About Éric Karsenti
Born 1948. Éric Karsenti is a French researcher and molecular biologist.
Éric Karsenti (; born 10 September 1948 in Paris) is a French biologist. Research Director at the CNRS, he was the scientific director of the Tara Oceans expedition.
Biography After a thesis at the Pasteur Institute (1979), he worked as a researcher on the molecular mechanisms that govern the cell cycle. He created the Department of Cellular Biology and Biophysics of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL).
As the main scientist on the Tara Oceans expedition, he collected plankton samples from many parts of the oceans to conduct an important genomic analysis of plankton diversity.
He is a recipient of the CNRS gold medal (after having been a correspondent since 1999 ).
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Éric Karsenti was born on 10 September 1948 in Paris.
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