Aurélie BALVAY
Aurélie Balvay is an engineer with a Master’s degree in physiology and neuroscience, specializing in animal bio-experimentation. After a year as animal facility technical manager at Institut Jacques Monod (CNRS, Université Paris-Cité), Aurélie Balvay joined the Micalis Institute in 2015 as operational manager of the Anaxem germ-free animal facility. She is currently a member of […]
Claire MAUDET
Joane LOUISON
Anne FOUSSIER
Véronique DOUARD
Véronique has been a senior researcher in the team “Food, Gut Microbiota, Brain, and Metabolic Diseases” since 2017. She has been studying the impact of dietary sugars on metabolic disorders and intestinal physiology for over 15 years. After completing her PhD (2001) on the role of lipids in reproduction, she undertook postdoctoral research and later […]
Romy DEJEAN DE LA BATIE
Amanda MORGA
Philippe GERARD

Philippe Gérard is Director of Research and is Head of the research team “Food, Gut Microbiota, Metabolic and Brain Diseases” (AMIPEM) at the MICALIS Institute from 2010. His research focuses primarily on the role of the gut microbiota in metabolic diseases (obesity, diabetes, liver diseases) using germfree animal models and gut microbiota transplant strategies. Since […]
Sandy RIBES
Sylvie RABOT
Sylvie Rabot is currently project leader in the Amipem team on the role of the microbiota-gut-brain axis in brain function and behavior, with a focus on stress responses. She has published some 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals on the role of the gut microbiota in health and disease. At the same time, she has been […]