Deborah Bourc’his
@deborahbourchis.bsky.social
PI at Institut Curie, Paris. Germ cells, epigenetics, DNA and RNA methylation, transposable elements
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🍽️🧬 How do diet and gut microbes shape fertility across generations? 🪱🔬 Our Laboratory at #InstitutPasteur is recruiting a PhD student to study epigenetic inheritance of fertility using C. elegans. Fully funded via the International PPU program. Apply now! 🌍 #PhDposition #Epigenetics #Inheritance
🎓 Applications for Institut Pasteur's PhD programs open Sept 1-Oct 20, 2025 for October 2026 entry.
Apply to up to 4 projects across 6 programs: PPU, PPU-IMAGINE @institutimagine.bsky.social, PPU-@ox.ac.uk, PPU-EID @upcite.bsky.social & more 🧬
Register now ✍️ www.pasteur.fr/en/education...
Apply to up to 4 projects across 6 programs: PPU, PPU-IMAGINE @institutimagine.bsky.social, PPU-@ox.ac.uk, PPU-EID @upcite.bsky.social & more 🧬
Register now ✍️ www.pasteur.fr/en/education...
September 7, 2025 at 10:49 AM
🍽️🧬 How do diet and gut microbes shape fertility across generations? 🪱🔬 Our Laboratory at #InstitutPasteur is recruiting a PhD student to study epigenetic inheritance of fertility using C. elegans. Fully funded via the International PPU program. Apply now! 🌍 #PhDposition #Epigenetics #Inheritance
Exactly two weeks left to submit your abstract to the EMBO Mobile Genome Workshop.
☝️this year we will select from abstracts 2 “long” talks to highlight last minute breakthrough from early career scientists. Apply! July 29th
☝️this year we will select from abstracts 2 “long” talks to highlight last minute breakthrough from early career scientists. Apply! July 29th
⏰ Abstract deadline for 'The mobile genome' is 29 July!
👉 https://s.embl.org/mge25-01-bl
Join us 4–7 Nov 2025 at EMBL Heidelberg (or online) to explore the impact of TEs across biology. 🧬🔍
⭐🧑🏼🔬 24 talks + 15 flash talks from posters – don't miss out!
#EMBOMobileGenome
👉 https://s.embl.org/mge25-01-bl
Join us 4–7 Nov 2025 at EMBL Heidelberg (or online) to explore the impact of TEs across biology. 🧬🔍
⭐🧑🏼🔬 24 talks + 15 flash talks from posters – don't miss out!
#EMBOMobileGenome
July 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Exactly two weeks left to submit your abstract to the EMBO Mobile Genome Workshop.
☝️this year we will select from abstracts 2 “long” talks to highlight last minute breakthrough from early career scientists. Apply! July 29th
☝️this year we will select from abstracts 2 “long” talks to highlight last minute breakthrough from early career scientists. Apply! July 29th
Do you have transposon-related research cooking, with some cool results you are exciting to share? Start thinking about registering to #EMBOMobileGenome workshop! Nov 4-7 2025 in Heidelberg. One of the historical TE meetings, with a diverse and welcoming community. www.embl.org/about/info/c...
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The mobile genome: genetic and physiological impacts of transposable elements
www.embl.org
April 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Do you have transposon-related research cooking, with some cool results you are exciting to share? Start thinking about registering to #EMBOMobileGenome workshop! Nov 4-7 2025 in Heidelberg. One of the historical TE meetings, with a diverse and welcoming community. www.embl.org/about/info/c...
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Another excellent edition of the Sy-Stem meeting in Vienna! The outstanding program and the pleasure to see some of our former PhD students of the BDD #InstitutCurie turned into young, rising stem cell scientists!! @dannimklee.bsky.social @dianapinheiro.bsky.social
March 15, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Another excellent edition of the Sy-Stem meeting in Vienna! The outstanding program and the pleasure to see some of our former PhD students of the BDD #InstitutCurie turned into young, rising stem cell scientists!! @dannimklee.bsky.social @dianapinheiro.bsky.social
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📣 #EMBOMobileGenome is open for registrations!
Assembling experts in genomics, epigenetics, structural biology, evolutionary biology, and developmental biology to discuss the broad impact of TEs on organismal biology. 🧬🔍
📜 Submit abstract by 29 July!
👉🏼 https://s.embl.org/mge25-01-bl
Assembling experts in genomics, epigenetics, structural biology, evolutionary biology, and developmental biology to discuss the broad impact of TEs on organismal biology. 🧬🔍
📜 Submit abstract by 29 July!
👉🏼 https://s.embl.org/mge25-01-bl
January 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
📣 #EMBOMobileGenome is open for registrations!
Assembling experts in genomics, epigenetics, structural biology, evolutionary biology, and developmental biology to discuss the broad impact of TEs on organismal biology. 🧬🔍
📜 Submit abstract by 29 July!
👉🏼 https://s.embl.org/mge25-01-bl
Assembling experts in genomics, epigenetics, structural biology, evolutionary biology, and developmental biology to discuss the broad impact of TEs on organismal biology. 🧬🔍
📜 Submit abstract by 29 July!
👉🏼 https://s.embl.org/mge25-01-bl
Dear all, registrations are open for the Mobile Genome @EMBO workshop. Many slots for posters, short talks but also long talks for last minute groundbreaking results! Let’s meet again on Nov 4-7, 2025 in Heidelberg. www.embl.org/about/info/c...
The mobile genome: genetic and physiological impacts of transposable elements
www.embl.org
January 27, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Dear all, registrations are open for the Mobile Genome @EMBO workshop. Many slots for posters, short talks but also long talks for last minute groundbreaking results! Let’s meet again on Nov 4-7, 2025 in Heidelberg. www.embl.org/about/info/c...
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Thanks for sharing the first of the two positions that we will propose in the next 6 months @biovitenskap.bsky.social
Stay tuned!
Stay tuned!
We are #hiring a postdoc to study the epigenetic imprinting of cell fate during adipogenesis.
Cool interdisciplinary project to analyze ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq, Hi-C, and CAGE. The postdoc will be co-supervised by @chymkowitchlab.bsky.social and me.
Spread the word!
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Cool interdisciplinary project to analyze ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq, Hi-C, and CAGE. The postdoc will be co-supervised by @chymkowitchlab.bsky.social and me.
Spread the word!
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Computational Biology and Epigenetics (273869) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Computational Biology and Epigenetics (273869), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, February 28, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
January 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Thanks for sharing the first of the two positions that we will propose in the next 6 months @biovitenskap.bsky.social
Stay tuned!
Stay tuned!
Juliane Glaser @julianeg.bsky.social opens her lab at the MPI Freiburg! She was a bright, fearless, and sooooo positive PhD student. I have no doubt she will also be as a PI! Apply to join her exciting projects 👇
It’s official 🎉 I am excited to share that I will start my lab this spring at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics @mpi-ie.bsky.social in beautiful Freiburg 🤩🗻☀️ I am looking forward to new collaborations and working with the fantastic community in Freiburg & its surroundings!
January 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Juliane Glaser @julianeg.bsky.social opens her lab at the MPI Freiburg! She was a bright, fearless, and sooooo positive PhD student. I have no doubt she will also be as a PI! Apply to join her exciting projects 👇
Reposted by Deborah Bourc’his
📣 Registration for the next Non-Coding Genome course at @institutcurie.bsky.social closes on February 15th! Don't miss this opportunity to explore the versatility of non-genic DNA elements and non-coding RNAs with internationally renowned experts.
▶️ training.institut-curie.org/courses/non-...
▶️ training.institut-curie.org/courses/non-...
January 13, 2025 at 10:54 AM
📣 Registration for the next Non-Coding Genome course at @institutcurie.bsky.social closes on February 15th! Don't miss this opportunity to explore the versatility of non-genic DNA elements and non-coding RNAs with internationally renowned experts.
▶️ training.institut-curie.org/courses/non-...
▶️ training.institut-curie.org/courses/non-...
Reposted by Deborah Bourc’his
Our new paper showing how loss of the nuclear pore protein TPR leads to activation of an inflammatory gene expression programme in senescence is now published in eLife: bit.ly/4h1VcFi
@wbickmor.bsky.social @uoe-igc.bsky.social
@elife.bsky.social
@wbickmor.bsky.social @uoe-igc.bsky.social
@elife.bsky.social
January 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Our new paper showing how loss of the nuclear pore protein TPR leads to activation of an inflammatory gene expression programme in senescence is now published in eLife: bit.ly/4h1VcFi
@wbickmor.bsky.social @uoe-igc.bsky.social
@elife.bsky.social
@wbickmor.bsky.social @uoe-igc.bsky.social
@elife.bsky.social
Reposted by Deborah Bourc’his
The international Curie « Noncoding Genome » course has been revamped! 👉 Dark genome in cell plasticity and heterogeneity. A session on TEs #TEsky with M.E. Torres Padilla, D.Trono and @aktast.bsky.social. Master, PhD and postdoc fellows, a week in Paris during the Spring?
Apply before Feb 15th
📌
Apply before Feb 15th
📌
November 28, 2024 at 7:21 PM
The international Curie « Noncoding Genome » course has been revamped! 👉 Dark genome in cell plasticity and heterogeneity. A session on TEs #TEsky with M.E. Torres Padilla, D.Trono and @aktast.bsky.social. Master, PhD and postdoc fellows, a week in Paris during the Spring?
Apply before Feb 15th
📌
Apply before Feb 15th
📌
Reposted by Deborah Bourc’his
Centrophilic retrotransposon integration via CENH3 chromatin in Arabidopsis from Tetsuji Kakutani & colleagues - beautiful insights into control of transposon insertion into the centromeres
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Centrophilic retrotransposon integration via CENH3 chromatin in Arabidopsis - Nature
An Arabidopsis long terminal repeat retrotransposon integrates de novo into regions occupied by centromere-specific histone variant, showing the impact of centromeric chromatin on transposable element...
www.nature.com
January 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Centrophilic retrotransposon integration via CENH3 chromatin in Arabidopsis from Tetsuji Kakutani & colleagues - beautiful insights into control of transposon insertion into the centromeres
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Deborah Bourc’his
🎓 Join us for our Spring School in Quantitative Biology: "Cell Dynamics in Developmental Systems"
✨ Featuring renowned speakers and hands-on workshops!
Learn more and register: www.edu.bio.ens.psl.eu/spip.php?art...
✨ Featuring renowned speakers and hands-on workshops!
Learn more and register: www.edu.bio.ens.psl.eu/spip.php?art...
November 3, 2024 at 8:40 PM
🎓 Join us for our Spring School in Quantitative Biology: "Cell Dynamics in Developmental Systems"
✨ Featuring renowned speakers and hands-on workshops!
Learn more and register: www.edu.bio.ens.psl.eu/spip.php?art...
✨ Featuring renowned speakers and hands-on workshops!
Learn more and register: www.edu.bio.ens.psl.eu/spip.php?art...
Reposted by Deborah Bourc’his
The 2nd edition of the Paris-Munich Epigenetics meeting will be held April 9-11, 2025 in Paris. Attendance is free of charge.
Please visit the website
www.sfb1064.med.uni-muenchen.de/paris_munich...
to find out more about the program and to register. #epigenetics
Please visit the website
www.sfb1064.med.uni-muenchen.de/paris_munich...
to find out more about the program and to register. #epigenetics
December 2, 2024 at 10:28 AM
The 2nd edition of the Paris-Munich Epigenetics meeting will be held April 9-11, 2025 in Paris. Attendance is free of charge.
Please visit the website
www.sfb1064.med.uni-muenchen.de/paris_munich...
to find out more about the program and to register. #epigenetics
Please visit the website
www.sfb1064.med.uni-muenchen.de/paris_munich...
to find out more about the program and to register. #epigenetics
Reposted by Deborah Bourc’his
Join us at FMI as a Junior Group Leader! A unique opportunity to set up your lab in a vibrant international research institute with world-class research groups and facilities, generous core funding, a collegial and inclusive culture - and great colleagues 🤓!
📣 Please share: We’re hiring a tenure-track Group Leader in Multicellular Systems to explore the molecular and cellular mechanisms driving the formation, maintenance, or destabilization of tissues, organs and organisms. Apply at: www.fmi.ch/education-ca...
December 16, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Join us at FMI as a Junior Group Leader! A unique opportunity to set up your lab in a vibrant international research institute with world-class research groups and facilities, generous core funding, a collegial and inclusive culture - and great colleagues 🤓!
Congratulations to our dear friend and ex-department director @institutcurie.bsky.social Edith Heard for the @cnrs.bsky.social 2024 Gold Medal.
Science with no frontier and the sky as the only limit... @maitrejl.bsky.social @bardinlab.bsky.social @leopoldlab.bsky.social @ybellaichelab.bsky.social
Science with no frontier and the sky as the only limit... @maitrejl.bsky.social @bardinlab.bsky.social @leopoldlab.bsky.social @ybellaichelab.bsky.social
December 12, 2024 at 9:57 PM
Congratulations to our dear friend and ex-department director @institutcurie.bsky.social Edith Heard for the @cnrs.bsky.social 2024 Gold Medal.
Science with no frontier and the sky as the only limit... @maitrejl.bsky.social @bardinlab.bsky.social @leopoldlab.bsky.social @ybellaichelab.bsky.social
Science with no frontier and the sky as the only limit... @maitrejl.bsky.social @bardinlab.bsky.social @leopoldlab.bsky.social @ybellaichelab.bsky.social
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I’m excited to share our latest study led by @giuliapasquesi.bsky.social out today in @cellpress.bsky.social , uncovering a new way transposons have been repurposed for human interferon signaling! Read on for a thread on cryptic splice variants, decoy receptors, and viruses (1/N) 👇🧵 #TESky 🧪
Regulation of human interferon signaling by transposon exonization
Transposable element exonization can yield functional protein isoforms as seen for primate-specific IFNAR2.
www.cell.com
December 12, 2024 at 6:57 PM
I’m excited to share our latest study led by @giuliapasquesi.bsky.social out today in @cellpress.bsky.social , uncovering a new way transposons have been repurposed for human interferon signaling! Read on for a thread on cryptic splice variants, decoy receptors, and viruses (1/N) 👇🧵 #TESky 🧪
Reposted by Deborah Bourc’his
Please RS/RT. #GordonConference on "Histone and DNA Modifications" #epigenetics #chromatin 20-25. July 2025. Il Ciocco, Italy. Great speaker lineup.
➡️Register now www.grc.org/histone-and-...
➡️Register now www.grc.org/histone-and-...
December 8, 2024 at 11:38 AM
Please RS/RT. #GordonConference on "Histone and DNA Modifications" #epigenetics #chromatin 20-25. July 2025. Il Ciocco, Italy. Great speaker lineup.
➡️Register now www.grc.org/histone-and-...
➡️Register now www.grc.org/histone-and-...
Reposted by Deborah Bourc’his
Delighted to announce a new call for applications for our Pathway to Independence programme. Now entering its third year, this scheme supports postdocs going on the job market in 2025 - with training, mentorship, profile-raising and networking opportunities. Application deadline 31 Jan 2025. 1/3
PI programme | Development | The Company of Biologists
PI programme | Development | The Company of Biologists
Development's Pathway to Independence programme
Development is excited to announce our call for our Pathway to Independence program...
journals.biologists.com
December 2, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Delighted to announce a new call for applications for our Pathway to Independence programme. Now entering its third year, this scheme supports postdocs going on the job market in 2025 - with training, mentorship, profile-raising and networking opportunities. Application deadline 31 Jan 2025. 1/3
Reposted by Deborah Bourc’his
A reason I am very wary of the loose ways we think about 'epigenetics' is because of these kinds of conclusions:
DNA methylation mediates the link between adversity and depressive symptoms.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
DNA methylation mediates the link between adversity and depressive symptoms.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
DNA methylation mediates the link between adversity and depressive symptoms - Nature Mental Health
Using epigenome-wide mediation analyses to investigate DNA methylation as a path between adversity and depression, the authors found 31 cytosine–guanine dinucleotides (CpGs) associated with risk and 3...
www.nature.com
December 2, 2024 at 7:21 PM
A reason I am very wary of the loose ways we think about 'epigenetics' is because of these kinds of conclusions:
DNA methylation mediates the link between adversity and depressive symptoms.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
DNA methylation mediates the link between adversity and depressive symptoms.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
The international Curie « Noncoding Genome » course has been revamped! 👉 Dark genome in cell plasticity and heterogeneity. A session on TEs #TEsky with M.E. Torres Padilla, D.Trono and @aktast.bsky.social. Master, PhD and postdoc fellows, a week in Paris during the Spring?
Apply before Feb 15th
📌
Apply before Feb 15th
📌
November 28, 2024 at 7:21 PM
The international Curie « Noncoding Genome » course has been revamped! 👉 Dark genome in cell plasticity and heterogeneity. A session on TEs #TEsky with M.E. Torres Padilla, D.Trono and @aktast.bsky.social. Master, PhD and postdoc fellows, a week in Paris during the Spring?
Apply before Feb 15th
📌
Apply before Feb 15th
📌
Reposted by Deborah Bourc’his
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November 18, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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Reposted by Deborah Bourc’his
Another great set of @gensocuk.bsky.social talks: 1) AFD neuron disruption in C. elegans results in an increase in Tc1 elements; 2) conserved LTRs generate extracellular sRNA; 3) effects of methyl-6-adenosine can be good or bad, depending on external factors; 1/2 🧵
November 21, 2024 at 12:13 PM
Another great set of @gensocuk.bsky.social talks: 1) AFD neuron disruption in C. elegans results in an increase in Tc1 elements; 2) conserved LTRs generate extracellular sRNA; 3) effects of methyl-6-adenosine can be good or bad, depending on external factors; 1/2 🧵
Thrilled to announce that the EMBO workshop «Mobile Genome» will be back in Heidelberg, Nov 4-7th 2025 @EMBLEvents @EMBO. Registration open soon but you can already register interest. Organized with fantastic colleagues @juliusbrennecke @GonzalezLab_BCN @JoePetersLab
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
The mobile genome: genetic and physiological impacts of transposable elements
www.embl.org
November 14, 2024 at 11:27 AM
Thrilled to announce that the EMBO workshop «Mobile Genome» will be back in Heidelberg, Nov 4-7th 2025 @EMBLEvents @EMBO. Registration open soon but you can already register interest. Organized with fantastic colleagues @juliusbrennecke @GonzalezLab_BCN @JoePetersLab
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
www.embl.org/about/info/c...