Leo Blondel

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Leo Blondel

Graduate Student
leo@xqua.org


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Current Position: Co-founder & Head of Labs at Alien.club (AI development) , and Co-Founder Just One Giant Lab https://jogl.io/, a communication platform for science and innovation organizations and ecosystems
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Education:

M.Sc., Systems Biology. Ecole Normale Superieure. Paris, France
Ph.D., Computational Biology, Harvard University

Research Interests:

Leo was a Ph.D. student in the MCO program. He came to the Extavour lab with Master’s degrees in Developmental Biology and in Systems Biology from the Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS) ULM. During his PhD, he focused on bioinformatic sequence data, network analysis of developmental genes, and quantitative image analysis. Leo is an advocate of interdisciplinary projects, and believes in collective inteligence as the key to solving complex problems. Leo was involved with the European Union parliament on science policy surrounding green energy transitions. Leo is also an Open Science and Open Source advocate through participation in multiple projects, and a child of the cypherpunk hacker subculture.

Publications while at Extavour Lab:

Topology-driven analysis of protein-protein interaction networks detects functional genetic modules regulating reproductive capacity. Kumar, T., Blondel, L. and Extavour, C.G. eLife, 9:e54082 (2020). [PubMed]
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Ancestral and offspring nutrition interact to affect life history traits in Drosophila melanogaster. Deas, J.B.*, Blondel, L. and Extavour, C.G.* Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286(1897):20182778 (2019). [PubMed]
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Lineage domains and cytoskeletal cables organize a cellular square grid in a crustacean. Beatrice L. Steinert, Leo Blondel, Chandrashekar Kuyyamudi, Evangelia Stamataki, Anastasios Pavlopoulos, and Cassandra G. Extavour bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.31.673345 (2025).

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