École normale supérieure de Lyon

Professor of matrix and disease biology, coordinator of the undergraduate degree in genetics at the University of Glasgow.
Visiting Professor 2024-2025 from June 16 to July 25, 2025
Visiting professor : Florence Ruggiero

Associate Professor and Project Assistant Professor at the Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Yokohama City University
Visiting Professor 2024-2025 from 1^st to 31^st of July, 2025
Inviting Professor: Thomas Widiez

In Situ Lab, a start-up housed in the ENS de Lyon incubator, has won the “Alternatives vertes 2” call for projects for the UP-BiB - Ultra-passive Bioinspired Buildings - project running in collaboration with the RDP laboratory and the Alkante company. The “Alternatives vertes 2” call for projects is designed to support innovation in the ecological transition of cultural players, and is supported by the French government as part of France 2030's “Supporting Green Alternatives 2” program, operated by the Banque des territoires (Caisse des Dépôts).The project is in its start-up phase at the beginning of April, Teva Vernoux, co-founder of In Situ Lab, explains the broad outlines of the winning project.

On Thursday March 27, 2025, the first Biosymposium of the ENS de Lyon's biology laboratories brought together 350 researchers for a day dedicated to science, exchange and encounters.

The European Research Council (ERC) has just announced the list of recipients of its ‘Consolidator’ grants. Among them are two Lyon-based projects led by Marie-Cécile Caillaud and Aurèle Piazza, both members of the ENS de Lyon.

Publication of the Laboratory of Biology and Modelling of the Cell in Molecular Cell, August 22, 2024. Communication by CNRS Physics on October 4, 2024.

Congratulations to Amélie Joly (IGFL) and Lise Morlet-Decarnin (LPENSL).

Publication of the RDP in PNAS on May 30, 2024. Communication by CNRS Physics on July 8, 2024.

Zayna Chaker, CNRS researcher at the IGFL, and Daniel Stilck França, Inria researcher, LIP member, have been awarded the prestigious "Starting" Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).

Public health technologist, head of the entomology laboratory and coordinator of the postgraduate program in biodiversity and health at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Brazil.
Visiting professor 2023–2024 from August 9 to August 23, 2024.
Inviting professor: Abderrahman Khila.

Publication of the RDP in the journal Development, on June 10, 2024.

ENS de Lyon is honored to have two of its laboratories' researchers elected new EMBO members, namely, Olivier Hamant, INRAE research director, and Teva Vernoux, CNRS research director, both biologists at the RDP.

Publication of the IGFL in the journal PNAS on March 19, 2024. News by CNRS Biology on April 12, 2024.

Publication of the LGL-TPE in the journal PNAS on March 25, 2024. Press release by University of Montpellier on March 26, 2024.

The CNRS awards François Leulier, Director of the IGFL, the silver medal and Lucie Étienne, a researcher at CIRI, and three alumni of our school, the bronze medal.

Publication of the RDP in the journal Phys. Rev. Lett. on October 24, 2023. News by CNRS Physics on January 22, 2024.

Publication of the RDP in the journal PNAS on November 21, 2023. News by CNRS Engineering on December 7, 2023.

Publication of the CIRI in the New England Journal of Medicine on November 30, 2023. Press release of Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University on November 30, 2023.

This autumn, three of ENS de Lyon's biology laboratories organized two international conferences. The RDP hosted the 11th Plant Peptides and Receptors Meeting; the IGFL and LBMC hosted the 27th European Drosophila Research Conference. Two major events at ENS de Lyon.

Publication of the LBMC in the journal Science on November 9, 2023. Communication of CNRS Biology on November 10, 2023.

New premises for CIRI and SFR Biosciences.

Alice Briole, Edwige Cyffers and Aurora Pignata, all graduates of ENS de Lyon, have been awarded grants from the L'Oréal-UNESCO program to support the involvement of young women in scientific research.

Publication of the LBMC  in the journal PNAS on August 7, 2023. Communication of CNRS-INSB on September 8, 2023.

Publication of the LBMC in the journal Current Biology, on August 21, 2023. Communication of CNRS-INSB on August 30, 2023.

Publication of the RDP in the journal Science Advances, on July 19, 2023. Communication of CNRS-INSB on August 28, 2023.

Publication of the LBMC in the journal Genes and Development, on August 4, 2023. Communication of CNRS-INSB on August 21, 2023.

Publication of the IGFL in the journal eLife on June 9, 2023. Communication on Jully 12, 2023.

Through its Consolidator grant, the ERC is supporting the PLEIOTROPY project, led by Marie Sémon (prof. at ENS de Lyon, LBMC) and her team.

A delegation from ENS de Lyon, composed of the Office of International Affairs and representatives of the four laboratories in life sciences of the ENS de Lyon, will be present at the IISER Pune, where this important moment of the Biosantexc project will take place form May 23 to May 25, 2023.

Among the ERC Advanced Grant 2022 grantees: TEMPO, Teva Vernoux' proposal.

Publication of the CIRI in the journal Science Translational Medicine on March 15, 2023. Press realease of the INSERM on March 17, 2023.

Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune, India
Visiting Professor 2022-23 - March 8 to April 5, 2023
Inviting Professor: Jens Hasserodt

To celebrate this anniversary, the institute is organizing an international symposium on March 30 and 31 on its main research areas: volutionary biology, Development, and Physiology and Research at their interfaces.

Find the selected project for the 2022 JoRISS call.

CNRS researcher at CIRI since February 1st, 2023, Abdelrahim Zoued works on the Legionella pneumophila bacterium. He received the Jacques Monod Foundation 2022 Prize, awarded by the Fondation de France, for his research project on the pathogen-host interface during infections.

Publication of the IGFL in the journal Science on February 23, 2023. Press realease of the CNRS on February 23, 2023.

Publication of the RDP in the journal The Plant Cell on February 8, 2023. Press realease of the INRAE on February 8, 2023.

Publication of the CIRI in the journal Nature Microbiology on January 5, 2023. Communication of the Institut Pasteur on January 6, 2023.

Publication of the CIRI in the journal Science Advances on November 23, 2022. CNRS press alert on November 23, 2022.

Publication of the CIRI in the journal Nature Communications on November 16, 2022. Jean Monnet University press release on November 28, 2022.

Publication of the CIRI in the journal Cell Reports on October 11, 2022. CNRS-INSB communication on November 7, 2022.

Publication of the French Scientific Council on Covid-19 in the journal The Lancet on October 24, 2022. CIRAD press release on October 26, 2022.

Congratulations to Alice Malivert, winner of the L'Oréal-UNESCO 2022 French Young Talent Award - L'Oréal-UNESCO Prize for Women in Science.

The Limagrain Prize honors the career of French researchers who have carried out most of their work in the service of French agriculture.

Publication of the CIRI and the LBMC in the journal iScience on September 16, 2022. CNRS-INSB communication on September 22, 2022.

Publication of the CIRI in the journal PNAS on August 10, 2022. CNRS-INSB communication on September 7, 2022.

The "Plant computational biology workshop" was held from August 29 to September 2 at the ENS of Lyon.