"A Genetic Tale: Our Diversity, Our Evolution, Our Adaptation" – Invitation to the inaugural lecture by Lluis Quintana-Murci on February 6, 2020 at the Collège de France

Lluis Quintana-Murci, a Professor at the Institut Pasteur and graduate of the Universities of Barcelona, Pavia (where he completed a PhD in Genetics) and Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris (where he was awarded his HDR – accreditation to supervise research), has been Head of the Human Evolutionary Genetics Unit (CNRS UMR2000) at the Institut Pasteur since 2007.

This renowned scientist, who has more than 200 publications to his name, has established a solid reputation at national and international level in human population genetics, evolution and, more recently, systems immunology. His research has already been recognized with several scientific awards, including the prestigious CNRS Silver Medal and the "Jean Hamburger" Grand Prix for medicine and medical research awarded by the City of Paris. He is also an ERC grant winner and a member of EMBO and the Academia Europaea. In recent years he has received several awards, including the René & Andrée Duquesne Award and the Allianz-Institut de France Foundation Award from the French Academy of Sciences, a prestigious institution of which he was also recently elected a member in the Human Biology and Medical Sciences section.

Head of the Human Evolutionary Genetics Unit, Lluis Quintana-Murci has been appointed as a Professor at the Collège de France for the "Human Genomics and Evolution" Chair on April 2019

His inaugural lecture at the Collège de France, entitled "A Genetic Tale: Our Diversity, Our Evolution, Our Adaptation", will take place on February 6 at 6pm.

He will then give a series of lectures, which will run until April. The inaugural lecture and teaching sessions are open to all (no prior registration required). They will be made available online and broadcast on the Collège de France website.

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As well as infectious diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis and hepatitis C, human evolutionary genetics can help explain the development of autoimmune disorders (allergies, inflammation, autoimmunity, etc.) in humans. A report on this discipline led by Lluis Quintana-Murci at the Institut Pasteur is available in the Research Journal.

Read the report "Human evolutionary genetics: the benefits of genetic diversity" (in French)

See the "tête-à-tête" interview with Lluis Quintana-Murci

Go to the dedicated web page for Lluis Quintana-Murci's lectures on the Collège de France website

Read the press release (in French)

Go to the page about Lluis Quintana-Murci on the Collège de France website (in French)