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Christophe Nihan est invité par l'assemblée du Collège de France, sur proposition du professeur Thomas Römer, administrateur du Collège de France. Documents et médias Télécharger l'affiche Résumé La pratique consistant à nourrir, à intervalles plus ou …

Résumé In a famous statement, Alexis de Tocqueville once highlighted the love for equality as a defining characteristic of democratic nations. Yet, despite this observation, inequality of political opportunity remains widespread in most developed …

Résumé The notion that every citizen should have equal opportunities to influence political decisions is a fundamental principle in liberal democratic thought. However, decades of political science research have consistently shown that individuals with …

Résumé Pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDA) is one of the most lethal cancers, primarily due to late diagnosis. PDA is a highly stromal (desmoplastic) and poorly vascularized tumor with a dense extracellular matrix; only ~10% of the cells in the tumor are …

Résumé Protein phosphorylation is not restricted to serine, threonine and tyrosine, but can occur on six other amino acids, including histidine. In this lecture, I will discuss what is known about non-canonical protein phosphorylation, focusing on our …

Résumé In this lecture I will discuss the role of PTMs in increasing proteome complexity, why this is important for organisms with genomes of limited protein-coding capacity, and how the combinatorial use of PTMs on a single protein molecule can diversify …

Résumé Même si son nom renvoie au site antique d’Olympie, l’olympisme est une invention moderne et nos jeux olympiques sont bien différents des concours antiques. Après une brève évocation de certaines de ces distinctions, la table ronde portera notamment …

Résumé In the second lecture, we turn to an application of the account of propaganda, ideological words that abstractly encapsulate core values of an ideology as their meaning. The focus will be on pejorative words – racist, sexist, homophobic, religious …

Lauri Mälksoo est invité par l'assemblée du Collège de France, sur proposition de la Pr   Samantha Besson. La conférence est en anglais. Documents et médias Télécharger le programme Résumé In its attempts to justify its war (or 'special military …

Résumé This lecture will provide an introduction to the world of post-translational modifications (PTMs) of proteins.  Chemical modifications of protein surfaces serves as a mechanism to increase proteome diversity. More than 400 different PTMs are known, …

Résumé The first lecture will develop the notion of ideologies as folk scientific theories, the institutionalization of those ideologies, and how propaganda supports the principles and values of ideologies so construed through aesthetic and linguistic …

Résumé In this lecture, I will discuss recent work showing the effects of advancing age on neural stem cells. For example, his group had provided the first description of a diffusion barrier in the endplasmic reticulum (ER) in mammalian cells that appears …