2014

• Christoph Grunau took part in a popular daily French radio show (La Tête au Carré on FranceInter by Mathieu Vidard). Download the podcast
• We wrote two pages on epigenetics in the local university newspaper. David Roquis won the first price at the "Doctorials" with his talk.
• We have used our expertise different techniques combined with massive sequencing analysis (ChIP-Seq, RNA-Seq, gDNA-Seq, genome & transcriptome assembly) to study a number of questions such as:
  • comparative immunology more...
  • chromatin analysis on root-knot nematodes with our collegues from Sophia-Antipolis: read more...
  • David Roquis and Julie Lepesant (now in Toulouse) showed with our collegues from Lyon that Hycanthone exposure can leave footsteps on the epigenome of Schistosoma mansoni: read more...
• Meet us at the
  • 5th anual meeting of the EFOR network, Fev. 12th, 2014 in Paris
  • Jacques Monod conference Infectious diseases as drivers of evolution: the challenge ahead, Sep. 6-10th, 2014 in Roscoff
  • Le forum du CNRS Les Fondamentales, oct. 10-11, 2014 in Grenoble
  • 2nd colloque SF-DoHaD Origine développementale de la santé et des maladies et épigénétique, Nov. 6-7th, 2014 in Nantes

2013

• Cécile Perrin (now back in Down-under), Céline Cosseau et al. find the first example of an epigenetically controled adaptive trait in schistosomes (and adds another exemple to the few so far described in the literature). Read more in Plos Path and on the CNRS website.
• We participated in the RNA-Seq data analysis of corals exposed to pH stress. More...
• Julie Lepesant et al. show that exposure of Schistosoma mansoni to an alloptric snail host leads to a drastic change in sex ratio of the cercaria (up to 80% female biased). Read more...
• Meet us at the
  • Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Aug. 19-24, 2013 in Lisbon.
  • JOBIM 2013, Jul. 1-4, 2013 in Toulouse.
  • meeting REID 2013, Feb. 4-6, 2013 in Bordeaux.
  • meeting Epigenetics in Ecology and Evolution of the INEE, Dec. 3-4, 2013 in Gif-sur-Yvette.
  • Galaxy Day of the Curie Institute, Dec. 4, 2013 in Paris (summary).

2012

• Meet us at the
  • meeting of the GDRE Comparative Genomics, Nov. 22-23, 2012 in Lyon.
  • IRI chromatinday, Nov. 15-16, 2012 in Paris.
  • foundation meeting of the Société Francophone Origines Développementales de la Santé (SF-DOHaD), Nov 09, 2012 in Paris.
  • Molecular and Cellular Parasitology Symposium, Oct 12, 2012 in Lille.
  • 13th International Symposium on Schistosomiasis, Sept. 16-19, 2012 in Belo Horizonte.
  • XI European Multicolloquium of Parasitology, July 25-29, 2012 in SCluj-Napoca, Romania.
  • Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, June 23-26, 2012 in Dublin.
• Julie LEPESANT et al. finds that chromatin structure around repetitive sequences that are unique to the S. mansoni W-chromosome (WZ = female) changes during the life cycle of the parasite. Some of the repeats are expressed in the larvae stages. More...
• David ROQUIS et al. used data from next-generation sequencing to discover most (all?) repetitive sequences in the S. mansoni genome. Download the fasta file here. Read more...
• We joined the Darwinian Evolution in Cancer consortium.