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Lluís Quintana-Murci (born 1970 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain) is a French-Spanish biologist and population geneticist known for his research on human evolution, population genomic diversity and its relationship with immune diversity and infectious diseases.
Lluís Quintana-Murci
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| Born | (1970-03-26) 26 March 1970 (age 54)
Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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| Nationality | France, Spain |
| Alma mater | University of Barcelona, University of Pavia, Sorbonne University |
| Known for | Population genetics |
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| Fields | Human genetics Evolutionary Anthropology Systems immunology |
| Institutions | Collège de France Institut Pasteur CNRS |
| Website | https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/human-evolutionary-genetics/ |
After studying biology at the University of Barcelona, he obtained a PhDinHuman Genetics at the University of Pavia in Italy, and his habilitation to direct research at the Sorbonne University in Paris. After postdoctoral training at the Pasteur Institute and several internships at the University of Arizona (Tucson, USA) and University of Oxford (UK), Lluis Quintana-Murci joined the CNRS as a researcher in human population genetics in 2001. He heads the Unit of Human Evolutionary Genetics (CNRS UMR2000) at the Institut Pasteur since 2007, and has been Scientific Director of the Institut during 2016-2017. He is presently Professor at the Collège de France (Chair of Human Genomics and Evolution) and Institut Pasteur.[1][2]
Lluis Quintana-Murci is a population geneticist whose research focuses on the study of the genetic architecture of human populations and the role of genetic diversity in human adaptation. In particular, his laboratory uses genomic data to infer the past demographic history of human populations, with a special focus on Africa and the Pacific, and dissect the different forms in which natural selection can act on the human genome. His team is especially interested in exploring the extent to which pathogens have exerted pressures on human innate immunity genes. Over the last years, his team also correlates genetic and epigenetic variation in populations with different ancestries and lifestyles with molecular phenotypes related to immune responses, to identify mechanisms that have been crucial for our past and present survival against infection. In this context, his research focuses on the study of the genetic, epigenetic and environmental factors driving variation in immune responses, as this helps to lay the foundations of precision medicine related to infectious and immune-related disorders. His laboratory combines molecular and population genetics approaches, with computational modelling and development of new statistical frameworks.
Lluis Quintana-Murci has co-authored over 200 publications on fundamental population genetics as well as evolutionary genetics of infection and published 12 book chapters. He has been a laureate of the European Research Council (ERC), and is a member of EMBO, the Academia Europaea, and the French Academy of Sciences.