Project Title : "Contribution of the dense granule proteins to the formation of brain cysts and to the establishment of latent infection"

Project PI : Mercier Corinne (MF. Delauw's group) Co-PI : Nicolas Blanchard

Thesis defense : 13/04/2017 

Lab : TIMC-IMAG Lab, BNI Team (Natural Barrier and Infectivity), CNRS/Université Grenoble-Alpes

BACKGROUND

• Master's Degree, Sanitary Biology, University of Siena - Italy (2009 - 2011)
• First Level Degree, Biology General, University of Siena - Italy (2006 - 2009)

POSITION AFTER PARAFRAP TRAINING 

Postdoctoral reasearcher in Mohammed-Ali Hakimi Lab, Institute for Advanced Bioscience, IAB, France

PUBLICATIONS

Touquet, B., L. Pelissier, P. Cavailles, W. Yi, V. Bellini, C. Mercier, M. F. Cesbron-Delauw, A. Boumendjel and D. Aldebert (2018). "High-content imaging assay to evaluate Toxoplasma gondii infection and proliferation: A multiparametric assay to screen new compounds." PLoS One [2.8] 13(8): e0201678. [Pubmed]

Rommereim, L. M., V. Bellini, B. A. Fox, G. Petre, C. Rak, B. Touquet, D. Aldebert, J. F. Dubremetz, M. F. Cesbron-Delauw, C. Mercier and D. J. Bzik (2016). "Phenotypes Associated with Knockouts of Eight Dense Granule Gene Loci (GRA2-9) in Virulent Toxoplasma gondii." PLoS One [3.1] 11(7): e0159306. [PDF]