AIV Teachers

	Ariel Lindner : INSERM tenured senior researcher and co-director of the AIV master, has graduated from the Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel) "Amirim" interdisciplinary program with major in Chemistry and received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel) in Chemical Immunology for his work on catalytic antibodies as enzyme models, antibody conformational changes and directed evolution. After a research period at the Scripps Institute (California, USA), he received EMBO and Marie Curie fellowships to pursue postdoctoral work in Paris. His study interestevolve around applying Physical, Chemical and Biological approaches to study variability between clonal individuals. he si an associate professor at the Paris Descartes university faculty of Medicine (2008/9) and serves as the director of studies of the Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI).
	Pascal Hersen : CNRS tenured researcher and co-director of the AIV master, has a degree from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon and a PhD in Physics from University of Paris VII. His research path starts with the study of sand dunes dynamics and morphogenesis. He got interested into interdisciplinary approaches and its application to Life Science during a post doctoral stay at Harvard University, where he studied the dynamics of a model signalling pathway in yeast. He is currently a CNRS researcher at the Materials and Complex Systems Laboratory hosted by University Paris VII where he studies how biological systems can dynamically adapt to fluctuations of their environment, using both experiments and models. He is involved in organization and teaching for the Master AIV.
	Stephane Douady, CNRS Director of Research, has graduated from the Ecole Normale superieure and received his master and PhD degrees in Physics from the Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris VI). He is now a CNRS researcher at ENS and Paris Diderot (Paris VII) University. He received the CNRS silver medal for his works, focused on numerous natural phenomena as phyllotaxis, instability and avalanches in granular media, singing dunes, venation, leaf unfolding... treated with both modeling and experimental approaches.
	Annemiek JM Cornelissen, CNRS tenured researcher has graduated for her M.Sc. and Ph.D. at the department of mechanical engineering at Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands). For her master thesis she studied the effect of mechanical stress of cardiac tissue on coronary blood flow. This was an interdisciplinary project in collaboration with the cardiovascular research department of the Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, USA) and the medical physics department of the University of Amsterdam. She continued this work for her Ph.D. thesis for which she in addition developed mathematical models to understand blood flow control in the coronary microcirculation. Her Post-doctoral work on tumor microvascular networks at the Charité Universitätsklinikum in Berlin (Germany) was supported with a Marie Curie fellowship. She came to France with a scholarship from ARC to study at the physics department of the University of Rennes the formation of vascular networks. Currently she works at the laboratory Matière et Systèmes Complexes in Paris to study the physical aspects involved in vascular morphogenesis. Both experimental and modeling approaches are applied.
	David Tareste : INSERM tenured researcher, has a Bachelor of Science in Fundamental Physics and a Master Degree in Physico-Chemistry from Orsay University. He did his PhD at the Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris) on Adhesion Physics and his Postdoc at Columbia University (New York) on Cellular Biophysics, and more specifically the biophysics of neurotransmitter release. He is currently working at the Institut Jacques Monod (Paris) on the biophysical mechanisms of intracellular membrane fusion using in vitro reconstitution strategies and various quantitative experimental approaches (e.g. fluorescence spectroscopy, optical imaging, micromanipulation, force measurements).
	Timo Betz. Timo Betz is a tenured CNRS researcher, working on cell mechanics and cell motility at the Physical Chemistry unit of the Institut Curie in Paris. After finishing a Masters degree at the Center of Nonlinear Dynamics at the University of Texas at Austin, he received a PhD in Physics from the University of Leipzig in Germany, where he worked on the forces and actin dynamics involved in neuronal growth. He is in particular interested in the basic cellular working mechanisms that allow a cell to control and modify its mechanical properties. In close collaboration with theoreticians and biologists he tries to develop physical descriptions to model the complex non-equilibrium processes which control living cells.
	Gregory Batt. Gregory Batt is an INRIA research scientist (CR1 grade). He has initially studied molecular and cellular biology (maîtrise at ENS Lyon), and subsequently studied computer science (master at ENS Lyon and PhD at INRIA/Grenoble Univ.). He is mainly interested into developing mathematical methods and computational tools for the analysis of the dynamics of biological systems at the molecular and cellular levels. His current research interests include the analysis of genetic regulatory networks with application in systems and synthetic biology, the design of cellular tissues, and the actual control of biomolecular processes at the single-cell level. Gregory Batt is a member of the Contraintes research group at the INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt research center.
	Mathieu Piel. Matthieu Piel is a young PI at Institut Curie, in charge of the team 'Systems biology of cell division and cell polarity'. He was trained as a physicist (Ecole Polytechnique and a master in liquid and soft matter physics), but did his PhD in cell biology, working on the cell cytoskeleton in the lab of Michel Bornens. He then did a post-doc in the lab of Andrew Murray at Harvard University, working on cell polarity during mating (sex) in baker's yeast. In the frame of this project, he used microfluidic devices to generate stable gradients of molecules over cells, in collaboration with the lab of George Whitesides. Returning to France as a CNRS researcher at Institut Curie, Matthieu continued working on cell polarity related questions, combining microscopy of live cells and quantitative environmental control using micro-fabricated devices, including micropatterning and micro-fluidics.
	Vincent Danos. Vincent Danos is Directeur de Recherches at CNRS (Paris, PPS lab), Professor at the University of Edinburgh, and an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute, and also a visiting Professor at the Harvard Medical School (Fontana lab). At AIV he teaches the CompBio 2 course with Jean Krivine and Jérôme Féret. This course complements Grégory Batt's CompBio 1 and introduces rule-based formalisms for the modeling of combinatorial biomolecular networks. He is interested in domain-specific modeling/programming languages, mostly, but not only, in the context of systems and synthetic biology. In the larger view his interest is towards formal approaches to complex systems, where syntax meets dynamics (and learning). His methodology is based on mathematics.
	Pierre-Yves Bourguignon. Initially trained as an engineer in statistics, Pierre-Yves Bourguignon started to develop statistical methods for the analysis of biological sequences during his Ph.D. studies in the Laboratoire Statistique et Génome, and subsequently in the Computational Systems Biology group at Genoscope/CEA. He is now a post-doctoral fellow of the CNRS/MPG joint program in Systems Biology. His research focuses on the identification of signals in non-coding DNA sequences, the integration of heterogeneous experimental data within genome-scale models of metabolism, and the exploration of the functional landscape of non-natural sequences. In 2010, he founded the Ouvroir de Génétique Potentielle with Philippe Marlière.

Many other researchers are associated with the Master's teaching program: François Amblard, Samuel Bottani, Jean-Christophe Thalabard, Emmanuel Farge, Khashayar Pakdaman, Richard-Emmanuel Eastes, Matteo Merzagora.