FRANCOIS-BELLAN Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie François-Bellan is a specialist in biological rhythms. Graduate 
Doctor in Pharmacy at the Faculty of Pharmacy of Marseille in 1984, she 
obtained a PhD in Neuroscience in 1988. After a post-doctorate at the 
Montreal Neurological Institute in Quebec, she became a researcher in INSERM. 
She currently leads a group of chronobiology at the Institute of 
NeuroPhysiopathology (UMR 7051) in Marseille whose work focuses on the 
molecular mechanisms of circadian clocks, with a particular interest in the 
mechanisms controlling the expression of genes by their location in the cell. 
This work has identified in recent years, an original mechanism that involves 
nuclear subdomains called “paraspeckles” [CNRS INSB website (“Nuclear 
subdomains of the cells drive the circadian expression of genes “)].