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Deborah Bourc’his

@deborahbourchis.bsky.social
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PI at Institut Curie, Paris. Germ cells, epigenetics, DNA and RNA methylation, transposable elements

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Deborah Bourc’his @deborahbourchis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Tim Bestor left us this summer. An extraordinary scientist, epigenetic pioneer, always challenging dogma with a flair for language. For us, above all, he was a generous, loyal, caring and deeply supportive mentor. « Be cool everybody », as he used to saywhen leaving the lab at the end of the day.
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Deborah Bourc’his @deborahbourchis.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
@alexdemendoza.bsky.social is it your fault?
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Deborah Bourc’his @deborahbourchis.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Coupes drastiques du budget de la recherche + durcissement des règles d’attribution des financements ANR «Allez à l’ERC!» qu’ils disent, mais l’ERC saturée prend des mesures pour limiter les candidatures #deadend#recherchefrançaise Une petition semble vaine mais il faut commencer quelque part 👉
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Deborah Bourc’his @deborahbourchis.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
International Genome Dynamics course in Institut Curie-Paris (April 8-15), experimental and computational methods in multiomics,with a #TE centered session. Free registration, until Jan 15th Don’t miss it! 👉https://training.institut-curie.org/courses/Genome-Dynamics-2026 @institutcurie.bsky.social
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Jamie Hackett @jamiehackett.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
This went under the radar but answers a fundamental question in Epigenetics... From many hundreds of olfactory receptor genes, each neuron selects expression of only single one (near-randomly). How? Outstanding work from Mathieu Boulard and colleagues www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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The transcription of a single olfactory receptor per neuron is enforced by epigenetic silencing of their enhancers
The ability to discriminate thousands of odors in our environment requires each olfactory neuron to express a single olfactory receptor from hundreds of available genes. The biochemical mechanism enfo...
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The Cecere Laboratory @cecerelab.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
🍽️🧬 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
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Deborah Bourc’his @deborahbourchis.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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
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Deborah Bourc’his @deborahbourchis.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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... 1/3
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The mobile genome: genetic and physiological impacts of transposable elements
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Deborah Bourc’his @deborahbourchis.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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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EMBL Events @events.embl.org · 27/01/2025
📣 #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! 👉🏼 s.embl.org/mge25-01-bl
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Deborah Bourc’his @deborahbourchis.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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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Chymkowitch lab @chymkowitchlab.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Thanks for sharing the first of the two positions that we will propose in the next 6 months @biovitenskap.bsky.social Stay tuned!
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Deborah Bourc’his @deborahbourchis.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
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 👇
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Institut Curie @institutcurie.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
📣 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-...
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Wendy Bickmore @wbickmor.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
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
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Deborah Bourc’his @deborahbourchis.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
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 📌
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Ian Henderson @hendersi.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
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...
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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...
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Bellaiche Lab @ybellaichelab.bsky.social · 03/11/2024
🎓 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...
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sandraduharcourt.bsky.social @sandraduharcourt.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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
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Luca Giorgetti lab @FMI @lucagiorgetti.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
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 🤓!
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Deborah Bourc’his @deborahbourchis.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
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
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Ed Chuong @edchuong.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
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 🧪
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Regulation of human interferon signaling by transposon exonization
Transposable element exonization can yield functional protein isoforms as seen for primate-specific IFNAR2.
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Rob Schneider @robertife.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
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-...
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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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
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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...
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John Greally @greally.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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...
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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...
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Deborah Bourc’his @deborahbourchis.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
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 📌
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 18/11/2024
We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
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Authors, websites, and apps can use action intent links to implement "Share on Bluesky" buttons, or similar in-app actions. Logged-in users will be directed to the corresponding action view in the Blu...
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Deborah Bourc’his @deborahbourchis.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Who is going to make a drawing of Til Scott’s talk?@tillysscott.bsky.social #TEsky
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Tilly S Scott @tillysscott.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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 🧵
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Deborah Bourc’his @deborahbourchis.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
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...
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Helen Rowe @RoweLab @labrowe.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
We are recruiting computational and wet-lab scientists and support international candidates. Please reach out if you are interested in working with us: Dark antigens, interferon responses, transposable elements, the HUSH complex, immuno-epigenetics and MORE....❤️
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Deborah Bourc’his @deborahbourchis.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
⏰✉️!! Registration open until March 3rd!! 13th NON-CODING GENOME International course for Master, PhD students and postdocs #NGC2024. Special session on transposons #TE > Apply here: training.institut-curie.org/courses/non-co… 📅 May 22-29, 2024 📍 @institut_curie, Paris FR
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Rita Rebollo @ritarebollo.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
Dear TE family, it is time! The early-bird registration ends January 15th already! Abstract for talks ends February 15th! Start procrastinating by doing something useful: register to #icte2024 ! See you soon! #transposon
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