Acknowledgements

Sponsors

• Fondation Schueller Bettencourt.

The Schueller Bettencourt Fondation was created by Mrs Liliane Schueller Bettencourt and her family, in the memory of her father Eugene Schueller, founder of L’Oréal. It helps to initiate, support and develop projects in the medical, cultural and humanitarian fields. The foundation is active in the following areas: • Medical research : The foundation supports the research through two types of actions : the assistance to the researchers and the support for the education (as example the foundation generously supports the FdV-Liliane Bettencourt PhD program). • Culture : The foundation supports talented artists or craftsmen and attempts to make known or to acknowledge works of great quality, whether from the past or present. • Social/humanitarian relief : It really important for the Foundation to provide help for associations that are engaged in social and humanitarian actions. Through these, it contributes to relieve particularly difficult situations and to give new opportunities to children and adults in adversity.

• Embassy of France in the United States.

• CRI

The Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI) provides us with a scientific atmosphere and physical location to brainstorm, define and concretize our project as well as lab facilities within the Evolutionary Systems Biology team of the U571 INSERM Unit. Special thanks a lot to Chantal Lotton Mia and other people in Tamara's lab Laura and Celine for their administrative help