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About

Lulla Opatowski is professor in Mathematical Epidemiology (University of Versailles Saint Quentin – UVSQ).

My main research interests are in mathematical modelling of infectious disease and statistical inference, with a particular interest in bacterial resistance to antimicrobials (including antibiotics and vaccines) and host-pathogen-pathogen interactions. My main projects include:

  • Pathogens interactions: Modelling between-pathogen interactions within the respiratory tract, in particular virus-virus and virus-bacteria interactions, such as those between Streptococcus pneumoniae and respiratory viruses (Influenza, RSV and other respiratory viruses).
  • Microbiome and pathogens acquisition: Building models to study the dynamic of microbiota and the potential factors leading to the acquisition of pathogens and specifically antibiotic resistant bacteria
  • Impact of vaccines on antibiotic resistance
  • Nosocomial / health-care associated infections: modelling analysis of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in hospitals. This includes both theoretical models and the analysis of strains transmission routes from detailed proximity contact data and colonisation of S. aureus and Enterobacteriaceae (I-BIRD study, Individual Based Investigation of Resistant bacteria Dissemination in hospitals)
  • One health dissemination of AMR: Modelling selection, persistence and transmission of antibiotic resistance genes and species in different reservoirs and across them (effluents, animals, humans)
  • Study of multi-strain models and impact of vaccination (application to pneumococcus and HPV)
  • Respiratory viruses, including SARS-COV-2: we analyse the risk of transmission of the virus in populations with a particular focus on the transmission in health care settings within patients and health care worker

Team members:

  • Auguste Caen (Inrae)
  • Sophie Chervet
  • Aleksandra Kovacevic
  • Maylis Layan (Cnam)
  • Quentin Leclerc
  • Eve Rahbe
  • George Shirreff

Former team members:

  • Hélène Arduin, PhD student
  • Jonathan Bastard, PhD student
  • Audrey Duval, PhD student
  • Xuefeng Gao, Postdoc
  • Rania Assab, PhD student
  • Matthieu Domenech de Celles, Postdoc
  • Paul Henriot, Engineer
  • Mélanie Bonneault, PhD student
  • Ajmal Oodally, Postdoc
  • Pachka Hammami, Postdoc
  • Thomas Haschka, Postdoc
  • David Smith, PhD student
  • Romain Narci, Postdoc

Transversal Projects

Antimicrobial resistance

Antimicrobial resistance is dramatically increasing worldwide and is becoming one of the most urgent public health threats. There is an urgent need for actions to reverse the curve of antimicrobial resistance dissemination and to […]

INCEPTION – Institut Convergence for the study of Emergence of Pathology Through Individuals and Populations

IINCEPTION Goal The Inception aims to develop a core structure to mobilize data resources, numerical sciences, and fundamental experimental biology in various health issues (Official website here: https://www.inception-program.fr/en). The inception program uses Integrative Biology, […]

Projects

Project
Ongoing
4 Members

ACRAS-R: AntimiCrobial Resistance trAnsmission routes in Caribbean islandS: a One Health Risk analysis

Lulla Opatowski (PI)

The aims of the ACRAS-R project are (i) to characterize the AMR transmission routes in a continuum from clinical settings (hospital effluents) to the natural receiving environment (ocean and wild animals) in Guadeloupe using […]
Project
Ongoing
3 Members

Primavera (Predicting the Impact of Monoclonal Antibodies & Vaccines on Antimicrobial Resistance)

Didier Guillemot (PI)

Bacterial infections are responsible for a major public health burden. This is further exacerbated by antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which complicates the treatment of those infections and can lead to worse patient outcomes. Dealing with […]
Project
Ongoing
4 Members

COVID-AMR

Lulla Opatowski (PI)

COVID-AMR (Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on antibiotic resistance) Collaboration : Laura Temime (Cnam) The COVID-19 pandemic started in a context of global efforts to prevent and control antimicrobial resistance. It has led to […]
Project
Ongoing
4 Members

NeoLIC

Bich-Tram Huynh (PI)

Neonatal acquisition of ESBL-PE in the community of a Low-Income Country  Severe bacterial infections are a leading cause of neonatal deaths, with low income countries (LICs) bearing the highest burden. In LICs, neonatal bacterial […]
Project
Ongoing
4 Members

MOD-COV

Lulla Opatowski (PI)

Project MOD-COV (Modelling of the hOspital Dissemination of SARS-CoV-2) In the context of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, healthcare institutions are confronted to major challenges. First the community spread is leading to a large demand in available […]
Project
Ongoing
4 Members

SocialCov – Enquête contacts SARS-CoV-2

Lulla Opatowski (PI)

Cliquer ici pour aller à l’enquête Confinement, mesures barrières, limitation des rassemblements etc. Les mesures de prévention actuellement mises en place sont inédites. Elles ont fondamentalement modifié les contacts que nous avons au quotidien. […]
Project
Ongoing
2 Members

SPHINx (Spread of Pathogens on Healthcare Institutions Networks)

Lulla Opatowski (PI)

Healthcare-associated infections (HAI) have been occurring with increased incidence and severity over the last decades, becoming a major public health issue. A wide range of control strategies is already available, including hygiene measures, barrier […]
Project
Ongoing
2 Members

Pandore – modelling antibiotic resistance in effluents

Lulla Opatowski (PI)

Our group is in charge of the modelling workpackage of the Pandore project (Prédiction de l’ANtibiorésistance dans Des zOnes anthRopisées Environnementales), which aims at investigating the dynamics of antibiotic resistance genes in waters and […]
Project
Completed
2 Members

SARAH (Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance between Animals and Humans)

Lulla Opatowski (PI)

The main objective of the SARAH project is to study the determinants of antibiotic resistant bacteria dissemination at the animal-human interface. We develop a methodological research based on mathematical modelling and the analysis of […]
Project
Ongoing
5 Members

Modelling Infection Spread in Hospitals

Lulla Opatowski (PI)

Despite advances in modern biology and medicine, antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) have spread in the community and in hospitals over the last decades, becoming a major public health problem. Mathematical modeling and computer simulations are […]
Project
Ongoing
3 Members

RESPIMOD: Modelling Interactions within Respiratory Tract

Lulla Opatowski (PI)

Invasive pneumococcal diseases (IPDs) are a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The mechanisms responsible for the epidemiological patterns of susceptible- and resistant- IPDs which include a yearly winter peak are still poorly […]
Project
Ongoing
4 Members

I-BIRD: Individual Based Investigation of Resistance Dissemination

Didier Guillemot (PI)

The i-Bird program was devoted to explore the ability of MRSA and ER3GC to disseminate within hospital clinical departments. This program involved tracing the clonal dissemination of MRSA and ER3GC among hospitalized patients and […]
Project
Ongoing
4 Members

Dynamics of Gut Microbiota

Philippe Glaser (PI)

Acquisition of antibiotic resistant bacteria and development of the gut microbiome in neonates in low-income countries. Antibiotic resistance represents a major health issue worldwide. The situation is particularly acute in low-income countries (LIC), due […]
Project
Ongoing
4 Members

CHART: Bacterial Acquisition Routes In Neonates

Lulla Opatowski (PI)

Children’s Antibiotic Resistance colonization and Route of Transmission. The aim of this program is to assess the transmission of enterobacteria resistant to 3rd generation cephalosporines (EBRCIIIG) in hospitalized neonates in two low income countries […]
Project
Ongoing
6 Members

Antiinfectives drugs and invasive pneumococcal diseases

Laurence Watier (PI)

In addition to a direct effect on the individual, the consumption of antiinfective drugs may have an indirect ecological benefit only visible at the population level. Moreover indirect ecological adverse effects may also exist […]
Project
Ongoing
3 Members

SaMMBA Seminars

Lulla Opatowski (PI)

Statistical and Mathematical Modeling in Biological Applications — SaMMBA Seminars are currently accessible onsite (seminar + buffet lunch) and online (link provided by email). [It is possible to contact any of the organisers to […]

CV

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
2018                HDR in Biomathematics - Habilitation à diriger des recherches, Paris Saclay University, UVSQ
2005 – 2009         PhD in Biomathematics - Public Health: Epidemiology and science of biomedical information. University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris VI, ED 393.
2000 – 2003         Engineer ENSIMAG (Graduate School of Engineering in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, French equivalent for Master of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics) –  Grenoble, France
2002 – 2003         Licenciatura in University of mathematics and statistics (5th year) member of UPC (Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya), Barcelona, Spain
1997 – 2000 Special intensive courses of advanced mathematics and physics (undergraduate level)  

LABS
- 2012-.  Assistant professor > Professor. Versailles Saint Quentin University, EMEA unit UMR1018, Institut Pasteur / INSERM /UVSQ, France. 
- 2009-12 Research Associate (POST DOC). MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College, London. 
- 2005–09 Institut Pasteur / U657 INSERM, Pharmaco-Epidemiology applied to Infectious Diseases laboratory (PhEMI)
- 2003–04 CRG (Centre of Genomic Regulation), Microarrays Laboratory and GRIB (Group of Research in Bio-medicine and Computer Science), Chemogenomics Laboratory – Barcelona, Spain

CONFERENCE ORGANISATION/CO-ORGANISATION
2019    SPHINx conference on disease transmission in healthcare settings
2018    Joint Pasteur-Oxford workshop on antibiotic resistance in South East Asia2018 
2018    International conference on antimicrobial resistance, Institut Pasteur 
2013-.  SaMMBA monthly seminars - Statistical and Mathematical Modeling in Biological Applications, Institut Pasteur in Paris ( https://research.pasteur.fr/en/project/sammba-seminars/)
2012     WARM international workshop on modelling bacterial resistance in Paris 

Expertise activities
Since 2016  Expertise for World Health Organization (WHO) - Asia on antibiotic resistance
Elected and nominated member of the scientific board of the UFR Simone Veil Medical school (former),the Comité Scientifique de l'ITMO "Immunologie-Inflammation-infectiologie-Microbiologie" (I3M)(current), the COMESP Institut Pasteur evaluation committee (current) etc

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