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Justine Collier
@Justinec_Caulo
Associate Professor @DMF_UNIL. Vice-director of @ecolebiolunil @FBM_UNIL. Passionate about genetics, bacteria and higher education. Proud mother.
Lausanne, Switzerland
unil.ch/collierlab
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    Justine Collier
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    Jun 2
    I am delighted to share our latest preprint: doi.org/10.64898/2026.… Fantastic work from my past and present lab members @FlorianFournes, @Sandra__Martin_ and Nicolas Pellaton. Also many thanks to our precious collaborators @GruberLab and to @snsf_ch for funding.
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    Justine Collier
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    Sep 30, 2024
    📢A new PhD student position in Bacterial Genetics is now open in my team @DMF_UNIL in beautiful Lausanne/Switzerland 🇨🇭 More information on that position and on the application procedure can be found here: tinyurl.com/3m35nr54 Please RT.
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    Justine Collier
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    Feb 9, 2024
    🧬🦠Reminder: PhD/Postdoc openings in my lab!🔬🧫Please RT.
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    Justine Collier
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    Aug 23, 2024
    PhD Fellowships available at our Faculty in Lausanne/Switzerland. We are a host lab in someone is interested! unil.ch/ecoledoctorale… via @unil
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    Doctorate - FBM Unil
    Page Doctorate of site Faculty of Biology and Medicine hosted by the University of Lausanne
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    Justine Collier
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    Jan 15, 2024
    🔥Hot news to start 2024 🔥: I will soon recruit two more lab members to join my dynamic team on our beautiful campus in Lausanne, Switzerland!
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    Justine Collier
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    Aug 6, 2024
    🎊 🍾I am delighted to announce that I have been promoted to Associate Professor @DMF_UNIL @FBM_UNIL 🥂🎉. It would never have been possible without the fabulous contribution of my many present and former lab members or without the support of my dear colleagues: thanks to all! 🥰
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    Justine Collier
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    Nov 29, 2023
    Delighted to share our latest preprint! 🎉 We discovered a critical connection between DNA methylation and chromosome replication in the Agrobacterium tumefaciens plant pathogen. Fantastic work from @Mart1_100dra and @FlorianFournes.
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    DNA methylation by CcrM contributes to genome maintenance in the Agrobacterium tumefaciens plant...
    The cell cycle-regulated DNA methyltransferase CcrM is conserved in most Alphaproteobacteria , but its role in bacteria with complex or multicentric genomes remains unexplored. Here, we compare the...
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    Justine Collier
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    Mar 8, 2021
    Delighted to announce the publication of our first DNA repair story @NAR_Open
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    Spatial coupling between DNA replication and mismatch repair in Caulobacter crescentus
    From academic.oup.com
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    Justine Collier
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    Jun 20, 2019
    Very honored to receive a Teaching Award from my Faculty tonight. Thanks to all PhD students and post-docs contributing to my teaching @DMF_UNIL and to all students for their enthusiasm following courses.
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    Justine Collier
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    Sep 6, 2024
    Exciting news 🤩: Our article on the impact of DNA methylation in Agrobacteriumis now out in the NAR journal. academic.oup.com/nar/article/do…
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    Justine Collier
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    Jan 15, 2024
    Very proud to announce that @Sandra_Martin defended her public PhD last Friday. 🎉🎉🎉She has been my very first lab member working on Agrobacterium tumefaciens and she made fantastic new discoveries on the impact of DNA methylation in this plant pathogen.🧬🪴👩‍🔬
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    Justine Collier
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    Jan 10, 2019
    Want to learn more on DNA replication control in Caulobacter? The first publication of 2019 from our lab is just out in #BiochemSocTrans: biochemsoctrans.org/content/early/…
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    Justine Collier
    @Justinec_Caulo
    Nov 11, 2019
    18 Bachelor students screening 5000 Pseudomonas mutants during their Molecular Biology course @ecolebiolunil ... can't wait to see what they will find!
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    Justine Collier
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    Jul 25, 2019
    Our latest preprint is online! We identified a novel and conserved DnaA-related protein that promotes replication initiation during exit from stationary phase. Congrats to @AntonioFrandi from @DMF_UNIL who did most of the job.
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    HdaB: a novel and conserved DnaA-related protein that targets the RIDA process to stimulate...
    Exquisite control of the DnaA initiator is critical to ensure that bacteria initiate chromosome replication in a cell cycle-coordinated manner. In many bacteria, the DnaA-related and replisome-asso...
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