Our team

Executive committee

Founder members

• Franck Letourneur (molecular biologist, Université Paris Cité), is a research engineer, head of the GENOM’IC platform at the Institute Cochin (INSERM U1016). This Ibisa labelled facility is specialized in transcriptomic analyses based on Next Generation Sequencing, both producing and analyzing data.
  
• Valérie Mezger
• Pierre Tufféry is Directeur de Recherche at INSERM, and head of the Computational Modeling of Protein-Ligand Interactions (CMPLI) in the Biologie Fonctionnelle et Adaptative (BFA) research unit at Paris Diderot. His research interests include the modeling of protein-peptide interactions and peptide design. He is also the founder of the RPBS platform, he lead from 2004 to 2021.
• Michel Werner  started his research in the CEA of Sacaly in 1989 where he arrived as a post-doc. He was then recruited as a permanent researcher in 1991 and had several different post, inclusing team leader, lab leader, culminating with becomming head of institute. Since 2018 he his director of the Institut Jacques Monod in Paris. His research interest included trancription mecnism in eucaryotes, especially in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. He is member of numerous scientific boards and foundations aiming to finance research.
  

Members

• Karine Audouze (Systems biology, Université Paris Cité), is professor in bioinformatics and systems biology at the University of Paris, and leader of the SysTox group. Her research interests include computational approaches to evaluate environmental factor exposure effects to human health.
• Marc Baaden (Chemist, Université Paris Cité), is Directeur de Recherche at CNRS and head of the Laboratoire de Biochimie Théorique (UPR9080). His research interests include the study of membrane proteins using high performance computing, the development of new bioinformatics methods and approaches, which he offers to the scientific community.  His research combines simulations of proteins and bioinformatics with high-performance computing, virtual reality, visualization, and dissemination activities.
  
• Florent Barbault (chemist, Université Paris Cité) is a lecturer at the ITODYS laboratory. He’s supervising the “theoretical chemistry and modeling” team and coordinates its different themes. His researches are focus on the modeling of biomolecules, biomaterials and biosensors at the atomic scale by combining complementary approaches.
  
• Pierre Gressens is Directeur de Recherche (DRCE) at INSERM, and head of the research unit ”Neurodevelopmental and Neurovascular Disorders” (UMR1141, Inserm – Université Paris Cité). His research interests include neurodevelopmental disorders, understanding their pathophysiology, and designing novel neuroprotective strategies, using different tools including advanced integrated bioinformatics. He is also a key founder of the Child Brain Institute at Robert Debré Hospital.
• Pascale Lesage is Director of Research at the CNRS and co-leader of the team “Genome biology: from mobile DNA to chromosome dynamics” at the Institut de Recherche Saint Louis (UPC, Hôpital Saint Louis). Her research focuses on the study of transposable elements, the mechanisms that control their mobility and their impact on the genome in the eukaryotic model Saccharomyces cerevisiae. She is also co-director of the GDR 3546 “Les Eléments Génétiques Mobiles : du mécanisme aux populations, une approche intégrative”, and is a member of the board of the Association l’Arbre des connaissances.
  
• Nicolas Leuliot
• Bruno Lucas
• Fabiola Terzi

Advisers

• Claire Mangeney (Chemist, Université Paris Cité), is professor of chemistry and leader of the Nano Bio-Spectroscopy group in the Laboratory of Chemistry and Biochemistry (LCPBT). Her research is at the interface of surface chemistry, nanotechnology and biology, with a particular focus on the design of hybrid nanomaterials for biological-related applications and the development of spectroscopic tools for bioanalysis. She is also vice-dean of scientific platforms and equipments at the Faculty of Science
  
• Jacques van Helden
• Alain Zider