Louis Faure

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!

Recent Publications

SOX2+ sustentacular cells are stem cells of the postnatal adrenal medulla

Nature Communications, (2025)

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)

Fellowships & Awards

 
 
 
 
 
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Marie-Josée Kravis Fellowship in Quantitative Biology
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
2025 New York
Postdoctoral fellowship in quantitative biology for cancer research.
 
 
 
 
 
Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
FENS-IBRO/PERC Travel Grant
Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
2022 FENS Forum, Paris
Travel grant (€750) to attend the FENS Forum.
 
 
 
 
 
Descartes University
MIRES Excellence Scholarship
Descartes University
2017 Paris
Excellence scholarship for international mobility (€5,000).

Skills

  • Python 90
  • snakemake 80
  • pyro 90
  • JAX 90
  • docker 80
  • Server management 90
  • GPU compute 80
  • Music production 70

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Ruslan Soldatov Lab, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
October 2023 – Present New York
Computational approaches to decode the initiation of tumor growth.
 
 
 
 
 
Igor Adameyko Lab, Medical University of Vienna
PhD in Neuroscience
September 2018 – June 2023 Center for Brain Research, Vienna
Heterogeneity of neural crest and Schwann cell precursors during development.
 
 
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
 
 
PSL University
Diploma, Institute for Technology & Innovation
PSL University
September 2017 – June 2018 Paris
 
 
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
 
 
Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI), Descartes UniversityCenter for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI), Descartes University
BSc & MSc in Interdisciplinary Approaches in Life Sciences
Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI), Descartes University
September 2012 – June 2017 Paris
BSc Frontiers in Life Science (2012–2015), MSc Interdisciplinary Approaches in Life Sciences (2015–2017).