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Laboratories' PhD project proposals 2010/11

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Listed below are PhD project descriptions of laboratories wishing to host an FdV student for the coming 2011/2012 year.

Candidates : you must choose your phD project (1 single project per candidate) and then prepare your candidature with your future supervisor in the hosting lab (and he must give you his recommendation letter).
You may find your thesis subject among the proposals below ou prepare a new one with any paris region laboratory.
Then you must deposit your on line application completed before the April 22nd 2011 deadline.

Laboratories : suggest a PhD project (password = fdvlab)

Proposals are reviewed before publication, and we wish you the best candidates possible for your project.
Among the candidatures you will receive, you will have to select the one that will receive your personal recommendation for the auditions conducted by our International Scinetific Commitee early june 2011 (1 single candidate per project).
If you already have a chosen candidate, it is no longer need to publish it and we can unpublish it if need be.

 



Eco-evolutionary feedbacks in marine phytoplankton communities under climate change

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Date : 23/4/2010

Laboratory

Evology & Evolution CNRS-UPMC-ENS UMR 7625
Ecole Normale Superieure, 24 rue Lhomond 75005 Paris
Director : Minus VAN BAALEN

PhD Supervisor

David CLAESSEN
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phone : +33 144322721

Subjects / Tools-Methodologies

1 : Evolutionary dynamics/Adaptive dynamics
2 : Ecological & biogeo dynamics/Population dynamics & MIT global circulation model
3 : Phytoplankton experimental evolution/Functional genomics

 

Modelling axonal growth

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Date : 23/4/2010

Laboratory

Theoretical Modeling of Cellular Physiology
UMR 8542
Ecole Normale Supérieure
46 rue d'Ulm 75005 Paris
Director : Alain Prochiantz

PhD Supervisor

David Holcman
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phone : +33 144322377

Subjects / Tools-Methodologies

1 : Neuroscience/Computationnal modelling
2 : Biophysics/Statistical physics
3 : Applied mathematics/Stochastic analysis

 

Mechano-transduction in coordination of mesoderm invaginating cells active behavior

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Date : 23/4/2010

Laboratory

Mechanics and Genetics of Embryonic development
UMR 168, Physico-Chimie Curie
11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie 75005 Paris
Director : Jean-François Joanny

PhD Supervisor

Emmanuel Farge
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phone : +33 156246760

Subjects / Tools-Methodologies

1 : Myosin-II/Myo-GFP transgenic flies
2 : Mechanical strains/Ferro-fluid magnets
3 : Modeling/Analytical and simulations

 

Model-based FMRI study of neural bases of human decision-making

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Date : 21/04/2010

Laboratory

Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives
INSERM-ENS U960
ENS 29, rue d'Ulm 75005 Paris
Director : Etienne Koechlin

PhD Supervisor

Etienne Koechlin
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phone : +33 1 44 32 26 40

Subjects / Tools-Methodologies

1 : Neurosciences/fMRI
2 : Psychology/Behavioral recordings
3 : Applied mathematics/Modeling and simulation

 

Demographic and evolutionary consequences of sex determination mechanism in host-parasitoids systems

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CJS INRA ELIGIBLE *
Date
: 14/04/2010

Laboratory

Ecologie des populations et communautés INRA USC 2031
Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6)
7 quai Saint Bernard
Bât. A, 7ème étage 75252 Paris cedex 5
Director : Roger Arditi

PhD Supervisor

Thierry Spataro
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phone : +33 1 44 08 86 09

Subjects / Tools-Methodologies

1 : Genetic Allee effect and extinction risk/populations dynamics models
2 : mating behavior/individual based models
3 : Evolution of life history trait/adaptive dynamics models

(*) Avaliable funding : CJS INRA ELIGIBLE
This project may be selected to be founded by a 5-year grant from INRA (Early stage scientist contract)

 

Functional study of the bovine rumen using a metagenomic approach

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CJS INRA ELIGIBLE *

Date
: 14/04/2010

Laboratory

MICALIS INRA, UMR 1319
Domaine de Vilvert 78352 Jouy en Josas
Director : Stéphane Aymerich

PhD Supervisor

Maarten Van de Guchte
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phone : +33 134652528

  Subjects / Tools-Methodologies

  1 : Construction of reference gene catalog/Bioinformatics
2 : Food - microbiota - host phenotype correlations/Statistics
3 : Metabolic pathway analysis/Biology and Bioinformatics

(*) Available funding : CJS INRA ELIGIBLE
This project may be selected to be founded by a 5-year grant from INRA (Early stage scientist contract)

 

Bacteriophage biodiversity

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CJS INRA ELIGIBLE*

Date
: 14/04/2010

Laboratory

Micalis INRA
Domaine de Vilvert, Batiment 222 78350 Jouy en Josas
Director : Stéphane Aymerich

PhD Supervisor

Marie-Agnès Petit
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phone : +33 134652077

Subjects / Tools-Methodologies

1 : distant homologs of phage proteins/informatics
2 : estimation of diversity rates and rules/informatics, phylogeny
3 : in vivo analysis of new phage functions/virology, molecular biology

* CJS INRA eligible : available funding
This project may be selected to be founded by a 5-year grant from INRA (Early stage scientist contract)

 

Modelling the evolution of biological networks

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Date : 12/2/2010 + updated 14/04/2010

Laboratory

Statistique et Génome UMR CNRS 8071
523 place des Terrasses 91000 Evry
Director : Christophe Ambroise

PhD Supervisor

Catherine Matias
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phone : +33 160873834

Subjects / Tools-Methodologies

1 : networks/modelling, comparison
2 : evolution/mathematical models, probability
3 : gene duplication/biological processes

 

Potential therapy of phosphacan in demyelinating disease

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Date : 10/04/2010

Laboratory

Gènes, Synapses et Cognition URA 2182
INSTITUT PASTEUR
Unité Perception et Mémoire
25 rue du Docteur Roux
75724 PARIS Cedex 15
FRANCE
Director : Pierre-Marie LLedo

PhD Supervisor

Sheila HARROCH
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phone : +33 33140613424

Subjects / Tools-Methodologies

1 : Tyrosine Phosphatases/KO mice and various constructions
2 : Myelination/lesions by cuprisone and MOG in collaboration
3 : repair/Fusion proteins constructs ready for proteins

Website : www.ura2182.cnrs-bellevue.fr

 

Development of a novel two-photon microscope for ultra fast neuronal imaging

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Date : 10/4/2010

Laboratory

Laboratory of Neurophysiology and new microscopy
Inserm U603
45 rue des Saints-Pères 75006 paris
Director : Serge Charpak

PhD Supervisor

Serge Charpak
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phone : +33 142864148

Subjects / Tools-Methodologies

1 : Development of a new microscope/two photon imaging, optics
2 : Neuronal network activity/imaging calcium and spikes
3 : Olfactory bulb/odor

 

Butterfly wing patterns: Multiple approaches to understand supergene evolution

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Date : 08/04/2010

Laboratory

Origins, Structure and Evolution of Biodiversity UMR 7205 CNRS/MNHN
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle CP50
45, Rue Buffon 75005 Paris
Director : Louis Deharveng

PhD Supervisor

Mathieu Joron
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phone : +33 140798092

Subjects / Tools-Methodologies

1 : Evolutionary genetics/Linkage mapping, IlluminaRADtag sequencg
2 : Ecological bioinformatics/Fst genomic scans, High-throughput sequencing data
3 : Modelling/Coalescence/genealogy models, Bayesian inference

Website : www.mnhn.fr/oseb

 

Development of small activators of insulin signalling using a multidisciplinary approach

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Date : 06/04/2010

Laboratory
Institut Cochin
INSERM U1016, CNRS UMR8104,
Université Paris Descartes
22 rue Méchain 75014 Paris
Director : Pierre-Olivier Couraud

Team
Insulin signaling, glucose sensing and glucotoxicity

PhD Supervisors
Tarik ISSAD / Anne-Françoise BURNOL
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phone : +33 1 40 51 64 09

Subjects / Tools-Methodologies

1 : Insulin signaling/Protein-protein interactions - BRET methodology
2 : Structural bioinformatics/Chemoinformatics - Virtual screening
3 : Pathophysiology of insulin action/animal models of diabetes and obesity

 

Mechanisms of meiotic recombination: from genomic determinants to a systems biology model

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Date : 02/04/2010

Laboratory

UMR de Génétique Végétale INRA UMR 0320 ; CNRS UMR 8120.
Le Moulon 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette
Director : Dominique de Vienne

PhD Supervisor

Olivier Martin
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phone : +33 169332336

Subjects / Tools-Methodologies

1 : Genomics/Statistics
2 : Systems Biology/Modeling
3 : Bioinformatics/Computational Science

 

Transposable element dynamics in the Arabidopsis genus

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Date : 26/3/2010

Laboratory

Research Unit in Genomic Info INRA/ UR1164
INRA - Centre de recherches de Versailles, Route de St Cyr 78026 Versailles
Director : Hadi Quesneville

PhD Supervisor

Hadi Quesneville
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phone : +33 130833110

Subjects / Tools-Methodologies

1 : Transposable elements/Bioinformatics
2 : Genomics/Statistics
3 : Evolution/Computer science

 

The cell lineage in the zebrafish brain from progenitors to stem cells

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Date : 26/3/2010

Laboratory

Multiscale dynamics in animal morphogenesis
CNRS NeD
Avenue de la Terrasse bat 33 91198 Gif sur Yvette
Director : Philippe Vernier

PhD Supervisor

Nadine Peyrieras
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phone : +33 169824142

Subjects / Tools-Methodologies

1 : Morphogenesis/4D imaging
2 : Multiscale reconstruction/Image processing and analysis
3 : Biomechanics/Tensors calculation

 

Biogenesis and dynamics of lipid bodies

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CJS INRA ELIGIBLE *

Date
: 25/3/2010

Laboratory

IJPB, Equipe Développement et qualité des graines,
MIA Mathématiques et informatique appliquées
UMR 1318 INRA Agroparistech et unité MIA
Pôle Reproduction et Graines Bâtiment 2
INRA, Centre de Versailles-Grignon 78026 VERSAILLES Cedex
Director : David BOUCHEZ

PhD Supervisor

Bertrand DUBREUCQ
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phone : +33 130833066

Subjects / Tools-Methodologies

1 : Lipid bodies imaging/confocal imaging, image processing
2 : Modeling/mathematics, informatics, computational biology
3 : model validation/mutant analysis, transgenic plants

* CJS INRA eligible : available funding
This project may be selected to be founded by a 5-year grant from INRA (Early stage scientist contract)

 

Joint evolution of dispersal and mating behaviours

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Date : 18/03/10

Laboratory

Laboratoire Ecologie & Evolution UMR 7625 (UMPC/ENS/AgroParisTech/CNRS)
Université Pierre et Marie Curie,
7 quai Saint-Bernard, case 237
75252 Paris
Director : Minus van Baalen

PhD Supervisor

David Laloi (Supervisor 1)
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phone : +33 33144272735

Subjects / Tools-Methodologies

1 : Evolution/Integrative ecology
2 : Mating and dispersal/Models and experiments
3 : Individual strategies/Behaviour and physiology

 

Study of a large network of co-functionality

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Date : 11/03/10

Laboratory

Epigenomics Project / ISC-PIF CNRS UPS3201
Genopole campus 1 - Genavenir
65 rue Henri Desbruères 91030 EVRY cedex
Director : François Képès

PhD Supervisor

François KEPES
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phone : +33 169474431

Subjects / Tools-Methodologies

1 : Integrative Biology/Metabolism and DNA replication
2 : Chromosome structure and evolution/Systems and Synthetic Biology
3 : Bioinformatics/Complex Systems

 

Crosstalk between cadherins and integrins : a micromechanical approach

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Date : 09/03/2010

Laboratory
Matière et Systèmes Complexes (MSC)
UMR 7057 CNRS Paris-Diderot
Batiment Condorcet case 7056
Université Paris Diderot
10 rue Alice Domon et Léonie Duquet
75205 Paris cedex 13
Director : Loïc Auvray

PhD Supervisor
François Gallet
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phone : +33 157276214

Subjects / Tools-Methodologies

1 : Cell mechanics/Optical tweezers
2 : Cell-cell and cell matrix adhesion/Micropatterning, videofluorescence
3 : Crosstalk/Molecular biology tools - expression of mutants

http://www.msc.univ-paris-diderot.fr/site/

Project partially funded by ANR

 

Diversity of type IIB DNA topoisomerases: new mechanisms and drug targets

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Date : 5/03/2010

Laboratory

Molecular Biology of the gene in Extremophiles CNRS UMR8621
Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie 91405 Orsay
Director : Jean-Pierre Rousset

PhD Supervisor

Patrick Forterre
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phone : +33 33169157489

Subjects / Tools-Methodologies

1 : DNA topoisomerase/Biochemistry
2 : Evolution/Molecular Biology
3 : Enzymology/Single molecule analysis

 

Modelling the topology of a host-parasite interaction network with statistical models ...

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CJS INRA ELIGIBLE *

Date
: 4/3/2010

Modelling the topology of a host-parasite interaction network with statistical models for heterogeneous random graphs.

Laboratory 1
Mathématique et Informatique Appliquées
UMR 518 AgroParistech/INRA
16 rue Claude Bernard, 75005 Paris
Unit/Lab Director : Stéphane Robin
http://www.agroparistech.fr/mia/doku.php

Laboratory 2
BIOGECO, BIOdiversité, Gènes et Communautés
UMR1202 INRA/Université Bordeaux1
69 route d'Arcachon, 33612 Cestas Cedex
Unit/Lab Director : Antoine Kremer
http://www.pierroton.inra.fr/biogeco/presentation-en.html

PhD Supervisor 1
Jean-Jacques Daudin
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phone : +33 1 44 08 16 67

PhD Supervisor 2
Corinne Vacher
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phone : +33 5 57 12 27 24

Subjects / Tools-Methodologies
1 Identifying Modules in Graphs / Clustering and Mixture Models
2 Topology of an Ecological Network / Statistical Analysis of Complex Data Sets
3 Impact of Global Change / Metagenomic Data Analysis

* CJS INRA eligible : available funding
This project may be selected to be founded by a 5-year grant from INRA (Early stage scientist contract)

 

Emotion disorders in adolescents: brain structure and behaviour correlates

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Date : 4/3/2010

Laboratory

Neuroimaging and Psychiatry INSERM - CEA Unit 1000
SHFJ, 4 place Gl. Leclerc 91401 Orsay
Director : Jean-Luc Martinot

PhD Supervisor

Jean-Luc Martinot
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phone : +33 1 69 86 77 57

Subjects / Tools-Methodologies

1 : Brain imagin / Magnetic resonance imaging
2 : Psychopathology / Neurospychology
3 : Image processing / softwares

 

The evolution of cooperation in a biological market. When evolution meets microeconomic theory

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Date : 4/03/2010

Laboratory

Ecologie et Evolution CNRS-UPMC-UMR 7625
UPMC, Bat A, 7e etage 7 quai St Bernard 75005 Paris
Director : Minus van Baalen

PhD Supervisor

Jean-Baptiste André
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phone : +33 144272694

Subjects / Tools-Methodologies

1 : Evolution/Mathematics
2 : Cooperation/Game theory
3 : Markets/microeconomics

 

Single-molecule analysis of the initiation of replication

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Date : 16/2/2010

Laboratory

Biomolecular Nanomanipulation Group
Institut Jacques Monod / CNRS UMR 7592
15 rue Hélène Brion Batiment Buffon 242B
75205 Paris Cedex 13
Director : Giuseppe Baldacci

PhD Supervisor

Terence Strick
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phone : +33 157278020

Subjects / Tools-Methodologies

1 : DNA replication/magnetic trapping, single-molecule imaging
2 : DNA transcription/magnetic trapping, single-molecule imaging
3 : DNA repair/magnetic trapping, single-molecule imaging

 

Modelling and Engineering Genome Architecture

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Date : 6/2/2010

Laboratory


Epigenomics Project CNRS UPS3201
Genopole Campus 1 - Genavenir 6
5 rue Henri Desbruères 91030 EVRY cedex
Director : François KEPES

PhD Supervisor

François KEPES
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phone : +33 1 69 47 44 31

Subjects / Tools-Methodologies

1 : Integrative Biology/systems and synthetic biology
2 : Chromosome structure and evolution/molecular genetics and microbiology
3 : Functional organization of cell nucleus/nucleoid/bioinformatics

 

HIV entry at the foreskin

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Date : 6/2/2010

Laboratory

Mucosal entry of HIV an mucosal immunology U1016 CNRS UMR 8104
22 rue Mechain 75014 paris
Director : Miorgane Bmsel

PhD Supervisor

Morgane Bomsel
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phone : +33 140516497

Subjects / Tools-Methodologies

1 : HIV/eplants/reconstruction of mucosa
2 : mucosa/confocal and live fluorescent microscopy
3 : mucosal immunity/cell biology and cellular immunology

Available funding

 

Effet du réchauffement climatique sur les risques d'invasions de fourmis en Europe

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Date : 02/02/2010

Laboratory
Laboratoire Ecologie, Systématique & Evolution UMR CNRS 8079
Bat 362, Université Paris Sud, 91405 Orsay
Director : Pr Paul Leadley

PhD Supervisor
Franck Courchamp
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phone : +33 169155685

Subjects / Tools-Methodologies

1 : Ecology/Modelling
2 : Climate change/Lab and field experiments
3 : Biological invasions/artificial ant colonies

Website : http://www.ese.u-psud.fr/

 

Environment for the design of Synthetic Biological Systems

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Date : 01/02/2010

Laboratory
IBISC
CNRS FRE 3901
523 place des terrasses de l'AGORA
91025 EVRY
Director :Jean Louis Giavitto

PhD Supervisor :
Franck Delaplace
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phone : +33 160873825

Subjects / Tools-Methodologies:
1 : Complex systems / Formal methods
2 : synthetic biology / Compiler Design
3 : Unconventional languages / Biological Network Analysis

Web site : www.ibisc.univ-evry.fr

 

Phytoplankton biodiversity and gene expression in the contemporary ocean

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Date : 31/10/2010

Laboratory
Molecular Plant Biology UMR 8197
Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure (IBENS)
46 rue d'Ulm
75005 Paris
Director : Antoine TRILLER

PhD Supervisor
Chris Bowler
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phone : +33 1 44 32 35 25

Subjects / Tools-Methodologies
1 : Diatom biology / Functional genomics
2 : Microbial oceanography / Comparative genomics
3 : Plankton biodiversity / Tara Oceans expedition

 

 

 

Multi-scale Modeling of cells

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Date : 27/01/2010

Laboratory :
Theoretical Physics of Condensed Matter
UMR 7600 University Pierre et Marie Curie
Director : Pascal Viot

PhD Supervisor :
Julien Mozziconacci
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phone : +33 144272643

Subjects / Tools-Methodologies :
1 : Chromosome Structure / Physics & 3D Graphics tools
2 : Modeling Single Molecule Experiments / Brownian Dynamics Simulation
3 : Integrating high-throughput biodata / Statistics