M.Punta, S.Longhi (University of Marseille) and A.Carbone organise the workshop "A DAY IN THE LIFE OF INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEINS: FROM COMPUTATION TO EXPERIMENTS" at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris, Amphithéâtre Moissan.

No fee is required but registration is mandatory.

The symposium The evolution of alternative splicing  is co-organized within the framework of the 2015 meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution by E. Laine (LCQB), H. Richard (LCQB), and J. Roux (UNIL). The event will take place in Vienna, Austria.
Registration is now open.  Abstract submission for oral presentation closes on February 8th.

Angela Falciatore co-organizes the International Conference "The molecular life of Diatoms 2015", 7-10 July 2015, Seattle, USA.

Registration is now open

Kenneth Wolfe from University College Dublin (http://wolfe.ucd.ie ) will give a seminar on:
"Origin and evolution of a reversible DNA rearrangement mechanism: yeast mating-type switching”

The paper "Combined collapse by bridging and self-adhesion in a prototypical polymer model inspired by the bacterial nucleoid"
from the Genomic Phisics was selected for the cover page on the journal Soft Matter, 8, 2015. 

Nitric oxyde oxydases are enzymes which contributes to the resistance of pathogenic microbes to the innate immune system by detoxifying nitric oxide. "The genetic networks" team identified a new regulator of the expression of nitric oxydases in fungi and deciphered its functioning and evolution in different pathogenic and non-pathogenic yeast species. 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25732006

A. Gillet-Markowska, H. Richard, G. Fischer & I. Lafontaine just published a new tool - Ulysses - providing an accurate detection of low-frequency structural variations in large insert-size sequencing libraries. Ulysses is a valuable tool for the characterization of somatic mosaicism in human tissues and in cancer genomes.
Ulysses: accurate detection of low-frequency structural variations in large insert-size sequencing libraries
Bioinformatics 2014; doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu730

The "Biology of Genomes" team and the "Intraspecific Variation and Genome Evolution" team from the Université de Strasbourg have published the first population genomics survey in a yeast different form a Saccharomyces species. This study reveals that consequently to a large-scale introgression event, two different mutational regimes can coexist within the same genome.