MECA Department

The MECA department has diverse host teams spread across all Université Paris Cité research sites: institut Jacques Monod, institut Cochin, INEM, Necker, BFA, etc.

153 HDRs are part of this department , supervising 112 doctoral students in 2025.

Research topics are highly diverse, with the key words being :

Cellular and molecular biology
– Cellular biology, Molecular biology, Structural biology
– Cell signaling, Cell communication, Cell interactions

Regulation and metabolism
– Fundamental metabolism, Biochemistry, Biophysics
– Molecular regulation of gene expression (DNA, RNA, Epigenetics)

Cellular and molecular dynamics
– Cell death
– Cell differentiation
– Autophagy
– Cell division, Replication and genome repair processes
– Molecular and cellular mobility, Mechanobiology, Cytoskeleton
– Biology of organelles and extracellular vesicles
– Molecular assembly

Global technologies and approaches
– Biotechnologies
– Omics (Genomics, Transcriptomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics)
– Bioinformatics, Modeling, Molecular Engineering