Maud Borensztein

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)

Boa Constrictor Brain Cells Slither into Focus From reptiles and Tasmanian devils to humans, one researcher zooms in on unseen features of the brain and liver cells, like the cytoskeleton.

@viroscope.bsky.social (@karimaj.bsky.social team) partage dans The Scientist ses travaux sur les deltavirus et l’imagerie de cellules, des cellules humaines aux cellules de boa constrictor 🐍.

👉 Lire l’article : “Boa Constrictor Brain Cells Slither into Focus”
www.the-scientist.com/boa-constric...

The Crick is looking for new junior group leaders! Any postdocs or early career researchers wanting to be our colleagues should apply 👍

Picture of Azim Surani in a dark blue jumper and light blue collared shirt sitting by a microscope.

An Interview with Azim Surani

Ashley Moffett and @geraldinejowett.bsky.social spoke to Azim, recipient of both the 2025 Kyoto Prize and 2026 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, about his non-traditional and inspirational route into academia:

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Reporter CRISPR screens decipher cis-regulatory and trans-regulatory principles at the Xist locus - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology Here Schwämmle et al. develop CRISPR reporter screens to map transcription-factor-regulatory element interactions at the Xist locus, revealing a two-step mechanism integrating developmental and X-dosage signals to initiate X-chromosome inactivation.

⚠️ Paper alert: Using a novel CRISPR screening approach, we mapped the entire regulatory network controlling Xist—key for X-chromosome inactivation.
👉 We discover how sex and development signals are decoded at a single gene locus.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
👇 Bluetorial

Is anyone in continental Europe looking for a lab manager? I have a fabulous candidate - let me know and please RT!

DNA methylation at #retrotransposons protects the #germline by preventing NRF1-mediated #activation.

-> www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

#jobAlert We are hiring! If you like #imaging ,gene regulation and a dynamic group please apply. We are looking for a research assistant with a master degree and prior experience in academia.

A PhD in biology, biophysics or a closely related field is required by the start of the appointment. Interdisciplinary profiles are strongly encouraged to apply. - work environment:

🚀 @hfspo.bsky.social funded Postdoc
3-year contract
Start after Dec 2025
📩 Apply: mounia.lagha@igmm.cnrs.fr
Subject: "[HFSP Post doc application]"
📎 CV + short research summary + cover letter
🔗 More info: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/363437
@laghalab.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social @cnrs.fr

🎯 Hiring: Biology Research Assistant (M/F)
Join IGMM Montpellier to study gene expression dynamics during Drosophila development @laghalab.bsky.social
6-month contract, renewable up to 2 years.
Start Sept 15, 2025 | Apply by Aug 11
🔗 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

#Hiring #Biology #Research #IGMM

🧬 Avancée majeure issue d’Abivax et de l’équipe Tazi @igmm-montpel.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @umontpellier.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
Le 23 juillet 2027, Abivax annonce des résultats très positifs en phase 3 pour obefazimod contre la RCH.
📈 +520 % en bourse @lemonde.fr

Fantastique !!!

Congratulations neighbours !!! 🍾

Two major events today on our campus!
🚴‍♀️First, the Tour de France is passing right next to us — @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social!
🧬Second, our latest paper on the role of G-quadruplexes (G4s) at promoters is now online at @natgenet.nature.com!

60 days to go for applying to marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post... if you want to join me to study ageing with an interesting new angle!
#Smurfs #2PAC

We are looking for a student to continue our work on chromatin evolution:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The project with @seanamontgomery.bsky.social will focus on chromatin state readers across eukaryotes.

More info: recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...

Congratulations to the Carnesecchi lab 🍾🍾

Read below to learn more about their research 👇

Join us in the #institutcurie exceptional environment to explore the mysteries of X chromosome regulation in early human development

Save the date : Seminar Elphège NORA - June 19h - 11am
@elphegenoralab.bsky.social

Changes to the 2026 and 2027 Work Programmes With the launch of the competitions for grants under ERC Work Programme 2026 in July of this year, several changes to the submission of applications and the evaluation of proposals will apply. The mai...

Planning to apply for #research #funding from the ERC?

From the next application rounds, expect changes to the:

• proposal structure
• evaluation process
• extra funding you can request
• eligibility for Starting & Consolidator #Grants (from 2027)

More 👇 europa.eu/!RPHWvv

We are recruiting at @igmm-montpel.bsky.social

Join us in a dynamic scientific environment in beautiful and sunny Montpellier 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬☀️

For questions, feel free to write to search2025@igmm.cnrs.fr or DM me!

📣 We are recruiting new group leaders in Innovative Biology!

RNA biology
Epigenetic regulation
Cell cycle regulation
Cancer, immunology
Virology

Application and information ⬇️
application.igmm.cnrs.fr

@cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social

📢 Mobilité NOEMI CNRS – Ingénieur·e en biologie (BAP A)
🧬 IGMM Montpellier recrute pour projets levure/cellules humaines + plateforme de purification de protéines.
📬 Plus d’infos emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/MOBIN...
@domlibri.bsky.social @oporrua.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social

🔬 L’IGMM recrute un·e doctorant·e en biologie à Montpellier !
🎓 Master requis, projet en biologie moléculaire et cellulaire.
📅 Candidature ici : emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Doctorant/UMR5535-SARADE-071

#PhD #Biologie #IGMM #Montpellier #Recrutement

We are looking to take on an intern at EMBL Rome, for anyone interested in CRISPR and Epigenetics training.

The traineeship is 3-12-months, in Rome (Italy), should start by July, and is supervised by the outstanding @steliostsagkris.bsky.social.

#job #internship; see info below...

Divergent DNA methylation dynamics in marsupial and eutherian embryos - Nature A study reports on the DNA methylation dynamics during embryogenesis in marsupials, showing that these differ from those occurring during embryogenesis in eutherian mammals.

We're excited to publish our latest study led by Bryony Leeke @bryonyleeke.bsky.social and Wazeer Varsally, now out in @nature.com 🍾This study focusses on the epigenome of marsupial embryos 🦘 mapping DNA methylation in embryo development to specific embryo events www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵

It's going to be MAYosis !!!

Register : meiosis.cornell.edu/mayosis2025/...

We have it all : meiotic drive, recombination, adaptation, pairing, segregation, interference, resection, crossover landscape, chromosome axis, synaptonemal complex, chromosome dynamics !
#Meiosis4ever

Thank you for their effort in summarising our work, alongside the recent work from the Sangrithi lab, with clarity and depth.

Happy to see that our recent work has been discussed in a News & Views @natsmb.nature.com by Christine Disteche and Xinxian Deng 😀
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📣 New paper alert!

Daniele Raimondi a ouvert son équipe de recherche récemment à l'IGMM
www.igmm.cnrs.fr/en/team/ai-f...
Apprenez en plus sur ses travaux ⬇️

Daniele Raimondi recently opened his team in IGMM
www.igmm.cnrs.fr/en/team/ai-f...
Learn more about his work ⬇️