Insights from Population Genetics & Functional Genomics into Human Immune Responses to Viruses

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Lluis Quintana-Murci, Ph.D., Professor, Institut Pasteur and College de France, Insights from Population Genetics and Functional Genomics into Human Immune Responses to Viruses

Speaker bio(s)

Dr. Quintana-Murci, presently Professor at the Collège de France and Institut Pasteur, earned his PhD in Population Genetics at the University of Pavia (Italy), and his MSc in Biology at the University of Barcelona (Spain). He heads the Unit of Human Evolutionary Genetics in the Institut Pasteur since 2007, and he was Scientific Director of the Institut during 2016-2017. He is a population geneticist whose research focuses on understanding the demographic and adaptive past of human populations, with a strong focus on Africa and the Pacific. He is also interested in how pathogens have exerted selective pressures on the human genome. In this context, his research focuses on the study of the genetic, epigenetic and environmental factors driving variation in human immune responses, as this helps to lay the foundations of precision medicine related to infectious and immune-related disorders. He has co-authored over 250 publications on fundamental population genetics as well as evolutionary genetics of infection and systems immunology. He is a member of EMBO, the Academia Europaea, and the French Academy of Sciences.

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