About

The Quantitative Biology program of the Institut Pasteur is intended to facilitate research and education at the interface of biology and the more quantitative sciences. One of the major aims of Quantitative Biology is thus to understand the underlying principles of complex biological behavior in terms of physical and mathematical models. This approach overarches all fields of biology. 

Events

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symposium

Neural networks – From brains to machines and vice versa

Building: François Jacob – Room: Auditorium François Jacob – Address: 28 Rue du Docteur Roux, Paris, France
Dynamic Neuronal Imaging
Neural circuits for spatial navigation and memory
Decision and Bayesian Computation
Imaging and Modeling
Quantitative biology
INCEPTION – Institut Convergence for the study of Emergence of Pathology Through Individuals and Populations
Neuroscience
Cell Biology & Infection
David DiGregorio
Jean-Baptiste Masson
Christoph Schmidt-Hieber
Christophe Zimmer
2018-10-11 09:00:00 2018-10-12 18:00:00 Europe/Paris Neural networks – From brains to machines and vice versa Continuous advances in machine learning have enabled groundbreaking progress in diverse fields such as computer vision or strategy games by making use of artificial neural networks. In parallel, novel technologies for recording and manipulating […] 28 Rue du Docteur Roux, Paris, France

Teams

Jobs

PhD StudentPost-doc

PhD and Postdoctoral positions in cellular biophysics, microscopy, and bacterial physiology

We are constantly looking for motivated PhD and Postdoc candidates with a background in physics, engineering, or quantitative biology, who have a keen interest to use state-of-the-art microscopy, modeling, and genetics to decipher the […]
Post-doc

Segmentation Using Virtual Reality

Description   The DIVA (Data Integration and Visualization in Virtual and Augmented Environments) project aims to create environments for data treatment that leverages Virtual Reality (VR), human data interaction and automated algorithmic treatment. It […]
Post-doc

TRamWAy Postdoctoral fellowship

Description   The TramWay project aims at designing an entirely automated procedure to study the random walks (RWs) of biomolecules in living cells. At the nanoscale, the dynamics of individual biomolecules is inherently random, […]
Graduate StudentUndergraduate Student

Internship: Bayesian approaches to Biomolecules Random Walks with mixed properties

Description   The TramWay project aims at designing an entirely automated procedure to study the random walks (RWs) of biomolecules in living cells. At the nanoscale, the dynamics of individual biomolecules is inherently random, […]
Post-doc

Postdoctoral position on cellular morphogenesis using high-resolution fluorescence microscopy

We are looking for a highly motivated postdoctoral candidate with a background in biophysics, physics, engineering, or chemistry to measure the dynamics of cell-envelope biogenesis in live bacteria at the single-protein level using high-resolution […]

Qbio Symposia

• October 17th 2017: “Kick off meeting” of the Qbio program (Guillaume Duménil, Sven van Teeffelen)
• June 9th 2017: “Forces in Biology” (Romain Levayer, Nicolas Dray, Sandrine Etienne-Manneville, Patrick England, Alexandre Dufour).
• May 25th 2018: “Physics of Biological Membranes” (Thomas Wollert (IP), Patricia Bassereau (Curie))
• Fall 2018: “Neural networks – from machines to brains” (David Di Gregorio, JB Masson, and Christoph Schmidt-Hieber (IP), Rémi Monasson (ENS))
• January 2019: “Quantitative cell biology of bacteria” (Guillaume Duménil, Sven van Teeffelen)

Quantitative biology at the Institut Pasteur

Many Pasteur laboratories are integrating physical approaches in their studies ranging from structural biology, via cell biology, to infection, neurobiology  and development.
• Multiscale self-organization is studied at the level of protein machineries in bacteria,  cytoskeleton during the migration of eucaryotic cells and organizaton of tissues during development.
• Cellular and tissue mechanics are explored during bacterial aggregation,  grastrulation and heart development as well as during amoebae movement.
• Information processing and signaling are studied in the context of neurobiology, 3D genome architecture and transciption.

Objectives of the Qbio program at Institut Pasteur

The Quantitative Biology program aims to encourage these developments on campus. The major purpose of this program is:
• To foster interactions between scientists involved in Quantitative Biology at Institut Pasteur through seminars and mini-symposiums.
• To bring quantitatively trained scientists into biology
• To encourage biologists to integrate quantitative models into their research

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