Jean-Marie Francois

University of Toulouse (France)

Jean Marie Francois obtained his PhD from the University of Louvain (Belgium). He is full professor in Molecular Physiology, Industrial Microbiology and Nanobiotechnology at the National Institute of Applied Sciences, University of Toulouse (France). His research activity concerns integrated physiology and functional genomics in microbial systems, with a specific focus on carbon and energy metabolism in yeast and filamentous fungi. Another major topic of his group is now focused towards synthetic biology with the aim at exploiting biomass resources to produce chemical synthon through a synthetic microbial metabolism refactoring approach.