The Institut Jacques Monod will celebrate on 29 November the 40th anniversary of its nomination in honour of Jacques Monod. Founded in 1966 by Jacques Monod and François Jacob as the Institut de Biologie Moléculaire, François Chapeville, then director, proposed in 1982 to rename it the Institut Jacques Monod. This prestigious filiation makes the Institute a…

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…

The next Cytoskeleton Club will take place at the Institut Pasteur on 16 November 2022 in the Agnès Ullmann amphitheatre – 25, rue du Dr Roux 75015 Paris.   With: Grizelda Velez Aguilera (post-doc, Pintard 's lab, IJM) "Role of the Polo-like kinase (PLK-1) in Nuclear Envelope Breakdown in the C. elegans zygote".   Fanny Roland-Gosselin (phD…

Invited byRoshan Kumar Vijendravarma (Courtier Lab), Jan Clemens (European Neuroscience Institute, University Medical Center, Göttingen, Germany) will give a seminar entitled : Neural computations underlying social behavior in Drosophila    Neural Computation and Behavior Our brain is constantly confronted with sensory information, yet it manages to filter out relevant bits to produce appropriate behavior. Our lab is interested in…

Invited by René-Marc Mège, Carien M. Niessen (Department Cell Biology of the Skin and CECAD Cologne, University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne) will give a seminar entitled: Biomechanical regulation of cell fate and position in epithelial barrier morphogenesis, renewal and disease   Our research: How epithelia coordinate cell and tissue structure with growth and metabolic activity to control…

The Cytoskeleton Club is back for a new season!  Join us on October 19th at 9:30am in François Jacob room with: Magid Badaoui, PhD Student, Minc Lab (Institut Jacques Monod) : "A force-velocity relationship of branched actin based on simulations" Mariya Genova, PhD Student, Janke Lab (Institut Curie) : "Tubulin polyglutamylation differentially regulates microtubule-interacting proteins   Contact : …

Invited by Jérôme Collignon, Takashi Hiiragi (Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands /ASHBi Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan) will give a seminar entitled: Multicellular coordination in context   The Hiiragi group studies robustness in development and aims to understand the design principle of self-organising multi-cellular systems. Self-organisation is a defining feature of living systems and entails complex interplay between molecular,…

Invited by Benoit Ladoux, Ada Cavalcanti (Max Planck Institute for Medical Research) will give a seminar entitled: Mechanical regulation of receptor-mediated cell adhesion   Growth Factor Mechanobiology Group leader: Priv. Doz. Dr. Dr. E. Ada Cavalcanti-Adam Mechanical forces exerted by cells during adhesion and migration are adjusted through molecular interactions of receptors at the cell membrane. Adhesive molecules…