We just published a short conceptual review together with @angela-taddei.bsky.social on the spatial controls of homology search in both bacteria and eukaryotes. We discuss an emerging framework for homology search in cells with two main phases. Check it out: authors.elsevier.com/c/1mjyh,LqAZ...
📣 16th edition of the French 3R meeting “Replication, Recombination, Repair” - Registrations are open!
📆 May 18 to 21, 2026
📍 Belambra Club Presqu’île du Ponant in La Grande-Motte, France
🔗 www.2026.3r-meeting.fr/page/home/
A color outdoor portrait of American bacterial geneticist Evelyn Witkin in her later years, standing in a sun-dappled garden or courtyard setting with green foliage and a brick building in the soft-focus background. She is an elderly woman with fair skin, short wavy white hair, gentle smile lines, and warm, thoughtful eyes gazing directly at the camera with a kind, serene expression. She wears a white button-up blouse with subtle textured patterns, small earrings, and a distinctive beaded necklace featuring dark and light beads. A small silver dragonfly brooch is pinned to the left side of her blouse, symbolizing her pioneering work on DNA damage repair (often likened to cellular "rescue" mechanisms). The natural daylight softly illuminates her face, highlighting her dignified and approachable presence as a trailblazing scientist and a Lasker Award and National Medal of Science recipient. The overall mood is one of quiet wisdom, resilience, and quiet celebration of a long, impactful career in #WomenInScience. #WomensHistoryMonth
Geneticist Evelyn Witkin (b. #OTD 1921) pioneered work on DNA damage repair & mutagenesis.
Her discovery of the SOS response revealed how cells actively respond to genetic threats, laying foundations for insights into cancer, aging, radiation effects & chemotherapy resistance. #WomenInSTEM #WHM
On se prépare au pied du Panthéon et partout en France pour faire vivre l'espoir contre le cancer ! Dès demain et tout au long du mois de mars, l'Institut Curie vous donne rendez-vous pour soutenir la recherche et l’innovation médicale avec #UneJonquilleContreleCancer.
Flyer for symposium: https://ctrlepiedit.sciencesconf.org/
Very excited to announce the FIRST symposium on epigenome editing! These tools are becoming widely used in mol bio, ag & therapy. It's time to bring leaders together to discuss this rapidly growing and exciting field. And why not in Paris! Please register & share! (1/2) ctrlepiedit.sciencesconf.org
PARP inhibitor synthetic lethality reveals homologous recombination sub-pathway architecture https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.06.709881v1
🌱 New preprint out on bioRxiv!
How do plants sense seasonal changes in day length?
In our new study, we profiled high resolution (2h) RNA seq time courses in tomato across three photoperiods to uncover how light duration shapes gene expression dynamics.
Summary in next post...
We are celebrating our research institute @cabimer.bsky.social 20th anniversary!! Superb list of speakers!! And attendees!!
Happy to share our new work on the nuclease EXO1, published in Nature Communications. We show that EXO1 is overexpressed in cancers. This promotes nascent DNA degradation, even in BRCA-proficient cells, resulting in genomic instability and chemotherapy sensitization. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🎓 Registrations are open for the next Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation international course at @institutcurie.bsky.social with international experts, until march 31st 2026.
📆 18-22 may
📍 Institut Curie, Paris
🗒️ More infos on training.institut-curie.org/courses/post...
It was a great pleasure to host @fmattiroli.bsky.social in her visit to the @cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social
Wonderful science and discussions!
We are looking for Postdoctoral Fellows with expertise in Structural Biology. Expertise in CryoEM/CryoET is required. Come join us in St. Louis to work on some amazing enzyme complexes.
www.antonylab.org/positions.html
APPLY HERE: slu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Career...
Almost all of the scientists were previously at US institutions
go.nature.com/4tzxGX5
A beautifully crafted summary of the extraordinary discovery in the lab of my @mrclmb.bsky.social colleague @philholliger.bsky.social of a tiny RNA that can replicate RNA.
Y hoy, #11F, las mujeres científicas del #CBM llenan el Auditorio.
¡Y no caben todas!
Como referencia, el 4️⃣0️⃣% de los/las IPs del CBM son mujeres.
@csic.es @uam.es @cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social
Celebramos el #11F con una foto de nuestras compañeras científicas, técnicas, gestoras, etc., en el CBM. 👩🔬💫 ¡Por más visibilidad, igualdad y oportunidades para las mujeres en ciencia!
#MujeresYCiencia #diadelamujerylaninaenlaciencia #TodasHacemosCiencia
We go live!!!
Join us Munich July5-7th to hear exciting research on #Replication by leaders in the field
AND !! registration is FREE 🥳 (but mandatory) - we hope to see many in Munich 🍺 @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social
@replifate.bsky.social @epicrossborders.bsky.social
replifate.eu/event/meetin...
Con motivo del #11F abrimos nuestras puertas a las jóvenes científicas 👩🔬
Taller práctico en el CBM con alumnas de ESO en colaboración con STEMTalentGirl, guiado por Celia García y Eva Richard.
Acercar la ciencia a las chicas es clave para construir el futuro.
@csic.es @uam.es
How Aging clock reveals molecules that protect against neurodegeneration healthmedicinet.com/aging-clock-...
Our great collaboration with the lab of Wei Yang and Kaoru Sugasawa is now online in Nature. We’re glad we could contribute some cell biology to complement this beautiful structural and biochemical work.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A group of about 30 people pose together in a bright office space.
Today, we’re launching a new company, ALTx Therapeutics. Founded by Simon Boulton, the company will develop the first precision therapies targeting ALT cancers, in partnership with Slingshot Therapeutics Limited and @crhorizons.bsky.social.
Find out more ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/news/2026-02...
Today is World Cancer Day, but do you know the signs and symptoms of breast cancer?
Get to know your normal by checking your breasts regularly.
Touch your breasts✋
Look for changes👀
Check anything new or unusual with a GP✅
breastcancernow.org/about-breast...
Este otoño llega a Madrid #PREVENT2026, workshop sobre predisposición genética y prevención de la leucemia infantil, coorganizado por nuestro investigador César Cobaleda.
📍CSIC – Serrano 117
🗓️25 de septiembre
Info y registro 👉 prevent2026.org
🚀 Postdoc opportunity!
Our lab is looking for a candidate to work on tumor drivers in BRCA2‑mutated cancer.
If you're interested in applying, feel free to email me or send a DM! DEADLINE March 30th eacr.org/eacr-fellows...
Please note that the zoom link for tomorrow's webinar with @nitikataneja.bsky.social and @doksanilab.bsky.social has been updated:
uzh.zoom.us/j/6466274666...
Please repost and consider applying: we work in such a fantastic context, we ask so interesting questions, and we have such a collegial and best-willing atmosphere… CRBM = Happy & Good Science
Happy to share the “International Symposium on Chromosome Dynamics: from Structure to Cellular Function” that will be held in Japan 31st of May 2026 www.fbs.osaka-u.ac.jp/labs/fukagaw.... Registrations will open on December 1st! Plenty of opportunities to present your work! Hope to seeing you
📚📢 Ha salido el nuevo Catálogo de Conferencias Científicas del @csic.es para centros educativos y entidades en Madrid. El CBM ofrece 17 charlas divulgativas sobre biología, cáncer, inmunología, virología, biotecnología y más. ¡Solicita la tuya! 👩🔬👨🔬
🔗 delegacion.madrid.csic.es/catalogo-con...
A study in @science.org from Paul Cohen's lab, led by @maschakoenen.bsky.social, demonstrates how beige fat directly influences blood pressure. The findings offer a new target for treating vascular disease and could lead to more precise therapies for hypertension: https://bit.ly/4pK0hGh
