Bertrand Mollereau appointed IUF senior

Bertrand Mollereau, aged 48, professor at ENS de Lyon, has just been appointed senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). "Since the second year of biology, I have been fascinated by the study of cell death mechanisms that are often deregulated in pathologies such as neurodegenerative diseases, AIDS and cancer" . After a thesis focused on the study of the Deregulation of cell death (apoptosis) in the immune system in humans (in Paris) Bertrand Mollereau crossed the Atlantic to do his post-doc at Rockefeller University and New York University, and then worked as assistant professor at Rockefeller University. He spent 10 years in the United States where he began to learn about the genetics and development of Drosophila and became interested in cell death in the retina of Drosophila. In September 2006, he returned to France, at ENS de Lyon, as a teacher with a specific objective: to develop a research team within the laboratory of Biology and Cell modelling (LBMC). His goal: To study the mechanisms of cell death using Drosophila as a model. And of course to teach: Bertrand Mollereau headed the Department of Biology from 2010 to 2013.