Dale Stephens
The Learnit Lab, a new place to experiment and exchange ideas about education, is proud to announce a talk+workshop featuring Dale J. Stephens, an unschooler, Thiel fellow and founder of the Uncollege movement.
Dale J. Stephens, in his talk, will probably challenge some basic assumptions many people hold about higher education.
This will happen this tuesday October 12th at 19:00, right after the opening days. But surprise! Instead of the standard talk and Q&A, Dale will also join us the following day, Wednesday 13th at 19:30 for a workshop where we can all collaborate to solve some interesting problems.
Full details about the workshop here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=244555782261216
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CRI Opening Days, September 2010.
The new year opening seminar will take place on Monday 10th and Tuesday 11th of October 2011, in the amphithéâtre Jean-Pierre LUTON on the groundfloor (RDC) of the Faculty of Medicine COCHIN, 24 rue du faubourg St Jacques, Paris 14.
This seminar is mandatory for all FdV and AIV students. It will be the occasion to get to know each other, share our scientific interests and build together much of the year's program, in particular to organize and initiate the year's CRI clubs (workshops) as well as the AIV / FdV program of courses and seminars of the year.
These activities open for all our students will be also the occasion to carry out administrative steps that might still be necessary for them.
This year, in addition to the AIV master and FdV PhD programs the CRI is happy and proud to welcome in our community the new undergraduate program "Licence Frontières du Vivant"!
As you well know, during this meeting, we will work to establish the year's content and activities, focusing on how to enrich the links between the different programs for the benefit of all. Current AIV and FdV students are presenting themselves through a poster.
Don't miss this special event and our two Guest talks :
- Michel MORANGE (Ecole Normale Supérieure, IHPST) on Monday 10th at 9:15 AM (amphi LUTON)
- Alan JOHNSTON, CoMPLEX (Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology), University College London, on Monday 10th at 18:00 (amphi LUTON)
3/10/2011
L'organisation du Concours iGEM a été revue en 2011 pour faire face à l'afflux croissant de candidatures, les équipes devant au préalable se qualifier lors d'épreuves régionales de sélection.
Le 2 octobre 2011 à Amsterdam se tenaient les épreuves finales de sélection iGEM pour la Région Europe/Afrique (Regional Jamboree Europe) avec la participation de 50 équipes européennes et la première participation de plusieurs équipes africaines.
Le projet de l'équipe iGEM Paris Bettencourt, concernant la caractérisation de nouvelles formes de communication entre bactéries par l'intermédiaire de nanotubes, a été très remarqué et salué par le Jury et l'ensemble des participants de l'évènement.
L'équipe s'est particulièrement distinguée en se classant parmi les 3 meilleures équipes, elle a remporté une Médaille d'Or et le Prix de la Meilleure présentation (Best presentation).
Elle s'est ainsi qualifiée parmi les 18 équipes européennes invitées à participer à la Finale mondiale (World Championship Jamboree) au Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT) du 5 au 7 novembre 2011 à Boston, à laquelle participeront également les 18 équipes qualifiées des Amériques et les 18 qualifiées d'Asie issues des sélections régionales (Regional Jamboree) se tenant les 10 et 16 octobre prochains.
Web : iGEM Paris Bettencourt
The CRI is happy to welcome Avigdor Eldar (PhD at Weizmann with Naama Barkai, post-doc at CalTech with Michael Elowitz) is now leading his own group at the Tel-Aviv University.
Title of his talk: A Bacterial tower of Babel - How cheating and lying can diversify bacterial communication
Date: Friday, 28 October at 7:30 in our CRI seminar room 2006
Abstract: In microbial "quorum sensing" (QS) communication systems, microbes produce and respond to a signaling molecule, enabling a cooperative response at high cell densities. Many species of bacteria show fast, intra-specific, evolutionary divergence of their QS pathway specificity -- signaling molecules activate cognate receptors in the same strain but fail to activate, and sometimes inhibit, those of other strains. Despite many molecular studies, it has remained unclear how a signaling molecule and receptor can coevolve, what maintains diversity, and what drives the evolution of cross-inhibition. I will describe a theoretical work that explains the evolutionary forces of diversification if QS controls other cooperative acts such as the secretion of enzymes. Co-evolution is positively selected by cycles of alternating "cheating" receptor mutations and "cheating immunity" signaling mutations. The maintenance of diversity and the evolution of cross-inhibition between strains are facilitated by facultative cheating between the competing strains. I will describe experimental directions for exploring this problem and some preliminary results.
Main Publications:
1. Partial penetrance facilitates developmental evolution in bacteria
Avigdor Eldar ,Vasant K. Chary, Panos Xenopoulos, Michelle E. Fontes,Oliver C. Losón, Jonathan Dworkin, Patrick J. Piggot PJ, Michael B. Elowitz. Nature , 460(7254):510-4 (2009).
2. Determinants for the Subcellular Localization and Function of a Non-essential SEDS protein.
Gonçalo Real, Allison Fay, Avigdor Eldar , Sérgio M. Pinto, Adriano O. Henriques, and Jonathan Dworkin. Journal of Bacteriology, 190: 363-376 (2008)
3. Interpreting clone-mediated perturbations of morphogen profile
Avigdor Eldar and Naama Barkai. Developmental Biology , 278(1), 203-7 (2005)
4. Elucidating mechanisms underlying robustness of morphogen gradients
Avigdor Eldar , Ben-Zion Shilo and Naama Barkai. Current opinion in genetics and development, 14(4), 435-9 (2004)
5. Self-Enhanced Ligand Degradation Underlies Robustness of Morphogen Gradients
Avigdor Eldar , Dalia Rosin, Ben-Zion Shilo and Naama Barkai. Developmental Cell , Vol 5, 635-646 (2003)
6. Robustness of the BMP morphogen gradient in Drosophila embryonic patterning
Avigdor Eldar , Ruslan Dorfman, Daniel Weiss, Hilary Ashe, Ben-Zion Shilo and Naama Barkai
Nature 419, 304-308 (2002)
new! Photo gallery - Friday 9.9.2011
CREATING INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH PROJECT WORKSHOP
SEVRES, 4-9 September 2011
The workshop, set in Sèvres (near Paris), intends to assemble free spirited students and researchers from broad scientific backgrounds to conceive creative projects at the interface with Life Sciences.
This year will combine newcomer students of the FdV PhD program, 2nd year AIV master program and will host students of the new Licence FdV program on Friday.
The CIRP workshop attempts to provide the primary basis for collegiality and communication through dialogue and brainstorming on open questions in Life Sciences.
Aims of the workshop :
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