Sophie Polo Lab

And congratulations to all the other awardees!
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Sophie Polo Les chromosomes, gardiens de notre identité génétique, subissent des dommages qui peuvent compromettre la santé et le destin des cellules.

Sophie Polo has been awarded an Impulscience grant from the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation to fund a research project on the establishment and maintenance of the inactive X chromosome in response to DNA breaks. This is wonderful news for the lab! We thank the Foundation for their support.

Sunny lab retreat in the beautiful city of Annecy! We got to know our two new post docs, Delphine and Annabelle ♥️ Working on new projects, new techniques and AI implementation (and skills for Escape games).

In our new paper, we uncover a damaged chromatin marking mechanism that drives the non-random segregation of UV damage through mitosis. Chromatin alterations impinge on genome stability by controlling DNA damage segregation
See Ferrand*, Dabin* et al., Nat Commun 2025.