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PhD thesis defense: Amy HESKETH
Amy HESKETH, PhD student in SILENT team, will defend her Thesis entitled:
"Silencing transcriptionnel et methylation de l’ADN chez Arabidopsis thalia
Friday the 2nd of July 2021 at 2 pm- online (link to come )
Viva examiners :Cécile Raynaud (IPS2-Paris Saclay), Jean Molinier (IBMP,Strasbourg), Thierry Lagrange (LGDP, Perpignan), Emilie Brasset (iGReD), Maria-Eugenia Gallego (iGReD)
L’iGReD à l’assaut du Géant
Dignes successeurs de Florin Périer et de son expérience du Puy de Dôme sur la pression atmosphérique , Christophe, Adrien, Franck et Claude, membres de la « Team UCA-CNRS », illustrent que la recherche c’est la tête et les jambes.
Même le soleil était (un peu trop) au rendez-vous de cette 46iéme édition de La Montée du Puy de Dôme FSCT, jumelée cette année avec les 150 ans de l’Observatoire de Physique du Globe (UCA-CNRS).
Félicitations à tous les « finishers »
Pour en savoir plus : https://fsgtpuydedome.wixsite.com/fsgt
James WILMOUTH s’illustre lors des JED 2021
James WILMOUTH , doctorant dans l’équipe Pathophysiologie moléculaire des tissus surrénaux et endocriniens, a reçu le prix Cancéropole CLARA de la meilleure communication orale dans le domaine du Cancer.
Ce prix, attribué par un jury de chercheurs du public et du privé, lui permettra d'exercer ses talents d’orateur dans un congrès International. Félicitations à lui.
Accessing the inaccessible
The heterochromatic regions of eukaryotic genomes are enriched in repeated sequences and poorly accessible due to a high level of compaction. Nevertheless, heterochromatin has to retain a certain degree of accessibility to allow important DNA-related biological processes to occur, including DNA replication, DNA damage repair, maintenance of DNA methylation and transcription for small RNA production. In a new study published in Nature Communications (Bourguet et al., ), the SILENT team now shows that the histone variant H2A.W cooperates with linker histone H1 to maintain optimal accessibility of heterochromatin in Arabidopsis.
JED 2021
The JED SVSAE 2021 are coming up May 27-28th! You can find all the information here: https://svsae.ed.uca.fr/inscription-obligations/obligations/journee-scientifique-de-led-svsae-1
Here is a teaser of what's to come! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRNUEz1CRqE
Diversity matters
Blood cell progenitors play an essential role in the cellular immune response to infection but the importance of their heterogeneity remains elusive. In collaboration with the team of Pr M. Inamdar (JNCASR- Bangalore), the team “Epigenetic regulation and hematopoiesis” revealed that Drosophila larval blood cell progenitors exhibit an unforeseen degree of diversity, which underlies a proper immune response. This study has beeen published (Rodriguez et al., 2021) in elife.
This study has been higlighted on the INSB CNRS website
fixed-term contract for Research Engineer "Towards the development of better tools for the evaluation and conservation of male gametes".
Research Engineer position ( fixed-term contract 24 months) is available from june 2021 in the team "Mechanisms of mammalian post-testicular infertility"
Form more details an dapply , it's here
When LXR plays firefighters….
Chronic inflammation is a precursor mechanism supporting cancer development. Regarding the prostate, although hormone deprivation therapy significantly slows down cancer development, it triggers deep alterations in the tumor microenvironment. In its last studi, published in Genome Biology ( Bousset et al.) the NuReP team shows that the absence of nuclear receptors LXR leads to reprogramming of the tumor microenvironment, in particular the immune landscape.
Labellisation LIGUE de l’équipe MOP@ET
Félicitation à l’équipe MOP@ET qui vient d’obtenir la labélisation de La Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer pour une période de 5 ans. Ce label prestigieux est une reconnaissance du travail mené depuis plusieurs années par cette équipe sur le cancer de la surrénale.
Ce succés mérité fait l'objet d'un article dans La Montagne
Replicate to repress
Heterochromatin, which states for highly condensed genomics regions, is mainly constituted of transcriptionally repressed repeated elements. In its last study, published in Genome Biology (Bourguet et al., 2020), the SILENT team shows that DNA polymerase epsilon, which is involved in DNA replication, plays a crucial role in maintaining both the structure and the function of heterochromatin.