Professor in the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, linked with the Centre for Life’s Origins and…