BIOINFORMATICS POST-DOC

Since August 2000: Post-doctoral position at the "Institut de Génétique Humaine" (IGH) of Montpellier - CNRS UPR 1142. In the team "Repetitive sequences and human centromeres" directed by Dr Gérard Roizès.
Subject: development of a public data base about DNA methylation: http://www.methdb.net.
Funding: The Klaus Tschira Foundation - Heidelberg, Germany.
Supervisor: Dr Christoph Grunau.
Publication:[PMID: 11125109].

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN TOXICOLOGY

September 1997 - August 1998: Assistant Professor ("Assistant Temporaire d'Enseignement et de Recherche: ATER") at the University of Montpellier 1 (Pharmacy). In the team "Laboratory of toxicology of the medicament" directed by Prof. Jean-Paul Cano.
Subject: development of new assays for measurement of genotoxicity.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN TOXICOLOGY

March 1997 - August 1998: Assistant Professor (ATER) at the University of Bordeaux 2 (Pharmacy). In the team "Laboratory of toxicology and hygiene applied" directed by Prof. Edmont Creppy.
Subject: study of genotoxicity induced by okadaic acid.

PhD OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY

October 1991 - December 1996: Thesis of the University of Paris 6 at the Kremlin-Bicêtre Hospital. In the team INSERM U347 "Genetic mechanisms of childhood liver deseases" directed by Dr Michelle Hadchouel.
Subject: study of the interactions between the mechanisms wich control differential state, tumorigenicity and programmed cell death in a rat hepatoma cell line.
Supervisors: Prof. Paul Cohen and Dr Jean Deschatrette.
Funding 1: "Allocation de Recherche MRT" December 1991 to November 1994.
Funding 2: Laureate of a grant from the University of Paris-South.
Publications: [PMID: 9562903][PMID: 9457746][PMID: 7699021].

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DEA OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY

September 1990 - June 1991: "Diplome d'Etude Approfondie DEA" of the University of Paris 6 at the Kremlin-Bicêtre Hospital. In the team INSERM U56 "Pediatric Hepatology Unit" directed by Dr Michelle Hadchouel.
Subject: study of a human DNA sequence that re-establish the expression of liver functions in dedifferentiated rat hepatoma cells.
Supervisors: Prof. Paul Cohen and Dr Jean Deschatrette.

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WORK PLACEMENT IN BACTERIAL GENETICS

August 89 - February 90: Work placement at the "Centre de Génétique Moléculaire" (CGM) of Gif-Sur-Yvette - CNRS UPR 2167. In the team "Symbiotic bacteriophages of Salmonella and interrelationships of transcription and DNA topology" directed by Dr Lionello Bossi.
Subject: development of a rapid genetic method to transfer mutations by homologous recombination in the Salmonella thyphimurium chromosome.