Stress and humans are obviously not a love affair: in fact, 85% of us would prefer to have nothing to do with it at all. But now researchers say: It's not stress that makes us ill, but how we deal with it. We actually need a lot more stress, it just has to be the right kind! And it would awaken superpowers in us.

Video interview for Arte 2024

The course delved into the significance of the epigenome and its contribution to behavioral and physiological traits of exposed individuals and their progeny. 

Polarity Center 2024

The Mansuy lab participated in the video series for "Kangaroo goes Science", targeted at young girls. The video series are intended to showcase the diverse and exciting research that is done across different labs. 

To mark the 10th anniversary of the "CQFD" programme, Stéphane Délétroz looks back at the development of epigenetics over the last decade.

Traumatic experiences not only burn themselves into the memory, but even into the genetic make-up. Isabelle talks about how experiments with mice show that stressful experiences are passed on for many generations. 

Isabelle participated in the Podium Science Café as a panellist, to discuss the human potential to actively shape cultural evolution.

Every Friday, "CQFD" invites a researcher to talk about their work and research. In this episode, Huma Khamis has invited Isabelle, to discuss the human potential to actively shape cultural evolution.

Interview with Isabelle about how early life experiences shape you and how you pass this on to future generations. 

Isabelle contributes to the round table discussion of Biological Sciences and discussed how life experiences leave traces in the descendants, i.e. the epigenetic mechanisms in the germ line.

Isabelle offers fascinating insights into the inheritance of what we have experienced, and how life experiences can be passed on from generation to generation.

A team of researchers from the University of Zurich (UZH) has discovered that traumatic childhood experiences not only have an impact on blood composition, but that these psychological wounds also leave their mark on the DNA of future offspring.

Isabelle talks with Thomas Hübl at the Celebrate Life Festival during module 2 "Collective Trauma – Trauma in our Culture".

Isabelle explains the advances in epigenetic research.  She shows us how environmental factors can influence us biologically and how these influences are passed down through the generations.

Trauma experienced by parents or grandparents leaves a mark on offspring. This is what research into biological mechanisms suggests.
This lecture is part of the "Traces de vies" series given at the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie.