2013 Laureate
Current position
Unit Director, Group Leader, Research Director (DR1 CNRS)
Host institution
Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, ENS Lyon, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard, France
francois.leulier@ens-lyon.fr
We study host-bacterial symbiosis, specifically how commensal bacteria shape the response of juveniles to their nutritional environment and how juveniles in such a nutritional environment influence the ecology and physiology of their bacterial partners. Therefore, our work focuses on microbial ecology and physiology as well as animal development and physiology.
• 2003 Ph. D. in Genetics, University Paris 7, Bruno Lemaitre's Lab
• 2004-2007 Post-doctoral fellow, Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK, Pascal Meier's lab
• 2009 Habilitation to direct research, Université Paris Sud-Orsay, France
• 2007-2012: CNRS scientist (CR2), Bruno Lemaitre and then Julien Royet's labs
• 2012 Appointed group leader at Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle, Lyon, France
• 2019 Appointed Deputy Director of the Functional Genomics Institute of Lyon, France
• 2021 Appointed Director of the Functional Genomics Institute of Lyon, France
• Elected Member of EMBO, 2020
• Sanofi-Institut Pasteur National Young Investigator Award, 2017
• Young Investigator Award, EMBO Young Investigator Program, 2014
• CNRS Bronze Medal, 2013
• European Research Council grant (ERC Consolidator Grant), 2013
• ATIP-AVENIR Laureate, 2012
François Leulier, new elected member of EMBO
July 2020, EMBO press release
Could the right bacteria help save children from malnutrition?
Feb 2016, Washington Post
Mar 2013