Guillaume Diss

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Apr 8, 2019
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Guillaume Diss

Quantitative and mechanistic models of genotype-phenotype maps

Our research focuses on understanding the mechanisms through which genetic variation translates into phenotypic variation, e.g. diseases or functional innovations. A cell is an ensemble of molecules that interact together and form a complex network of molecular interactions. This network organizes biological processes and cellular functions and determines the phenotype of the cell. Mutations quantitatively perturb the way proteins interact with each other and with other molecules. This in turn perturbs the architecture of the network and the complex and dynamic equilibrium between biological processes, which can result in a phenotypic change.

We will combine quantitative genetics, biochemistry and systems biology approach together with modeling and computational biology to develop quantitative and mechanistic models of mutation effects. We will measure the effects of mutations at different levels of organization, from single genes (expression, protein stability, enzymatic activity) to molecular interactions (protein-protein, protein-nucleic acids) and network architecture. We will then use this data to generate our models. Strong focus will be placed on understanding the mechanisms through which the effects of mutations depend upon additional genetic variation (i.e. epistasis), uncovering the general principles of biological organization and of its evolution.

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Members

Group leader

In current position since 2019
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PhD students

In current position since 2019
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In current position since 2023
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In current position since 2022
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Postdoctoral fellows

In current position since 2021
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Technical/Research associates

In current position since 2019
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In current position since 2021
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Alumni

PhD students

Romane Lyautey (2020-2023)

Postdoctoral fellows

Verena Thormann (2019-2021)

Undergraduates

Megumi Mizoguchi (2022)
Kristjana Skendo (2022)
Nicole Schiffelholz (2022)
Marcella Franco (2021)
Asia Marta Onano (2021)
Romane Lyautey (2019-2020)

Education

2014
PhD, Department of Biology, Université Laval, Québec City, Canada
2009
MSc Molecular and Structural Biology, Université de Strasbourg, France

Positions held

2019-
Junior Group Leader; Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
2014-2019
Postdoctoral Fellow; Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain

Honors

2015-2018
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship (Impulse/COFUND). EMBO Fellowship, declined
2014
Etudiants-chercheurs étoiles award, Government of Quebec
2014
Excellence award, Department of Biology, Université Laval
2013
Société Provancher award
2013
Fonds Richard Bernard award
2011
PROTEO Fewllowship
2006
International Exchange Scholarship, Université Louis Pasteur
2006
International Exchange Scholarship, Région Alsace