Marie Desnos-Ollivier is research engineer at the National Reference Center for invasive Mycoses & Antifungals since 2004. She is in charge of phenotypic and molecular identification, antifungal susceptibility determination and genotyping of yeasts causing invasive human infections and curator of the sequences database Institut Pasteur FungiBank.
Her main research interests concern the population structure and the molecular epidemiology of Cryptococcus neoformans.
She is member of the F1000 (Faculty of 1000), session Infectious Diseases; of the ISHAM working group for Genotyping C. neoformans and C. gattii (Cryptococcus neoformans MLST database) and participate to the ISHAM ITS database.