Group leader : Xavier Charpentier
NEWS
PhD position available
June 2021. A PhD position funded by VetAgro Sup and directed by Maria-Halima Laaberki is available to work on Acinetobacter. Project and contact information available below.
HORIGENE_PhD position. Journal of Bacteriology
Publishing in the Journal of Bacteriology is a great way to start a career. Congratulations to Léo for his 1st paper as lead author. Really nice work, setting up Tn-seq in Legionella and finding all the genes required for transformation.
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Congratulations to Anne-Sophie and Maria-Halima (corr. author) for this really nice paper on the consequence of acquisition of the AbaR MGE in Acinetobacter. To achieve this they have become the masters of genome editing in A. baumannii!
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A great collaboration with Samuel Venner and post-doc Gabriel Carvalho. It's so much fun to test hypotheses with computational models of natural transformation and its interaction with MGE
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September 2019. Isabelle and Christophe (CNR legionella) figured out why some clinical isolates fail to naturally transform. It's because of a nasty MGE!
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First paper on Acinetobacter!
August 2018.
Our first paper on the natural transformation of Acinetobacter is out in the Journal of Bacteriology. Project lead by Maria-Halima and operated by Anne-Sophie. Congratulations! https://jb.asm.org/content/early/2018/07/11/JB.00181-18 New PhD student
July 2017.
Léo Hardy who worked hard during his M2 internship successfully obtained a PhD fellowship from our doctoral school E2M2. Congrats! A permanent position for Laetitia!
June 2017.
Laetitia Attaiech has been formally appointed CR1 by the CNRS! Well done! Meet members of the ProQ/FinO family
Commentary in Current Genetics
December 2016.
Why aren't all species capable of natural transformation in the lab? Part of the is answer is here. Fresh from the oven!
November 2016.
The first random mutagenesis strategy in Pyrococcus furiosus! A great collaboration with Philippe Oger. Well done Natalia! Read it here 
Graduate student
Nature Review in Microbiology highlight
August 2016.
Our work is highlighted in Nature Review in Microbiology A new class of Hfq-like sRNA chaperones? Permanent staff member
July 2016.
Bénédicte Coupat-Goutaland, a researcher/lecturer at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences is joining our group on September 1st. She is interested in amoebas and horizontal gene transfer. Welcome Bénédicte! PNAS paper
July 2016.
We cracked the Legionella competence master lock! What a fantastic story, made possible by Laetitia and with great collaborators. For the francophiles, you can read the CNRS article about our work. Read the paper on the PNAS website or get the full version below: 
Fresh from the oven!
M2R student
Permanent staff member
Post-doc
November 2014.
Dr. Natalia Guschinskaya is joining us for a short but extremely hot mission. To be successful she will have to learn from our collaborator and become an archeologist. UPDATE (11/2016). She did a fantastic job! M2R student
Graduate student
July 2013.
Romain Brunel got a scholarship for his thesis. We wish you the best for your project. Congratulations Romain! Post-doc
May 2013.
Laetitia Attaiech, a talented post-doc, has obtained a two years fellowship from the Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale. She will be joining the lab in September. Congratulations Laetitia! Ready, set, go !
January 2012.
We're officially starting the ATIP-Avenir group! Exciting times ahead! |
Funding
October 2020.
Our project TransfoConflict has been selected by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche. A great collaboration with the fantastic group of Eduardo Rocha at the Pasteur Institute. Funding
July 2020.
Congratulations to Léo who is awarded a funding for 4th year of PhD. A great story on the horizon! We're organizing a webinar!
It's called "Zoom on Griffith's Legacy", a great title coined by Maria-Halima.
We're organizing with Ankur Dalia the first international meeting on natural transformation (online only via Zoom). Over 300 participants! That was so much fun! Funding
Jamais 2 sans 3 (3rd BSL2 cabinet)!
April 2018.
Our third BSL2 cabinet is up and running. Only for you, Acinetobacter baumannii. So you stop contaminating our Legionella cultures! Funding
July 2017.
Laetitia Attaiech has been awarded a junior research grant from ANR. This is going to help her figure out how members of the ProQ/FinO family promote sRNA-based silencing Funding - new PhD student
June 2017.
The Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale awarded us a PhD fellowship for DVM Alexandre Chassard. Are these bacteria?
Nope, they're not.
Meet Pyrococcus furiosus, our beloved archaea. This Evos FL is quite capable after all. New microscope!
December 2016.
We just received our Evos FL microscope. Fantastic for routine fluorescence microscopy. It's so easy to use! Funding
September 2016.
The Labex Ecofect has selected our proposal ANTI-SELFISH: Shifting perspective on antibiotic resistance: is resistance propagation driven by the selfish competing traits of mobile genetic elements? Funding
Funding
Flow cytometer
November 2014.
We teamed up with the lab next door to acquire our own flow cytometer. Legionella will now go with the flow... Funding
February 2012.
The project ECOFECT "Eco-evolutionary dynamics of infectious diseases" has been selected by the Labex program and will be funded by the french Great Loan "Investments for the Future". Our group is involved in the WP2 MULTI-INFECTIONS New office space
August 2012.
We're enjoying a new office space that can accommodate up to four people. Plate reader
February 2012.
We just received a new (expensive) toy! The lab has acquired a fluorescence/luminescence plate reader Infinite M200 Pro from TECAN BSL2 lab expansion
November 2012.
After a long wait our project of a BSL2 lab expansion is now a reality! This renovated room will extend the current BSL2 lab by 20m2 and will house our two BSL2 cabinets. | ||||||||||||||||||||
