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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)
  • 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

  • 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

  • 2018 - 2022
    • supervision of PhD candidate Flaminia Zane

      project: Deconvolving the ageing transcriptome using the Smurf-based two-phase model of ageing

  • 2016 - 20219

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

  • Biology of Ageing.
  • Evolution of Ageing.
  • Genome-based prediction.