Overview

The Institut Jacques-Monod is one of the main centres for fundamental research in biology in the Paris region.

A centre of excellence for research in biology

The Institut Jacques Monod (IJM) is a research centre (UMR 7592) funded jointly by the CNRS and the University Paris Diderot.

It is organized into 4 research programs: Cell Biology (6 groups), Development and Neurobiology (9 groups), Genomes and Epigenomes (5 groups) and Molecular and Cellular Pathology (8 groups). Research at the interface of biology with physics and medicine is strongly encouraged.


The Institut Jacques-Monod comprises about 280 people (Ph.D. students, post-doc, technicians, engineers, French and foreign visitors, administrative officers and staff scientists). The director is Giuseppe Baldacci, professor at the University of Paris-Diderot.
 
The Institut Jacques Monod is housed in a new building, located on the new campus of University Paris-Diderot, on the Paris Left-Bank.

A vast technological platform

To accompany its research, the Institut Jacques Monod has developed a number of important core facilities, which all offer state-of-the art instrumentation and expertise in the fields of flow cytometry, electron and photonic microscopy, proteomics, analysis of molecular interactions, transgenesis and quantitative analysis of the transcription products of the genome.

Supervised by investigators and highly specialized engineers, the various services on offer have the quadruple vocation of research, service, expertise and transfer of knowledge. Created to provide access to ultramodern technologies, they are open for use by investigators from both the academic and privately-funded research communities.

A teaching mission

The Institut Jacques Monod also plays an active role in teaching.
About fifty students of many different nationalities are presently preparing their doctoral theses at the Institut Jacques Monod, and another hundred or so pre- and post-graduate students are welcomed every year in the labs to help introduce them to the world of research.

Many staff scientists and researchers teach at the University, in accordance with the strong commitment of the Institute to transmit concepts and techniques of quantitative and mechanistic biology to university students. Moreover, members of the Institute propose annually the " Monod-Diderot Course " for postgraduate « Master 2 » students interested in the mechanisms of gene expression.

Several hundreds of scientists have been trained at the Institute or have spent extended periods of study there. Today they work in laboratories around the world and a number of them now head other important research units.

Finally, the implication of the members of the Institut Jacques Monod in the dissemination of knowledge is materialized through the organization, each year, of more than a hundred seminars, of scientific meetings, specialized symposia and open days.

An Institute worthy of its name

Jacques Monod, Nobel prize winner in 1965 together with François Jacob and André Lwoff, played an essential role in the creation (1966) of the institute that today bears his name. The research performed at the Institut Jacques Monod strives to perpetuate the spirit of discovery that inspired him.

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