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Damien MEYER

Resume_Damien F. MEYER

RESEARCH SCIENTIST IN MICROBIOLOGY AND GENOMICS

Joint Research Unit CIRAD/INRA "Control of Emerging and Exotic Animal Diseases"

Domaine de Duclos, Prise d'eau, 97170 Petit Bourg, Guadeloupe, French West Indies

Tel: +590 (0)590 25 59 47 - Fax: +590 (0)590 9403 96 - Email: damien.meyer@cirad.fr

Short CV 

h-index 

RESEARCH AREA 

Genomics, Transcriptomics

Molecular microbiology 

Bioinformatics

EMPLOYMENT

Research Assistant, Kansas State University ; Manhattan, KS, USA — 2000

“Cloning and characterization of the promoter region and the C-terminus of a wild-type, a mutant and a partial mutant of the avrXa7 gene from Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae”, Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS (USA). Supervisor:Pr. J.E. Leach (Jan.Leach@colostate.edu)

Master’s thesis, Paul Sabatier University ; Toulouse, France — 2001

“Identification of genes induced by cold acclimatationin Eucalyptus gunnii”, Joint Research Unit 5546 CNRS/UPS Cell surfaces and signallingin plants, Toulouse (Fr). Supervisor: Pr. A-M. Boudet

Ph.D thesis, Paul Sabatier University ; Toulouse, France — 2001-2005

“Towards regulome and virulence study of the plant pathogenic bacteria Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris”, Joint Research Unit CNRS/INRA Laboratory of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Toulouse (Fr). Supervisor: Pr. M. Arlat (Matthieu.Arlat@toulouse.inra.fr)

Post-doctoral fellow, INRA ; Angers, France — 2006-2007

“Infraspecific genotypic and pathogenic characterization of Xanthomonas arboricola pv. juglandis strains causing an emerging disease on Walnut tree, the Oozing Vertical Canker”, JointResearch Unit INRA/INH Plant Pathology, Angers (FR). Supervisor: Dr. C. Manceau (charles.manceau@angers.inra.fr)

Post-doctoral research associate, Iowa State University ; Ames, IA, USA — 2007-2008

“Genomics of the plant pathogenic bacteria Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae”, Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA (USA). Supervisor: Pr. A.J. Bogdanove (ajbog@iastate.edu)

Research Scientist (CIRAD tenure), CIRAD ; Petit-Bourg, Guadeloupe, France — since 2008

“Genomics and virulence of the obligate intracellular bacteria Ehrlichia ruminantium”, Joint Research Unit 15 CIRAD/INRA Control of Emerging and Exotic Animal Diseases, Petit-Bourg, Guadeloupe (FR)

EDUCATION

·      B.Sc. in Cellular Biology and Physiology (1999) Université Blaise-Pascal, Clermont-Fd, France

·      M.Sc. in Cellular Biology and Physiology (2000) Université Blaise-Pascal, Clermont-Fd, France

·      Certificate in Animal Experimentation, Level 1 (2000) Université Blaise-Pascal,Clermont-Fd, France

·      Master’s thesis in Plant Biosciences (2001) Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

·      Ph.D. in Microbiology and Plant Pathology, 2005, Université Paul Sabatier,Toulouse, France

SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES MEMBERSHIPS

• Public Library of Science (PLoS, since 2005)
• American Society of Microbiology (ASM, since 2010)
• Société Française de Microbiologie (SFM, since 2010)

RELEVANT TECHNICAL SKILLS

Molecular biology and biochemistry: Classical cloning, GATEWAY cloning, PCR, Q-RT-PCR, Southern, northern and western blots, SSH librairies, RFLP and fAFLP, production of recombinant proteins, SDS-PAGE, use of reporter genes (b-Gal, lux,GFP, CyaA), flow cytometry

Genomics: Conception and exploitation of macro- and microarrays, bacterial genomes annotation, comparative genomics

Microbiology: triparental mating, direct mutagenesis (PCR, Cre-Lox), transcriptional fusions, vectors construction

Plant pathology: in-planta growth of bacteria (IGC), pathosystems set-up, pathogenicity assays, plant cell liquid cultures (Arabidopsis, Tobacco and Eucalyptus), cell viability assays (FDA,TTC), in-planta detection of tagged bacteria

Microscopy: Fluorescence, scanning electron and confocal microscopy

Animal experimentation: Surgery techniques et animal manipulations, liquid punctures

Bioinformatics: MacOSX and Linux environments, Imaging software (Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator), MLST and MLVA analyses, protein patterns and regulatory motifs searches, phylogenetic analyses (Phylip suite), molecular biology and annotation softwares (VectorNTI, Geneious, GenePix, GeneSight, R, ClustalW, Mauve, MultAlin, PSIPRED, iANT, Manatee, IOGMA), databases (NCBI, EMBL, TIGR, JCVI-CMR, TAIR, KEGG, ProDom, UniProt, InterPro, EndNote), notions of bash programming language

PUBLICATIONS 

2012 H-index = 7 

see http://agents.cirad.fr/index.php/damien+meyer/DFMpublications

RESEARCH PROJECTS AND GRANTS

• Franco-Portuguese Project PAUILF 2011-2014 (Proteomics)
• European Project FEDER 2007-2013, Risk control in animal and vegetal health (Molecular biology)
• Franco-Portuguese Projet FCT (Portugal) 2011-2013, ER_TRANSPROT (Transcriptomics/Proteomics)
• European Project FP6 2005-2009, EPIGENEVAC (Vaccinology)
• Post-doctoral fellowship of the Conseil Régional Pays de la Loire (2006-2007)
• Competitive Research training award (to support Ph.D’s research) from the Ministère de la Recherche et de l’Enseignement Supérieur (2001-2004)
• Fellowship awarded by Asedis-SO Association (to attend to the 11th International MPMI Congress, St-Petersburg, Russia, 2003)
• Grant from the Graduate School of Biology, Health and Biotechnology, University Paul Sabatier (fellowship to support Master'sthesis), (2000-2001)

REFERENCES

Dr. Pr. A.J. BOGDANOVE, Department of Plant Pathology, Iowa State University, 423 Bessey Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, Tel.:515-294-3421, E-mail: ajbog@iastate.edu 

Dr. Pr. M. ARLAT, Laboratoire des Interactions Plantes-Microorganismes, UMR INRA-CNRS, Chemin de Borde Rouge, 31000 Castanet-Tolosan, France, Tel.: +33(0)5-61-28-50-47, E-mail: arlat@toulouse.inra.fr 

HOBBIES 

Apnea/Spearfishing

Snowboarding

Playing guitar/Watching movies

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