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IBENS @ibensens.bsky.social · 6d

🧬🎉 L' #IBENS et le Département de Biologie participent à la Fête de la Science dimanche 5 octobre 2025 à l' #ENS !

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Grands et petits : venez découvrir tous les savoirs à travers jeux, ateliers, expositions et visites de labos pour tous les âges.

Programme et inscription : bit.ly/42oTBo7

#FDS2025

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IBENS @ibensens.bsky.social · 17d

👏🍾Congratulations to Joëlle Barido-Sottani, winner of the ERC Starting Grant 2025 for her project MORPHOFBD on Using morphological information to accurately date phylogenies and understand past diversification dynamics.
🔗 www.bio.ens.psl.eu/depbio/spip....
#ERCStG

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IBENS @ibensens.bsky.social · 20d

🥁Out on @pnas.org
👉Excitatory glycine receptors control ventral hippocampus synaptic plasticity and anxiety-related behaviors
🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
👏Congratulations to Lara Pizzamiglio, Pierre Paoletti and all authors and collaborators!

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IBENS @ibensens.bsky.social · 22d

📢Call for Junior Group Leader in Functional Genomics

The Institute of Biology of the École Normale Supérieure is seeking to recruit a junior group leader in the area of Functional Genomics.

Deadline: October 31st, 2025

#IBENS #joboffer

🔗 www.bio.ens.psl.eu/depbio/spip....

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IBENS @ibensens.bsky.social · Aug 19

Ever wondered how to unveil complexity of ecological communities?
Listen to this podcast with Ada Altieri from Matière et Systèmes Complexes lab @upcite.bsky.social and Silvia De Monte from the Eco-Evolutionary Mathematics group at #IBENS📻

Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · Jul 24

This podcast features a conversation with two physicists, Ada Altieri and Silvia De Monte, who are using their expertise in statistical physics to understand the behaviour of ecological communities. This episode is sponsored by EPL. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/gyjp50WuHBc

From rabbits and foxes to the human gut microbiome, physics is helping us understand the natural world – Physics World

A conversation about theoretical ecology with physicists Ada Altieri and Silvia De Monte

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IBENS @ibensens.bsky.social · Jul 29

📢Call for Junior Professor Chair in Neuroscience (tenure track position)

@psl-univ.bsky.social is launching a call for applications for a Junior Professor Chair in Life Sciences entitled “Neurosciences”, to be based at #IBENS

Deadline: September 30th, 2025 4pm

www.bio.ens.psl.eu/depbio/spip....

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IBENS @ibensens.bsky.social · Jul 29

Thanks for signaling @dabrowska-lab.bsky.social, I am going to fix the post.
Meanwhile, here is the working link:
www.bio.ens.psl.eu/depbio/spip....

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IBENS @ibensens.bsky.social · Jul 28

🥁Out on @embojournal.org
👉Optochemical profiling of NMDAR molecular diversity at synaptic and extrasynaptic sites
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s44318-025-00498-x
👏Congratulations to Antoine Sicard, Pierre Paoletti*, @laetitiamony.bsky.social and all authors and collaborators!

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IBENS @ibensens.bsky.social · Jul 25

🥁Out on @natnano.nature.com
👉Modulation of SARS-CoV-2 spike binding to ACE2 through conformational selection
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
👏Congratulations to Charlie Gosse, Terence Strick, and all authors and collaborators!

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IBENS @ibensens.bsky.social · Jul 18

👏🍾Congratulations to Hélène Morlon, winner of the "Chair of Excellence in Biology and Health" of the French Health Innovation Plan 2030, for the project
PlankDiv - Diversification of eukaryotic ocean plankton
🔗 www.bio.ens.psl.eu/depbio/spip....

IBENS @ibensens.bsky.social · Jul 18

👏🍾Congratulations to Sonia Garel, winner of the "Chair of Excellence in Biology and Health" of the French Health Innovation Plan 2030, for the project
MicroProtect - Deciphering the neuroprotective functions of microglia: from brain development to neurodegenerative diseases
🔗 rb.gy/z58ih3

IBENS @ibensens.bsky.social · Jul 18

🥁Out on @pnas.org
👉A genetically defined pontine nucleus essential for ingestion in mice
🔗 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2411174122
👏Congratulations to Selvee Sungeelee, Jean-François Brunet and all authors and collaborators!

IBENS @ibensens.bsky.social · Jul 17

👏🍾Congratulations to Hélène Morlon, winner of the ERC Advanced Grant 2024 for her project PlankDiv on Diversification of the Eukaryotic Plankton in the Sunlit Ocean.
🔗 www.bio.ens.psl.eu/depbio/spip....
#ERCAdG

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IBENS @ibensens.bsky.social · May 5

🥁Out on @pnas.org
👉The diffused evolutionary dynamics of morphological novelty
🔗 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2425573122
👏Congratulations to Ignacio Quintero @ignacioq.bsky.social

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IBENS @ibensens.bsky.social · May 5

🥁Out on @emboreports.org
👉mTOR controls ependymal cell differentiation by targeting the alternative cell cycle and centrosomal proteins
🔗 embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038/s44319-025-00460-2
👏Congratulations to Alexia Bankolé, Ayush Srivastava, Nathalie Spassky and all authors and collaborators!

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IBENS @ibensens.bsky.social · May 5

🥁Out on @natcomms.nature.com
👉Patterns and drivers of diatom diversity and abundance in the global ocean
🔗 nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58027-7
👏Congratulations to Juan Pierella Karlusich, Chris Bowler and all authors !

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IBENS @ibensens.bsky.social · May 5

🥁Out on @narjournal.bsky.social
👉Deciphering the human TopIIIα activity modulated by Rmi1 using magnetic tweezers
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaf308
👏Congratulations to Long Yun, Florence Garnier, Terence Strick, and Marc Nadal

Reposted by IBENS

CNRS Paris-Centre @cnrs-paris.bsky.social · Apr 25

#ChangeNOW2025
🌎🎙️Cet après-midi, nous avons écouté l’intervention de Chris Bowler, Directeur de Recherche @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
à l’Institut de Biologie de l'ENS @ibensens.bsky.social, sur l'importance du plancton pour la santé planétaire.
👉 www.paris-centre.cnrs.fr/fr/evenement...

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IBENS @ibensens.bsky.social · Apr 16

🥁Out on @natcomms.nature.com
👉Vesicular and non-vesicular extracellular small RNAs direct gene silencing in a plant-interacting bacterium
🔗https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57908-1
👏Congratulations to Antinéa Ravet, Jérôme Zervudacki, Lionel Navarro and all authors!

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IBENS @ibensens.bsky.social · Apr 11

🥁Out on @narjournal.bsky.social
👉RNA anchoring of Upf1 facilitates recruitment of Dcp2 in the NMD decapping complex
🔗https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaf160
👏Congratulations to Nadia Ruiz-Gutierrez and Hervé Le Hir and all authors!

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IBENS @ibensens.bsky.social · Apr 2

🥁Out on @elife.bsky.social
👉Gaskell, Langley, and the "para-sympathetic" idea
🔗https://elifesciences.org/articles/104826
👏Congratulations to Jean-François Brunet for this review

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IBENS @ibensens.bsky.social · Mar 11

🥁Out on @pnas.org
👉Insulation between adjacent TADs is controlled by the width of their boundaries through distinct mechanisms
🔗https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2413112122
👏Congratulations to Andrea Papale, David Holcman at #IBENS and their collaborators @daannoordermeerlab.bsky.social!

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IBENS @ibensens.bsky.social · Feb 27

🥁Out on @naturecomms.bsky.social
👉Negative global-scale association between genetic diversity and speciation rates in mammals
🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56820-y
👏Congratulations to @acafonsosilva.bsky.social, @hmorlon.bsky.social and all authors!

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IBENS @ibensens.bsky.social · Feb 18

🥁Out on @thelancetplanet.bsky.social
👉The public health co-benefits of strategies consistent with net-zero emissions: a systematic review
🔗https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(24)00330-9/fulltext
👏Congratulations to @kvn-jean.bsky.social and all authors!

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IBENS @ibensens.bsky.social · Feb 17

🥁Out on @naturecomms.bsky.social
👉Unraveling microglial spatial organization in the developing human brain with DeepCellMap, a deep learning approach coupled with spatial statistics
🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56560-z
👏Congratulations to Theo Perochon,David Holcman and all authors!

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