COMPETENCES / EXPERTISE

Alexandre GRASSART, a French national, studied Cell Biology at the Institut Pasteur in the laboratory of Professor Alice Dautry-Varsat and obtained a PhD from the University Paris-Saclay in 2010. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley (USA) in the laboratory of Professor David Drubin during which he acquired a recognized expertise in the field of Cell Biology and Bioengineering. He then joined back the Institut Pasteur in the team of Dr. Nathalie Sauvonnet in the laboratory of Professor Philippe Sansonetti in 2014 where he studied intestinal infections caused by the pathogen Shigella. In 2020, he joined the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) as  Professor and established the Bioengineering and Microbiology Laboratory at the Institut Pasteur of Shanghai-CAS. Since 2022, he joined the CNRS UMR9017, INSERM U1019 and Institut Pasteur of Lille as a laureate of the CNRS INSERM ATIP/AVENIR Young Researcher Program and obtained a tenure track position at INSERM the same year. His team is now studying the role of mechanical forces in bacterial infections and is developing advanced microfluidic technologies such as "organ-on-a-chip" systems dedicated to the study of host-microbe interactions.