Cell-ID international call for MD-PhD/PhD
Posted by Susana Ribeiro, on 3 December 2025
Location: several
Closing Date: 6 February 2026
About Cell-ID
The Cell-ID program focuses on uncovering the molecular mechanisms that govern cell fate determination during neural development and how their disruption contributes to childhood brain cancers.
Our goal is to design strategies for a cell-based interceptive medicine: targeting the earliest cellular and molecular events in cancer to prevent disease progression.
Led by CNRS and Inserm, in collaboration with major French institutions and international partners, Cell-ID integrates omics technologies, advanced imaging, and computational modelingto study genome function and 3D nuclear organization in neural tissues under normal and pathological conditions. By combining cutting-edge experimental tools with predictive models, the program aims to define and modulate cell trajectories during neural development.
There are 6 projects available in the following labs:
- Giacomo Cavalli/ Daniel Jost: Computational Systems Biology of Polycomb regulation in pediatric brain cancers
- Raphaël Margueron / Franck Bourdeaut: Identifying the determinants of SMARCB1-mediated cell transformation
- Alexandre Baffet / Olivier Ayrault: Investigate the metabolomic dependencies in medulloblastoma
- Pascal Barbry / Alain Chédotal: Long-Read Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics of the Developing Human Hindbrain
- Pauline Spéder / Christophe Zimmer: 4D investigation of cellular interaction in a Drosophila model of ATRT brain tumours
- Edouard Bertrand / Florian Muller: Imaging transcriptome evolution in live cells
Start date: 1 October 2026
Closing Date: 6 February 2026
Scientific fields: Cell biology, Chromatin and epigenetics, Neural development, Computational and systems biology
Model systems:
Duration: Fixed term
Minimum qualifications: Applicants must hold (or expect to obtain before the start of program) both a BSc and MSc (or equivalent, usually 5 years of study) in science, medicine, or related fields.
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