The Villoutreix Lab bridges machine learning and developmental biology to understand tissue architecture. We develop inference methods to characterize tissues at single-cell resolution, integrating microscopy with multi-omics data. Our core interest is to model the mapping between two distinct aspects: the high-dimensional geometry of gene expression and the physical geometry of living tissue.
We currently collaborate with several biology labs such as the Kelly lab (cardiac development) and the Bertrand lab (C. elegans) in Marseille, the Ghavi-Helm lab (Drosophila development) in Lyon. We also work closely with Mathematicians, Computer scientists and Physicists such as Paul Escande in Toulouse, Thierry Artières in Marseille and Raphael Clément in Marseille and within the AI4scMed consortium.
Previous international collaborations include Gunnar Carlsson at Stanford University, Stas Shvartsman at Princeton University, Eli Zelzer at the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Sbalzarini lab at the Center for Systems Biology Dresden.
Our group is hosted in the SysBioMed team led by Anais Baudot, and part of the Turing Center for Living Systems.
We are located at
Marseille Medical Genetics
Faculté de Médecine
27 Bd Jean Moulin
13005 Marseille
FRANCE
