Stephen MC GOVERN
Within the SyBER team, Stephen McGovern implements methodological expertise in molecular biology, genetics, and protein biochemistry. His activities specifically involve setting up genetic engineering methods (gene insertion or deletion by lambda red recombination) in synthetic biology projects. He also conducts work aimed at characterizing, both in vivo and in vitro, the composition and functioning of […]
Ingrid ADRIAANS
I am working on in vitro reconstitution assays using biomimetic membranes and the actin homologue MreB from Bacillus subtilis. My focus will be studying the dynamics and biophysical properties of MreB on Supported Lipid Bilayers (SLBs) using TIRF microscopy.
Rut CARBALLIDO LOPEZ
Research Director at INRA, Rut heads the ProCeD team. She also animates the Systems and Synthetic Microbiology (MSS) research pillars and is Deputy-Director of the Micalis Institute. Rut received her PhD from the University of Oxford, UK, where she was instrumental in the landmark discovery that bacteria possess homologues of eukaryotic actin, namely MreB proteins, […]
Cyrille BILLAUDEAU
Our team is investigating the role of the bacterial actin cytoskeleton (MreB) in various fundamental cellular processes, including cell wall biogenesis, but also cell division, competence, viral infection, secretion, … Our research activities mainly focus on the description and understanding of molecular mechanisms and the machineries involved in these different processes to establish a complex […]
Armand LABLAINE
Bacillales spores are among the most intriguing life forms: unbelievably resistant, sticky, elusive for our macrophages and sometimes encased in an extravagant balloon-like exosporium. Spores also have an unavoidable impact on our societies. On the one hand, they are the causative agents of fatal diseases such as anthrax and are frequently responsible of food poisoning. […]
Dimitri JUILLOT
I started my post-doctoral project in 2024 and I work on Streptococcus pneumoniae and Bacillus subtilis.
Matteo GERARD
I am Mattéo Gérard, I arrived in the ProCeD team of Micalis on the 1st of December 2023. I started a thesis supervised by Rut Carballido-López, during which I will study interactions between two histidine kinases (HK) GacS and RetS involved in virulence modulation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. This Gram-negative bacterium is responsible for healthcare-associated infections, […]
Arnaud CHASTANET
My research projects aim at understanding how living organisms acquire and maintain their shape. For this, I am studying Bacillus subtilis a well-known bacterial model that keep a very constant rod shaped along generations, and in particular how these cells build their envelop, the cell wall. This wall forms a protective, rigid structure outside of […]
Anne AUCOUTURIER
Luis BERMUDEZ HUMARAN
Dr. Luis BERMUDEZ is a senior scientist at Micalis institute in the team “Interactions of commensal and probiotic microorganisms with the host” and in charge of scientific group: Probiotics and Therapies based on Microbiota (Acronym: Protect). His research focuses primarily on the therapeutic and innovative uses of recombinant, naturally occurring and genetically modified recombinant lactic […]