Morgane Thomas-Chollier

Morgane Thomas-Chollier is an Associate Professor at Ecole normale supérieure PSL (Paris, France) and a former Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (2017-2022). She leads the GenomiqueENS core facility and is a key contributor to the RSAT bioinformatics software suite. Her research focuses on transcriptional regulation, functional genomics, and computational tools for analyzing high-throughput sequencing data, particularly in single-cell and long-read contexts. She holds a PhD in Bioinformatics from Université Libre de Bruxelles (2008) and completed postdoctoral training at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics (Berlin) and the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She has held teaching roles in computational biology at ENS, including courses on genomics, bioinformatics, and ethics in science. She actively promotes women in STEM through mentorship and advocacy, including co-organizing national bioinformatics teaching initiatives as Vice-President of the Société française de Bioinformatique (2016-2020).

Her research integrates computational analysis of regulatory sequences, with applications in evo-devo and transcription factor binding prediction. She has pioneered workflows for analyzing ChIP-seq data and regulatory variants. Key software contributions include RSAT tools for motif discovery and sequence analysis. She has been an invited speaker at major conferences such as ISCB-Latin America and JOBIM, and her work bridges bioinformatics with experimental biology to address challenges in the era of genomic big data.

Scientific contributions include studies on glucocorticoid receptor binding dynamics, developmental signaling in sea urchins, and logical modeling of immune cell differentiation. Her work emphasizes reproducibility, open science, and interdisciplinary training to address computational biology's evolving demands.