2020
-January 28th
The H3K9 demethylase JHDM2 hampers piRNA production from specific genomic regions
Karine Casier – Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine (IBPS), Laboratoire de Biologie du Développement (UMR7622)
2019
-November 22th
Roles of chromosome compaction machines in the maintenance of genome integrity
Prof. Damien D’Amours – University of Ottawa, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine
-June 10th
Intracellular compartments for photosystem biogenesis and the handling of oxidized RNA in Chlamydomonas and yeast
Prof. William Zerges – Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
-March 20th
Mitochondrial dynamics, inheritance and aging in yeast
Prof. Dr. Benedikt Westermann – Universität Bayreuth, Germany
2018
-Décember 17th
Understanding chloroplast protein N-terminal acetylation: what can we learn from large-scale N-terminomics?
Willy Bienvenut – I2BC – Institut de Biologie Intégrative de la Cellule, Université Paris Saclay
-October 28th
Understanding and expanding the cyanobacterial potential for terpenoid production
Konstantinos Vavitsas – Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, Australia
-April 4th
Diatom responses to light: a tale of energy, rhythms and colors
Angela Falciatore – Diatom Functional Genomics Team, Laboratory of Computational and Quantitative Biology (LCQB), IBPS – Paris
-March 28th
Polyunsaturated lipids en organelle dynamics
Bruno Antonny – Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS & Université Nice Sophia Antipolis
-January 31st
Using the model green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii to discover novel proteins important for photosynthetic function
Arthur R. Grossman – Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Plant Biology, Stanford, USA
-January 22nd
Bacterial small regulatory RNAs unravel new modes of gene expression
Maude Guillier – UMR8261 – IBPC
January 8th
Regulation of NO-dependent Proteins Modifications in Mammalian Cells
Hong Li – Center for Advanced Proteomics Research, Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Rutgers University – New Jersey Medical School, USA
2017
-May 29th
Projection de “Pourquoi cherchez-vous ? “
Geneviève Anhoury
-February 27th
Stark effect: a spectroscopic tool to study photosynthesis, respiration, phytoplankton competition in the Ocean… and the fate of Universe?
Benjamin Bailleul – IBPC
-February 20th
Role of the heptad repeat domains of Mitofusin in mitochondrial fusion
David TARESTE -Institut Jacques Monod
-January 23rd
The bacterial Hsp90 chaperone: mechanism, partners, and function
Olivier Genest – Laboratoire de Bioénergétique et Ingénierie des Protéines (BIP) – UMR 7281, CNRS Aix Marseille Université
-January 10th
Protein in cell. Toward microscopic simulations of cell-like environments
Fabio Sterpone, PhD – LBT/IBPC
2016
-December 12th
mRNA biogenesis and its impact on genetic stability: from SUMO to introns
Benoit Palancade – Institut Jacques Monod
-November 28th
Role of YacP, founder member of the NYN family of ribonucleases, in translation-dependent mRNA turnover in B. subtilis
Ciarán Condon – CNRS UMR8261
-November 18th
The morphogenesis of chromosomes during mitosis – One ring to rule them all?
Damien D’Amours – Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer, Département de Pathologie et Biologie Cellulaire, Université de Montréal, Canada
-November 15th
Centromeres impersonating telomeres, and other forms of deception at the chromosome end
Julia Promisel Cooper, PhD – National Institutes of Health, USA
-October 24th
New Concepts in Telomere Biology – or – All is Well that Ends Well
Raymund Wellinger – Université de Sherbrook, Canada
-October 17th
The lipid transfer proteins ORP5/ORP8 are novel components of ER-mitochondria contact sites and regulate mitochondrial morphology and function
Francesca Giordano – Institut Jacques Monod
-October 11th
Functional characterization of the DNA Polymerase epsilon and its involvement in the maintenance of genome integrity in Arabidopsis
Jose Antonio Pedroza-Garcia – Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay
-June 21th
Replication timing control and end-protection: two faces of the telomere-binding protein ScRif1
Stefano Mattarocci – Université de Genève
-May 30th
Facteurs nucléaires qui controlent l’expression des genes chloroplastiques chez Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Yves Choquet – UMR7141
-May 2nd
Discoveries or Fantasies? Chasing Telomeres, Replication & Silencing Entwined Unstably in Yeast Chromosomes
Ted Weinert – University of Arizona
-April 11th
Ubiquitination at the Endoplasmic Reticulum: Insights into Metastasis and Ubiquitin Ligase Function
Allan M. Weissman – National Cancer Institute, Frederick, USA
-March 30th
Regulation of the TORC1 pathway
Svetlana Dokudovskaya – UMR8126 – Signalisation, noyaux et innovations en oncologie, IGR – Villejuif
-March 21th
Initiation of bacterial mRNA decay: different enzymes – similar strategies
Harald Putzer – UMR8261 – Expression Génétique Microbienne, IBPC – Paris
-February 15th
Crosstalk between RNA processing and chromatin remodeling as a modulator of genome integrity
Andrés Aguilera – Andalusian Center for Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Seville
-January 11th
Relating biological function and molecular dynamics through high performance computer simulations
Marc Baaden – UPR9080 -Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris
2015
-December 14th
The many surprising roles of gene transfer in bacterial evolution and functional innovation
Eduardo Rocha – Institut Pasteur, Paris
-November 30th
Synthetic biosensors for quantitative analysis of signaling cascades in single cells
Serge Pelet – Université de Lausanne, Suisse
-November 9th
Cellular aging – a side-product of life?
Anita Krisko – Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences, Split, Croatia
-October 7th
Forward genetics: a powerful tool to decipher starch catabolism in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Justin Findinier – Team of Plant Glycobiology, USTL/UMR 8576 CNRS, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
-September 28th
Post-translational regulations of the central energy sensor SnRK1
Pierre Crozet – Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), Plant Stress Signaling Group, Lisbon, Portugal
-June 8th
Rubisco Rescue: Biophysical Studies of Higher Plant Activase
Rebekka Wachter – Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry – Arizona State University
-June 8th
A single cell view of telomere maintenance by telomerase
Pascal Chartrand – Département de Biochimie et Médecine Moléculaire – Université de Montréal
-April 13rd
Diversité des ADN topoisomérases cellulaires et virales : quelques spéculations sur les rôle majeurs que ces enzymes ont pu jouer à différentes étapes de l’histoire de la vie
Patrick Forterre – Unité de Biologie Moléculaire du Gène chez les Extrêmophiles, Institut Pasteur – Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie Université Paris-Sud
-March 9th
Mechanistic and Protein/Protein Interaction Studies of Two Ferredoxin-Dependent Enzymes
Pr. David B. Knaff – Paul W. Horn Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry – Director, Center for Biotechnology and Genomics – Editor-in Chief, Photosynthesis Research – Texas Tech University -Lubbock, Texas, USA
-February 2nd
On the origins of evolutionary innovations
Andreas Wagner Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies – University of Zurich – Switzerland
-January 19th
Studying and fighting bacteria with the help of CRISPR
David Bikard – Synthetic Biology Group -Institut Pasteur – Paris
2014
-December 18th
Roles of the chaperones Hsp70 and GroEL/GroES in protein folding
Florian Georgescauld – Department of Cellular Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry – Martinsried, Germany
-December 15th
Lost in transcription? be pervasive
Antonin Morillon – Institut Curie, CNRS UMR3244, UPMC – Paris
-November 17th
Strategies in quality control: selective autophagy and DNA-protein crosslink repair
Stefan Jentsch – Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry – Munich/Germany
-November 20th
The multifaceted roles of TERRA in telomere length regulation
Claus Azzalin – Institute of Biochemistry – ETH Zürich/Switzerland
-September 18th
Genomic maintenance network for hyperthermophilic Archaea
Pierre-François Pluchon
-September 8th
Colorectal and Endometrial Cancer Mutations in DNA Polymerase Epsilon Supress Its 3′-5′ Exonuclease Activity and Reduce Replication Fidelity
Erin Henninger
-May 7th
Telomere length instructs for meristem potential and stem cell development in arabidopsis
Mary Paz González García – Centre de Recherche en Agronomie – Barcelona, Spain
-March 31th
Specific translation controls: TMA108 a new protein implicated in ribosome specialization
Mathilde Garcia – UMR7238 Biologie Computationnelle et Quantitative – Campus des Cordeliers – Paris
-March 17th
Mitochondrial outer membrane fusion analysed by electron cryo-tomography
Dr. Tobias Brandt – Max-Planck-Institute of Biophysics – Department of Structural Biology (Kühlbrandt lab) – Frankfurt
2013
-December 16th
Autophagy as an adaptive response to stress in Chlamydomonas
José Luis Crespo – Université de Séville – Espagne
-December 9th
The role of telomerase in ageing and cancer in zebrafish
Miguel Godinho Ferreira – Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência – Oeiras, Portugal
-November 25th
Some unexpected effects of perturbing telomerase in budding yeast
Elizabeth Blackburn – prix Nobel de Médecine 2009 – University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
-June 3rd
The apoptotic ring
Stéphanie Solier – Inserm U1009 – Institut Gustave Roussy – Villejuif
-March 22th
Fundamental cell biological processes explored in the chloroplast of Chlamydomonas
William Zerges – Concordia University – Montréal, Canada
-March 13rd
Hug1, an intrinsically disordered protein involved in nucleotide metabolism: functional and biophysical insights
Julie Meurisse
-February 20th
“Particle Genetics”: treating every cell as unique
Gael Yvert – CNRS / Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon – Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire de la Cellule
-February 12nd
How organelles control the cell: metabolic pathways and organelles dynamic
Sophie Lefevre
-February 6th
The role of LTR binding proteins as potential expression regulators of closely located genes
Dmitrii Trubetskoy
-January 23rd
Studying mitochondrial morphogenesis in Drosophila
Marc Macchi
2012
-December 17th
The critical regulation of three L’s at telomeres: Length, Loops and Long non-coding RNA
Brian Luke – Université de Heidelberg, Allemagne
-November 26th
Yeast arrestin-like proteins relay signaling pathways to transporter endocytosis
Sébastien Léon – Institut Jacques Monod – Paris
-November 19th
Road-block termination defines a new class of cryptic transcripts
Jessie Colin – Centre de Génétique Moléculaire (CGM) UPR3404 – CNRS Gif s/ Yvette
-November 12th
The Wonders and Evils of iTRAQ
Josselin Noirel – Chemical and Process Engineering – University of Sheffield, UK
-May 25th
Two telomere tales: survivors without telomerase and telomere position effect at native ends
Ed Louis – Centre for Genetics and Genomics -Queens Medical Centre – University of Nottingham -Nottingham NG7 2UH
-May 14th
Glutathione in plant responses to increased H2O2 : not just an antioxidant
Pr. Graham Noctor – Institut de Biologie des Plantes – Université Paris-Sud, Orsay
-March 5th
Évolution naturelle et expérimentale des génomes de levures
Bernard Dujon – Université Pierre et Marie Curie et Institut Pasteur
-February 6th
Mitochondria, Oxidative Stress and Fragile Proteasome Syndrome
Prof Michael H. Glickman – Department of Biology, Technion – Haifa Israel
-January 23rd
Shq1 chaperones H/ACA RNP assembly by RNA mimicry
Nicolas Leulliot – Professeur Université Paris Descartes – Laboratoire de Cristallographie et RMN Biologiques – Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris Descartes, Paris