User:Itys Comet
Publications 1. Comet I*, Schuettengruber B, Sexton T, Cavalli G. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Feb 8;108[6]:2294-9 A chromatin insulator driving three-dimensional Polycomb response element [PRE] contacts and Polycomb association with the chromatin fiber
2. Bantignies F, Roure V, Comet I*, Leblanc B, Schuettengruber B, Bonnet J, Tixier V, Mas A, Cavalli G. Cell. 2011 Jan 21;144[2]:214-26 Polycomb-dependent regulatory contacts between distant Hox loci in Drosophila
3.Comet I*, Savitskaya E, Schuettengruber B, Nègre N, Lavrov S, Parshikov A, Juge F, Gracheva E, Georgiev P, Cavalli G. Dev Cell. 2006 Jul;11[1]:117-24 PRE-mediated bypass of two Su[Hw] insulators targets PcG proteins to a downstream promoter
4. Versini G, Comet I*, Wu M, Hoopes L, Schwob E, Pasero P. EMBO J. 2003 Apr 15;22[8]:1939-49 The yeast Sgs1 helicase is differentially required for genomic and ribosomal DNA replication
Fellowships - EMBO Long-Term Fellowships [Jan.2010-Dec.2012] - French National League against Cancer [Oct.2005-Sep.2006] - French ministry of scientific research [Oct.2002-Sep.2005]. Ranked first out of 48
Scientific communications - EMBO Conference on Nuclear Structure and Dynamics, La Grande Motte, France [Sep.2005]. Poster - 19th French Annual Drosophila Research Congress, Imbours, France [Oct.2004]. Talk - 69th Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Symposium on Quantitative Biology: Epigenetic. New York, US [Jun.2004]. Poster
Teaching and mentoring experience - University Montpellier II, France [Jan.-Jun.2006 & 2007]. Mentoring of two fourth-year undergraduate students - Centre Galien, Private school, Montpellier, France [Sep.-Dec.2003]. Nine lectures on Structural Biochemistry for undergraduate students
Research experience - Post-doc supervised by Dr K. Helin [May.2009-Apr.2012]. BRIC, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Study of histone modifications and variants in Polycomb recruitment regulation in mESC. - PhD supervised by Dr G. Cavalli [Oct.2002-Apr.2009]. IGH, CNRS, Montpellier, France. Study of the role of the chromosome conformation in Polycomb and insulator functions in fly. - Master supervised by Dr P. Pasero [Feb.-May.2002]. IGMM, CNRS, Montpellier, France. Study of the role of Sgs1 helicase in the genome integrity maintenance in yeast. - Master supervised by Dr M. Benkirane [Sep.2001-Jan.2002]. IGH, CNRS, Montpellier, France. Study of the role of F-box protein acetylation in the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway regulation.
