Odile Sismeiro is holding a “Diplôme Universitaire de Technologie” and a “Diplôme d’Etudes Scientifiques et Techniques” (Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, CNAM, Paris). She joined the Institut Pasteur in 1987 and worked for 13 years on the regulation of genetic expression in bacteria in Antoine Danchin’s research unit. She then joined the “Microarrays” platform. She firstly contributed to the development of the DNA array technology at the platform and, in 2009, she established Next Generation Sequencing. As engineer, she conducted many projects aiming at gene expression profiling, from the quality control of the nucleic acids to the generation of sequencing data. She also had important user training and technological development activities. She was also taking a very active part in communication.
Between november 2019 and December 2022, she joined the Numeric Pole of MOOCs production in the Direction des Enseignements (M. Sala) and the unit of Biologie des Bactéries Pathogènes à Gram positif (P. Trieu-Cuot), each at half-time.
Since January 2023, she is full-time pedagogical enginner at the digital education pole, directed by Clémentine Schilte and manages the diffusion of the MOOCs produced by the Institut Pasteur on the FUN platform.