Claire ROGEL-GAILLARD

Claire Rogel-Gaillard is Deputy Scientific Director for Agriculture at INRAE and Deputy Director for Research at the Biosphera graduate school of the University of Paris-Saclay. She is a corresponding member of the French Academy of Agriculture and chairs the Veterinary Immunology Committee of the International Union of Immunological Societies. Claire Rogel-Gaillard was Scientific Advisor to the Presidency of INRA (2011-2012). She headed the INRAE-AgroParisTech research unit Animal Genetics and Integrative Biology based in Jouy-en-Josas (2013-2020) and launched and then coordinated Sciences Animales Paris-Saclay, an interdisciplinary network dedicated to animal sciences (2015-2020). Her research focuses on the genetics and health of farm animals, with a focus on the links between genome, microbiome and immune competence in pigs. She participated in the pig and rabbit genome sequencing project and coordinated, in collaboration with BGI-Shenzhen and the University of Copenhagen, the construction of the first gene catalog of the pig gut microbiome. She contributes to the reflections that aim to concretize approaches related to global health (One World, One Health).