Justine BERTRAND-MICHEL

Director of MetaToul, Head of the Lipidomics Platform

Analytical chemistry engineer

Justine Bertrand-Michel is a chemist. She was hired as an engineer at Inserm in 1995, earned her Ph.D. in biomolecular chemistry from the University of Bordeaux in 2000, and received her HDR in 2022. She founded the lipidomics facility in 2003, which is now part of the MetaToul platform—of which she is the director—and the national MetaboHUB infrastructure. She is the founder of the Lipidomystes network.

Pauline LE FAOUDER

Research Engineer in Mass Spectrometry

Pauline Le Faouder is a chemist. She obtained her PhD in Proteomics at the University of Lille in 2010 and was then recruited on a fixed-term contract at the Lipidomics platform in Toulouse. In 2013 she was recruited at Inserm as a research engineer on the platform. She is in charge of mass spectrometers of the facility.

Anaelle DURBEC

Analytical chemistry engineer

Anaëlle DURBEC earned her degree in chemical engineering from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier in 2021. Since 2018, she has been working on lipid analysis and the development of mass spectrometry methods at the Metatoul-Lipidomics platform.

Cyrielle CLEMENT

Analytical chemistry engineer

Cyrielle is  graduated as a chemical engineer from the Analytical Chemistry and Instrumentation Master at Paul Sabatier University.

Nancy GEOFFRE

Laboratory technician 

Nancy GEOFFRE obtained her BTS ANABIOTEC delivered by the LEGTA Etienne Restat in Saint Livrade sur Lot (47) in 2011. In 2013, she joined the I2MC. Since September 2020, she has been preparing samples for lipidomics and managing gas chromatography analyses within the Metatoul-Lipidomics platform.

Julia SOULLIER

Analytical chemistry engineer

Julia Soullier received her master degrees in Structural and functional biochemistry from Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse) in 2019. Since 2019, she has been working at Metatoul Lipidomic facility at I2MC, which aims to analyse lipids by also developing mass spectrometry analysis methods.

Faustine VALLEE

Analytical chemistry engineer

Faustine Vallée is an analytical chemist. She obtained her engineering degree from the École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes and a Master’s degree in Water Quality and Treatment in 2025. As part of the Metatoul platform, her work focuses on the analysis of polar metabolites and lipids using mass spectrometry.
She will be responsible for developing and validating a method for isotopic profiling of metabolites in various biological systems.

Thibaud LACROIX

Ph.D. student

Thibaud Lacroix is pursuing a Ph.D. under the joint supervision of Justine Bertrand-Michel and Camille Attané (IPBS). He will be responsible for studying the metabolomic dialogue between adipocytes and cancer cells using mass spectrometry techniques. To this end, he will perform conventional targeted and semi-targeted lipidomics, as well as track lipid biosynthesis by developing click chemistry-based tracing methods.