Julien Tap
Research Scientist at INRAE
Greater Paris Metropolitan Region France
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Top SchoolJulien Tap is a research scientist with 12+ years of experience at the intersection of nutrition, gut microbiota and human health, currently based at INRAE Micalis on the Paris-Saclay campus. His career spans academic and industry posts—including EMBL, AP-HP, MetaGenoPolis and Danone Nutricia Research—where he applied metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, numerical ecology and machine learning to integrate large omics, clinical and dietary datasets. Julien completed a PhD on dietary fiber impacts on the human gut microbiota and has collaborated with leading clinicians and groups (e.g., Joel Doré, Peer Bork, Karine Clément), bringing translational focus to fundamental microbiome science. He combines rigorous experimental microbiology training from Institut Pasteur with strong computational skills to tease apart complex host–microbe–diet interactions. An active communicator, he contributes to expert networks like Gut Microbiota for Health and maintains a public research interest portfolio. A less obvious strength is his track record of bridging academic discovery and industrial R&D to advance nutrition-relevant microbiome applications.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
DU Alimentation Santé Durable et Micronutrition, DU Alimentation Santé Durable et Micronutrition at Université Bourgogne Europeingénieur maitre Biotechnologie et bioindustrie, ingénieur maitre Biotechnologie et bioindustrie at Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC)PhD Physiology Pathology and Related Sciences, PhD Physiology Pathology and Related Sciences at Pierre and Marie Curie University
Github Skills (40)
r-package10
meta-analysis10
ecology9
genome5
missing-data4
microbiology4
bioinformatics4
microbiome4
python4
genomics4
modeling4
marker3
vast3
r3
network-visualization3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
micalisfme/micalisfme.github.io
Dec 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:181 pushes in 2 years 4 months
tapj/tapj.github.io
Aug 2015 - Feb 2025
Contributions:142 pushes in 9 years 7 months
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