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JEAN-LEON MAITRE

Docteur,
Directeur de recherche CNRS
Recherche - Paris
Spécialités / domaines
Développement, cancer, génétique et épigénétique
Fonctions au sein de l'Institut Curie :
Présentation

Research experience

2016 Group leader at the Institut Curie (Paris, France) in the Genetics and Developmental Biology unit CNRS UMR3215, INSERM U934

2013 Postdoc fellow in the lab of Dr Hiiragi at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (Heidelberg, Germany) studying the mechanics of pre-implantation mouse embryos.

2007    PhD student in the lab of Prof Heisenberg at the Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics (Dresden, Germany) and the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (Klosterneuburg, Austria) studying the mechanics of zebrafish germ layer progenitors.

Funding and awards

2024 Richard Lounsbery award from the French and American Academies of Sciences

2023 ERC Consolidator Grant

2021Award from the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller

2020Bronze medal from the CNRS

2019EMBO Young Investigator

2019Claude Paoletti award from the CNRS

2018Award from the Fondation Schlumberger pour l'Éducation et la Recherche

2017 ERC Starting Grant

2016 Young scientist award from the Societe de Biologie Cellulaire de France

2016 ATIP-Avenir

2014 Marie Curie IntraEuropean Fellowship

2013 EMBO Long Term Fellowship

Publications
Mechanics of human embryo compaction
Julie Firmin, Nicolas Ecker, Diane Rivet Danon, Virginie Barraud Lange, Hervé Turlier, Catherine Patrat, Jean-Léon Maître
A roadmap for the Human Developmental Cell Atlas
Nature
Muzlifah Haniffa, Deanne Taylor, Sten Linnarsson, Bruce J. Aronow, Gary D. Bader, Roger A. Barker, Pablo G. Camara, J. Gray Camp, Alain Chédotal, Andrew Copp, Heather C. Etchevers, Paolo Giacobini, Berthold Göttgens, Guoji Guo, Ania Hupalowska, Kylie R. James, Emily Kirby, Arnold Kriegstein, Joakim Lundeberg, John C. Marioni, Kerstin B. Meyer, Kathy K. Niakan, Mats Nilsson, Bayanne Olabi, Dana Pe’er, Aviv Regev, Jennifer Rood, Orit Rozenblatt-Rosen, Rahul Satija, Sarah A. Teichmann, Barbara Treutlein, Roser Vento-Tormo, Simone Webb, Pascal Barbry, Omer Bayraktar, Sam Behjati, Andreas Bosio, Bruno Canque, Frédéric Chalmel, Yorick Gitton, Deborah Henderson, Anne Jorgensen, Steven Lisgo, Jinyue Liu, Emma Lundberg, Jean-Léon Maitre, Séverine Mazaud-Guittot, Elizabeth Robertson, Antoine Rolland, Raphael Scharfmann, Michèle Souyri, Erik Sundström, Stéphane Zaffran, Matthias Zilbauer,