The Jacques Monod Conferences are held in CNRS facilities at Roscoff (Brittany), which can accommodate 80 to 115 people. Exceptionally, other locations in France may be chosen by the Chairman but require a justification and an agreement from CNRS Biology.

Conference lasts three and a half days.

Organization of the sessions is left to the Chairman's initiative. The overall purpose should give each participants the possibility to present work either as an oral communication or poster (for the latter, sufficient time should be appropriated for its discussion). The programme can consist of - for example - 20/30 min. guests lectures in addition to one or two longer key-note addresses. The programme should be flexible enough to allow for the presentation of new findings obtained after the programme's finalization. It shoud leave enough time for informal discussions facilitating further collaborations.

Recordings, pictures as well as any reference to presentations and discussions are forbiden. The publication of any articles following the conferences are not allowed either.

All invited speakers and selected participants undertake to be present for the entire duration of the conference.