CIRB-Collège de France

Jonathan Touboul is leading the team “Mathematical Neuroscience Laboratory” in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology of the Collège de France. Several collaborations have been initiated, two postdocs have been recruited (Jérôme Ribot and Alberto Romagnoni), student scholarships have been provided and 3 PhD students have started their research in the laboratory (C. Quiñinao and L. C. García del Molino in 2012, Tanguy Cabana in 2013).

DIGITEO and Cancéropôle IdF

The DIGITEO IdF LSC ALMA and ALMA2 programs, coordinated by C. Bonnet (DISCO team, Inria Saclay IdF) studies a model of leukaemia based on previous works by M. Adimy and F. Crauste (Lyon), with theoretical model design adjustments and analysis in J. L. Avila Alonso's Ph D thesis (supervised by C. Bonnet, S. Niculescu and J. Clairambault) and experimental parameter identification initiated by F. Merhi, Bang postdoc (Dec. 2010-Nov. 2011), then continued by A. Ballesta (Sep. 2011-Feb. 2013), Bang postdoc detached at INSERM, working at St. Antoine Hospital (Paris), under the supervision of J. Clairambault and C. Bonnet to link experimental and theoretical aspects and of J.-P. Marie and R.P. Tang (INSERM-UPMC) to supervise biological experiments on leukaemic cells. ALMA has been granted for 3 years, beginning in December 2010.

A. Ballesta's postdoc at St. Antoine Hospital, granted by Cancéropôle IdF ALMA2 has led to increased collaboration of the same with the Commands Inria team (F. Bonnans, X. Dupuis, Saclay) with the aim to design optimisation procedures for anti-leukaemic therapies by cytosine arabinoside and by an anti-Flt3 targeted agent (see above “Optimisation of cancer chemotherapy”).