Understanding the functioning of living organisms is the ambition of the Centre for Integrative Biology (CBI) in Toulouse. To achieve this goal, the CBI develops multidisciplinary, multi-scale approaches, from isolated molecules to whole organisms and animal societies, and uses numerous model organisms, from bacteria to humans.
The Centre for Integrative Biology of Toulouse (CBI-Toulouse, France)Recruits Group Leaders in Microbiology The Centre for Integrative Biology of Toulouse...
Japanese delegation to visit the CBI on Monday 11 September 2023
As a side effect of the Rugby World Cup and the welcoming the Japanese team to Toulouse, a delegation from the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, th...
A new method for controlling gene expression at the heart of the embryo
Marie Zilliox, Sophie Polès, Patrick Blader and Julie Batut (MCD-CBI) and Vanessa Tillement and Thomas Mangeat (LITC-CBI) have developed a technique for c...
Auto-intoxication of the tuberculosis bacillus by a toxin targeting protein synthesis
Some bacteria produce toxins that enable them to adapt to different stresses or other attacks from the immune system. Xibing Xu and Xue Han from Pierre Gen...
Forum on ERC funding in Biology in Toulouse, on 17-18 October 2023
The "Biology and Biotechnology for Health" research federation in Toulouse (SFR-B2S), of which the CBI is a member, in association with the FRAIB federatio...
Congratulations to Gaelle Legube who has just been appointed new EMBO member!
This July 4, 2023, the European Molecular Biology Organization announced that 69 leading researchers have been elected as new EMBO members.Through this lif...
Identification of a new function for p57/Kip2 in transcriptional regulation
The intestinal epithelium is the tissue with the most rapid renewal in the human body.This renweal is carried out by intestinal stem cells. Arnaud Besson's...
Congratulations to Rafael Galupa, winner of the CBI-external 2022 AO team, who will be creating a new team at MCD-CBI!
Rafael Galupa (EMBL, Heidelberg), selected at the CBI's international group leader call 2022, is a laureate of the FRM's installation grant "Amorçage de j...
Congratulations to Jean-Marc Devaud!
Jean-Marc Devaud (CRCA-CBI), Professor at the Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier University, has been appointed a Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de ...
Mechanical stimuli generated by blood flow regulate haematopoiesis in Drosophila
Hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) in the vertebrate bone marrow give rise to blood cells.The maintenance of HSPCs depends on signals from the...
Genetic transformation of pneumococcus is organised on the replication forks of its genome
Natural genetic transformation is a mechanism of horizontal DNA transfer that promotes the shuffling of genetic information in bacteria by homologous recom...
