Actus

After his conference "Science and the World's future" in the Institut Jacques Monod / Paris Diderot, we had the pleasure to welcome Bruce ALBERTS at the CRI in Paris thursday 1st and Friday 2nd of July 2010.

Bruce Alberts, president of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., is a respected biochemist recognized for his work both in biochemistry and molecular biology. He is noted particularly for his extensive study of the protein complexes that allow chromosomes to be replicated, as required for a living cell to divide.

He is one of the original authors of "The Molecular Biology of the Cell", considered the leading textbook of its kind and used widely in U.S. colleges and universities. His most recent text, "Essential Cell Biology" (1998), is intended to approach this subject matter for a wider audience.

Bruce Alberts homepage


Ariel Lindner, Pascal Hersen, Bruce Alberts, François Taddei at the CRI (2/7/2010)

WISER Summer 2010 is the first WISER-U* global event that will put together change makers in education, research and innovation and university students from all over the world. The most bright brains will meet and share the creative ideas on the next-generation methodology and technology which will reform the future of education and research.

When & Where ?
From 18th to 24th of August 2010 in Yuanpei School of Peking University.

You will enjoy Wiser Summer 2010 if...
you are a university student;
you believe that you have some ideas to share or projects to construct that may havesignificant impact on science, education and research;
you are eager to meet and share your creativity with like-minded brilliant brains from all over the world;
you are convinced that by sharing ideas and efforts with others you can achieve much more than do everything alone;
you believe that the great potential of new technologies will be a leading force to change the world into a nicer place and you are also willing to build a bridge between these techs and everyday requirements in science, education and research;

... if so, do not miss the opportunity to participate Wiser Summer 2010 !

Join the WISER-U community, build your team and register to present your idea or project for a Wiser Summer at Peking University from 18th to 24th of August 2010.
Before the end of May you have to create a group in WISER-U Community and register your participation in the registration form, describing briefly your team, your project and how contact you.
For any specific questions you can contact the Wiser-U community contact us in the WiserCafé or directly in the Social Network.
Don't be afraid to post mad ideas, go ahead, we love out of the box ideas.

Registration form : register your team before the 31st of May 2010

A few info : about the event

WEBSITE : http://wiser-u.net/summer/

Contact : Luping Xu

*WISER-U (World-Wide Interaction for Science Education and Research) is a non-profit international association created one year ago by students and scientists who are passionate to share ideas and develop projects for the future of Science, Education and Research. We are dedicated to design and develop new technologies to create a global platform where students and researchers from all over the world can share their ideas and create projects together. By increasing the contacts between like-minded creative students we will catalyze exchanges, foster projects on-line and/or in real life and build networks of ideas, learners and places of creativity where projects can be turned into reality. Wiser Summer 2010 is supported by CRI (Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires) in Paris and Yuanpei School of Peking University.

Big event this April 19th 2010 at the CRI with the first FdV thesis defence !

The ED 474 FdV graduate school has been created late 2006, and Lydia ROBERT is our first PhD student to obtain her doctorate in interdisciplinary sciences.

Many students came to attend while she presented publicly her thesis : "Phenotipic variability and aging in Escherichia coli"

She impressed the members of the Jury who gave her the "very honourable" grade with "congratulations of the jury" .

Congratulations, Lydia !

Lydia Robert with the members of the jury, Didier Chatenay, Didier Mazel, Andrew Murray and François Taddei (her PhD supervisor).

Prof. David Botstein[wp], the director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute at Princeton is with us at the CRI, 29 and 30 of March.

Two talks on consecutive days are planned that reflect Botstein's excellence both in quantitative biology research and education:

Monday March 29th
9h30- 11h30: "The fruits of the genome for society"
(presentation + open discussion)
Botstein's lab : http://www.princeton.edu/genomics/botstein/

16h00 - 19h00: Informal meeting with AIV & FdV students

Tuesday March 30th
9h30- 11h30 : "Merging education and research-The Lewis-Sigler institute"
(presentation + open discussion).

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The Lewis-Sigler Institute was established to innovate in research and teaching at the interface of modern biology and the more quantitative sciences. It has a quite unique collaborative structure where undergraduate students are integrated within the institute's research endeavors and all faculty, PhD and post-docs take part in the teaching, through interactive courses and lab work.
David Botstein, member of the American Academy of sciences and awardee of numerous prestigious prizes, has made fundamental contributions to modern genetics, including the discovery of many yeast and bacterial genes and the establishment of key techniques that are commonly used today as the method for mapping genes that laid the groundwork for the Human Genome Project.
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Short Biography
David Botstein (born 1942 in Switzerland) is an American biologist who has been the director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University since 2003.
He graduated from Harvard in 1963 and received a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1967. He then taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he became a Professor of Genetics. In 1990, he became Chairman of the Department of Genetics at Stanford University. He has also worked for Genentech, as the Vice President - Science. Dr. Botstein was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1981 and to the Institute of Medicine in 1993.
Botstein is the director of the Integrated Science Program at Princeton University. Many of his students have gone on to be very successful in the field of molecular biology.
In 1980, Botstein and his colleagues Ray White, Mark Scolnick, and Ron Davis proposed a method for mapping genes that was used in subsequent years to identify several human disease genes including Huntington's and BRCA1. Variations of this method were used in the mapping efforts that predated and enabled the sequencing phase of the Human Genome Project.
In 1998, Botstein and his postdoctoral fellow Michael Eisen, together with graduate student Paul Spellman and colleague Patrick Brown, developed a statistical method and graphical interface that is widely used to interpret genomic data including microarray data.
Botstein has won the Eli Lilly and Company Award in Microbiology (1978), the Genetics Society of America Medal (1988), the Allen Award of the American Society of Human Genetics (1989) and the Gruber Prize in Genetics (2003).
He is the brother of the conductor Leon Botstein. Both of Botstein's parents were physicians.


David Botstein with Eva Maria Schoetz, Miroslav Radman and François Taddei, CRI conference

A Neurobiology & Optics club event !

We are pleased to announce the club's first talk of the year 2010 :
On Wednesday February 24th at 18h30, Peter Dalko will give us a talk on "Chemistry for Optical Imaging".

The seminar will take place, as usual, at the Centre for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI), Medicine Faculty, site Cochin Port-Royal, Paris Descartes University, 24 rue du Faubourg Saint Jacques, 75014 Paris, and we'll meet at the seminar room 2006, on the second floor.

Peter Dalko with the CRI students :