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Elodie Laine

Full Professor in Computational Biology and Artificial Intelligence. Laboratory of Computational and Quantitative Biology, IBPS, Sorbonne Université.

Head of the PROMISE project, 2023-2028, Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council.
Junior member of the institut Universitaire de France, 2023-2028.

Accreditation to supervise research (2020) from Sorbonne Université. Young Researcher grant (2018-2021, MASSIV project) from the French National Research Agency. Postdoc (2009-2012) at the Laboratory of Biology and Applied Pharmacology, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan. PhD in Life Sciences (2006-2009) from Sorbonne Université, Structural Bioinformatics Unit, Institut Pasteur. See my resume.

Digest

In a nutshell

How do proteins fold, move, and associate? How did they evolve? What are the mechanisms responsible for their misfunction? How can computational methods guide biological intervention and the design of better treatments? These questions are at the core of my research. To address them, I have developed a multidisciplinary scientific approach at the interface of biology, computer science, mathematics, and physics.

I have contributed interpretable and scalable methods for assessing protein diversity in evolution, describing protein functional states and motions, predicting protein interfaces and binding partners, and predicting protein mutational landscapes.

I have co-created with Anne Lopes (U. Paris-Saclay, France) an innovative cross-university collaborative course immersing Masters students into the research ecosystem with project-based learning, flipped classrooms, and "coopetition". We published an educational article. I coordinated the implementation of the initiative at the European level with colleagues from the 4EU+ alliance.

Team

Lab and collab

Marina Abakarova

PhD student. Large-scale assessment of the impact of protein sequence variations on ageing using Drosophila melanogaster. Funded by the ANR.

Louis Carrel-Billiard

PhD student. Charting proteoform diversity across 800 million years of evolution. Funded by the ERC.

Valentin Lombard

PhD student. Geometric deep manifold learning combined with Natural Language Processing for protein movies. SCAI doctoral grant.

Julien Nguyen Van

PhD student. Deciphering the complexity of proteoform interactions with evolutionary- and physically-informed protein language models. Funded by the ERC.

Michael Rera

CNRS Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Research Centre (France). Ageing and natural death, Drosophila. Co-advises M. Abakarova.

Sergei Grudinin

CNRS Researcher at Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann (France). Macromolecular structures and interactions, AI methods for graph learning. Co-advises V. Lombard.

Hugues Richard

Researcher at the Robert Koch Institute (Germany). high-throughput sequencing data, especially transcriptome (RNA-Seq) data and statistical modelling. Co-advised several Post-doc and students, MASSIV project.

Alessandra Carbone

Professor at Sorbonne Université (SU), Head of the Laboratory of Computational and Quantitative Biology (LCQB, France). Co-advised 1 Post-doctoral fellow and 4 PhD students on protein interactions and protein mutational landscapes.
Béatrice Durand (SU, France) - Wnt signaling, 20K funding from Institute of Biology Paris-Seine, 2023-2024.Mathilde Garcia (SU, France) - Co-translational mechanisms, 6K from SU System Biology Network, 2017.Burkhard Rost (TUM, Germany) - Protein mutational landscapes.
Community efforts - CASP (Zoom), CAPRI, Elixir 3D Bioinfo, ML4NGP, ERGA, LEGO, MASIM.

We are hiring!

We are looking for highly talented and motivated PhDs and Post-doctoral fellows, with backgrounds in applied mathematics, machine learning, algorithms for high-throughput sequencing data, structural bioinformatics and evolutionary biology.

Get in touch!

Publications

Full list here

Toward a comprehensive profiling of alternative splicing proteoform structures, interactions and functions

E. Laine* and M.I. Freiberger (2025) Current Opinion in Structural Biology View details »

Expert-guided protein Language Models enable accurate and blazingly fast fitness prediction

C. Marquet*, J. Schlensok, M. Abakarova, B. Rost, and E. Laine* (2024) Bioinformatics View details »

Explaining Conformational Diversity in Protein Families through Molecular Motions

V. Lombard, S. Grudinin* and E. Laine* (2024) Scientific data View details »

Alignment-based protein mutational landscape prediction: doing more with less

M. Abakarova, C. Marquet, M. Rera, B. Rost, and E. Laine* (2023) Genome Biology and Evolution View details »

Functional mapping of N-terminal residues in the yeast proteome uncovers novel determinants for mitochondrial protein import

S. Nashed, H. El Barbry, M. Benchouaia, A. Dijoux-Maréchal, T. Delaveau, N. Ruiz-Gutierrez, L. Gaulier, D. Tribouillard-Tanvier, G. Chevreux, S. Le Crom, B. Palancade, F. Devaux, E. Laine and M. Garcia* (2023) PLOS Genetics View details »

Mega-scale experimental analysis of protein folding stability in biology and design

K. Tsuboyama, J. Dauparas, J. Chen, E. Laine, Y. Mohseni Behbahani, J. J. Weinstein, N. M. Mangan, S. Ovchinnikov and G. J. Rocklin* (2023) Nature View details »

Software

Try them out

All
Diversity
Interactions
Mutations
Motions

SeaMoon

From sequences to motions, without a structure?

V. Lombard, S. Grudinin* and E. Laine* (2024) Submitted

VespaG

Which mutations impact protein function?

C. Marquet, J. Schlensok, M. Abakarova, B. Rost, and E. Laine* (2024) Bioinformatics

DANCE

From sparse static structures to movies!

V. Lombard, S. Grudinin* and E. Laine* (2024) Sci. data

ASPRING

How are protein repeats used in evolution?

A. Szatkownik, D.J. Zea, H. Richard* and E. Laine* (2023)

DLA-Mutation

Which mutations impact binding strength?

Y. Mohseni Behbahani, E. Laine* and A. Carbone* (2023) Bioinformatics.

LEVELNET

Diving into protein interaction networks

Y. Mohseni Behbahani, P. Saighi, F. Corsi, E. Laine* and A. Carbone* (2023) Proteomics.

DLA-Ranker

Which conformations are acceptable?

Y. Mohseni Behbahani, S. Crouzet, E. Laine* and A. Carbone* (2022) Bioinformatics.

ASES [Video]

What does protein diversity look like?

D.J. Zea, H. Richard*, and E. Laine* (2022) Bioinformatics.

ThorAxe [Video]

Which versions of my favourite protein are conserved in evolution?

D.J. Zea, S. Laskina, A. Baudin, H. Richard*, and E. Laine* (2021) Genome Research.

PhyloSofS

Where does this proteoform originate from?

A. Ait-Hamlat, D.J. Zea, A. Labeeuw, L. Polit, H. Richard*, and E. Laine* (2021) J. Mol. Biol.

HOPMA

More freedom to the proteins!

E. Laine* and S. Grudinin* (2021) J. Phys. Chem. B

NOLB [Video]

How does my favourite protein move?

S. Grudinin+, E. Laine+, and A. Hoffmann (2020) Biophys. J. A. Hoffmann and S. Grudinin (2017) J. Chem. Th. Comput.

GEMME [Cover]

Is this mutation deleterious?

E. Laine*, Y. Karami and A. Carbone*. (2019) Mol. Biol. Evol.

JET2DNA

Where are the DNA-binding sites on that protein?

F. Corsi, R. Lavery, E. Laine* and A. Carbone*. (2020) PLoS Comput. Biol.

dynJET2

Through which sites does my favourite protein bind to its partners?

C. Dequeker, E. Laine* and A. Carbone* (2019) Proteins.

COMMA2

Is this mutation deleterious?

Y. Karami, T. Bitard-Feildel, E. Laine* and A. Carbone* (2018) Scientific Reports. Y. Karami, E. Laine* and A. Carbone* (2015) BMC Bioinformatics.

INTBuilder

What residues are found at the interfaces of docked complexes?

C. Dequeker, E. Laine* and A. Carbone* (2017) J. Chem. Inf. Model.

JET2Viewer

Which interfaces with which properties?

H.Ripoche+, E. Laine+, N. Ceres and A. Carbone (2017) Nucl. Acids Res. E. Laine* and A. Carbone* (2015) PLoS Comput. Biol. S. Engelen, L.A. Trojan, S. Sacquin-Mora, R. Lavery, and A. Carbone (2009) PLoS Comput. Biol.

MONETA

How does information propagate through this protein structure?

A. Allain, I. C. de Beauchêne, F. Langenfeld, Y. Guarracino, E. Laine and L. Tchertanov (2014) Faraday discussions. E. Laine, C. Auclair and L. Tchertanov. (2012) PLoS Comput. Biol.

Conferences

Scientific events and courses

LEGO at JOBIM 2024

Half-day meeting on Machine Learning for Genomics and Mini-Symposium shared with StatOmique in Machine Learning and Statistics in Genomics and Metagenomics, June 2024, France.