General information

Organisation

The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas :
• defence and security,
• nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.

Drawing on its widely acknowledged expertise, and thanks to its 16000 technicians, engineers, researchers and staff, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large number of academic and industrial partners.

The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
  

Reference

2023-27760  

Division description

By conducting research in the fields of physics, chemistry and life sciences, the Fundamental Research Division (DRF) contributes to the advancement of knowledge and technological developments at the highest level worldwide. It contributes to the development of solutions that meet the challenges facing our society, in the service of all the CEA's missions. The DRF employs over 6,000 people in 10 institutes. Collaboration with other research organizations and universities, in particular through joint research units, is central to the DRF.

Description de l'unité

The Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC) (https://www.i2bc.paris-saclay.fr/) is a joint research unit (UMR 9198), one of the 4 research entities of DRF's Frédéric Joliot Institute of Life Sciences (JOLIOT). JOLIOT brings together the life sciences teams on the Paris-Saclay campus, attached to the CEA Paris-Saclay. The I2BC gathers 650 staff from CEA, CNRS and Université Paris-Saclay. Its aim is to characterize the integrative functioning of the cell and, in particular, to understand the molecular processes that govern the cell's organization and overall physiology, as well as its interactions with the environment. The I2BC teams have access to technological platforms offering high-level services in genomics, biophysics, structural biology, proteomics, imaging and integrative bioinformatics.