Université d'été en entomologie médicale et vétérinaire - Entomology summer course Présentiel

BEATI ZIEGLER Lorenza

Lorenza Beati (MD, PhD) is a medical entomologist and Professor at the Georgia Southern University, and the curator of the largest tick collection in the world: the U.S. National Tick Collection. Her laboratory research is centered on molecular systematics and population genetics of arthropods vectors of diseases (ticks and sand flies) and of the pathogen they transmit. She leads several research projects involving undergraduate students on population genetics of the Lyme disease vector, Ixodes scapularis, in the United States and on a widespread neotropical tick species, Amblyomma cajennense, which transmits Rocky Mountain spotted fever, on neotropical Lutzomyia species, vectors of Leishmaniasis, and on Amblyomma variegatum, an invading tick species carried from Africa in the Caribbean.

BERENGER Jean-Michel

Jean-Michel Bérenger is an entomologist specialist of Heteroptera Reduviidae and Cimicidae, corresponding member of the National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France. He is the director of the “Laboratoire Diagnostic Insecte”, where several arthropod vectors are bred. He is involved in urban entomology and is a medical entomologist consultant for the French Army Health service. He has been involved in the control and study of bedbugs for over 15 years, and he participates in regular training and consulting for pest management companies. He went on several missions for studies on Reduviidae and for army investigations in French Guiana and in Africa.

BERGER Audric

BIRTLES Richard

Prof Birtles began his career with Public Health England, where he obtained his PhD on Bartonella diversity and evolution in 1994 and continued to study bartonella as a Marie Curie Research Fellow in the Unite des Rickettsies, L’Université d’Aix-Marseille then a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at The University of Bristol. At Bristol, Prof Birtles co-founded the Acarus Laboratory for molecular diagnostics of arthropod-borne infections of veterinary importance, expanding his interests to tick-borne pathogens including Borrelia burgdorferi and Anaplasma phagocytophilum. In 2001, Prof Birtles joined the academic staff of the University of Liverpool Veterinary School, where his research focused on Bartonella-arthropod interactions, A. phagocytophilum ecology and, as part of a multidisciplinary team, fundamental infectious disease ecology and wild immunology. In 2011, Prof Birtles moved to The University of Salford where, as part of the USALTI research group, he continues to work on infection ecology in the UK (Lyme disease and other zoonoses) and, increasingly, the impact of tick-borne infections on livestock rearing in sub-Saharan Africa. Prof Birtles has now published about 150 papers on his research.

BOUHSIRA EMILIE

Parasitologie

January 2015 - Present
Associate Professor in Parasitology-Parasitic diseases,
National Veterinary School of Toulouse, France

Research topics: vector-borne diseases, flea-borne diseases, agents transmitted by the stable fly Stomoxys calcitrans; resistance to insecticides in fleas and flies

More than 10 years of experience in the design and management of clinical studies conducted in Good Clinical Practices, aiming at determining the efficacy of ectoparasiticides in cats and dogs.

November 2007 - December 2014
Study Officer, Parasitology Laboratory
National Veterinary School of Toulouse, France

Management of clinical trials conducted in Good Clinical Practices (protocol and report redaction, organisation of trials) aiming at determining the efficacy of new ectoparasiticidal products against arthropods of veterinary and zoonotic importance

July to October 2007
Study Officer, Avogadro, Contract Resarch Organisation
Fontenilles, France

Clinical trials management, studies conducted in Good Clinical Practices

September 2006 - June 2007
Internship at the Parasitology-Dermatology Clinical Department
National Veterinary School of Toulouse, France

Participation to referee consultations in veterinary parasitology and dermatology

CHANDRE Fabrice

Dr Fabrice Chandre is a medical entomologist from the Institute of Research for Development (IRD), Montpellier, France with more than 25 years research expertise in vector control and genetics of insecticide resistance. He has been the head of the Vector Control Strategies Group in the Infectious Diseases and Vectors: Ecology, Genetics, Evolution and Control Research Unit, and of the WHO Collaborating Center for testing and evaluation of insecticide products for vector control in public health until 2020. He is currently an expert member of the Vector Control Advisory Group of WHO. From 2014 to 2017, he has served as the director of the National Center for Expertise on Vectors – an institutional consortium that supported the french Ministries of Health and Agricultural in prevention and management of vector borne diseases in France and its oversea territories. He currently coordinates the Vectopole Sud, a network of platforms dedicated to research on vectors and pests in Montpellier. He has also contributed to the writing of several guidelines for testing the efficacy of insecticides/repellents and the test procedures for resistance monitoring in mosquitoes. Dr Chandre has led field research programs in Cameroon, Ivory Coast, and Benin and published extensively on the characterization of mechanisms of insecticide resistance and their impacts in major vectors of malaria or arboviruses.

CORNELIE Sylvie

Sylvie Cornélie was trained as an immunologist (PhD at the Pasteur Institute of Lille, France – DNA vaccine) and then became interested in the interface between humans and the mosquito vector. She studied the immune response of humans against saliva in the context of malaria in Senegal in order to define a marker of exposure to the bite of this mosquito. She then strengthened her skills in medical entomology and focused on the impact of resistance on the salivary content of mosquito vectors. Finally, Sylvie worked for 6 years on the molecular characterization of resistance mechanisms in mosquitoes, more particularly in cuticular resistance mechanisms in Anopheles gambiae. She currently holds an engineering position, and she is developing molecular tools (ddPCR and qPCR, expression) for monitoring insecticide resistance in natural populations of Anopheles in Africa and methodologies to elucidate resistance mechanisms. She intervened in many technology transfers, especially in Africa, in order to train partners to molecular biology tools for the monitoring and the characterization of insecticide resistance.

DESQUESNES Marc

Marc Desquesnes est parasitologue et entomologiste vétérinaire, travaillant pour le CIRAD, UMR InterTryp ; spécialiste des trypanosomes et de leurs vecteurs.

GARROS Claire

Claire Garros est entomologiste médicale et vétérinaire. Elle travaille au développement durable des régions tropicales et méditerranéennes.

IGNJATOVIC CUPINA Aleksandra

Aleksandra Ignjatović Ćupina is Professor of Entomology, Head of the Centre of Excellence One Health- Vectors and Climate and Head of the Laboratory for Medical and Veterinary Entomology at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Novi Sad, Serbia.

JACQUIET Philippe

LIENARD Emmanuel

Emmanuel LIÉNARD est professeur de parasitologie vétérinaire à l’École Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse (ENVT) et diplômé du Collège européen de parasitologie vétérinaire (EVPC). Il possède une solide expérience en enseignement, recherche et expertise dans le domaine des maladies parasitaires. 

LORUSSO Vincenzo

MAIA Carla

MARTINET Jean-Philippe

PRUDHOMME Jorian

TORR Steve

WALL Richard