Bertrand Seraphin

Biography

 After studying at the ENS, B. Seraphin obtained his PhD in 1988 at Curie Institute (Orsay) on mitochondrial splicing. From 1987 to 1989, as a post-doctoral fellow at Brandeis University (Boston) with Pr. M. Rosbash, he studied yeast nuclear splicing and brought to light new splicing complexes. In 1991, he joined I. Mattaj at EMBL before becoming an independent team leader. His group elucidated steps of splicing and RNA maturation, identifying numerous new factors on the way in part with the help of the newly developped TAP method. He received the Silver Medal of the CNRS in 2007 and is nominated for "Inventor of the Year 2008" by the European Patent Office. In 2000, he integrated the CGM (Gif/Yvette) where he studied RNA decay, discovering new enzymes, an uncharacterized cellular compartment, and new nonannotated transcripts. His research has been continuing at the IGBMC since 2009.

Research Interest

 BIOINFORMATICS