Date of Birth: August 5th, 1967
Place of Birth: Montreuil-sous-Bois, France
Education:
Ecole Polytechnique (1986-1989) and ENGREF (1989-1991)
University of Paris VI and XI, MSc, 1991
University Paris XI (Orsay), PhD, 1995
Contact Address
François Taddei, PhD
Génétique Moléculaire Evolutive et Médicale
U571 INSERM, Faculté Necker-Enfants Malades
156 rue de Vaugirard
75730 Paris Cedex 15
France
Phone: +33 (0)1 40 61 53 23
E-Mail: taddei@necker.fr
François Taddei has been a group leader of the Genetics of death in yeast research group at MedILS since 2007.
After having studied mostly math, physics and engineering in the French “grandes écoles” Ecole Polytechnique (1986-1989) and ENGREF (1989-1991), he has held a tenured position as a higher civil servant of the French Agriculture Administration (Ministère de l’Agriculture, Paris) since 1991. Being so early on a tenured track has allowed him to develop original interdisciplinary projects, although at the cost of having to work as a civil servant in France for at least 10 years. After his PhD in molecular genetics in 1995, he was able to broaden his scientific education, learning new concepts and techniques while visiting the labs of colleagues. He spent his postdoctoral training with the late John Maynard-Smith in Sussex (1996) and with his colleague Pierre-Henri Gouyon in Orsay (1997), focusing on population genetics and evolution. In addition, he had the opportunity to witness the development of the novel tools pioneered in the lab of physics & biology lead by Stan Leibler in Rockfeller (2001) or Ouyang Qi in Peking University in 2007. Since 1997, he has held the position of a full-time research scientist in INSERM.
He has been invited to give talks in different scientific departments and international meetings in a total of about 20 different countries. Working at the interface between many disciplines, he had the privilege to present his results to a wide diversity of audiences, including mathematicians, computer scientists, system biologists, ecologists, microbiologists, physicists, demographers, geneticists and evolutionary biologists.
François Taddei is a referee for several different journals, including PloS, PNAS, Nature and Science, and the organizer of a conference on the cost of antibiotic resistance (Pasteur institute Paris 1999) and of an interdisciplinary meeting on biological innovations in 2005 and of an EMBO meeting on prokaryotic complexity in 2006 in Heidelberg and interdisciplinary summer schools in MEDILS since 2006.
He also holds the position of Head of the interdisciplinary (M2) master program for life sciences, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris 7 University and Paris 5 Universities, and is the Founder of the Paris Interdisciplinary college (Faculty of Medecine, Paris 5), the “Festival de sciences Paris-Montagne” and the Founder of the interdisciplinary graduate school: life frontiers.
François Taddei was a recepient of the 2003 INSERM award for fundamental research, the Liliane Bettencourt award for life sciences in 2004, European Young investigator (EURYI) award in 2005 and the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) award in 2006.