Michel Tibayrenc
IRD Representative Office in Thailand
29, Thanon Sathorn Tai,
Bangkok 10120 , Thailand
Tel : (66) (0)2627 2190
Fax : (66) (0)2627 2194
Cel: (66) (0)8 182 64 056
E-mail: Michel.Tibayrenc@ird.fr
Publications
Present grade
Universitary titles
Positions
Stays overseas and abroad
Organization of scientific meetings
Editorial activities
Research administration
Foreign languages
Honors
Scientific societies
Extra-professional activities
10 main publications
Present grade:
- Directeur de recherche Classe Exceptionnelle IRD, ex-ORSTOM= Institut de recherche pour le développement, formerly ORSTOM = Office de Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-mer: a national agency devoted to scientific research in Tropical areas. The agency manages 1,000 full-time researchers, the main part of whom are permanently settled in Tropical areas).
Universitary titles:
- Baccalaureat University of Paris 1965.
- Certificate of Exotic pathology Paris 1974
- Certificate of Biology and Sport Medicine Paris 1974.
- MD University of Paris 1975.
- Diploma of Tropical Medicine Montpellier 1976.
- Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies (= 1st year of PhD) Parasitology University of Montpellier 1976.
- Certificate of Leprology Paris 1977
- Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies Medical Entomology University of Paris 1978.
- PhD (Doctorat d'Etat ès Sciences) Parasitology, University of Paris 1986.
Positions:
- 1974-1975: General practitioner SONATRACH, Alger , Algeria
- 1976-1977: General practitioner Assistance publique, Paris
- 1977- 1989: Chargé de recherche (a permanent position of researcher) IRD 1989- 1995: Directeur de recherche 2nd Class (director of research) IRD
- 1995- 2003: Directeur de recherche 1st Class (director of research) IRD
- 2004-Now: Directeur de recherche “exceptional class” IRD
- Since 1988: head of the laboratory of molecular genetics of parasites and vectors at the IRD center in Montpellier , France
- Since January 1992: the laboratory has become an “associated unit” (Unité Mixte de
Recherche) between IRD and CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), which is the main national agency for basic research in France and also, in Europe (11,000 fulltime researchers). New project of unit “Genetics and Evolution of Infectious Diseases” has been started 1st January 2004, for 4 renewable years
- 1st October 2005: Nominated IRD representative in Thailand
Stays overseas and abroad:
- 1978-1979: a one-year stay at the Pasteur Institute of Cayenne, French Guiana
(epidemiology of Leishmaniasis, Population genetics of sandfies).
- 1980-1984: a 5-year stay at the Instituto Boliviano de Biologia de Altura, La Paz, Bolivia). Epidemiology of Chagas'disease, molecular epidemiology of Triatoma infestans and Trypanosoma cruzi.
- January 1985- July 1986: Dept Genetics, UC Davis , USA (Professor F.J. Ayala).
- July 1991- August 1992: Dept Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, UC Irvine , USA (Professor F.J. Ayala).
- August 1995-August 1996: Molecular Vaccine Section, Dept Parasitic Diseases, Centers for Diseases Control (CDC), Atlanta , Georgia , USA (Dr Altaf Lal).
- 1st October 2005: nominated IRD representative in Thailand for 3 renewable years.
Organization of scientific meetings:
Organization at the CDC of a monthly seminar on molecular epidemiology, and of the international workshop: “Molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics of infectious diseases” (MEEGID), under the auspices of CDC, IRD and CNRS (CDC, Atlanta, June 1996). The second session of the workshop was held in May 1997 in Montpellier ( France ), again under the auspices of CDC, IRD and CNRS. The 3rd session was held at Rio de Janeiro in June 1998. 4th session was held in Dakar Senegal, 21-24 June 1999. 5 th session was held in Hyderabad , India , 12-16 November 2000. 6th session was held at the Institut Pasteur de Paris, France , 23-27 July 2002. 7th session was held in Valencia ( Spain ) 19-23 July 2004, in the framework of the 89h European Multicolloquium of Parasitology (EMOP IX). 8th session to be held at Mahidol university, Bangkok, Thailand, November/December 2006.
Editorial activities:
- Member editorial board of Folia Parasitologica and Journal of Biomedicine & Biotechnology
- Corresponding editor (Genetics) of International Journal of Parasitology (Genetics)
- Associate editor Genetics and Molecular Biology (formerly Brazilian Journal of Genetics)
- Associate editor Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology (formerly Journal of Protozoology)
- Member International Advisory Board of Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
- Initiator and editor-in-chief journal: “Infection, Genetics and Evolution” (Elsevier; http://www.elsevier.com/locate/meegid). 1st issue published in August 2001. 21st issue being compiled. Now covered by Medline and Index medicus after being rated “very good” (3.5/5.0) by the National Library of Medicine in 2003.
Research administration:
- Elected member scientific board international network of Pasteur Institutes
- Elected member IRD scientific commission “Biological and medical sciences 2001-2004
- Elected member IRD Scientific council. Nominated member of the permanent bureau
- Coordinator of the think tank “neglected diseases” in the framework of the British-French programme “alliance” under the auspices of the French Embassy in London
Foreign languages:
English and Spanish, fluent (4 years spent in the USA , 5 years spent in Bolivia ). German scholar. Learning the Thai language at the Alliance française in Bangkok.
Honors:
- Prize of the Belgian Society of Tropical Medicine (1985).
- Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1993).
- Medal Instituto Oswaldo Cruz Rio de Janeiro (2000).
Scientific societies:
- Member, groupement des protozoologistes de langue française (group of Frenchspeaking protozoologists).
- Member, Société Française de Microbiologie (French Society of Microbiologists)
- Member and member of the council, Société française de Génétique (French Society of Geneticists)
- Member, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
- Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
- Member, European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
- Member , New York Academy of Sciences
- Founder and president society “Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics of Infectious Diseases”, registered as a nonprofit organization September 2000.
Extra-professional activities:
10 main publications:
Tibayrenc, M., Ward, P., Moya, A. & Ayala, F.J. 1986. Natural populations of Trypanosoma cruzi , the agent of Chagas'disease, have a complex multiclonal structure. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA . 83: 115-119.
Tibayrenc, M., Kjellberg, F. & Ayala, F.J. 1990. A clonal theory of parasitic protozoa: the population structure of Entamoeba, Giardia, Leishmania, Naegleria, Plasmodium, Trichomonas and Trypanosoma , and its medical and taxonomical consequences. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA : 87: 2414-2418.
Tibayrenc, M., Neubauer, K., Barnabé, C., Guerrini, F. , Sarkeski, D. & Ayala, F.J. 1993.Genetic characterization of six parasitic protozoa: parity of random-primer DNA typing and multilocus isoenzyme electrophoresis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA , 90: 1335-1339.
Tibayrenc, M. 1997. European Centres for Disease Control. Nature (correspondence) 389: 433-434.
Tibayrenc, M. 1999. Towards an integrated genetic epidemiology of parasitic protozoa and other pathogens. Annual Review of Genetics 33: 449-477.
Urdaneta, L. , Lal, A., Barnabé, C., Oury, B., Goldman, I. , Ayala, F. J. & Tibayrenc, M. 2001. Evidence for clonal propagation in natural isolates of Plasmodium falciparum from Venezuela . Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 98: 625-6729.
Tibayrenc, M. 2004. A molecular biology approach to tuberculosis Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 10: 1073.
Tibayrenc, M. 2004. The impact of human genetic diversity in the transmission and severity of infectious diseases. Infectious Disease: Host-Pathogen Evolution. Dronamraju, K., ed. Cambridge University Press.: pp. 315-324.
Tibayrenc, M. 2005. A hard lesson for Europeans: the Asean CDC. Trends Microbiol .13 (6):266-268.
Tibayrenc, M. 2005. Bridging up the gap between molecular epidemiologists and evolutionists. Trends Microbiol . 13: 575-580.
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- "Parasitology Today 1997"
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- "Trends in Microbiology 2005"
- "ESCMID News 2007"
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