2022 SFBD board renewal
Comme chaque année une partie du Conseil d’Administration de la société doit être renouvelée. Tous les membres de la Société pourront voter via l’outil Pollen. La période de vote se déroulera du 2 au 15 décembre.
- Marie-Ange Bonin, Glenda Comai, Andréa Pasini et Julien Vermot terminent leur 1er mandat et sont candidats à leur réélection.
- Alice Davy termine également son 1er mandat mais a décidé de ne pas se représenter pour un deuxième mandat.
Voici les profils et professions de foi de 5 candidats.
Marie Ange BONIN, Ingénieure, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine (Paris)
Je suis rentrée au CNRS en 1991 dans le laboratoire dirigé par Nicole Le Douarin. C’est là que je me suis initiée à la biologie du développement. J’ai travaillé essentiellement sur le développement des systèmes nerveux et musculo-squelettique avec les modèles poulet et souris. En tant que qu’ITA j’ai une vision pratique de la science mais je suis aussi responsable de nombreuses tâches administratives. Depuis janvier 2021 je suis élue au Conseil d’Administration de la SFBD. J’occupe le poste de Trésorière. De plus, je participe à toutes les actions de la SFBD.
Glenda COMAI, CR CNRS, Institut Pasteur (Paris)
#AboutMe: Since the beginning of my scientific career, I have been interested in the molecular mechanisms responsible for the establishment, functional integration and maintenance of the musculoskeletal system. I did my PhD on bone patterning in the laboratory of Andreas Schedl at the iBV, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis. As a post-doctoral researcher, I joined the Team « Stem cells and development » headed by Prof. Shahragim Tajbakhsh at Pasteur Institute and focused on the tissue interactions involved in patterning of craniofacial muscles. Upon my recruitment to the CNRS as a Chargé de Recherche (permanent young scientist position) in 2016, I developed an independent project on craniofacial muscle diversity.
#Motivation&FutureActions: I have been a member of the SFBD since my PhD. The SFBD has allowed me to regularly present my work at its annual congresses, to meet French and foreign colleagues on different occasions and contributed to enlarge my scientific curiosity over numerous developmental biology fields. It is because of the support that the SFBD has provided me at different stages of my career that I wish to continue to be part of the Advisory Board, and thus contribute to maintain an attractive and dynamic research community in France. Over the last past three years, I have progressively taken an active role in the Society’s actions. Jointly with Delphine Duprez, I have coordinated the SFBD Travel Grants. Together with Aude Maugarny-Calès and a web-designer, we completely renewed the SFBD website. This new version of the website now allows users to subscribe for individual/group memberships, to apply for grants and prizes online and to submit job offers, which are then shared in our Twitter account by a dedicated SFBD team. With Aude, we have tried to increase the visibility of the SFBD Travel Grant and Thesis Prize awardees, by creating a dedicated column for each of them.
For my second term, I plan to work on a further upgrade of our website. Shall I be re-elected, I will be part of the Organizing Committee for the next Joint Meeting of the French and Japanese Societies for Developmental Biology which will take place on the 7-10 November 2021 in Strasbourg (please book the date!) and the Outreach committee to develop public engagement actions during this meeting. Finally, I do believe that one of the best ways to communicate the science we do is visually, using the richness of colors, forms and dynamic processes of our own research fields to engage with the local communities in a more accessible way. Thus, for this second term, I hope to be a motor of Outreach and Art&Science interactions at the level of the SFBD. I am therefore pleased to submit my candidature as member of the SFBD Advisory Board.
Pascale DUFOURCQ, Professeure, Université Paul Sabatier, CBI (Toulouse)
Je me porte candidate pour siéger au Conseil d’Administration de la Société Française de Biologie du Développement .
Professeure en Biologie du Développement à l’Université Paul Sabatier à Toulouse, mon interaction avec la Biologie du Développement a démarré avec C. elegans pendant ma thèse à l’IGBMC à Strasbourg suivie d’un post-doctorat à Harvard Medical School (Boston) où je me suis intéressée aux processus de régulation de l’identité cellulaire chez ce nématode. Mon intérêt pour le développement m’a conduit à changer de modèle et c’est à Toulouse au Centre de Biologie du Développement que j’ai continué sur l’identité neuronale chez un vertébré cette fois ci :le poisson-zèbre.
Recrutée ensuite comme Enseignant-Chercheuse d’abord à l’Université Paris Diderot puis à l’Université Paul Sabatier de Toulouse, j’enseigne la Biologie du Développement en Licence et Master et j’effectue ma recherche dans l’équipe de Patrick Blader au Centre de Biologie Intégrative où je développe un axe de recherche sur la modélisation de ribosomopathies chez le poisson-zèbre.
Participant depuis plusieurs années aux congrès de la Société Française de Biologie du Développement, j’ai pu apprécier son succès et son importance non seulement comme révélateur du dynamisme dans la communauté des biologistes du développement en France, mais aussi comme initiateur de réseaux d’interaction au sein de celle-ci. Ma transmission de l’information est nourrie par les nombreux modèles biologiques et l’environnement scientifique de notre communauté, et parce qu’il est important de promouvoir la Biologie du Développement, d’être un partenaire actif de notre communauté, je souhaite m’impliquer dans la vie de la société et donc m’investir dans le fonctionnement de la SFBD pour le prochain mandat.
Andrea PASINI, CR CNRS, IBDM (Marseille)
After serving a first term on the Board of Directors of the SFBD (2019-2021), I am now running for a second one. Here is a short summary of my scientific background, my activities within the SFBD and the reasons for my new application. I studied at the Universities of Genoa (Italy) and Lyon, then did two postdocs in the field of developmental biology, first in David Wilkinson’s lab at the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) in London, then in Patrick Lemaire’s team at the Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille (IBDM). Since 2006 I have been a CNRS research fellow at IBDM. In 2011-2012 I spent a year as Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology (IMCB) in Singapore. Throughout my scientific career, I have mostly been interested in the phenomena of animal epithelial morphogenesis, their conservation and diversification during evolution, as well as their potential implication in human pathologies. I have always strived not to limit myself to a single experimental model and to adopt a multidisciplinary approach to research. I thus carried out work on zebrafish, the ascidian Ciona and the amphibian Xenopus. Recently, I have become interested in the epithelial dynamics of a very little-studied marine organism, the Placozoan Trichoplax adhaerens, which shows unique features among all animals. To study them, I exploit molecular and cellular biology, confocal videomicroscopy and mathematical modeling approaches.
Aware of the importance of passing on scientific knowledge to the younger generations and disseminating it in our society, I am also very involved in supervising and training students, as well as in diffusing science to the wider public. During my first term on the SFBD board, I have been in charge of maintaining contacts with foreign societies for developmental biology, as well as of the organization and management of the annual SFBD Thesis Prize. I am also deeply involved in the organization of the next SFBD/Japanese Society for Developmental Biology Joint Meeting, which will take place in Strasbourg November 2022. Beside being a member of the organizing committee and of the scientific committee, I have also chosen to get involved in the animation of outreach activities, which will be one of the highlights of this meeting. Indeed, we are planning a range of activities (games, workshops, lessons) aimed at introducing developmental biology to primary-, intermediate- and high-school students, as well as other actions to target the wider public (public lectures, ‘Art and Science’ events). If I am elected for a second term on the SFBD board, I will continue to put my passion for science, my scientific skills, my experience of research in different national contexts and my pleasure in sharing knowledge at the service of the French developmental biology community.
Julien VERMOT, Reader, Imperial college ( London)
My laboratory focuses on the dynamics and the roles of biological flow during the development of the zebrafish. We use live imaging techniques, cell biology and genetic analysis to characterize the physical stimuli and the molecular mechanisms that specify cell responses to flow forces during embryogenesis. In particular, we are interested in understanding the relationship between blood flow and tissue organization during cardiovascular development. We also investigate how cells alter and maintain their physical environment during morphogenesis. To address this question, we study the activity of beating cilia during embryogenesis using live imaging techniques to visualize and analyze cilia mediated flow. My lab recently moved in the United Kingdom where I developed our interdisciplinary approaches further.
During my first mandate, I contributed to the community of developmental biologists by promoting training into quantitative analysis and biophysical approaches applied to morphogenesis. I also developed the SFBD communication strategies by reinforcing the presence of the SFBD on social media by running the SFBD twitter account with the enormous help of Aude Maugarny-Calès. Together, our actions allowed to multiply our followers number by 6 and reached the milestone of 2000 followers a couple of weeks ago. Being in England, I would like to increase our visibility of the SFBD with foreign countries and to promote interactions with the French developmental biologists living abroad.
