JAN 2014
Claude Loverdo recently joined LJP as a newly recruited CNRS research scientist. This theoretical physicist will study the microscopic transport mechanisms which produce stochasticity in the phenotypic expression. She will develop a multi-scale model to bridge these mechanisms with the selection at the scale of organisms. On one hand, she will try to understand how intra-cellular molecular transport influences genes expression. On a second hand, she will model the arbitrage by a parasite between local growth and dispersion at the scale of an infected host organism and host population. These general questions will be addressed with an interplay with experimentalists and will focus on particular bacteria and viruses.
Claude Loverdo obtained her PhD in 2009 at LPTMC, Paris 6. Her work (2006-2008), supervised by Olivier Bénichou, dealt with intermittent search strategies. She then worked as a postdoctoral fellow (2010-2013) at UCLA with Jamie Lloyd-Smith on the development of a new theoretical framework to describe adaptation of new pathogens, in particular viruses. She also worked for 6 months in 2010 in the Optics and Biology team of LKB-ENS in Paris where she studied the motion of proteins in the cell nucleus. Finally, she spent 4 months in 2013 at ETH in Zurich with Sebastian Bonhoeffer and Roland Regoes, where she focused on the dynamics of bacteria in an infected mouse.
