Delphine Ropers

I was born on November 29th, 1975 near Nancy (France). I received a B.Sc. in Biochemistry and a M.Sc. in Microbiology, Enzymology, and Nutrition from the Henri Poincaré University in Nancy. In the course of this training, I developed a strong interest for pluridisciplinarity and I decided to develop my research activities in the fields of molecular biology and bioinformatics. In 1998, I started my PhD thesis in the Laboratory of RNA Maturation and Molecular Enzymology headed by Christiane Branlant (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Université Nancy I), while collaborating with the MODBIO research group at Loria (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, research unit INRIA Lorraine), headed at that time by Alexander Bockmayr. I studied, both by experiments and mathematical modeling, the RNA splicing regulation of the human immunodeficiency virus responsible for AIDS. After having obtained my PhD in 2003, I joined the research unit INRIA Rhône-Alpes as a post-doctoral researcher in the HELIX research group, headed by Alain Viari. In 2006, I have been recruited as a research scientist (chargée de recherche) at INRIA. I continue working in the same research group on the mathematical modeling of genetic regulatory networks in bacteria, in particular, the model bacterium Escherichia coli.