Jean-Marc Ghigo

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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 10 PhD and 19 Post Docs (see here, here and here)

2001-         Teaching in Master 1 and 2  undergraduate courses

Scientific activities 126 publications, 141 invited lectures, 3 patents; h-index: 48

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          7^th  ASM Biofilm Conference: co-Chair (Chair: Fitnat Yildiz)

2018          8^th 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))

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.

Barraud N, Létoffé S, Beloin C, Vinh J, Chiapetta G^#, Ghigo JM^# (2021) Lifestyle-specific S-nitrosylation of protein cysteine thiols regulates Escherichia coli biofilm formation and resistance to oxidative stress. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, Apr 13;7(1):34. doi: 10.1038/s41522-021-00203-w. (^#co-corresponding authors)

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

Krastevav^#, PV, Bernal-Bayard J.; Travier, L.; Martin FA,  Kaminski, PA ; Karimova, G.; Fronzes, R. and JM Ghigo^#.(2017) Insights into the structure and assembly of a cellulose secretion system Nature Communications. Dec 12;8(1):2065. doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-01523-2. ^#co-corresponding authors