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General Information
Full Name | Michael Rera |
Date of Birth | 11th March 1983 |
Languages | French, English |
Experience
- 2024 -
Principal Investigator UTELife (Understanding The End-of-Life)
Institut Jacques Monod (Université Paris Cité / CNRS)
- hosted in Virginie Courtier's team
- 2020 - 2023
Group leader team UTELife (Understanding The End-of-Life)
Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire (Université Paris Cité / INSERM)
- 2018 - 2020
Group leader team UTELife (Understanding The End-of-Life)
Institut de Biologie Paris Seine (Sorbonne Université / INSERM / CNRS)
- 2013 - 2017
Permanent CNRS Researcher
Department of Adaptive and Functional Biology (Université Paris Cité / CNRS)
- 2010 - 2013
Postdoc
Université of California, Los Angeles
- Studying the role of intestinal stem cells mitochondria in ageing
Grants
- 2025 - 2027 - FRM postdoc fellowship
- 2021 - 2025
- ANR JCJC ADAGIO
- 2020 - 2025
- CRI Core fellow 5-year group leader grant (Fondation Bettencourt-Schueller)
- 2018 - 2021
- Interdisciplinary PhD grant, Sorbonne Université
- 2017 - 2020
- ATIP/Avenir grant
PhD supervision
- 2022 - 2025
- co-supervision (principal supervisor) of PhD candidate Marina Abakarova with Dr Elodie Laine (Assistant Prof, Sorbonne Université)
project: Large-scale assessment of the impact of protein sequence variations on ageing using Drosophila melanogaster
- co-supervision (principal supervisor) of PhD candidate Marina Abakarova with Dr Elodie Laine (Assistant Prof, Sorbonne Université)
- 2022 - 2025
- co-supervision (principal supervisor) of PhD candidate Hayet Bouzid with Dr Clément Carré (Assistant Prof, Sorbonne Université)
project: Assessing the role of transposable elements and small RNAs in the end-of-life Smurf phenotype
- co-supervision (principal supervisor) of PhD candidate Hayet Bouzid with Dr Clément Carré (Assistant Prof, Sorbonne Université)
- 2018 - 2022
- supervision of PhD candidate Flaminia Zane
project: Deconvolving the ageing transcriptome using the Smurf-based two-phase model of ageing
- supervision of PhD candidate Flaminia Zane
- 2016 - 20219
- co-supervision of PhD candidate Tristan Roget with Prof. Sylvie Méléard (Prof, Ecole Polytechnique)
project: Long-term behaviour of a two-phase ageing model
- co-supervision of PhD candidate Tristan Roget with Prof. Sylvie Méléard (Prof, Ecole Polytechnique)
Education
- 2022
Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches
Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
- Two phases of ageing.
- 2010
PhD
Université Paris 7, Paris, France
- Role of mitochondrial Electron Transfer Chain in ageing.
- 2003 - 2006
Magistère de Génétique
Université Paris 7, Paris, France
Academic Interests
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Biology of Ageing.
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Evolution of Ageing.
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Genome-based prediction.