Claire Rogel-Gaillard

Claire Rogel-Gaillard is a senior scientist at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA). She heads the INRA-AgroParisTech joint Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Integrative Biology located at Jouy-en-Josas, France. She is director of Sciences Animales Paris-Saclay, a multidisciplinary institute for research, training and innovation in the animal sciences that is anchored in the Paris-Saclay University. She was trained as an engineer in agronomy (AgroParisTech, France), and specialized in livestock production. She prepared a PhD at the Pasteur Institute (Paris, France) working on human papillomaviruses and was further recruited at INRA. She participated in the international sequencing projects of the pig and rabbit reference genomes, co-coordinated the annotation of the pig immunome and co-authored the first reference gene catalogue of the pig gut microbiome in collaboration with the BGI-Shenzhen (China) and the University of Copenhagen (Denmark). As a member of the International Society of Animal Genetics, she is involved in the committee for pig MHC nomenclature. Her current research activities focus on the characterization of individual variability of immune capacity mainly in pigs. She runs integrative projects on large-scale animal cohorts that combine phenotyping of immune and production traits, genetics, functional genomics and metagenomics, in a perspective of data integration and modelling.