Research and Fundings

Topics

Epigenetics: concepts, explanations, and methods

The study of the environment as inducer of health and disease states

Epigenetics and society

Biological transmission and the concept of inheritance in evolutionary theory

Chance, probability, and (in)determinism in biology

Explanation in biology

Natural kinds in the sciences

Coordination of research projects

Participation in research projects & networks

Participant to the ANR project "EXPLABIO" (2014-2017) - "Explanation in evolutionary biology", coordinated by Philippe Huneman.
Member of the Scientific Committee of "RTP-3E" & "GDR-3E" : CNRS Pluridisciplinary Thematic Network & Research Group « Epigenetics in Ecology and Evolution », created in 2013, respectively coordinated by Dominique Joly & Christoph Grunau (2014-2018) and by Christoph Grunau & Séverine Chambeyron (2019-2022).
Member of the Scientific Committee of « GDR-Plas-Phen » : CNRS Research Group « Phenotypic Plasticity », coordinated by Patricia Gibert & Vincent Débat (2015-2018), then by Luis-Miguel Chevin & Vincent Debat (2019-2023).
Member of the Scientific Committee of the research group "Paris Evolution" gathering together Parisian researchers working on evolution in life sciences and in human and social sciences (since 2018).

Fundings

Research Funding by the Près Hesam for the 2014 edition of the European Advanced Seminar in Philosophy of the Life Sciences (2014).
Three BQR ("Bonus Qualité Recherche") Research Funding of the University of Paris 1 for the organisation of three workshops (2014, 2018, 2019) and of a summer school (2016).
CNRS Funding for the summer school ("Ecole thématique du CNRS") BIOPERSPECTIVES (march-april 2016).
Research Funding "Politique Scientifique" of the University of Paris 1 for the research project "Epigenetics, inheritance and evolution: analysing a scientific change" (2018-2019).
ANR JCJC research funding for the EnviroBioSoc project "The environment and human health across life and social sciences" (ANR-19-CE26-0018-01, 2020-2023).

Current reading and working groups

Working group "Social environment, biological incorporation", EnviroBioSoc ANR JCJC Project.
Working group "Scientific pluralism and integration", EnviroBioSoc ANR JCJC Project.
Working group on the epistemological role of biological inheritance (co-organisation in collaboration with Laurent Loison, Guillaume Achaz, Livio Riboli-Sasco, Marco Casali, Leïla Peiré, Angela Taddei, and Gaëlle Pontarotti).
IHPST ClubPhiBioMed group.