Excited to share our new preprint on BioRxiv! A collaborative effort spanning many years and several labs to uncover what the germline chromosomes of Paramecium really look like. 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/5

📢 Institut Jacques Monod Seminar 📅 November 14th 📍 Institut Jacques Monod Invited by @sandraduharcourt.bsky.social 's Lab, Cécile Courret will present the Institut Jacques Monod seminar « Rapid turnover of centromeric DNA reveals signatures of genetic conflict in Drosophila » ➡️ buff.ly/Wso6MPE

Very happy to see our paper published online natcomms.nature.com. Thank you to @wellcometrust.bsky.social for funding this work during my time with @robklose.bsky.social and David Booth! Thanks also to collaborators @garcialabms.bsky.social @alexdemendoza.bsky.social and the other authors!

#JobOffer 💼 Un poste susceptible d’être vacant de Professeur en stabilité des génomes devrait s’ouvrir pour la rentrée 2026 au sein de l’Institut Jacques Monod ➡️ Informations concernant ce poste et la procédure de candidature 🔗 www.ijm.fr/poste-de-pro...

Our latest paper on a histone methyltransferase-independent function of PRC2 controlling small RNA dynamics during programmed DNA elimination in Paramecium is now published in #NAR. #RNAbiology #TEsky #smallRNAs #PRC2 #DNAelimination 1/5 academic.oup.com/nar/article-...

Huge congratulations to Thomas on this well-deserved award. His PhD defense last week was outstanding too - a great moment. He’ll on the lookout for a postdoc position soon…spread the word!

Please re-post: Interested in chromatin and its evolution? Good news! There's still time to join us in beautiful Catalonia (9-12 Dec) to discuss eukaryotic, bacterial, archaeal, and viral chromatin and how it all hangs together meetings.embo.org/event/24-evo... Abstract deadline: 30 September

📢 Institut Jacques Monod Seminar 📅 September 18th 📍 Institut Jacques Monod Invited by @sandraduharcourt.bsky.social’s lab, Peter Andersen ( @germline.bsky.social ) will give the IJM Seminar "Running to stand still – Recurrent innovation of animal germline genome regulation" ➡️ buff.ly/yaK2kTQ

A little late to share, but still thrilled 🤗! What started as two independent stories, one in Clermont-Ferrand (@igred.fr) and one in Cambridge (Hannon’s group @cruk-mi.bsky.social ), turned into a joint adventure to decode how Rhino picks its favorite piRNA clusters. When forces unite… 👇👇👇

Bravo Thomas!

🚨 Preprint alert 🚨 Excited to share our work on "Ab-trapping," an antibody artifact causing misleading peripheral ("rim") staining in imaging & genomics (IF, CUT&Tag, CUT&RUN). Antibodies fail to penetrate structures, accumulating at the periphery. A 🧵👇 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Why NIH/NIGMS funding of basic research matters with our latest work now out in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social sky.social. We solved a >30-year-old mystery of what transcription factor drives the Flamenco piRNA cluster required for female Drosophila fertility. /1 www.cell.com/cell-reports...

🔬 This event is organized by @sandraduharcourt.bsky.social , @daphne-cabianca.bsky.social , Germano Cecere , Pierre-Antoine Defossez, Ines Drinnenberg, @rodvilla.bsky.social

📣 The @ijmonod.bsky.social is hosting this year the Paris-Munich Epigenetics - Workshop and Symposium, an exciting exchange between the Paris and Munich epigenetic research communities!

Hi! Here is a PhD opportunity at Montpellier, IGH institute with Séverine Chambeyron to study endogenous retroviruses ! #TEsky #PhD

wow, telomeric transposons in bacteria with linear chromosomes! (of course this was first figured out in flies, inc by Bob Levis, who i was happy to see few days ago at the fly meeting). 🪰 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In her Essay, Renata Basto highlights the huge budget cuts facing the scientific community in France. In response to the cuts, a group of researchers has formed the ‘Pour une Recherche d'Avenir’ initiative to secure the future of French research. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Our paper on Alternative epigenetic states of Arabidopsis Transposable Elements is finally out in Genome Biology ! rdcu.be/d6Yly

@tbadet.bsky.social and I have a preprint out on transposon silencing in fungi! Genome size evolution is fascinating and showcases the dynamic nature of transposon activation. What we understand less are the dynamics of transposon defense systems encoded by the genomes. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Pericentromeric #heterochromatin clusters into chromocenters. @skrutlnize.bsky.social &co use quantitative mass spec to characterize the chromocenter proteome in multiple tissues, identifying a link between satellite DNA-binding proteins & #transposon repression🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/4akuNAi

Our #Paramecium artwork is featured on the cover of #NAR! doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

Our lab has multiple open positions for post-docs to study the regulation and function of cytoplasm mechanics during embryo development. Details below 👇👇 Please Repost !!! @ijmonod.bsky.social @cnrs.bsky.social

www.academics.com/jobs/univers... Please help us find a new colleague at Mainz University. Thanks! #evolbiol

Thank you @cnrs.bsky.social for the highlight (in French) on our recent publication.

I hope everyone who starts their lab has a Julien @jrichardalbert.bsky.social . 8 publications, 3 as first author and a review. Plus a brilliant scientist, an eager teacher, and just plain nice. He was the bedrock of our lab, but a bright future awaits!

The 2nd edition of the Paris-Munich Epigenetics meeting will be held April 9-11, 2025 in Paris. Attendance is free of charge. Please visit the website www.sfb1064.med.uni-muenchen.de/paris_munich... to find out more about the program and to register. #epigenetics

doi.org/10.1093/nar/... In order to introduce myself here, I would like to share our recent paper published as Breakthrough Article at #NAR. Great collaboration with Duharcourt @sandraduharcourt.bsky.social team and the financial support from #NCN @ncngovpl.bsky.social. #smallRNAs #Paramecium

We have two open PhD positions in my group at @crg.eu. We are seeking candidates with a background in computational and/or molecular biology, and with a broad interest in evolutionary biology, gene regulation, and comparative genomics. 📅Apply before January 12 here: www.crg.eu/en/content/t...

For my first post here, I am happy to share that our latest paper is out at #NAR. Thanks for the smooth and constructive reviewing process and the highlight #RNAbiology #TEsky #smallRNAs (1/8) doi.org/10.1093/nar/...