
January
Friday January 20th, 11.00School of Medicine, Salle de Thèse Dr Gilles FISCHER - invited by Gianni Liti – UMR CNRS 7238, Université Pierre & Marie Curie « Génomique des Micro-organismes » - The impact of replication on mutational patterns and genome stability -
February
Thursday February 23rd, 12.00 – 13.00School of Medicine, Amphithéâtre 4 Dr Thierry SALOMON ProteinSimple Seminar - NanoPro : Quantification of protein isoforms in limited research and clinical samples - - Simon : Gel-Free, blot-free, hands-free, reinvention of the western blot -March
Thursday March 1st, 12.00 – 13.00 School of Medicine, Amphithéâtre 1
Dr Rabih MURR - invited by Eric Gilson - Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), Basel - Switzerland "DNA binding factors shape the mouse methylome at distal regulatory regions"
Friday March 2nd, 12.00 – 13.00 School of Medicine, Amphithéâtre 1
Dr Thierry TOUVIER - invited by Stephan Clavel - Division of Regenerative Medicine, Dept. of Biological and Biotechnological Research (DIBIT), San Raffaele Hospital, Milano - Italy "Role of DRP1, a key mitochondrial fission protein, in skeletal muscle development and regeneration"
Friday March 9th, 12.00 – 13.00 School of Medicine, Amphithéâtre 4 Dr Olivier ADOTEVI - invited by Julien Cherfils - CHU Besançon, University of Franche-Comté - France "Role of antitelomerase CD4+ T cells immune response in cancer"
Thursday March 15th, 12.00-13.00
School of Medicine, Amphithéâtre 1
Dr Ronald C. KAHN - invited by Emmanuel Van Obberghen - Department of Medicine, Joslin Diabetes Center Harvard Medical School, Boston - USA "Role of adipose tissue and miRNAs in longevity and stress resistance"
Friday March 16th, 12.00 – 13.00 School of Medicine, Amphithéâtre 3 Dr Amadou BAH - invited by Eric Gilson - ETH, Zurich, Suisse « The telomeric transcriptome of Schizosaccharomyces pombe »
Monday March 19th, 12.00 – 13.00 School of Medicine, Amphithéâtre 4Dr Sarantis GAGOS - invited by Eric Gilson - Laboratory of Genetics, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens (BRFAA), Athens, Greece “Alternative lengthening of Telomeres : an oncogenic role for BARD1/BRCA1 and patterns of extreme chromosomal instability”
Tuesday March 20th, 12.00 – 13.00 School of Medicine, Amphithéâtre 4 Dr SIMONA SACCANI - invited by Eric Gilson - Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology, Freiburg, Germany “Understanding specificity of transcription : a lesson from the NF-kB system »
April
Thursday April 5th, 12.00 – 13.00 School of Medicine, Amphithéâtre 3
Dr Patrick HEUN - invited by Eric Gilson - Max Planck Institute, Freiburg, Germany "Towards understanding the epigenetic identity of centromeres"
Friday April 6th, 12.00 – 13.00 School of Medicine, Amphithéâtre 4Dr Michele TRABUCCHI - invited by Gianni Liti - C3M, Hôpital de l’Archet II, Nice « Let-7b/c enhance the stability of a tissue-specific mRNA during mammalian organogenesis as part of a feed-back loop involving KSRP »
Friday April 20th, 12.00 – 13.00 School of Medicine, Amphithéâtre 4Dr Paolo SALOMONI - invited by Gianni Liti - UCL Cancer Institute, UCL, London - UK « Role of the promyelocytic leukaemia protein in normal and neoplastic neural stem cells »
May
Thursday May 31st, 12.00
School of Medicine, Amphithéâtre 4 Dr Eric ROETTINGER - invited by Eric Gilson – Kewalo Marine Lab, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA - A provisional Cnidarian Gene Regulatory Network for "Endomesoderm" specification -
June
Friday June 1st, 12.00FSchool of Medicine, Amphithéâtre 4 Dr Jean-Marc VANACKER - invited by Gael Cristofari – Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle, Lyon - Physiopathology of orphan nuclear receptors -Monday June 18th, 12.00 School of Medicine, Amphithéâtre 4 Dr Giuletta MARUGGI - invited by Thierry Magnaldo & Gaël Cristofari – Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Siena, Italy - Viral vectors for gene therapy of Epidermolysis Bullosa : problems, solutions and evolutions -
Tuesday June 19th, 12.00School of Medicine, Amphithéâtre 4 Dr Maurizio GATTI - invited by Eric Gilson – Dep. of Biology and Biotechnology Charles Darwin (BBCD), University of Rome Sapienza, Italy - Organization and evolution of Drosophila telomeres : are they so different from human telomeres ? -
Friday June 29th, 11.00School of Medicine, Amphithéâtre 4 Dr Niels M. FRANDSEN - invited by Patrick Brest – Exiqon, Copenhagen, Danemark - In vivo applications of LNA technology – functional analysis in animals -
July
Tuesday July 10th, 12.00 School of Medicine, Amphithéâtre 4 Dr Dominic Van ESSEN - invited by Eric Gilson – Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany - Cell-type specific control of enhancer activity -August
No seminars in August
September
Thursday, September 20th, 14.00 - 18.00
School of Medicine, Amphithéâtre 4Seminar “Senescence & Telomeres”
see complete program under "Symposia & Meetings"
Wednesday, September 26th, 12.00School of Medicine, Amphithéâtre 4 Dr Chirlmin JOO - invited by Patrick Brest – Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands - Single-molecule approach to microRNA protein complexes -
October
Friday, October 19th, 12.00School of Medicine, Amphithéâtre 4 Dr Inès SEQUEIRA- invited by Marina Shkreli – Institut Pasteur, Paris
- Stem Cell Lineages at the Origin of Hair Follicle Renewal –
Friday, October 26th, 14.00Centre A. Lacassagne, Amphithéâtre J. MédecinThesis presented by Adeline AUGEREAU IRCAN CNRS UMR 7284, INSERM U 1081 - Nouveaux liens entre dysfonctionnement télomérique et cancer : Cas de la Leucémie Lymphoïde Chronique et Rôle de RasV12 dans la Protection des Télomères par TRF2 -
Friday, October 26th, 14.00School of Medicine, Amphithéâtre 4Dr Sara FRANCOZ - invited by Gilles Pagès - CNIO, Madrid - C-Raf, the key regulator of K-Ras oncogenic signaling in non small cell lung carcinoma initiation and maintenance/progression -
November
Wednesday, November 14th, 12.00 School of Medicine, Amphithéâtre 4Dr Javi Garcia PIZZARO - invited by Cédric Gaggioli - Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Barcelona, Spain - Activation of Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutated (ATM) under experimental models and human Parkinson’s disease -
Thursday, November 15th, 12.00 School of Medicine, Amphithéâtre 4INSERM Transfert - invited by Patrick Brest - - Patent First, Publish Later : the road to innovation -
Friday, 23 Novembre 23rd, 11.00 School of Medicine, Amphithéâtre 4Dr Bianca SCLAVI - invited by Delphine Benarroch - ENS Cachan, Paris, France - Organisation of the bacterial nucleoid and regulation of gene expression : think globally, act locally -
Friday, 23 Novembre 23rd, 12.00School of Medicine, Amphithéâtre 4Applied Biosystems-Life Technologies - invited by Christian Baudoin - - PCR en temps réel : Nouvelles technologies pour de nouvelles applications -
December
IRCAN Brainstorming at the "Maison du Séminaire", Nice, December 12 & 13, 2012

The Ircan Brainstorming is closing 2012.
New seminars will start in January 2013.