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Current position:

2013 Postdoctoral Research
University of Sydney
Principal investigator: Eddie Holmes.

Education:

2006-2009 Doctor of Philosophy in Evolutionary Biology

Macquarie University, Australia

2003 - 2004 Master by Research in Bioinformatics with Merit

University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

2002 - 2003 Master degree in Computer Science with Merit

University Francois Rabelais, Tours, France.

1999 - 2002 Bachelor degree in Cellular Biology and Physiology minor in Bioinformatics

University Nice Sofia-Antipolis (UNSA), Nice, France.

Professional Experience:

2011-2013 Postdoctoral Research
Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore
Principal investigator: Gavin Smith.

2010-2011 Postdoctoral Research
Department of Pathology, University of California, San Diego
Principal investigators: Sergei L. Kosakovsky-Pond and Douglas D. Richman.

01/2008 - 03/2009 Visiting Fellow
Virology Unit, Pasteur Institute of Cambodia - Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Molecular analysis of avian and seasonal influenza in Cambodia.

02/2005 – 08/2006 Visiting Fellow
School of Botany and Zoology, ANU – Canberra, Australia
Analysis of recombination in avian influenza viruses and development of bioinformatics methods and software.

06/2004 – 08/2004 Visiting Fellow
School of Botany and Zoology, ANU – Canberra, Australia
Bioinformatics analysis of recombination and rate heterogeneity in influenza virus neuraminidase genes.

05/2003 – 09/2003 Internship – GATC Biotech AG – Constance, Germany
Implementation of web based bioinformatics tools in Perl-cgi on Linux server.

04/2002 Intern – UNSA (cellular biology laboratory) – Nice, France
Research on SNAP23, a protein involved in neurosecretion in astrocytoma using immunocytochemistry, confocal microscopy and cellular culture.

01/2002 Intern – CNRS (French Research Laboratory) – Nice, France
Research on a bacteria (S. meliloti) facing an osmotic stress using bacterial culture, Southern-blot and electrophoresis.

Interests and skills:

Interests

Viruses, seasonal and H5N1 Influenza, malaria, computational methods, phylogenetics, molecular evolution, molecular epidemiology

Computer Science

Operating systems: Mac OS, Linux, Windows
Languages: Java, C, Perl, HyPhy, R package
Database: MySQL, SQLite

Conference/workshop:

CEIRS Network Annual Meeting. New York, USA, July/August 2012.

Mathematical Modelling Workshop: Within and Between-Host Dynamics of Drug-Resistant Pathogens. Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, June 2012.

Next-generation molecular and evolutionary epidemiology of infectious disease: challenges and opportunities. The Royal Society, Chicheley Hall, United Kingdom, May 2012.

Next-generation molecular and evolutionary epidemiology of infectious disease. The Royal Society, London, United Kingdom, May 2012.

Molecular epidemiology and evolutionary patterns of infectious diseases in South East Asia, Siem Reap, Cambodia, 2010.

Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics, Seattle, USA, 2009.

Bayesian Phylogeny Workshop, Budapest, Hungary, 2008.

RECOMB, Venice, Italy, 2006

Fellowships:

NSF: Identifying Selection Pressures on Viral Genomes, University of California, San Diego, 2010-present.
International Macquarie University Research Scholarship, 2006-2010.

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