Project : "Characterization of flagellar pocket collar proteins in Trypanosomes."

Project PI : Derrick ROBINSON - Mélanie BONHIVERS  Co-PI : Pastrick BASTIEN

Thesis defense : 08/12/2016 

Lab : Microbiologie Fondamentale et Pathogénicité, UMR 5234, CNRS - University of Bordeaux

BACKGROUND

• Master’s Degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Bern, Switzerland (2011-2013)
• Bachelor’s Degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Bern, Switzerland (2008-2011)

POSITION AFTER PARAFRAP TRAINING

• Since 2020 : Senior Scientific Collaborator at Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel · Parasite Chemotherapy Group
• 2017-2019 : Postdoctoral researcher at University of California, Berkeley, USA · Department of Molecular and Cell Biology   

PUBLICATIONS

Albisetti, A., C. Florimond, N. Landrein, K. Vidilaseris, M. Eggenspieler, J. Lesigang, G. Dong, D. R. Robinson and M. Bonhivers (2017). "Interaction between the flagellar pocket collar and the hook complex via a novel microtubule-binding protein in Trypanosoma brucei." PLoS Pathog [6.6] 13(11): e1006710. [Pubmed]

Florimond, C., A. Sahin, K. Vidilaseris, G. Dong, N. Landrein, D. Dacheux, A. Albisetti, E. H. Byard, M. Bonhivers and D. R. Robinson (2015). "BILBO1 is a scaffold protein of the flagellar pocket collar in the pathogen Trypanosoma brucei." PLoS Pathog [7.6] 11(3): e1004654. [Pubmed]