Education and Training
1988 Agrégation de Sciences Naturelles (Teaching Degree in Biology)
1990 Master, Microbial Phytopathology University Paris XI-France
1994 PhD thesis, Microbiology (C. Wandersman lab), Paris XI-France
2001 HDR (habilitation to Direct Research). University Paris VI, France
Professional experience
1989 Military Service as a High School biology teacher. St Cyr l’Ecole, France
1990-1994 Master then PhD student C. Wandersman lab, Institut Pasteur
1995 Research Assistant (Assistant de Recherche), Institut Pasteur
1996-1999 Post-doc. (J. Beckwith lab) Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
2000 Assistant Professor (Chargé de Recherche), Institut Pasteur
2002 Associate Professor, (Chef de Laboratoire), Institut Pasteur
2002-2007 G5-group leader Genetics of Biofilms laboratory Institut Pasteur
2007- PI Genetics of Biofilms Unit, Institut Pasteur
2014 Professor, Institut Pasteur
Institutional responsibilities
2010-2017 Deputy Director of the Department of Microbiology –Institut Pasteur
2017- Member of the Scientific Council of the Institut Pasteur
Supervision and Teaching activities
2004- Supervision of 11 PhD and 21 Post Docs (see here, here and here)
2001- Teaching in Master 1 and 2 undergraduate courses
Scientific activities 152 publications, 156 invited lectures, 3 patents; h-index: 58
Organisation of scientific meetings
2011 Gordon Research Conference MATS: vice-Chair (with Craig Roy)
2013 Gordon Research Conference MATS:: Co-Chair (with Craig Roy)
2015 7th ASM Biofilm Conference: co-Chair (Chair: Fitnat Yildiz)
2018 8th ASM Biofilm Conference: Chair (Co-Chair: Karen Visick)
Membership of scientific societies
Member, French Society of Microbiology Member, American Society for Microbiology
2016 Elected as Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology
2018 Elected as Fellow, European Academy of Microbiology
5 SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS (Full list: (see on PubMed https://is.gd/tAmW1O))
Bernal-Bayard J, Thiebaud J, Brossaud MJ, Beaussart A, Caillet C, Waldvogel Y, Travier L, Létoffé S, Fontaine T, Rokbi B, Talaga P, Beloin C., Mistretta N, Duval JFL, Ghigo JM. (2023) Bacterial capsular polysaccharides with antibiofilm activity share common biophysical and electrokinetic properties.Nature Communications, May 3;14(1):2553. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-37925-8.
Usui M, Yoshii Y, Thiriet-Rupert S, Ghigo JM, Beloin C. (2023) Intermitent antibiotic treatment of bacterial biofilms favors the rapid evolution of resistance. Communications Biology, Mar 16;6(1):275. doi: 10.1038/s42003-023-04601-y.
Béchon N, Mihajlovic J, Lopes AA, Vendrell-Fernandez S, Deschamps J, Briandet R, Sismeiro O, Martin-Verstraete I, Dupuy B, Ghigo JM# (2022) Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron uses a widespread extracellular DNase to promote bile-dependent biofilm formation. P.NA.S. Feb 15; doi:10.1073/pnas.2111228119.
Stressmann F, Bernal-Bayard J, Pérez-Pascual D, Audrain B, Rendueles O, Briolat V, Bruchmann S, Volant S, Ghozlane A, Haussler S, Duchaud E, Levraud JP, Ghigo JM# (2021) Mining zebrafish microbiota reveals key community-level resistance against fish infection. The ISME Journal, Oct 19.doi: 10.1038/s41396-020-00807-8.
Béchon N, Mihajlovic J, Vendrell-Fernandez S, Chain F, Langella P, Beloin C, Ghigo JM# (2020) Capsular polysaccharides cross-regulation modulates Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron biofilm formation. mBio May-June 2020 11(3): e00729-20. doi: 10.1128/mBio.00729-20