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Louis Faure

Postdoctoral Research Scholar

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York

Hello there! I am Louis, I am doing a postdoc at Ruslan Soldatov’s lab in MSK. My work primarily revolves around employing computational methods to decode the initiation of tumor growth. Before that, I did my PhD in Igor Adameyko’s lab, where I focused on deciphering fate decisions in developmental trajectories.

As you can see, I am particularly interested in how cells make choices. This question is highly relevant in many contexts, such as the fundamental understanding of how cell types emerge and how disease causes derailed trajectories.

If you want to check some extra-scientific aspect of me, have a look at our travel journal, or listen to some electronic music I played as a DJ!

Interests

  • Computational Biology
  • Tumorogenesis
  • Developmental Biology
  • Evolution
  • Exo-biology

Education

  • PhD candidate in Neuroscience, 2018

    Medical University of Vienna

  • Diploma Institute for Technology Innovation, 2017

    PSL University, Paris

  • Bsc & Msc in Interdisciplinary Approaches in Life Science, 2016

    Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity, Paris

Skills

python

Python

snakemake

snakemake

numba

numba

pyro

pyro

jax

JAX

R

R

docker

docker

server

Server managment

gpu

GPU compute

Fiji

ImageJ

insitu

FISH techniques

Cloning

Cloning

ableton

Music production

Recent Publications

Polymorphic parasitic larvae cooperate to build swimming colonies luring hosts

Current Biology, (2023)

Directionality of developing skeletal muscles is set by mechanical forces

Nature Communications, (2023)

Emergence of neuron types

Current Opinion in Cell Biology, (2022)

Developmental heterogeneity of embryonic neuroendocrine chromaffin cells and their maturation dynamics

Frontiers in Endocrinology, (2022)

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
EMBL-EBI: NEUcrest Big Data course
Lecturer
EMBL-EBI: NEUcrest Big Data course
April 2021 – April 2021 Online
Presentation about methods related to trajectory inference analysis.
 
 
 
 
 
INSERM U900 Bioinformatics and computational biology of cancer unit
Intern
INSERM U900 Bioinformatics and computational biology of cancer unit
January 2018 – June 2018 Curie Institute, Paris
Gene Regulation Network inference using pseudotime ordering of scRNAseq data.
 
 
 
 
 
Institute for Theoretical Biology
Intern
Institute for Theoretical Biology
April 2017 – July 2017 Humboldt University, Berlin
Mathematical modeling of microbial metabolism & cyanobacterial phototrophic growth. Kinetic modeling and flux balance analysis.
 
 
 
 
 
Inserm u1001 Research Lab
Intern
Inserm u1001 Research Lab
January 2017 – April 2017 Descartes University, Paris
Heterogeneity of the spontaneous DNA replication errors in single isogenic E.coli cells.
 
 
 
 
 
Laboratory of Biochemistery
Intern
Laboratory of Biochemistery
September 2016 – December 2016 ESPCI, Paris
Abzymes Project: Quantitative selection and evolution at by high throughput screening of antibodies libraries for DNAse reaction, using microfluidics.
 
 
 
 
 
Microbial Morphogenesis and Growth Lab
Intern
Microbial Morphogenesis and Growth Lab
January 2016 – July 2016 Pasteur Institute, Paris
Single-cell study, tracking of the starting of chromosomal segregation over several generations in E. coli, using fluorescence microscopy and quantitative image analysis.
 
 
 
 
 
Labsprint at Petnica Science Center
Teaching Assistant
Labsprint at Petnica Science Center
August 2016 – August 2016 Petnica, Serbia
Worked as a teaching assistant for 2nd year students from Undergraduate program “Frontiers in Life Science”. Helping the lecturer for the setup of the courses, preparing lab supplies, Giving advices to the students for their projects.
 
 
 
 
 
Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Eukaryotes
Intern
Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Eukaryotes
January 2015 – June 2015 Curie Institute, Paris
Study of regulations of mitochondrial fusion/fission mechanisms in S. cerevisiae. Gene tagging/deletion; Glycerol growth analysis; Microscopy with GFP-tagged strains; Cell transformation.