Didier Mazel#
| Membership Number: | 5574 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/bacterial-genome-plasticity/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-6482-6002 |
| Twitter: | @amazeld |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/didier-mazel-99360b1b/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2020 Deputy Director, for Scientific Assessment, Institut Pasteur
- Since 2012 Professor, Institut Pasteur
- 2009 - 2018 Director of the Genomes and Genetics department, Institut Pasteur
- Since 2004 Head of Bacterial Genome Plasticity Unité, Institut Pasteur
- 2002 - 2011 Chef de Laboratoire, Institut Pasteur
- 1998 - 2003 Group leader (« super-integrons and bacterial innovation ») in the Unité de Programmation Moléculaire et Toxicologie Génétique (directed by Pr. Maurice Hofnung).
- 1996 - 1997 Visiting scientist in the laboratory of Pr Julian Davies, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
- 1995 - 2001 Chargé de Recherche, Institut Pasteur
- 1990 - 1994 Assistant, Institut Pasteur
- 87/11 - 89/12 Fellow of the Roux Foundation (Institut Pasteur)
- 85/10 - 87/10 PhD Fellow of the French Ministry of Research and Education
Fields of Scholarship
- Integrons
- Horizontal gene transfer
- Antibiotic resistance
- Bacterial genome structure and maintenance
- Molecular evolution
- Mobile genetic elements
- Site-specific recombination
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Elected to the European Academy of Microbiology
- 2016 Laureate of a Louis Pasteur Chair of Excellence
- 2014 Elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology
- 2010 Laureate of the 2010 Pasteur Vallery-Radot award of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France
- 2006 Laureate of the 2006 Jean Pierre Lecocq Prize of the French Academy of Sciences
