{May 2010}- {{European MICROME project Post Doctoral Position in France.}}

CEA is seeking to recruit a scientific curator for a demanding role in the assignment of functional Gene-Protein-Reaction (GPR) annotation, as well as the curation of metabolic pathways from (...)(more)

January 2010- PhD proposals for the 2010-2011 academic year

The research laboratories of Genoscope propose the following subjects(more)

October 12th 2009- Dissertation defense of Maxime Durot.

"Model-based investigation of microbial metabolism to interpret gene essentiality results, illustrated on Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1 metabolism."(more)

September 8th, 2009 - Banana genome sequencing.

Genoscope (part of the Genomic Institute of the CEA in Evry, France) and the CIRAD (Montpellier) are starting to perform the complete sequencing of the banana genome. With an annual production of (...)(more)

September 5, 2009 : Departure of the sailboat for the “Tara Oceans” expedition

The sailboat Tara is leaving for a unique 3-year scientific expedition in all the worlds’ oceans to study marine ecosystems which are still largely unknown, but essential for the equilibrium of (...)(more)

July, 2009- PhD proposal

"New nitrilase and racemase activities; application to the dynamic kinetic resolution of alpha-aminonitriles from Strecker synthesis" Hosting Group: Laboratory of organic chemistry and (...)(more)

June, 18th 2009 - Presentation of Tara Océan

A press conference will be held on Thursday, June 18, at 8h45 at the headquarters of Agnes b. to present the international scientific expedition, "Tara Oceans", in which Genoscope is a (...)(more)

December 15th 2008- Dissertation defense of Pierre-Yves Bourguignon

"Parsimonious Markov models and applications to biological sequence analysis". Markov chains are massively used in biological sequence analysis, although their practical use raises statistical (...)(more)

November 14th 2008 - Dissertation defense of Delphine Rivière

" Comparison of microbial populations in anaerobic digesters treating wastewater sludge : molecular analysis of the diversity and activity " Delphine Rivière (mail) supported his thesis on (...)(more)

July 2008 -CNRS GOLD MEDAL WINNER: JEAN WEISSENBACH, PIONEER OF GENOME ANALYSIS.

The 2008 CNRS Gold Medal, the highest scientific research award in France, has been awarded to internationally renowned geneticist Jean Weissenbach, senior researcher at CNRS. Weissenbach, 62, (...)(more)

April 2008- Post-doctoral fellowship

Applications are called for a post-doctoral fellowship of 18 months in the Computational Systems Biology group, Genoscope, on the following topic: "Design and application of computational methods (...)(more)

August 27th 2007. A major advance in plant biology: the grapevine genome is completely sequenced

A major achievement has been reached in plant biology: the first detailed analysis of the grapevine genome has just been published. The joint effort carried out by scientists from Genoscope and (...)(more)

Since May 1st, 2007, Genoscope has been a part of the Institute of Genomics, supervised by the CEA (ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION).

This eighth institute of the CEA groups together Genoscope (National Center of Sequencing) and National Center of Génotypage teams. The CEA undertook to maintain the main service of both platforms (...)(more)