2008 Laureate
Current position
Unit Director, Professor
Host institution
Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
gerard.eberl@pasteur.fr
A developing lymph node in a mouse fetus
Lymphoid cells and the tissue microenvironment interact to define health and immunity of the host.
Microbiota, lymphoid cells and stromal cells develop a crosstalk that allows maintaining homeostasis, organize defense, and resolve inflammation to restore tissue integrity. Deregulation of this crosstalk prolongs inflammation or prevents the healing process, resulting in chronic inflammatory pathologies. Our previous work has led us to define central actors among pro-inflammatory lymphoid and stromal cells (in collaboration with the team of Lucie Peduto, https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/group-lucie-peduto/), and to identify components of the symbiotic microbiota that efficiently modulate immunity.
• 1996 : Ph.D. in Immunology , University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Giampetro Corradin's lab
• 1996-2003 : Postdoctoral fellow, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Switzerland, H. Robson MacDonald's lab followed by Immunology Skirball Institute, New York, USA, Dan Littman's lab
• 2005-2009 : head of the Lymphoid Tissue Development lab, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
• 2010 : appointed head of the Microenvironment & Immunity Unit, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
• 2015 : chair of the Department of Immunology, Institut Pasteur, France
• 2016 : appointed Director of INSERM U1224
• Innovator Award (2014) and Breakthrough Award (2015), Kenneth Rainin Foundation
• Elected EMBO member, 2013
• Jacques Oudin Award, French Society of Immunology, 2013
• Pasteur Vallery-Radot Award, from the French National Library, 2012
• Georges Zermati Award, from the Fondation de France, 2011
• Grant from the Simone e Cino del Duca Foundation, Institut de France, 2010
Les super-pouvoirs de l’intestin.
Enquête de santé, France 5.
Apr 2017
Nos bactéries et nous : un subtil équilibre.
Pour la science (French edition of Scientific American)
Jan 2015
The microbiota regulates type 2 immunity through RORγt+ T cells
Aug 2015, Science
Lineage relationship analysis of RORγt+ innate lymphoid cells
Oct 2010, Science