Perception of oxidative stress signals in the nematode C. elegans
Reactive oxygen derivatives are both messengers and poisons in cells: at physiological doses, they activate numerous signaling pathways; at excessive…
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Alix Simon, PhD student in the Laporte team, studies the mechanisms of centronuclear myopathies
Alix Simon is a PhD student in Jocelyn Laporte's team and studies the mechanisms of centronuclear myopathies. As a bioinformatician, her objective is…
Hélène Vignes receives a thesis award from the University of Strasbourg
Hélène Vignes, a doctoral student at the IGBMC, is one of 20 young scientists who have received a thesis prize from the University of Strasbourg to…
MouseTube, the database of mouse vocalizations
In July 2022, the MouseTube project, led by Elodie Ey and Nicolas Torquet, won the Open Science prize from the Comité national pour la science ouverte…
Jean-Louis Mandel received his Kavli award on September 6, 2022
Jean-Louis Mandel is one of the winners of the 2022 Kavli Prize in the field of neuroscience. The award ceremony took place on September 6, 2022…
Karl Vivot, researcher at the IGBMC, participates in the world triathlon championship!
Swimming 1.9km in less than 30 minutes, cycling 90km in 2h20 and running 21km in 1h20: these are the performances that allowed Karl Vivot to qualify…
A dashboard to study cell movement
Individual cells move in vivo in complex 3D environments. Their motion occurs at zero force and requires symmetry breaking. In this study at the…
Allergies: preventing the progression from atopic dermatitis to asthma
In a study published in the journal Nature Communications, scientists highlight the importance of two proteins in the progression from atopic…
XPD, at the crossroads of repair, transcription and mitosis
The XPD protein is known to be one of the subunits of TFIIH, a multiprotein complex involved in DNA repair and transcription of protein-coding genes.…