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**EDUCATION** 2007 Habilitation Chemistry, University of Strasbourg, France. Thesis title: The Signature Molecular Descriptor: Predicting Properties and Activities to Design Molecules and Biological Sequences. 1991 Ph.D. Computational Chemistry, Ecole des Mines, Paris, France. Thesis title: Prediction, Elucidation, and Molecular Modeling: Algorithms and Applications in Geochemistry. 1986 Master Computer Science, University of Paris VI, France. Thesis title: Hidden Surface Elimination. 1995 Engineering degree Computer Science, Institut d’Informatique d’Entreprise, Conservatoire National des Arts & Métiers, Paris, France. 1982 DEUG Chemistry, University of Dijon, France. **RESEARCH, TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE** 2015--- Senior Research Director (DR1) at MICALIS Institute. Head of the BioRetroSynth research team (~12 research staff). 2014--- Chair in Synthetic Biology and Systems Metabolic Engineering, School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester. SYNBIOCHEM cabinet member. 2010-2015 Director, Institute of Systems & Synthetic Biology (iSSB). iSSB is a CNRS research unit comprising 5 research teams, ~30 faculty and staff members and ~10 PhD students. 2010--- Head, Master in Systems & Synthtic Biology (mSSB). This master program has been ranked A+ by the French academic ranking agency (HCERES). The master has been running for 9 consecutive years and student have participated to the iGEM competition (gold medails in 2019, 2018, 2017, 2012, 2013, best model in 2012, best human practices in 2012 & 2013). 2009-2017 Consultant for Genopole ([www.genopole.fr](http://www.genopole.fr)). Advisor for the development of Synthetic Biology in Evry. 2008-2015 Full Professor, Biology Department, Évry University. Teaching Responsibility: bioinformatics, systems & synthetic biology, and metabolic engineering (undergraduate students first and 2nd-year graduate students). Spring 2011 Visiting Scholar Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA, CA. Organized and chaired the long-term program « Navigating Chemical Compound Space for Materials and Bio Design ». 2007–2008 Director, Pretreatment Section, Deconstuction Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA, USA. Research project: design of ionic liquids and cellulases for biofuel productions. Lead a group of 5 PhD staff scientists and post-docs (chemical engineers, analytical chemists, molecular biologists, and computational chemists). 2003–2008 Distinguished Member of the Systems Biology Dept., Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA *(the distinguished scientist recognition is a peer-reviewed award given to the top 10% PhD employees).* Responsible of 9 research projects. Inference and dynamics of signaling and transcriptional networks (cf. MISL and GENET projects in funding sources lists). Prediction of protein-protein, enzyme-metabolite and drug-target interactions (GTL, PROTDESIGN and MLSC projects). Lead a group of 6 PhD staff scientists and post-docs in molecular biology, bioinformatics and computational biology. 1997–2003 Primary Member of Computational Biology Dept., Sandia National Laboratories *(25% of PhD staff scientists are primary members).* Research projects: structural biology (IBIG project), drug design and polymer design (MLSC, iQSAR and MICS projects). Lead a group of six polymer and materials staff scientists (ASCI project). 1995–1997 Senior Member of Computer-Aided Molecular Design group Sandia National Laboratories *(in 1995 I am one of the first non-US citizen to be hired by Sandia Labs on a tenured position).* Research projects: Structure and reaction network inference for hydrocarbon thermal cracking (funded by Chevron). 1993–1994 Research Associate in the Computer-Aided Molecular Design group at Sandia National Laboratories. Research: develop computational methods for molecular design and structure inference. 1991–1993 Post-doctoral Scientist in the Materials Science Dept. at Penn State Univ., PA, USA. Teaching: molecular modeling. Research: Molecular structure inference of natural products (lignin, humic substances). 1989–1991 Agent contractual, Ecole des Mines, Paris, France. Teaching: computer graphics, molecular modeling. Research: Molecular structure inference for petroleum precursors. 1985–1989 Adjunct Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the Conservatoire National Arts & Métiers, Paris, France. Teaching: computer graphics, computer systems, networks.

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The automated Galaxy-SynBioCAD pipeline for synthetic biology design and engineering

Joan Hérisson , Thomas Duigou , Melchior Du Lac , Kenza Bazi-Kabbaj , Mahnaz Sabeti Azad et al.
Nature Communications, 2022, ⟨10.1038/s41467-022-32661-x⟩
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Cell-Free protein synthesis from exonuclease-deficient cellular extracts utilizing linear DNA templates

Mahnaz Sabeti Azad , Angelo Cardoso Batista , Jean-Loup Faulon , Chase L Beisel , Jérôme Bonnet et al.
Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE, In press, ⟨10.3791/64236⟩
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Differentially Optimized Cell-Free Buffer Enables Robust Expression from Unprotected Linear DNA in Exonuclease-Deficient Extracts

Angelo Cardoso Batista , Antoine Levrier , Paul Soudier , Peter Voyvodic , Tatjana Achmedov et al.
ACS Synthetic Biology, 2022, 11 (2), pp.732-746. ⟨10.1021/acssynbio.1c00448⟩
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PeroxiHUB : a modular cell-free biosensing platform using H2O2 as signal integrator

Paul Soudier , Ana Zúñiga , Thomas Duigou , Peter Voyvodic , Kenza Bazi-Kabbaj et al.
ACS Synthetic Biology, 2022, ⟨10.1021/acssynbio.2c00138⟩
Journal articles hal-03649349v2
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Development of a Biosensor for Detection of Benzoic Acid Derivatives in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Sara Castaño-Cerezo , Mathieu Fournié , Philippe Urban , Jean-Loup Faulon , Gilles Truan et al.
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2020, 7 (1), ⟨10.3389/fbioe.2019.00372⟩
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Large scale active-learning-guided exploration for in vitro protein production optimization

Olivier Borkowski , Mathilde Koch , Agnes Zettor , Amir Pandi , Angelo Cardoso Batista et al.
Nature Communications, 2020, 11 (1), pp.1872. ⟨10.1038/s41467-020-15798-5⟩
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Custom-made transcriptional biosensors for metabolic engineering.

Mathilde Koch , Amir Pandi , Olivier Borkowski , Angelo Cardoso Batista , Jean-Loup Faulon et al.
Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2019, 59, pp.78-84. ⟨10.1016/j.copbio.2019.02.016⟩
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Efficient learning in metabolic pathway designs through optimal assembling

Pablo Carbonell , Jean-Loup Faulon , Rainer Breitling
IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2019, 52 (26), pp.7-12. ⟨10.1016/j.ifacol.2019.12.228⟩
Journal articles hal-02905161v1
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Retrorules: a database of reaction rules for engineering biology

Thomas Duigou , Melchior Du Lac , Pablo Carbonell , Jean-Loup Faulon
Nucleic Acids Research, 2019, 47 (D1), pp.1-7. ⟨10.1093/nar/gky940⟩
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Optimizing cell-free biosensors to monitor enzymatic production.

Amir Pandi , Ioana Grigoras , Olivier Borkowski , Jean-Loup Faulon
ACS Synthetic Biology, 2019, 8 (8), pp.1952-1957. ⟨10.1021/acssynbio.9b00160⟩
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Metabolic perceptrons for neural computing in biological systems

Amir Pandi , Mathilde Koch , Peter L. Voyvodic , Paul Soudier , Jérôme Bonnet et al.
Nature Communications, 2019, 10 (1), ⟨10.1038/s41467-019-11889-0⟩
Journal articles hal-02275517v1

Machine Learning of Designed Translational Control Allows Predictive Pathway Optimization in Escherichia coli

Adrian J. Jervis , Pablo Carbonell , Maria Vinaixa , Mark S. Dunstan , Katherine A. Hollywood et al.
ACS Synthetic Biology, 2019, 8 (1), pp.127-136. ⟨10.1021/acssynbio.8b00398⟩
Journal articles hal-02621980v1
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Microbial genes for a circular and sustainable Bio-PET Economy.

Manuel Salvador , Umar Abdulmutalib , Jaime Gonzalez , Juhyun Kim , Alex A Smith et al.
Genes, 2019, 10 (5), ⟨10.3390/genes10050373⟩
Journal articles hal-02627201v1

Reinforcement learning for bioretrosynthesis

Mathilde Koch , Thomas Duigou , Jean-Loup Faulon
ACS Synthetic Biology, 2019, 9 (1), pp.157-168. ⟨10.1021/acssynbio.9b00447⟩
Journal articles hal-02905157v1
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Plug-and-play metabolic transducers expand the chemical detection space of cell-free biosensors

Peter Voyvodic , Amir Pandi , Mathilde Koch , Ismael Conejero , Emmanuel Valjent et al.
Nature Communications, 2019, 10 (1), ⟨10.1038/s41467-019-09722-9⟩
Journal articles hal-02399479v1

PartsGenie: an integrated tool for optimizing and sharing synthetic biology parts

Neil Swainston , Mark Dunstan , Adrian J. Jervis , Christopher J. Robinson , Pablo Carbonell et al.
Bioinformatics, 2018, 34 (13), pp.2327-2329. ⟨10.1093/bioinformatics/bty105⟩
Journal articles hal-02622152v1
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Models for cell-free synthetic biology: Make prototyping easier, better, and faster

Mathilde Koch , Jean-Loup Faulon , Olivier Borkowski
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2018, 6, pp.1-6. ⟨10.3389/fbioe.2018.00182⟩
Journal articles hal-02621501v1

Building a minimal and generalizable model of transcription factor-based biosensors: Showcasing flavonoids

Heykel Trabelsi , Mathilde Koch , Jean-Loup Faulon
Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 2018, 115 (9), pp.2292-2304. ⟨10.1002/bit.26726⟩
Journal articles hal-02625459v1
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Selenzyme: enzyme selection tool for pathway design

Pablo Carbonell , Jerry Wong , Neil Swainston , Erika Takano , Nicholas J. Turner et al.
Bioinformatics, 2018, 34 (12), pp.2153-2154. ⟨10.1093/bioinformatics/bty065⟩
Journal articles hal-02621189v1
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RetroPath2.0: A retrosynthesis workflow for metabolic engineers

Baudoin Delepine , Thomas Duigou , Pablo Carbonell , Jean-Loup Faulon
Metabolic Engineering, 2018, 45, pp.158-170. ⟨10.1016/j.ymben.2017.12.002⟩
Journal articles hal-02625929v1
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An automated Design-Build-Test-Learn pipeline for enhanced microbial production of fine chemicals

Pablo Carbonell , Adrian J. Jervis , Christopher J. Robinson , Cunyu Yan , Mark Dunstan et al.
Communications Biology, 2018, 1, ⟨10.1038/s42003-018-0076-9⟩
Journal articles hal-02622177v1
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A dataset of small molecules triggering transcriptional and translational cellular responses

Mathilde Koch , Amir Pandi , Baudoin Delepine , Jean-Loup Faulon
Data in Brief, 2018, 17, pp.1374-1378. ⟨10.1016/j.dib.2018.02.061⟩
Journal articles hal-02622874v1
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biochem4j: Integrated and extensible biochemical knowledge through graph databases

Neil Swainston , Riza Batista Navarro , Pablo Carbonnell , Paul D. Dobson , Mark Dunstan et al.
PLoS ONE, 2017, 12 (7), pp.e0179130. ⟨10.1371/journal.pone.0179130⟩
Journal articles hal-01606003v1
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Molecular structures enumeration and virtual screening in the chemical space with RetroPath2.0

Mathilde Koch , Thomas Duigou , Pablo Carbonell , Jean-Loup Faulon
Journal of Cheminformatics, 2017, 9, pp.1-17. ⟨10.1186/s13321-017-0252-9⟩
Journal articles hal-02623106v1

How will kinetics and thermodynamics inform our future efforts to understand and build biological systems?

Jennifer Doudna , Roy Bar-Ziv , Johan Elf , Vincent Noireaux , Julien Berro et al.
Cell Systems, 2017, 4 (2), pp.144-146. ⟨10.1016/j.cels.2017.02.005⟩
Journal articles hal-01530833v1
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SensiPath: computer-aided design of sensing-enabling metabolic pathways

Baudoin Delepine , Vincent Libis , Pablo Carbonell , Jean-Loup Faulon
Nucleic Acids Research, 2016, 44 (W1), pp.W226-W231. ⟨10.1093/nar/gkw305⟩
Journal articles hal-02634192v1

SYNBIOCHEM–a SynBio foundry for the biosynthesis and sustainable production of fine and speciality chemicals

Pablo Carbonell , Andrew Currin , Mark Dunstan , Donal Fellows , Adrian J. Jervis et al.
Biochemical Society Transactions, 2016, 44 (3), pp.675-677. ⟨10.1042/BST20160009⟩
Journal articles hal-01606550v1
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Mapping the patent landscape of synthetic biology for fine chemical production pathways

Pablo Carbonell , Abdullah Gok , Philip Shapira , Jean-Loup Faulon
Microbial Biotechnology, 2016, 9 (5), pp.687-695. ⟨10.1111/1751-7915.12401⟩
Journal articles hal-01607654v1

Semisupervised Gaussian process for automated enzyme search

Joseph Mellor , Ioana Grigoras , Pablo Carbonell , Jean-Loup Faulon
ACS Synthetic Biology, 2016, 5 (6), pp.518-528. ⟨10.1021/acssynbio.5b00294⟩
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Expanding Biosensing Abilities through Computer-Aided Design of Metabolic Pathways

Vincent Libis , Baudoin Delepine , Jean-Loup Faulon
ACS Synthetic Biology, 2016, 5 (10), pp.1076-1085. ⟨10.1021/acssynbio.5b00225⟩
Journal articles hal-01602231v1
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SYNBIOCHEM Synthetic Biology Research Centre, Manchester – A UK foundry for fine and speciality chemicals production

Rosalind A. Le Feuvre , Pablo Carbonell , Andrew Currin , Mark Dunstan , Donal Fellows et al.
Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology, 2016, 1 (4), pp.271-275. ⟨10.1016/j.synbio.2016.07.001⟩
Journal articles hal-01602386v1

Sensing new chemicals with bacterial transcription factors

Vincent Libis , Baudoin Delepine , Jean-Loup Faulon
Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2016, 33, pp.105-112. ⟨10.1016/j.mib.2016.07.006⟩
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Principles of Systems Biology, No. 11

Greg Wayne , Alex Graves , Demis Hassabis , Shambaditya Saha , Christoph A. Weber et al.
Cell Systems, 2016, 3 (5), pp.406-410
Journal articles hal-01531770v1
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A sense of balance: experimental investigation and modeling of a malonyl-CoA sensor in Escherichia coli

Tamás Fehér , Vincent Libis , Pablo Carbonell , Jean-Loup Faulon
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2015, 3, ⟨10.3389/fbioe.2015.0004⟩
Journal articles hal-01601465v1

Retropath: automated pipeline for embedded metabolic circuits

Pablo Carbonell , Pierre Parutto , Claire Baudier , Christophe Junot , Jean-Loup Faulon et al.
ACS Synthetic Biology, 2014, 3 (8), pp.565-577. ⟨10.1021/sb4001273⟩
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Validation of RetroPath, a computer-aided design tool for metabolic pathway engineering.

Tamás Fehér , Anne-Gaëlle Planson , Pablo Carbonell , Alfred Fernández-Castané , Ioana Grigoras et al.
Biotechnology Journal, 2014, 9 (11), pp.1446-1457. ⟨10.1002/biot.201400055⟩
Journal articles hal-02639677v1

Computer-aided design for metabolic engineering

Alfred Fernandez Castané , Tamás Fehér , Pablo Carbonell , Cyrille Pauthenier , Jean-Loup Faulon et al.
Journal of Biotechnology, 2014, 192, pp.302-313. ⟨10.1016/j.jbiotec.2014.03.029⟩
Journal articles hal-01606076v1
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XTMS: pathway design in an eXTended metabolic space

Pablo Carbonell , Pierre Parutto , Joan Hérisson , Shashi Bhushan Pandit , Jean-Loup Faulon et al.
Nucleic Acids Research, 2014, 42, pp.W389-394. ⟨10.1093/nar/gku362⟩
Journal articles hal-01608645v1
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PrecisePrimer: an easy-to-use web server for designing PCR primers for DNA library cloning and DNA shuffling

Cyrille Pauthenier , Jean-Loup Faulon
Nucleic Acids Research, 2014, 42, pp.W205-W209. ⟨10.1093/nar/gku393⟩
Journal articles hal-01607225v1
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PMG: Multi-core Metabolite Identification

Mohammad Mahdi Jaghoori , Sung-Shik T.Q. Jongmans , Frank de Boer , Julio Peironcely , Jean-Loup Faulon et al.
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, 2013, 299, pp.53-60. ⟨10.1016/j.entcs.2013.11.005⟩
Journal articles hal-01601690v1
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Statistical ensemble analysis for simulating extrinsic noise-driven response in NF-κB signaling networks

Jaewok Joo , Steven J. Plimpton , Jean-Loup Faulon
BMC Systems Biology, 2013, 7, ⟨10.1186/1752-0509-7-45⟩
Journal articles hal-01601848v1

Stereo signature molecular descriptor

Pablo Carbonell , Lars Carlsson , Jean-Loup Faulon
Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2013, 53 (4), pp.887-897. ⟨10.1021/ci300584r⟩
Journal articles hal-01601691v1

A retrosynthetic biology approach to therapeutics: from conception to delivery

Anne-Gaëlle Planson , Pablo Carbonell , Ioana Grigoras , Jean-Loup Faulon
Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2012, 23 (6), pp.948-956. ⟨10.1016/j.copbio.2012.03.009⟩
Journal articles hal-02651873v1

Compound toxicity screening and structure-activity relationship modeling in Escherichia coli

Anne-Gaelle Planson , Pablo Carbonell , Elodie Paillard , Nicolas Pollet , Jean-Loup Faulon et al.
Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 2012, 109 (3), pp.846-850. ⟨10.1002/bit.24356⟩
Journal articles hal-02341732v1

Compound toxicity screening and structure-activity relationship modeling in Escherichia coli

Anne-Gaëlle Planson , Pablo Carbonell , Elodie Paillard , Nicolas Pollet , Jean-Loup Faulon et al.
Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 2012, 109 (3), pp.846-850. ⟨10.1002/bit.24356⟩
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Engineering antibiotic production and overcoming bacterial resistance

Anne-Gaëlle Planson , Pablo Carbonell , Ioana Grigoras , Jean-Loup Faulon
Biotechnology Journal, 2011, 6 (7), pp.812-825. ⟨10.1002/biot.201100085⟩
Journal articles hal-02647510v1
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A retrosynthetic biology approach to metabolic pathway design for therapeutic production

Pablo Carbonell , Anne-Gaëlle Planson , Davide Fichera , Jean-Loup Faulon
BMC Systems Biology, 2011, 5 (122), ⟨10.1186/1752-0509-5-122⟩
Journal articles hal-02652758v1

Enzyme discovery: Enzyme selection and pathway design

Pablo Carbonell , Mathilde Koch , Thomas Duigou , Jean-Loup Faulon
Methods in Enzymology, 608, Elsevier Academic Press Inc., pp.25, 2018, Methods in Enzymology, 978-0-12-815148-8. ⟨10.1016/bs.mie.2018.04.005⟩
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Extended metabolic space modeling

Pablo Carbonell , Baudoin Delepine , Jean-Loup Faulon
Synthetic metabolic pathways, 1671, Springer, 394 p., 2017, Methods in Molecular Biology, 978-1-4939-7295-1
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Retrosynthetic design of heterologous pathways

Pablo Carbonell , Anne-Gaëlle Planson , Jean-Loup Faulon
Systems metabolic engineering, 985, Springer, 474 p., 2013, Methods in Molecular Biology, 978-1-62703-298-8
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Retrosynthetic design of heterologous pathways 2013

Pablo Carbonell , Anne-Gaëlle Planson , Jean-Loup Faulon
Systems Metabolic Engineering, 985, Humana Press, 2013, Methods in Molecular Biology, 978-1-62703-298-8. ⟨10.1007/978-1-62703-299-5_9⟩
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Graphs: flexible representations of molecular structures and biological networks

M. Misra , S. Martin , Jean-Loup Faulon
Computational Approaches in Cheminformatics and Bioinformatics, John Wiley and sons, 292 p., 2011, 978-0-470-38441-1. ⟨10.1002/9781118131411.ch6⟩
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