Bacterial symbionts evolution

Merci à CLARA ! Félicitations à Martin.

Posted on 15 octobre 2017

Un prix Mobilité d’une valeur de 2500 € a été remis à Martin CHENAL, pour son échange dans le cadre de son Master 2 entre l’Université de Clermont-Auvergne et l’Institut Armand FRAPPIER de Laval (Canada) par l’organisme CLARA.

Les membres de l’équipe CLARA et de l’UCA seront présents Lundi 16 Octobre à l’IAF.

Merci à Hilde De Reuse pour sa visite!

Posted on 3 octobre 2017

A lot of exciting discussion during the visite of Hilde De Reuse (Head of the Microbiology Department and Unité “Pathogenèse de Helicobacter”- CNRS ERL6002) from the Institut Pasteur!!!!

The world is running out of antibiotics, WHO report confirms

Posted on 21 septembre 2017 Updated on 21 septembre 2017

20 September 2017 | Geneva – A report, Antibacterial agents in clinical development – an analysis of the antibacterial clinical development pipeline, including tuberculosis, launched today by WHO shows a serious lack of new antibiotics under development to combat the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance.

read the full article here

New Students in the lab.

Posted on 19 septembre 2017

The lab. welcome Asmâa Agoussar and Sandra Ortiz-Lopez that will both be trained in bacterial genomics.

Congrats to all DUT students, Really nice job!

Posted on 17 août 2017 Updated on 18 août 2017

Really nice day listening excellent presentations by DUT students from Université Clermont Auvergne. This with Dr. Mahchid Bambdad and Dr. Emannuelle Mounetou with whom we have also implemented a new INRS/UCA co-diploma awarding  Master/M.Sc. in Life Science.

Meet me in France at the end of summer ;-)

Posted on 25 juillet 2017 Updated on 25 juillet 2017

I will be aboard from August 9^th to September 12^th. I will answer my emails but in case of emergency please contact Sammy: Mail

If you are interested to discuss in persons ideas or job opportunity in my lab, do not hesitate to contact me: Mail

I will be at the UCA in Clermont-Ferrand (Jury of DUT) on August 17th.

I will give a conference in IPBS Toulouse on September 5^th (see flyer here)

I will be at the Institut Pasteur-Paris September 11^th and 12^th.

New funding from the International Network of Institut Pasteur

Posted on 24 juin 2017 Updated on 24 juin 2017

On Friday, two of our collaborative projects have been selected, out of 49 projects, for funding by the Institute Pasteur for a total of 500,000 € (743,000CA$).

Global diversity, genomic epidemiology and pathogen evolution of Leptospira spp. with Dr. Mathieu Picardeau (IP Paris)

Structure, function and evolution of transport systems of nickel, an essential virulence determinant of the bacterial pathogen Helicobacter pylori in collaboration with Charles Calmettes (INRS-IAF) et Hilde De Reuse (IP Paris).

Bienvenue à Naka

Posted on 17 mai 2017

Bienvenue à Arnaldo Filho NAKAMURA (M.Sc. Genie des Materieaux Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto – MG – Brésil ) qui va effectuer une formation en imagerie du vivant et en gestion de plateforme.

Merci au FRQS et FRQNT (subvention: 400,000$)

Posted on 13 mai 2017 Updated on 13 mai 2017

Merci au FRQS et FRQNT pour leur soutient financier pour un total de 400,000$!

Thanks to FRQS and FRQNT for their financial support to allow our research on symbionts evolution.

Thanks to all the lab members for their hard work!

Celebration time:

Bienvenue à Michelle

Posted on 3 mai 2017 Updated on 3 mai 2017

Bienvenue à Michelle Boivin (B.Sc. Biologie Médicale UQuébec à Trois-Rivières) qui va travailler avec Sammy sur un projet qui vise à comprendre l’évolution de la forme des bactéries.

Michelle est boursiere de la Fondation Armand-Frappier, un grand merci!