Sciences, Philosophie, Histoire – UMR 7219, laboratoire SPHERE

 Conceptual history of biology: evolutionary theory, molecular biology, cell theory

 History of French biology (19th - 20th centuries)

 Epistemology of the history of science: presentism, historical epistemology, history of science/philosophy of science articulation

• Accreditation to conduct research, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2023). Dissertation title: Eléments pour une histoire conceptuelle de la biologie. Title of unpublished paper: Beyond Lamarckism. A Conceptual History of the Causal Relationships between Adaptability and Evolution, 1890-1970.

• “Agrégation” in biology (2003)

• DEA DEA in history and epistemology of science, University Paris VII Denis-Diderot (2004)

• PhD in the history of science and technology, University of Nantes (2008). Title of the thesis: Les concepts de plasticité et d’hérédité chez les néolamarckiens français (1879-1946). Eléments pour une histoire du transformisme en France.

• [2023] “Heredity as a problem. On Claude Bernard’s failed attempts at resolution”, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 45 (10), https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-023-00564-9
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• [2022] “The environment: An ambiguous concept in Waddington’s biology”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 91, pp. 181-190.

• [2021] “Epigenetic Inheritance and Evolution: A Historian’s Perspective”, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B 376: 20200120.

• [2020] « De la nécessité au hasard et à la finalité. Les transformations du concept de gratuité dans l’itinéraire intellectuel de Jacques Monod », Revue d’histoire des sciences, 73/2, pp. 205-236.

• [2018] « Un enthousiasme paradoxal ? Georges Canguilhem et la biologie moléculaire (1966-1973) », Revue d’histoire des sciences, 71/2, pp. 271-300.

• [2017] Loison Laurent, Gayon Jean, Burian Richard M., “The Contribution – and Collapse – of Lamarckian Heredity in Pastorian Microbiology: 1. Lysogeny, 1900-1960”, Journal of the History of Biology, 50/1, pp. 5-52.

• [2016] “Forms of presentism in the history of science. Rethinking the project of historical epistemology”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 60, pp. 29-37.

• [2016] “The Microscope against Cell Theory. Cancer Research in Nineteenth Century Parisian Anatomical Pathology”, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 71/3, pp. 271-292.

• [2010] Qu’est-ce que le néolamarckisme ? Les biologistes français et la question de l’évolution des espèces, 1870-1940, Paris, Vuibert, 256 pages. Préface de Michel Morange.

• Principal Investigator of the project “Claude Bernard, History and philosophy of a biological theory”, 2019-2022. Project funded by: Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, UDEM (Montreal), UQAM (Montreal), CIRST (Montreal), Fondation des Treilles

• Director of the axis 5 “Issues of the concept of plasticity: A view from the SHS” of the CNRS GDR: “Phenotypic Plasticity”: https://plasticite-phenotypique.cnrs.fr

• Member of the editorial board of the Revue d’histoire des sciences

• Member of the board of directors of the French Society of History of Science and Technology (SFHST)