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The lab welcomes Jana Grolimund and Diana Rebholz as semester students. Jana will work on “Adaptive species discrimination in yeast” with Lina and Diana on the "Investigation of Cyclin 3 in pheromone habituation in S. cerevisiae" with Alex.

The Journal Club article, entitled "The centromere as a tag of self-DNA", is now available online.  

On October 31st, Veera Vainio successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "The role of ATM in the clustering of plasmid DNA in mammalian cells". The Kroschewski and Barral Labs congratulate her and wish her all the best in her future endevours!

We welcome Flavia Brugia (left) and Wei-Han Lin (center) as of November 1st. We are also saying goodbye to Prof. Kupiec (right) that after his visit in the Barral Lab has returned to his home institution.

The collaborative paper among the Picotti, Barral, and Schwede groups has just been published on Nature Biotechnology.

We are happy to welcome to our Lab Ivana Vukšinić (left) as a new Master's student and Luis de Sousa (center) as an Apprentice. Ivana will work on "Mechanisms of genome protection in Saccharomyces cerevisiae" with Rachel while Luis on "Microtubule plus-end condensates and nuclear positioning during mating in Saccharomyces cerevisiae" with Michaela. We are also saying goodbye to Dr. Saini (right) and wish her all the best in her future career.  

The Barral Lab welcomes Martin Kupiec a Full Professor in Applied Microbiology at Tel Aviv University as visiting professor for the next 2.5 months. Martin is interested in studying aging and memory in yeast.

In July the group organzied some events to say goodbye to those leaving the group: Hassan, Loïc, Martin, Maxime, Raphaela, Trisha and Stephanie: we will miss you guys and wish you all the best in your future endevours!  

Thomas R. Peskett, Sung Sik Lee, Yves Barral "A protein condensation network contextualises cell fate decisions" bioRxiv(2024)

On March 28th, Shweta Saini successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Self vs Non-self DNA discrimination in fission yeast". The whole Barral Lab congratulates her!