First day of my PhD in IGBMC, internal seminar. An old man is sitting on the stairs. The talk ends and the old man asks a simple question, yet the most important and smart one. I turned to my colleague next to me: « Who is he? » That was Pierre Chambon. Incredibly smart, always exactly on point.
Charlène Boumendil (She/Her)
#RIP Pierre Chambon (1931-2026)
1963 PARP
1970 RNA Pol II
1975 Nucleosome
1977 Split genes
1980 Promoter
1983 enhancer
1986 Nuclear receptor
