CGM - Centre de Génétique Moléculaire

The Centre de Génétique Moléculaire (CGM), on the campus CNRS of Gif

One of the biggest CNRS laboratory in the field of Life Sciences

  Last update: 22-Mar-2011

• Contact and ways to come
• Interests
• Education
• Historical facts
• Collaborations

 

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How to come to CGM

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Scientific interests and organization

Around the central theme of Molecular Genetics, our research center is organized in 24 teams. 22 teams are arranged in 4 departments, and 2 teams are attached to the director :

Here is the organization of CGM in March 2011:

Education

The manpower of the CGM is of 160 collaborators: more than 65 researchers (including 20% of professors) and more than 50 doctoral and post-doctoral fellows. The abundance of professors, post-doctorants and doctorants clearly underlines the implication of the CGM in teaching and higher education. More than 100 students from different educational degrees are welcomed in research groups every year for training courses.

Associated with the Université Paris-Sud 11, on the campus of Orsay, the CGM also reinforces its collaborations with the Université Versailles Saint-Quentin.

The CGM is a major actor in the doctoral research training program of Université Paris-Sud 11, "Genes, Genomes and Cells". Several other doctoral research training program are represented in the various research teams of the CGM, offering to students multiple possibilities to freely choose their interests among programs and participating faculty members.

Historical facts

The Centre de Génétique Moléculaire was the first French institute entirely dedicated to Molecular Genetics. Our reputation and leader position in the development of Genetics is directly inherited from the famous pionners (and collaborators) and their works during the past thirty years: Boris Ephrussi and his invention of somatic Genetics, Piotr Slonimski and his developpment of mitochondrial genetics, Janine Beisson and her studies of the cellular morphogenesis processes, Vittorio Luzzati and his priming in France of protein cristallography and finally Madeleine Gans and her initiative work in the genetics of drosophila developpment.

Director from 1999 to 2002, professor André Adoutte has restructured and boosted the dynamism of the CGM by supporting and recruiting young research groups. He reinforced the collaboration with the laboratories of the University of Orsay. André Adoutte has also continued the renovation of the buildings as well as the replacement of common equipements (purchase of a 16 capillaries sequencing device for our sequencing service…). André Adoutte died in March 2002, before the end of his mandate, leaving unfinished his reorganization work. Dr. Lawrence Aggerbeck, who was Assistant Director, has officially been named Director from April 2002 to December 2008.

The current director is Dr. Frédéric Boccard.

Collaborations

Strong relationships with other research organizations, collaborations with industrial groups, implication: the CGM diversifies its activities

The differents research teams of the CGM are involved in collaborations with several other French or International research organizations, starting with the different Institute present in the campus of Gif-sur-Yvette.

The CGM takes part in many European Research Contracts. We also enhance our participation in collaborations with non governmental agencies (specially for research against cancer) and industrial development. The model organisms studied in the CGM (Yeast, E. coli, Drosophila, Paramecia, Xenopus, C. elegans, human cells) provide powerful models for the fine understanding of biology and several deseases, specially genetic associated ones.