Michael Rera

CRCN CNRS, HDR

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Institut Jacques Monod - Team Courtier

4th floor

25 Rue Hélène Brion

75013, Paris

Trying to understand what ageing is, where it comes from and where it gets us, since 2005. Building the two-phase ageing framework since I first described the Smurf phenotype in Drosophila melanogaster . I started my research group "Understanding The End-of-Life" (UTELife) in 2018.

The core of the research project I am carrying is strongly transdisciplinary, from basic biology, genetics and physiology to bioinformatics and mathematical modeling.

Research group

Savandara Besse, postdoc
Luce Breuil, 1st year PhD student co-supervised with Sarah Kaakai (MCF, UP13) and Marie Doumic (DR INRIA)
Hayet Bouzid, 2nd year PhD student co-supervised with Clément Carré (Prof., SU)
Marina Abakarova, 3rd year PhD student co-supervised with Elodie Laine (Prof., SU)

Alumni

Céline Cansell, PhD
Flaminia Zane, PhD (graduated may 2022)
Fanny Bain, Engineer

news

Apr 10, 2024 New Hypothesis and Theory article online at Frontiers in Aging: Mechanistic Theories of Aging, putting together 10 years on the two-phase model of ageing we propose. Ageing as a two-phase process: theoretical framework
Jan 7, 2024 New article online at eLife, latest article from a series aiming at re-assessing the evolutionary forces at stake for the selection of ageing processes A scenario for an evolutionary selection of ageing
Nov 5, 2023 New article online at Genome Biology and Evolution, first article from Marina Abakarova’s PhD Alignment-based protein mutational landscape prediction: doing more with less
Oct 13, 2023 New article online @AgingCell Smurfness-based two-phase model of ageing helps deconvolve the ageing transcriptional signature
Aug 16, 2023 New preprint on figshare, Two phases model of ageing in mice: towards a better identification of age-related and late-life metabolic decline [Registered Report Stage 1 Protocol]

selected publications

  1. Ageing as a two-phase process: theoretical framework
    Front. Aging Apr 2024
  2. Two phases model of ageing in mice: towards a better identification of age-related and late-life metabolic decline [Registered Report Stage 1 Protocol]
    Cansell, Céline, Goepp, Vivien, Bain, Fanny, Todd, Nicolas, Douard, Veronique, Monnoye, Magali, Sanchez, Clara, Pietrancosta, Nicolas, Rovere, Carole, Denis, Raphael GP, Luquet, Serge, and Rera, Michael
    Aug 2023
  3. A scenario for an evolutionary selection of ageing
    eLife Aug 2024
  4. Ethical and social implications of approaching death prediction in humans-when the biology of ageing meets existential issues
    Gaille, Marie, Araneda, Marco, Dubost, Clément, Guillermain, Clémence, Kaakai, Sarah, Ricadat, Elise, Todd, Nicolas, and Rera, Michael
    BMC Medical Ethics Aug 2020
  5. Two phases of aging separated by the Smurf transition as a public path to death
    Dambroise, Emilie, Monnier, Lea, Ruisheng, Lu, Aguilaniu, Hugo, Joly, J-S, Tricoire, Herve, and Rera, Michael
    Scientific reports Aug 2016
  6. A new, discontinuous 2 phases of aging model: Lessons from Drosophila melanogaster
    Tricoire, Hervé, and Rera, Michael
    PloS one Aug 2015
  7. Intestinal barrier dysfunction links metabolic and inflammatory markers of aging to death in Drosophila
    Rera, Michael, Clark, Rebecca I, and Walker, David W
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Aug 2012