Research Interests
Our research aim is to understand the molecular mechanisms responsible for the maintenance of genome integrity. Our lab particularly focuses on DNA double strand break repair in the context of chromatin.
LATEST NEWS
Prix Bettencourt
We are really proud that Coline Arnoud, a former PhD student of the team, received The Bettencourt Prize for Young Researcher. She has now joined the team of Nadav Ahituv at the university of california San Franscico (USA)
November 2021
DECLICS 2021
Some of the members of the team participated to DECLICS at the Lycée Paul Sabatier in Carcassonne. DECLICS promotes discussions between the world of research with high school students
November 2021
Vincent Rocher PhD thesis defense
Vincent Rocher has successfully obtained his PhD in bioinformatics in our team
November 2021
CNRS Medal Ceremony
The CNRS medal ceremony took place with a year delay.
Gaëlle was awarded the Silver medal.
October 2021
RECENT ARTICLES
June 2021
This review article in DNA repair discusses about the way DSBs occurring in actively transcribed loci are handled
April 2021
This review article in Nature Cell Biology discusses about the formation and function of R-loops that accumulate in cis to DSBs, especially those induced in transcriptionally active loci.
February 2021
This paper shows that TADs are needed for the establishment of yH2AX domains in a cohesin-mediated loop extrusion manner. A news and views by Leonid Minry nicely summarizes this article.