Who I am
Mostly an immunologist, fascinated by the complexity of the immune system and profoundly enjoying coding, data analysis and data visualisation.
More specifically, I obtained my PhD in immunology in 2011 at Paris 6 university.
My PhD was about the role of the Th17 response in inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD).
After my PhD, I did a first post-doc in Germany in the European consortium SysmedIBD where I studied the role of
NF-κB oscillations in IBD and where I performed a screening of micro-RNAs in feces from IBD patients.
After that I came back to France, where I used mass cytometry
(see the french version of the Wikipedia article I wrote about this technique)
to characterize circulating immune cells in a rare autoimmune disease. I used the programming language Python to perform analyses and visualization of these high-dimensionality data.
I am currently a post-doctoral scientist in the pharmaceutical company Servier where I have the privilege to do both immunology and data science to identify new potential drugs in autoimmune diseases.
Research Areas
- Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (Crohn's disease, Ulcerative colitis, EOIBD)
- Autoimmunity (Myasthenia gravis)
- Th17 response
- Candida albicans
- Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis
- Gut microbiome and autoimmunity Publications
Skills
- Cell and molecular immunology techniques (cell culture, cell sorting, qRT-PCR, ELISA)
- Flow Cytometry (see my course on this topic)
- Mass Cytometry
- Data analysis and data visualization (Python) Example of figures generated with Python
Analysis of scientific publications (more to come)
This project consists in a thorough analysis of PubMed articles
This project would not exist without the greatest mathematician and computer scientist I know, my older brother Olivier Verdier.
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More information
ResearchGate profile
Additional information about my research experience, scientific publications I co-authored or questions I tried to answer
Python scripts
Some examples of scripts I wrote for my research (still needed to be better organized)
Twitter account
I created this Twitter account as a motivation to keep up with the publication pace in immunology and to share with others the articles or reviews I found interesting