Joseph Schacherer PhD

In 2005, Joseph Schacherer obtained a PhD in molecular and cellular biology from the Louis-Pasteur University in Strasbourg, France. Following the completion of his PhD, he joined the laboratory of Leonid Kruglyak at the Lewis Sigler Institute of Integrative genomics at Princeton University (New Jersey, USA), where he began work on genomic approaches to study population genomics and intraspecies phenotypic variation. In 2007, he was appointed as assistant professor of genetics and genomics at the laboratory of Genetics, Genomics, and Microbiology (UMR7156, University of Strasbourg - CNRS). In 2013, he became a team leader and brought together an experienced team of researchers with expertise in population genomics, genetics, bioinformatics, and data analysis crucial to set up high-throughput sequencing and phenotyping experiments and analyze the data generated. The group’s long-term goal is to use population and functional genomics to have a better insight into the rules that govern the genotype-phenotype relationship within species.

Moreover, he was laureate of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 grant program in collaboration with the Dunham group (Department of Genome Sciences, University of Seattle) twice, in 2012 and more recently in 2017. He also led the 1002 yeast genomes project. He was nominated member of the Institut Universitaire de France in 2016. And since September 2017, he is a professor of genetics and genomics at the University of Strasbourg.