Governance

Management Office

The Management Office establishes the scientific and financial strategies of the project. It ensures the implementation and monitoring of planned actions, as well as the administrative management of INCEPTION. It ensures interdisciplinary collaboration and highlights the projects and successes of the consortium.

THOMAS BOURGERON - Scientific Coordinator

CHRISTOPHE ZIMMER - Head of Imaging and Modeling Unit

MONICA SALA - Executive Director for Education of the Institut Pasteur

CYRIL RENASSIA - Project Manager

Scientific Advisory Board

Role

The SAB performs advisory functions and provides an external perspective on scientific policy, research directions, and the progress of projects funded by INCEPTION.

Composition

Matteo Dal Peraro, Professor at EPFL, Head of the Laboratory for Biomolecular Modeling (Switzerland)

Sven Rahmann, Professor at the Faculty of Medicine at Duisburg-Essen University, Head of a Chair of Genome Informatics (Germany)

Paul Wenzel Geissler, Professor at Oslo University, department of Social Anthropology (Norway)

Steering Committee

Institut Pasteur leaders

Simon Cauchemez

Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Disease

Lluis Quintana-Murci

Human Evolutionary Genetics

Eduardo Rocha

Microbial Evolutionary Genomics

Michael Nilges

Structural Bioinformatics

Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin

Bioimage Analysis

Marie-Lise Gougeon

Antiviral Immunity, Biotherapy and vaccines

Arnaud Fontanet

Center for Global Health – Epidémiologie des Maladies Emergentes

Tamara Giles-Vernick

Medical anthropology and environment

Pablo Navarro Gil

Epigenomics, Proliferation and the Identity of Cells

S. Fournier

Director of the information systems

Partners Council

CEA-CNG : J-F. Deleuze

National Center of Human Genomics Research

INRAE : S. Schbath

Unité Mathématiques et Informatique Appliquées, du Génome à l'Environnement

SPHERE : G. Lachenal

Laboratoire SPHERE

APHP : F. Mentré

Infection, antimicrobiens, modélisation, évolution - IAME (UMR 1137)

FIRE ED : E. Covernton

FIRE PhD Program (Learning Planet Institute - ex CRI)

ENS / PSL : E. Simonetta

Development of the nervous system

Scientific Leaders

Institut Pasteur, 25 rue du Docteur Roux, 75015 Paris
christophe.zimmer@pasteur.fr

Main research interests : algorithms for microscopy image analysis, high-resolution and high throughput imaging approaches, computational imaging methods, single molecule super-resolution imaging methods.

CHRISTOPHE ZIMMER - Imaging and Modeling Unit

Main research interests: algorithms for microscopy image analysis, high-resolution and high throughput imaging approaches, computational imaging methods, single molecule super-resolution imaging methods.

Institut Pasteur, 28 rue du Docteur Roux, 75015 Paris
eduardo.rocha@pasteur.fr

Main research interests : evolution of bacterial genomes, and especially the interplay between the organization and dynamics of the genomes of pathogenic bacteria.

EDUARDO ROCHA - Microbial Evolutionary Genomics Unit

Main research interests: evolution of bacterial genomes, and especially the interplay between the organization and dynamics of the genomes of pathogenic bacteria.

Institut Pasteur, 25 rue du Docteur Roux, 75015 Paris
Tel +331 4061 3982
tamara.giles-vernick@pasteur.fr

Main research interests : research at the interstices of medical anthropology and ethnohistory (historical research using anthropological tools), investigating infectious disease transmission and global health interventions in Africa.

TAMARA GILES-VERNICK - Anthropology and Ecology of Disease Emergence Unit

Main research interests: research at the interstices of medical anthropology and ethnohistory (historical research using anthropological tools), investigating infectious disease transmission and global health interventions in Africa.

THOMAS BOURGERON - Head of Human Genetics and Cognitive Functions Unit

Main research interests: understand the causes of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) performing a thorough genomic and clinical profiling of a large number of individuals using high-throughput genotyping/sequencing, biochemistry and brain imaging.

ARNAUD FONTANET - Epidemiology of Emerging Diseases Unit

Main research interests: Public health, emerging diseases epidemiology.

Institut Pasteur, 25 rue du Docteur Roux, 75015 Paris
Tel +331 4568 8907
marie-lise.gougeon@pasteur.fr

Main research interests : immunity to viruses, vaccines and autoimmunity.

MARIE-LISE GOUGEON - Virus and Innate Immunity Unit

Main research interests: immunity to viruses, vaccines and autoimmunity.

Institut Pasteur, 25 rue du Docteur Roux, 75015 Paris
Tel +331 4568 8230
michael.nilges@pasteur.fr

Main research interests : computational structural biology and computational biophysics.

MICHAEL NILGES - Structural Bioinformatics Unit

Institut Pasteur, 25 rue du Docteur Roux, 75015 Paris
michael.nilges@pasteur.fr

Main research interests: computational structural biology and computational biophysics.

JEAN-CHRISTOPHE OLIVO-MARIN
Unité d’analyses d’images biologiques - Centre d’innovations et Recherche Technologique (Citech)

JEAN-CHRISTOPHE OLIVO-MARIN - Biological Image Analysis Unit

Main research interests: image analysis of multidimensional microscopy images, computer vision and motion analysis for cellular dynamics, and in mathematical approaches for biological imaging.

PABLO NARRO GIL
Groupe à 5 ans Epigénétique des cellules souches

PABLO NARRO GIL - Epigenomics, Proliferation and the Identity of Cells Unit – EPIC

Main research interests: gene regulatory processes governing the biology of mouse Embryonic Stem (ES) cells

JEAN-FRANCOIS DELEUZE
Centre National de Génotypage, CEA

JEAN-FRANCOIS DELEUZE - National Center for Genotyping CNRGH - CEA

The CNRGH is the French national research center which enables a response to scientific questions necessitating high throughput sequencing and genotyping thanks to the development and deployment of innovative integrated technologies.

SOPHIE SCHBATH
Unite Mathematiques et Informatique Appliquees, du Genome a l'Environnement (MaIAGE) INRA

SOPHIE SCHBATH - Applied Mathematics and Informatics from Genome to the Environment (MaIAGE)

Head of the MaIAGE lab.
The MaIAGE research laboratory gathers mathematicians, computer scientists, bioinformaticians and biologists to tackle problems coming from biology, agronomy and ecology; The addressed questions may concern processes at very different levels: molecular, cellular or multicellular, individual, populations, ecosystems or landscapes.

GUILLAUME LACHENAL
Associate Professor in History of Science at the Université Paris Diderot – CNRS Laboratoire SPHERE, UMR 7219

GUILLAUME LACHENAL - Associate Professor in History of Science at the Université Paris Diderot – Science Po Medialab

Guillaume Lachenal is Associate Professor in History of Science at the Université Paris Diderot. He studies the history and anthropology of biomedicine in Africa. He is currently coordinating the ANR project "Memorials and remains of medical research in Africa" (MEREAF), an anthropological and archeological exploration of the ruins and memories associated with the past in African medical institutions. He is the president of the Social Sciences and Public Health scientific committee at the National Agency for AIDS Research (ANRS).

ERIK DENAMUR - Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Infection, Antimicrobiens, Modélisation, Evolution (IAME)
UMR 1137 INSERM, Universités Paris Diderot et Paris Nord
Sorbonne Paris Cité
Faculté de Médecine Site Xavier Bichat
16 rue Henri Huchard 75018 Paris France
erick.denamur@inserm.fr

MONICA SALA - Executive Director for Education of the Institut Pasteur in Paris

Executive Director for Education of the Institut Pasteur in Paris.

CAMILLE GAULON - Scientific Coordinator of the FIRE PhD program

The FIRE Doctoral School is an interdisciplinary program that promotes ambitious research projects involving interactions between a wide range of academic disciplines in the pursuit of understanding living systems, education, and discovery.

HUGUES ASHARD
Unité de Génetique Statistiques

HUGUES ASCHARD - Biocomputational biology

The enormous amount of genetic and genomic data generated in the last decade shows great promise in our ability to understand better human diseases and improving public health. Yet, the genetic architecture of complex human phenotypes remains elusive, and important questions are still unanswered. Our research addresses methodological issues related to the analysis of large multidimensional data in genetics and genomics. It focuses on particular on the development and application of innovative methods that aim at i) improving association mapping in large genomics datasets where multiple correlated variables are measured across multiple biological levels; ii) allowing for the robust evaluation of causal models that include both genetic, genomic, clinical and environmental data; and iii) identifying and targeting discoveries that have the highest potential clinical utility. We have developed several packages for the analysis of genetic data in human. Most of them are available here: https://gitlab.pasteur.fr/statistical-genetics

RAYAN CHIKHI - Sequence Bioinformatics

We are a computational team that researches algorithms for big biological data, such as next-generation sequencing data. Our research roots are close to Computer Science, but the primary goal of the group is to apply research products to bioinformatics and biology.