Frédéric Barras#
| Membership Number: | 6052 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/stress-adaptation-metabolism-enterobacteria/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-3458-2574 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 - present Head of the Department of Microbiology, Institut Pasteur, Paris
- 2018 - present Director of Research, Professor Institut Pasteur, Paris
- 1997 - 2018 Full Professor Aix-Marseille II University
- 2004 - 2017 Director of the CNRS UMR Bacterial Chemistry Laboratory, Marseille
- 1988 - 1997 Researcher CNRS Bacterial Chemistry Laboratory, Marseille
- 1986 - 1988 Research Associate Univ. Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA
- 1985 - 1986 Research Associate Kansas State University, USA
- 2014 - 2021 Visiting scientist Univ. della Sapienza, Roma, Italia
- 1995 - 1996 Visiting scientist University Medical Center, Geneva, Switzerland
Fields of Scholarship
- Redox biology
- Genetics
- Iron sulfur cluster biology
- Microbiology
- Stress adpatation
Honours and Awards
- 2009 Institut Universitaire de France Senior Member
- 2015 French Academy of Sciences, The Great Advances in Biology (with B. Ezraty)
- 2016 French Academy of Sciences, Louis Pasteur Medal-Romain Prévot Foundation
- 2017 Elected Member European Academy of Microbiology
- 2021 Elected Member American Academy of Microbiology
