Main Peer-reviewed Publications

 

 

 
Manfroi B, Dang VD, Bui-Thi C, Jungmann A, Borzakian S, Tong Y, Beauvineau C, Dupuis L, Guffart E, Borst K, Nguyen NT, Alvarez-Simon D, Chyzak G, Schaefer S, Gerlach RG, Frischbutter S, Hamann A, Salem Wehbe L, El Behi M, Luka M, Menager M, Jouneau L, Boudinot P, Jung S, Winkler TH, Liblau R, Marignier R, Isambert H, Prinz M, von Kries P, Specker E, Walter J, Mahuteau-Betzer F, Fillatreau S: Induced regulatory B cells stably expressing IL-10 cure CNS autoimmunity by targeting local myeloid cells
Immunity, in press (2026).
PubmedDOIpdf
 

 

 

 
Donada A, Hermange G, Tocci T, Midoun A, Prevedello G, Hadj Abed L, Dupre D, Sun W, Milo I, Tenreira Bento S, Pospori C, Innes A, Willekens C, Vargaftig J, Michonneau D, Lo Celso C, Servant N, Duffy KR, Isambert H, Cournede PH, Laplane L, Perie L: Clonal memory of cell division in humans diverges between healthy haematopoiesis and acute myeloid leukaemia
Nature Commun, in press (2026).
PubmedDOIbioRxiv
 

 

 

 
Fusilier Z, Clement A, Simon F, Calvente I, Jean-Marie R, Mathieu M, Calmettes V, Piastra-Facon F, Quintana-Perez Y, George Clement J, Crestey L, Lumineau E, Henninger R, Tonani M, Manriquez V, Lacerda L, Bensaid L, de Villemagne P, Piaggio E, Semetey V, Coscoy S, Martini E, Scita G, Gelly J-C, Ivaska J, Isambert H, Goudot C, Pierobon P, Lennon-Dumenil A-M, Moreau HD: Macrophages restrict tumor immune infiltration by controlling collagen topography
Science Immunology, 11 (117):eadw8291 (2026).
PubmedDOIbioRxivpdf
 

 

 

 
Buvat I, Aarntzen E, Badawi RD, Ballesta A, Bock C, Chuah C-N, Fisher J, Graff J-P, Ilan Y, Isambert H, Ivanov P, Izu LT, Koenen HJPM, Langevin H, Lewis DY, Pires M, Sundar LKS, Tawakol A, ter Horst R, van Cranenbroek B, Weigelin B, Cherry SR, Beyer T: Cross-Disciplinary Methodologies for Whole-Person Research - Insights from EMPOWER2024
npj Imaging, 4, 19 (2026).
PubmedDOIpdf
 

 

 

 
Lagrange N, Isambert H: An efficient search-and-score algorithm for ancestral graphs using multivariate information scores for complex non-linear and categorical data
Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2025), PMLR 267:32164-32187 (2025).
PubmedDOIICMLpdf
 

 

 

 
Dupuis L, Debeaupuis O, Simon F, Isambert H: CausalCCC: a web server to explore intracellular causal pathways enabling cell-cell communication
Nucleic Acids Res, 53, W125 (2025).
PubmedDOIpdf
 

 

 

 
Jeanpierre M, Debeaupuis O, Brunaud C, Yancoski J, Riller Q, Hadjadj J, Stolzenberg M-C, Villarreal G, Katsicas MM, Villa M, Neves JF, Stephan J-L, Leonard C, Lazaro E, Ciron J, Boussard C, Mazerolles F, Magerus A, Pelle O, Masson C, Schmitt Y, Hoareau B, Vinit A, Neven B, Quartier P, Isambert H, Oleastro M, Danielian S, Parlato M, Rieux-Laucat F: In silico modeling guides identification of novel JAK1 variants associated with immune dysregulation
EMBO Mol Med, 17 (12), 3275 (2025).
PubmedDOIpdf
 

 

 

 
Sella N, Guinot F, Lagrange N, Albou LP, Desponds J, Isambert H: Preserving information while respecting privacy through an information theoretic framework for synthetic health data generation
npj Digital Medicine, 8, 49 (2025).
PubmedDOIpdf
 

 

 

 
Parent C, Honari H, Tocci T, Simon F, Zaidi S, Jan A, Aubert V, Delattre O, Isambert H, Wilhelm C, Viovy J-L: Label-free Machine Learning prediction of chemotherapy on tumor spheroids using a microfluidics droplet platform
Small Science, 2500173 (2025).
PubmedDOIpdfsupp
 

 

 

 
Donada A, Hermange G, Tocci T, Midoun A, Prevedello G, Hadj Abed L, Dupre D, Sun W, Milo I, Tenreira Bento S, Pospori C, Innes A, Willekens C, Vargaftig J, Michonneau D, Lo Celso C, Servant N, Duffy KR, Isambert H, Cournede PH, Laplane L, Perie L: Clonal memory of cell division in humans diverges between healthy haematopoiesis and acute myeloid leukaemia
bioRxiv, 2025.06.24.660535 (2025).
PubmedDOIbioRxiv
 

 

 

 
Simon F, Comes MC, Tocci T, Dupuis L, Cabeli V, Lagrange N, Mencattini A, Parrini MC, Martinelli E, Isambert H: CausalXtract: a flexible pipeline to extract causal effects from live-cell time-lapse imaging data
eLife, 13:RP95485 (2025).
PubmedDOIbioRxivpdfpdf+supp
[press release]
 

 

 

 
Fusilier Z, Simon F, Calvente I, Crestey L, Clement A, Mathieu M, Jean-Marie R, Piastra-Facon F, George Clement J, Lumineau E, Tonani M, Manriquez V, Lacerda L, de Villemagne P, Piaggio E, Semetey V, Coscoy S, Martini E, Scita G, Gelly J-C, Ivaska J, Isambert H, Goudot C, Pierobon P, Lennon-Dumenil A-M, Moreau HD: Macrophages restrict tumor permissiveness to immune infiltration by controlling local collagen topography through a Tcf4-Collagen3 fibrotic axis
bioRxiv, 2025.01.17.633527 (2025).
PubmedDOIbioRxivpdfpdf+supp
 

 

 

 
Lagrange N, Isambert H: An efficient search-and-score algorithm for ancestral graphs using multivariate information scores
opt-in article at NeurIPS 2024, arXiv, 2412.17508 (2024).
PubmedDOIarXivpdf
 

 

 

 
Miladinovic O, Canto P-Y, Pouget C, Piau O, Radic N, Freschu P, Megherbi A, Prats CB, Jacques S, Hirsinger E, Geeverding A, Dufour S, Petit L, Souyri M, North T, Isambert H, Traver D, Jaffredo T, Charbord P, Durand C: A multistep computational approach reveals a neuro-mesenchymal cell population in the embryonic hematopoietic stem cell niche
Development, 151, dev202614 (2024).
PubmedDOIpdfsupp
 

 

 

 
Ribeiro-Dantas MdC, Li H, Cabeli V, Dupuis L, Simon F, Hettal L, Hamy A-S and Isambert H: Learning interpretable causal networks from very large datasets, application to 400,000 medical records of breast cancer patients
iScience 27(5):109736 (2024).
PubmedDOI | arxivpdfpdf+supp
 

 

 

 
Cosgrove J, Lyne A-M, Rodriguez I, Cabeli V, Conrad C, Tenreira-Bento S, Tubeuf E, Russo E, Tabarin F, Belloucif Y, Maleki-Toyserkani S, Reed S, Monaco F, Ager A, Lobry C, Bousso P, Fernandez-Marcos PJ, Isambert H, Arguello RJ, Perie L: Metabolically primed multipotent hematopoietic progenitors fuel innate immunity
bioRxiv 2023.01.24.525166 (2023).
Pubmed | bioRxivpdfsupp
 

 

 

 
Sella N, Hamy AS, Cabeli V, Darrigues L, Lae M, Reyal F, Isambert H: Interactive exploration of a global clinical network from a large breast cancer cohort
npj Digital Medicine 5, 113 (2022).
Pubmed | DOIpdfsupp
 

 

 

 
Cabeli V, Li H, Ribeiro-Dantas M, Simon F, Isambert H: Reliable causal discovery based on mutual information supremum principle for finite dataset
Why21 @ NeurIPS2021 (2021).
Pubmed | DOIpdfsupp
 

 

 

 
Mencattini A, Spalloni A, Casti P, Comes MC, Di Giuseppe D, Antonelli G, D Orazio M, Filippi J, Corsi F, Isambert H, Di Natale C, Longone P, Martinelli E: NeuriTES. Monitoring neurite changes through transfer entropy and semantic segmentation in bright-field time-lapse microscopy
Patterns 2(6):100261 (2021).
Pubmed | DOIpdfsupp
 

 

 

 
Vial A, Taveneau C, Costa L, Chauvin B, Nasrallah H, Godefroy C, Dosset P, Isambert H, Ngo KX, Mangenot S, Levy D, Bertin A, Milhiet PE: Correlative AFM and fluorescence imaging demonstrate nanoscale membrane remodeling and ring-like and tubular structure formation by septins
Nanoscale 13, 12484-12493 (2021).
Pubmed | DOIpdfsupp
 

 

 

 
Cabeli V, Verny L, Sella N, Uguzzoni U, Verny M, Isambert H: Learning clinical networks from medical records based on information estimates in mixed-type data
PLoS Comput Biol 16(5):e1007866 (2020).
Pubmed | DOIpdfsupp
 

 

 

 
Desterke C, Petit L, Sella N, Chevallier N, Cabeli V, Coquelin L, Durand C, Oostendorp RAJ, Isambert H, Jaffredo T, Charbord P: Inferring gene networks in bone marrow Hematopoietic Stem Cell-supporting stromal niche populations
iScience 23(6):101222 (2020).
Pubmed | DOIpdfsupp
 

 

 

 
Singh PP, Isambert H: Ohnologs v2: a comprehensive resource for the genes retained from whole genome duplication in vertebrates
Nucleic Acid Res 48(D1):D724-D730 (2020).
Pubmed | DOIpdfsuppbioRxiv | Ohnologs server
[recommended by F1000Prime]
 

 

 

 
Arbabian A, Iftinca M, Altier C, Singh PP, Isambert H, Coscoy S: Mutations in calmodulin-binding domains of TRPV4/6 channels confer invasive properties to colon adenocarcinoma cells.
Channels 14(1):101-109 (2020).
Pubmed | DOIpdfsupp
 

 

 

 
Li H, Cabeli V, Sella N, Isambert H: Constraint-based causal structure learning with consistent separating sets.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 32, 14257-14266 (2019).
Pubmed | DOIpdfsupp
 

 

 

 
Beber A, Taveneau C, Nania M, Tsai F-C, Di Cicco A, Bassereau P, Levy D, Cabral JT, Isambert H, Mangenot S, Bertin A: Membrane reshaping by micrometric curvature sensitive septin filaments.
Nat Commun 10: 420 (2019).
Pubmed | DOIpdfsupp
 

 

 

 
Sella N, Verny L, Uguzzoni G, Affeldt S, Isambert H: MIIC online: a web server to reconstruct causal or non-causal networks from non-perturbative data.
Bioinformatics 34(13):2311-2313 (2018).
Pubmed | OUPpdf | MIIC online server
 

 

 

 
Verny L, Sella N, Affeldt S, Singh PP, Isambert H: Learning causal networks with latent variables from multivariate information in genomic data.
PLoS Comput Biol 13(10):e1005662 (2017).
Pubmed | PLOSpdfsupp
[recommended by F1000]
 

 

 

 
Affeldt S, Verny L, Isambert H: 3off2: A network reconstruction algorithm based on 2-point and 3-point information statistics.
BMC Bioinformatics, 17 Suppl 2:12 (2016).
Pubmed | BMCpdfsupp
 

 

 

 
Singh P-P, Arora J, Isambert H: Identification of ohnolog genes originating from whole genome duplication in early vertebrates, based on synteny comparison across multiple genomes.
PLoS Comput Biol, 11(7):e1004394 (2015).
Pubmed | PLOSpdfsupp | Ohnologs server
 

 

 

 
Affeldt S, Isambert H: Robust reconstruction of causal graphical models based on conditional 2-point and 3-point information.
Proceedings of the 31th conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), Amsterdam. Morgan Kaufmann (2015). [peer reviewed article]
AUAIpdfsupp
 

 

 

 
Singh PP, Affeldt S, Malaguti G, Isambert H: Human dominant disease genes are enriched in paralogs originating from whole genome duplication.
PLoS Comput Biol, 10(7):e1003754 (2014).
Pubmed | PLOSpdf
 

 

 

 
Malaguti G, Singh PP, Isambert H. On the retention of gene duplicates prone to dominant deleterious mutations.
Theor Popul Biol, 93:38-51 (2014).
Pubmed | ScienceDirectpdf
 

 

 

 
Affeldt S, Singh PP, Cascone I, Selimoglu R, Camonis J, Isambert H: Evolution and cancer: expansion of dangerous gene repertoire by whole genome duplications.
Med Sci, 29(4), 358-61 (2013) [french].
Pubmed | EDPSciencespdf
 

 

 

 
Singh PP, Affeldt S, Cascone I, Selimoglu R, Camonis J, Isambert H: On the expansion of "dangerous" gene repertoires by whole genome duplications in early vertebrates.
Cell Rep, 2(5), 1387-1398 (2012).
Pubmed | CellPresspdfsupp
[featured by Le Point, Biofutur, CNRS]
 

 

 

 
Stein RR, Isambert H: Logistic map analysis of biomolecular network evolution.
Phys Rev E, 84, 051904 (2011).
Pubmed | APSpdf
 

 

 

 
Shukla GC, Haque F, Tor Y, Wilhelmsson LM, Toulmé JJ, Isambert H, Guo P, Rossi JJ, Tenenbaum SA, Shapiro BA: A boost for the emerging field of RNA nanotechnology.
ACS Nano, 5(5):3405-18 (2011).
Pubmed | ACSpdf
 

 

 

 
Viasnoff V, Bockelmann U, Isambert H, Laufer L, Tsori Y: Localized Joule heating produced by ion current focusing through micron-size holes.
Appl Phys Lett, 96, 163701 (2010).
AIPpdf
 

 

 

 
Cayrol B, Nogues C, Dawid A, Sagi I, Silberzan P, Isambert H: A nanostructure made of a bacterial noncoding RNA.
J Am Chem Soc, 131(47):17270-6 (2009).
Pubmed | ACSpdfsupp
[featured by HFSP]
 

 

 

 
Isambert H, Stein RR: On the need for widespread horizontal gene transfers under genome size constraint.
Biol Direct, 4:28 (2009).
Pubmed | BMCpdf
 

 

 

 
Dawid A, Cayrol B, Isambert H: RNA synthetic biology inspired from bacteria: construction of transcription attenuators under antisense regulation.
Phys Biol, 6(2):025007 (2009).
Pubmed | IOPpdf
 

 

 

 
Isambert H: The jerky and knotty dynamics of RNA.
Methods, 49(2):189-96 (2009). [review]
Pubmed | ScienceDirectpdf
 

 

 

 
Sellerio AL, Bassetti B, Isambert H, Cosentino Lagomarsino M: A comparative evolutionary study of transcription networks. The global role of feedback and hierachical structures.
Mol Biosyst, 5(2):170-9 (2009).
Pubmed | RSCpdf
 

 

 

 
Evlampiev K, Isambert H: Conservation and topology of protein interaction networks under duplication-divergence evolution.
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 105(29):9863-8 (2008).
Pubmed | PNASpdfsupp
 

 

 

 
Evlampiev K, Isambert H: Modeling protein network evolution under genome duplication and domain shuffling.
BMC Syst Biol, 1:49 (2007).
Pubmed | BMCpdfsupp
 

 

 

 
Cosentino Lagomarsino M, Jona P, Bassetti B, Isambert H: Hierarchy and feedback in the evolution of the Escherichia coli transcription network.
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 104(13):5516-20 (2007).
Pubmed | PNASpdfsupp
[featured by F1000]
 

 

 

 
Xayaphoummine A, Viasnoff V, Harlepp S, Isambert H: Encoding folding paths of RNA switches.
Nucleic Acids Res, 35(2):614-22 (2007).
Pubmed | OXFORDpdf
[featured by HFSP]
 

 

 

 
Viasnoff V, Meller A, Isambert H: DNA nanomechanical switches under folding kinetics control.
Nano Lett, 6(1):101-4 (2006).
Pubmed | ACSpdf
[featured by Nanowerk]
 

 

 

 
Xayaphoummine A, Bucher T, Isambert H: Kinefold web server for RNA/DNA folding path and structure prediction including pseudoknots and knots.
Nucleic Acids Res, 33:W605-10 (2005).
Pubmed | OXFORDpdfsupp | Kinefold server
 

 

 

 
Harlepp S, Marchal T, Robert J, Léger JF, Xayaphoummine A, Isambert H, Chatenay D: Probing complex RNA structures by mechanical force.
Eur Phys J E, 12(4):605-15 (2003).
Pubmed | Springerpdf
 

 

 

 
Xayaphoummine A, Bucher T, Thalmann F, Isambert H: Prediction and statistics of pseudoknots in RNA structures using exactly clustered stochastic simulations.
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 100(26):15310-5 (2003).
Pubmed | PNASpdf
 

 

 

 
Sens P, Isambert H: Undulation instability of lipid membranes under an electric field.
Phys Rev Lett, 88(12):128102 (2002).
Pubmed | APSpdf
[featured by NaturePhysics]
 

 

 

 
Isambert H: Voltage addressable nanomemories in DNA?
C R Physique, 3, 391-396 (2002).
ScienceDirectpdf
 

 

 

 
Isambert H, Siggia ED: Modeling RNA folding paths with pseudoknots: application to hepatitis delta virus ribozyme.
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 97(12):6515-20 (2000).
Pubmed | PNASpdf
[featured by Science]
 

 

 

 
Magnúsdóttir S, Isambert H, Heller C, Viovy JL:
Electrohydrodynamically induced aggregation during constant and pulsed field capillary electrophoresis of DNA.
Biopolymers, 49(5):385-401 (1999).
Pubmed | Wileypdf
 

 

 

 
Isambert H: Understanding the electroporation of cells and artificial bilayer membranes.
Phys Rev Lett, 80 (15), 3404 (1998).
APSpdf
 

 

 

 
Ladoux B, Isambert H, Léger JF, Viovy JL: A new rectifying electrohydrodynamic instability at the boundary of charged gels.
Phys Rev Lett, 81, 3793 (1998).
APSpdf
 

 

 

 
Isambert H, Ajdari A, Viovy JL, Prost J: Electrohydrodynamic patterns in macroion dispersions under a strong electric field.
Phys Rev E, 56, 5688 (1997).
APSpdf
 

 

 

 
Isambert H, Ajdari A, Viovy JL, Prost J: Electrohydrodynamic patterns in charged colloidal solutions.
Phys Rev Lett, 78 (5), 971 (1997).
APSpdf
 

 

 

 
Isambert H, Maggs AC: Dynamics and rheology of actin solutions.
Macromolecules, 29(3), 1036 (1996).
ACSpdf
 

 

 

 
Isambert H, Maggs AC: Bending of actin filaments.
Europhys Lett, 31, 263 (1995).
IOPpdf
 

 

 

 
Isambert H, Venier P, Maggs AC, Fattoum A, Kassab R, Pantaloni D, Carlier MF: Flexibility of actin filaments derived from thermal fluctuations.
J Biol Chem, 270(19):11437-44 (1995).
Pubmed | ASBMBpdf