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10 Facts About Antoine Danchin

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Antoine Danchin was born on 7 May 1944 and is a French geneticist.

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Antoine Danchin is best known for his research in several fields of biology, from the structure and function of adenylate cyclase, to modelling of learning in the nervous system and the early development of genomics and bioinformatics.

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Antoine Danchin is the chairman of the startup AMAbiotics which specialises in metabolic bioremediation and synthetic biology.

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Antoine Danchin was the director of the Department Genomes and Genetics at the Pasteur Institute in Paris where he headed the Genetics of Bacterial Genomes Unit.

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Antoine Danchin was trained as a mathematician at the Institut Henri Poincare and a physicist at the Ecole Normale Superieure.

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Antoine Danchin created with Philippe Courrege and Jean-Pierre Changeux at the Institut de biologie physico-chimique in Paris, France, a working seminar where they worked together on the construction of mathematical models of learning and memory.

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Antoine Danchin established the reference classification of adenylate cyclases after his laboratory successfully cloned and sequenced the genes of adenylyl cyclase toxins from the whooping cough agent as well as from the agent of anthrax.

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Antoine Danchin started in 1985 a collaboration with computer scientists for evaluation of artificial intelligence techniques to the study of integrated problems in molecular genetics.

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In year 2000, Antoine Danchin created the HKU-Pasteur Research Centre in Hong Kong, meant to develop microbial genomics in the region, with the help of the Innovation and Technology Commission of the Hong Kong SAR government to develop bioinformatics.

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Antoine Danchin is developing theoretical reflections and experiments in the domain of synthetic biology, trying to make explicit the idea that cells behave as computers making computers.