Biodiversity and ecosystem through time and space by Chris Bowler

@ Chris Bowler

Inaugural speech by Chris Bowler, holder of the one-year Collège de France Chair on Biodiversity and ecosystem - François de Clermont-Tonnerre (2020-2021)

Chris Bowler is a Research Director at the CNRS and Director of the Plant and Algae Genomics Laboratory at the Institute of Biology of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He obtained his PhD at the University of Ghent in Belgium, followed by postdoctoral studies at the Rockefeller University in New York. In 1994, he founded his own laboratory working at the Stazione Zoologicade Napoli, Italy, and in 2002 he took up his current position in Paris.

He has been a member of EMBO since 1995, received the CNRS Silver Medal in 2010, the ERC Advanced Awards in 2012 and 2018 and the Institut de France Louis D. Foundation Award in 2015. In 2018, he was elected member of the French Academy of Agriculture.

His main research interest is the understanding of the response of plants and marine diatoms to environmental signals, through functional and comparative genomics. He is one of the scientific coordinators of the Tara Ocean project to explore the biodiversity, ecology and evolution of plankton in the world's oceans.

 

Biodiversity and ecosystem chair is supported  by Fondation JF & ML de Clermont-Tonnerre.

4 February 2021
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Recherche - Leçon inaugurale
#cdf1530
Collège de France

 The speech will be held behind closed doors and broadcast live on the Collège de France's website.

2021-02-04 19:00 2021-02-04 20:00 Europe/Paris Biodiversity and ecosystem through time and space by Chris Bowler