Antoine is leading the MIMIC (Molecular Innovations in Microbial Interactions and Chromatin) lab in the department of genetics. He has a bachelor in Physics and a Masters in systems biology from the Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris, France). He obtained his PhD on yeast heterochromatin silencing in the laboratory of Angela Taddei at Institut Curie (Paris, France).
He later moved to London to join the lab of Tobias Warnecke (MRC-London Institute of Medical Sciences). His post-doctoral work has focused on the diversity of prokaryotic chromatin systems.
He set up his group in 2024, supported by a Wellcome Trust Career Development Award.