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Researcher in the group Harry Sokol     mathias.richard@inrae.fr

Agronomy Engineer from Toulouse, I completed my thesis in microbiology on the study of a human pathogenic fungus: Candida albicans at AgroParisTech, working on the morphogenesis of C. albicans and its cell wall proteins. After a year and a half post-doc at Columbia University (NYC, USA) in Aaron Mitchell's Lab, I joined the INRA as a researcher to lead a C. albicans group on the role of cell wall proteins in the cell wall integrity and the interactions with the host. In 2014, I joined Philippe Langella's team at INRA de Jouy (Micalis Institute) to set up a fungal microbiota thematic.
Since 2014, I have been responsible for the fungal microbiota group in Harry Sokol's group to improve our understanding of the role of this sub-population of the intestinal microbiota in health and various pathologies including inflammatory bowel disease. Based on data from the cohorts collected by H. Sokol at the Saint Antoine hospital as well as in vitro or in vivo experiments on conventional mice or axenic mice, I developed different projects to decipher the various mechanisms involved during colonization by the fungi of the the gastrointestinal tract as well as their role in inflammatory diseases.