New success for the iGEM team of Sorbonne Université: they received the Best Plant Synthetic Award! After one year of hard work in parallel of their classes and internships, our students (mostly from BMC and BIM master) received the Gold Medal for their project NAWI during the final conference (Grand Jamboree) held at the Paris Convention Center on October 26-28.

They were also nominated for Best Education and Best Presentation prizes out of 350 teams. Units implicated from IBPS: LCQB and LBD. Co-PIs: Frédérique Peronnet, Guillaume Garnier, Marco Da Costa, Pierre Crozet.

Salomé Nashed, PhD student in the Genetic Networks team, has been

rewarded with the “prix Jeune Talent France L'Oréal-UNESCO pour les

Femmes et la Science”. Congratulations Salomé!

See article at SU here.

In parallel with her final year of PhD at the LCQB, Jeanne Le Peillet has just won two prizes for her business project Beink Dream: the regional Pépite IDF Prize and the National Pépite France Prize. While developing her project, she keeps on producting commissioned scientific illustrations for publications, conferences, patents and funding applications here.

Congratulations Jeanne!

Edwin Rodriguez Horta, former PhD student in co-supervision between the University of Havana and the LCQB, receives a research price of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba for his thesis work.

Predicting species-specific mutation effects is a major challenge in genetics. Using diverged sequences, we learn protein sequence landscapes, which predict tolerated mutations in a species like E. coli and capture interactions between mutations.

See our article in Nature Communications.

Phylogeny matters in residue coevolution! try your favorite protein with iBIS2Analyzer. It works for conserved proteins like viral ones. See our last article in Nucleic Acids Research.
See also the press release by Sorbonne Université (in french).

This year, two of our alumni, Vittore Scolari and Riccardo Vicedomini

have been recognized this year by the CNRS with two permanent researcher

positions. Yasaman Karami was offered a permanent researcher position at

INRIA, Beatriz Seoane a Chair of Junior Professor at the CNRS/U

Paris-Saclay and Diego Zea, a Maitre de Conference position at U

Paris-Saclay. Vittore was member of the Cosentino-Lagomarsino team,

Riccardo, Yasaman, Beatriz and Diego of the Analytical Genomics team. In

2021, Edoardo Sarti, postdoc at LCQB in the Statistical Genomics and

Biological Physics and in the Analytical Genomics teams, was offered a

permanent researcher position at INRIA.

Congratulations to all!