After a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Lyon-I in 1995, he joined the Institut Pasteur (Paris) where resorting to dozen identified deafness genes, several of which are involved in Usher syndrome (deafness […]
Intracellular traffic and cell compartmentalization Eukaryotic cells contain extensive internal membranes defining many compartments having each specific functions. However these organelles are constantly moving and reshaping, still retaining their identity. The maintenance of cell […]
Francois Schweisguth studied at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris (1983-88) and obtained a PhD in Developmental Biology in 1990 under the supervision of Jean-Antoine Lepesant (IJM, Paris) and Alain Vincent (CBD, Toulouse). He […]
Agathe Subtil is directrice de recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). After a PhD on endocytosis of membrane receptors under the supervision of Alice Dautry-Varsat at the Institut Pasteur in […]
Dr. Gerald Späth currently holds a Research Director position at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, where he directs the Unit ‘Parasitologie moléculaire et Signalisation’ (12 members) and the Department ‘Parasites and Insect Vectors’ (ca. […]
Dr. Najma Rachidi is a senior Researcher and the leader of the molecular parasitology team in the PARSIG unit. Her team investigates Host-pathogen interactions to (i) understand how Leishmania survives in immune cells, which […]
Until December 2013 I was a postdoc in the Molecular Biology Department at Princeton University. Trained as a theoretical physicist in soft condensed matter physics I was working in the labs of Zemer Gitai, Ned Wingreen, and Joshua Shaevitz. […]
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES AND ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES Professor at College de France, Chair of Genetics and cellular physiology Professor “Classe exceptionnelle” at Institut Pasteur, laboratory of Genetics and Physiology of Hearing Head of Inserm UMRS1120, […]
Pascale Cossart has since 1986 investigated how bacterial pathogens interact with mammalian cells during infection. She has pioneered and documented in details how bacteria by using a multitude of complementary strategies, – including posttranslational […]