Julien Mozziconacci, PhD

Curriculum Vitae

Research Positions 

2018-present, Professor in data analysis and genomics & coordinator of the Analysis Hub

StrInG Laboratory, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, paris, France

2018-present, Member of Institut Universitaire de France (IUF)

2009 - 2018 Lecturer in Physics and Biology

Condensed Matter Theory Lab, Pierre & Marie Curie University, Paris, France

2008 - 2010, Research Associate in Bioinformatics

Computer Lab, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK

2006 – 2008, Postdoctoral Research in Physics

Condensed Matter Theory Lab, Pierre & Marie Curie University, Paris, France

2004 – 2006, Postdoctoral Research in Molecular Biology

Cell Biology and Biophysics, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

2001 – 2004, Doctoral Research in Physics

Condensed Matter Theory Lab, Pierre & Marie Curie University, Paris, France

Academic Degrees

2013 H.D.R. in Biology Pierre & Marie Curie University, Paris, France 

Models of the genome architecture: from nucleosomes to nuclei.

2004 Ph.D. in Physics Pierre & Marie Curie University, Paris, France 

Multi-scale Modeling of Chromatin during the Cell Cycle.

Advisor: Jean-Marc Victor Manuscript in French

2001 M.S. in Physics Pierre & Marie Curie University, Paris, France 

Conferences

Organizer

Hi-C Workshop MNHN, Paris, France, June 2022

INSERM WORKSHOP: Capturing chromosome conformation: towards a 3D view of genome regulation, Bordeaux, France, May 2016

Invited contributions

Riken BDR Symposium 2021 

3D Genomics 2020, Online conference, November 2020

Modeling the 3D genome Organization, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, October 2017

Rencontres des Grandes Causses, Millau, France, Septembre 2015

CECAM Workshop GENPHYSCHROM, Lyon, France, June 2015

ICTP Workshop on"Chromosome Structure and Function", Trieste, Itlay, September 2014

CIBB conference on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics, Cambridge, UK, June 2014

Macromolecular crowding effects in cell biology: models and experiments, Orléans, France, October 2013

DNA Topology course, OIST, Okinawa, Japan, November 2009

Albany 2009, The 16th Conversation, Albany, U.S., June 2009

Biophysics of Chromatin Workshop, Heidelberg, Germany, February 2009

Other contributions

LEGO Conference, Paris June 2022, selected talk

Genome Project Write Meeting, New York, USA, 2019, selected talk

Evol2018, Montpellier, 2018, selected talk

EMBO Conference "Evolution in the time of genome architecture", Naples, 2017, selected talk

21st International Chromosome Conference, Iguacu, Brazil, 2016, selected talk

EMBO meeting on "Nuclear structure and Dynamics", L'Isle sur la Sorgue, 2015, selected talk

Biophysical Society meeting, San Francisco, 2014, contributed poster

Keystone Conference on "Transcirption regulation", Santa Fe New Mexico, 2014 contributed poster.

7th International Conference on Genomics & Bio-IT APAC, Hong Kong, 2012, contributed poster

6th Mechanobiology Conference, Singapore, 2012, selected talk

EMBL Conference: From functional genomics to systems biology, Heidelberg, Germany, 2010, selected talk

EMBL Conference: Chromatin and transcription, Heidelberg, Germany, August 2010, selected talk

FEBS Congress on ”Molecular Machines”. Vienna, Austria, 2007. Contributed poster

Gordon Research Conference on ”Nucleic Acids”. Newport, USA, 2007. Contributed poster

2nd International PhD Symposium on ”Decoding Nature: Hierarchy of interactions”, Gottingen, Germany, 2005. Selected talk

Schools & Workshops

Comparative genomics of vertebrates: concepts and bio-informatics tools. La Londe-Les-Maures, France, 2004.

DNA and chromosomes. Cargese, France, 2004. Contributed poster, “A physical model for the compaction of the mitotic chromosome”

Physics of the cell. Les Houches, France, 2004. Contributed talk, “How does the chromatin fiber deals with topological constraints.”

Understanding Molecular Simulation. Amesterdam, Netherlands, 2002.

Teaching

Teaching courses on Deep learning for Genomics (Sorbonne University 2020, Institut Curie 2021)

Teaching at the University : Physics (basic physics, history of science and spectral analysis)

My courses in french:

• Exercices corrigés de "Mathématiques pour physiciens" (niveau L2)

• Exercices corrigés d' "Analyse spectrale pour physiciens" (niveau L2)

• Cours d' "Histoire de la Mécanique" (niveau L3)

Teaching in High School : Physics and Chemistry at the Carnot high school in Paris, May and June 2002.

Funding

2022 ANR DesynLe (Partner 150 kR)

2022 ANR NucleoSeq (Partner 180 kE)

2020 Emergence Sorbonne Université (60kE)

2015 ANR HiResBac (Partner 150 kE)

2015 IDEX SUPER 3DRNA (Partner 70 kE)

2014 ANR ANDY ANR-13-BSV5-0010 (Partner 100 kE)

2013 Labex CalSim (Partner 100 kE)

2012 INCa PLBIO INCa_5960 (Partner 100 kE)

2011 CONVERGENCE - projet CVG1110 (PI 30 kE)

2010 ANR Pyribio ANR-09-PIRI-0024 (Partner, 100 kE)

2009 EMBO short-term fellowship in 2009 ASTF 277-2009 (PI 20 kE)

Awards

2012 Winner of the second edition of the Art and Science award from UPMC with the contribution: "comparison between four Hi-C experiments"

2008  Semi-finalist of the Internatinal Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge in the category informational graphics for the submission of "Graphical modeling of the beta-Globin transcription factory"

2006 Prix "La Recherche" : J.M. Victor’s group was selected by the jury for great quality and innovative interdisciplinary work.

Referee activity

I have been referee for: Cell, Cell Stem Cell, Nature Methods, Nature Microbiology, Nature Reviews in Cell Biology, Genome Biology, Genome Research, Elife, PloS ONE, BMC Genomic, Frontiers in Life Science, BioInformatics, Nucleic Acid Research, NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics, Scientific Reports and BMC Bioinformatics.