ELiS is a collaboratory - a collaborative lab of labs, organized into teams, supported by transversal staff. Find out more about what they are passionate about and what they are working on.

Research Staff
Ariel Lindner
Co-Founder & Research Director
Xiaohu Song
Engineer
Beatrice Herbin
Administrative Assistant FDVA
Hortense Vielfaure
Lab Manager
leila rochin
lab assistant
thana maecha
Lab Technician
Our Research Teams
SEED - Systems Engineering and Evolution Dynamics
Ariel Lindner
The Lindner team’s main efforts rely on years of investment in building an intellectual and experimental framework based on interdisciplinary approaches, harnessing physics and computer science and on welcoming young researchers to address key questions in Life Sciences with Systems and Synthetic Biology approaches, mainly focusing on Escherichia coli as the simplest (yet still not fully understood) model organism. Focal projects include study of phenotypic variability, ageing, evolution of cooperation, probing RNA structure in vivo and RNA scaffolding.We also develop open and citizen science projects extended from antimicrobial drug discovery and democratizing DNA detection to supporting Open Collaborative Efforts for Autism spectrum Network (OCEAN).The team is at the core of building the CRI Collaboratory research effort and contributes to developing the CRI undergraduate and graduate programs as well as outreach learning through research programs across the globe. For the past 13 years, the team mentored the Paris Bettencourt iGEM team.
Molecular Diversity of Microbes
helena shomar
Aude BERNHEIM
Ernest MORDRET
Jean CURY
Our research revolves around bacteria and their viruses, phages.Facing the abundance and diversity of their viruses, bacteria and archaea have developed multiple lines of defense that can be referred to as « prokaryotic immune systems« . Our research focuses on these anti-phage immune systems. We are trying to understand evolutionary patterns and molecular mechanisms of these systems but also how to use them for medical applications. We work at several scales: from computational genomic analysis on thousands of prokaryotic genomes to experimental molecular genetics and diverse microbiology tools.
Cryptic Microbial Metabolites
Vincent LIBIS
We are interested in discovering novel bioactive microbial metabolites. Microbial metabolites play important roles in medicine and they are a key source of antibiotics, anticancer agents or immunosuppressants. We develop sequencing, bioinformatics and synthetic biology methods to rapidly detect and characterize novel genes responsible for the biosynthesis of cryptic microbial metabolites. We also work on involving the general public in helping to source new medicines through citizen science projects.
Individual Researchers
nevena ivanova
visiting researcher
Affiliate Faculty
Matthieu Cisel
affiliate Faculty, CY Tech
Mad Price Ball
Affiliate Faculty
omer benjakob
short-term fellow
leo blondel
short-term fellow
rona aviram
research
Gregory Nuel
affiliate faculty
megan palmer
affiliate faculty
louis lambrechts
affiliate faculty
janet rafner
associated researcher
samuel fraiberger
Affiliate Faculty
ulrich steiner
affiliated researcher
Research alumni
Jonathan Grizou
Short term fellow
Roberto Toro
Long term fellow
Johannes Jaeger
FIRE PhD Teacher
Lena Mueller Naendrup
Intern
Alvaro Banderas
Post Doc
Joel Chevrier
Core fellow
Liubov Tupikina
Short term fellow
Anshu Bhardwaj
Long term fellow
Bastian Greshake Tzovaras
Long term fellow
Emma Barme
FIRE PhD student
Nidhiben Patel
Alumni
rania assab
researcher
Remy Kusters
Long term fellow
Gert-Jan Both
FIRE PhD student
Haotian Guo
PHD Student
Aida Bafeta
Researcher
Olivier Borkowski
Short term fellow
Guy Aidelberg
PHD Student
Marion Voillot
FIRE PhD student
Felix Schoeller
Short term fellow
Radoslaw Ejsmont
Long term fellow
sarah speed
engineer
Jake Wintermute
Long term fellow
Nadine Bongaerts
Postdoc
sarah haggenmueller
intern
zoé pincemaille
intern
Raphael GOUJET
Post Doc
Morgane OPOIX
Student - FDV Bachelor
Lisa Jacquey
Researcher
enric senabre hidalgo
post-doc
Pauline Provini
Long term fellow
rachel olson
post-doc
alireza kazemi
post-doc
mariam kesba
intern
Morgane Fournier
Master 2 AIV Student
killian leblanc
engineer
Jon Tennant
Short term fellow
Stefani Crabtree
Short-term Fellow
Katja Heuer
Research collaborator
Pascale Haag
FIRE PhD Teacher
Selim Benslama
Alumni Licence FdV - Promo Carbone - Master AIRE Digital Track
Mytam Mayo-Smith
Student - Master AIRE Learning Track
djihane benzeggouta
intern
bridget bannerman
research fellow
tanguy serrand
intern
felix hol
Research Fellow
emilie giraud
research engineer
gregory murray
post-doc
Valerie March
Student - Master AIRE Life Track
Alex Brandon-Bravo
Research engineer
Yifan Yang
Post Doc
Ana Luisa Santos
Post Doc
basile morane
intern
renaud bastien
short-term fellow
Ke Fang
FIRE PhD student
michael rera
core fellow
céline cansell
post-doc
flaminia zane
phd student
naila el haouari
intern
clara lehenaff
Student
Aditya Kulkarni
Student - Master AIRE Life Track
ahmed mahmoud
student
yunus emre celik
student
abbas kalantari
student
morgane aubineau
short-term fellow
lisa formentini
student
karolina guzauskaite
student - fdv bachelor
samantha rocío hurtado woenckhaus
student
kaoutar lanjri
student
sofia maria sosa marmol
student
merlyn johanna hurtado
student
eliseo baquero
student
valentin dettling
Chargé de mission Recherche & Evaluation
marie de nicola
intern
Aya Alami
intern
omer benjakob
short-term fellow
leo blondel
short-term fellow
maira goytia
short-term fellow
Tim Dobbs
Student
mostafa mahdy
research engineer
nathália fernandes
intern
Olivier Irrmann
affiliate faculty
yann huon de kermadec
short-term fellow
kishanthan kingston
research intern
jules ducange
stagiaire recherche
béatrice urbah
communication manager
ludmila desnoyer-rossin
community manager
omar abdallah
intern
raphael costambeys-kempczynski
Director of Education
Alice Motion
Short term fellow
bastien cohin
research
benjamin gregg
visiting researcher
carine royer
associate fellow
carmelle chango
intern
cedrine socquet
stagiaire en recherche
célia chatain
stagiaire premiers cris
charles blanc
intern
Clément Buleon
FIRE PhD student
cyrus clarke
visiting researcher
églantine jenin
stagiaire motion lab
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