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François Leulier

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

 

Integrative Physiology of Host-Microbe Interactions

         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.


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Training

• 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

Awards

• 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

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