News

2025

[June 2025]
New team member
Killian Duguépéroux joins the team as an intern for 7 weeks. He is a Bachelor student in computer science at ENS Lyon and will be supervised by Guilhem Sommeria-Klein and myself.

[June 2025]
Publication
A part of Nicolas Maurice's PhD work is now published in Bioinformatics - Mapler, A pipeline for assessing assembly quality in taxonomically rich metagenomes sequenced with HiFi reads. More info here.

[June 2025]
Conference
JOBIM Conference is happening next month! Come to Bordeaux and meet the French Bioinformatics community. We expect 500 attendees. Information and registration.

[April 2025]
Job advert
Job alert! We are hiring a postdoc (18 mo + 14 mo) in metabolic modelling of rumen microbial communities. More info here.

[April 2025]
Publication
The PhD work of Chabname Ghassemi Nedjad is published in Bioinformatics - inference of seed metabolites from metabolic networks. More info here.

[April 2025]
Job advert
Job alert! We are hiring a postdoc (2 + 2 years) in metabolic modelling for uncultured minimal bacteria. More info here.

[March 2025]
Publication
New preprint - Mapler, Assessing assembly quality in taxonomically rich metagenomes sequenced with HiFi reads. Read more on BioRxiv.

2024

[December 2024]
Publication
New preprint - Modeling the emergent metabolic potential of soil microbiomes in Atacama landscapes, on BioRxiv.

[November 2024]
Conference organisation
Simon Labarthe from Pleiade, other colleagues from Bordeaux and myself oganise the JOBIM 2025 Conference, the French national conference on Bioinformatics.

[November 2024]
New team member
Juliette Audemard is coming back to the team for her master's project.

[October 2024]
New team member
Guilhem Sommeria-Klein joins Pleiade team as a permanent researcher. How to joint the team as a permanent researcher?.

[September 2024]
Publication
New preprint - Seed inference in metabolic networks with Seed2LP, on BioRxiv.

[September 2024]
Publication
Mathilde Sola starts her INRAE-Inria PhD, hosted in INRAE Metagenopolis lab, supervised by Magali Berland, Patrick Veiga and myself.

[September 2024]
New team member
Coralie Muller starts her PhD in the team, supervised by Sylvain Prigent (INRAE BFP) and myself.

[July 2024]
New project
H2Rumen, a project led by Rafael Muñoz-Tamayo (INRAE MoSAR) has been funded by ANR. More info.

[June 2024]
New team member
Juliette Gronier, a Bachelor student in computer science at ENS Lyon joined the team as an intern for 6 weeks.

[June 2024]
Conference
Juliette Audemard (COMIC INRAE project) will present a poster at JOBIM 2024.

[June 2024]
Conference
I will be a keynote speaker at the French conference of computational biology JOBIM 2024.

[April 2024]
PhD defense
Maxime Lecomte defended his PhD on explainable approaches of metabolic modelling to decipher microbial ecosystems.

[April 2024]
New team member
Juliette Audemard, a masters student in computational biology at Université Paris Cité joined the team for a 5 month internship (COMIC INRAE project).

[January 2024]
Publication
Maxime Lecomte published one of his PhD papers on metabolic modelling of a cheese community, a collaboration with INRAE STLO.

[January 2024]
Publication
We published a review on the articulation of metabolic modelling with metagenomics, together with the Quadram Institute.

2023

[October 2023]
New team member
Nicolas Maurice starts his PhD metagenomic assembly for complex ecosystems, a collaboration with Inria Genscale in the MISTIC project.

[July 2023]
Publication
Publication of the Enterosignatures paper, a collaboration with the Quadram Institute and Earlham Institute.