Associate Professor
Sorbonne Université, France
Encarnita Mariotti-Ferrandiz (PhD) is an Associate Professor in Immunology at Sorbonne Université and a senior member of the fundamental chair at Institut Universitaire de France, working as PI in the immunology-immunopathology-immunotherapy (i3) lab, located at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, in Paris. Her research focuses on i) deciphering the Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoire (AIRR) diversity in health and pathology with a major focus on T-cell biology and ii) developing a systems immunology approach to better characterize the immune system in disease by coordinating the integration of multi-scale biological (deep cell phenotype, transcriptome, adaptome, microbiome) and clinical information. From sample to statistical modelling, she is interested in (i) refining T cell differentiation and selection knowledge in health and disease and (ii) identifying uni-modal and multi-modal biomarkers of diseases. Her main field of research in immunology focus on the study of autoimmune in inflammatory diseases. She is involved in national projects (Transimmunom LabEx, iMAP RHU) as well as PI in international collaborative projects (AIR-MI and iReceptorPlus). More details on her publications and projects here. With this expertise, she co-chaired the Biological Resources working group of the AIRR-Community (2016-2019) to assess the needs and developments of AIRR-sequencing controls and standards and she is now the AIRR Community chair elect.
