Sciences and Technology

Our mission

French American Cooperation in the Life Sciences Domain

 Bilateral meetings
 Scientific and parliamentary missions
 Assistance for partnerships…

Scientific and Technological Monitoring

 Scientific news
 Reports You can get access to these documents (in French) by following this link

Scientific information for the French and french-loving scientific communities
 French "Cafés des Sciences"
 Scientific Newsletter (in French)

Exchanges of Students and Scientists between France and U.S.

 “Chateaubriand” fellowships
 “PUF” funds…


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Agenda

Upcoming

 Spring 2010 : French Mission on Obesity

 03/16/2010 : FABS 2010 at the Salk Institute (follow-up of the previous events in 2008 and 2009)

 03/04/2010, 5:30pm at the Consulate General of France in Los Angeles : second "Café des Sciences"

Past events

 01/20/2010, 5:30pm at the Consulate General of France in Los Angeles : first "Café des Sciences"

 11/18 & 20/2009 - 2nd French Young Scientists Workshop in Southern California


 10/26 - 29/2009 - Workshop in Nanobiophotonics at the Fresnel Institute in Marseille, France (follow-up of the previous mission 2008 in the U.S)

 06/24/2009 - French Bio Beach

 03/30 - 31/2009 - FABS 2009 in Lyon, France (follow-up of the previous event in 2008)

 04/02/2008 - FABS - French American Biotechnology Symposium - at the SALK Institute

 03/17/2008 - Workshop in Nanobiophotonics

 03/03/2008 - French Young Scientists Workshop in Southern California at UCI

News about Sciences in France

eTech France brings you all the news in science and technology from France on a bimonthly basis. Each newsletter includes: special reports, short technology news, experts’ interviews and press releases from French research institutions.

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Contact us

Mireille Guyader, PhD
Scientific Attachée
Tél : (310) 235-3248
Fax : (310) 312-0704
attache-sdv.mst@consulfrance-losangeles.org




Mireille Guyader joined the Office for Science and Technology at the French Embassy in December 2006, as Scientific Attaché in Life Sciences domain. Her office is based at the French consulate in Los Angeles. She was a research scientist at INSERM (National Institute for Health and Medical Research) for 18 years and has been working on molecular biology of retroviruses, molecular imaging and vaccine approaches to HIV. She has been developing research projects at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, Columbia University in New York, Centre Médical Universitaire in Geneva, and more recently at the Center for Immunology of Marseille-Luminy. In 2003, she was a visiting scientist at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla.
She holds a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Paris VII.

Thomas Biedermann
Deputy Scientific Attaché
Tél : (310) 235-3212
Fax : (310) 477-0416
deputy-sdv.mst@consulfrance-losangeles.org




Thomas Biedermann joined the Office for Science and Technology at the French Embassy in October 2007, as Deputy Scientific Attaché specialized in Life Sciences domain for California and surrounding states. He made his undergraduate education and studied engineering and management in a French “Grande Ecole d’Ingénieur” with a major in organic chemistry. This was completed by a Master 2 in Organic Chemistry at the Aix-Marseille III University. He made his five-month graduating internship at the Sino-French Research Center in Life Sciences and Genomics in Shanghai during the summer 2009. His work consisted in finding a vecorization pathway for an antithrombotic tripeptide.
Thomas graduated from the “Ecole Centrale Marseille” in September 2009.


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