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Past Member

Jean-Claude Nicolas

Funding provided by the Florence Gould Foundation Fund

Affiliation

Natural Sciences

Field of Study

Biology
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Jean-Claude Nicolas is interested in LINE elements, which are selfish genes that move in the human genome to new locations over the lifetime of the host. Mapping these movements and locations and determining the consequences has become possible in the last year. Computational approaches to this task are being developed.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Natural Sciences

Degrees

Princeton/UPMC
Ph.D.
1981
UPMC
M.S.
1972
Montpellier university
M.D.
1971

Appointments

UPMC university Pierre et Marie Curie
1976–2011
Professor