Peter Mergaert#
| Membership Number: | 5493 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.i2bc.paris-saclay.fr/spip.php?article412&lang=en |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-5919-7317 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 - present Group leader at the Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. Team Plant-Bacteria Interactions; 18 persons: 5 researchers/3 technicians/3 PhD students/3 Post-docs/2 CDD researchers/2 visiting researchers
- 2014 - 2015 Visiting scientist at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Hokkaido, Sapporo, Japan and the Hokkaido University, Sapporo Japan
- 2013 - 2015 Group leader at the Institut des Sciences du Végétal, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- 1999 - 2013 Researcher and Project leader at the Institut des Sciences du Végétal, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- 1997 - 1999 Post-doc at the Institut des Sciences du Végétal, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- 1996 - 1996 Post-doc at the Laboratory of Genetics, University Ghent, Belgium
- 1991 - 1992 Visiting scientist at the at the Centre de Recherches de Biochimie et de Génétique Cellulaire and the Laboratoire de Pharmacologie et Toxicologie, CNRS, Toulouse, France
- 1990 - 1996 PhD student at the Laboratory of Genetics, University Ghent, Belgium
Fields of Scholarship
- Symbiosis in plants (rhizobium-legume interaction) and insects (gut symbiosis)
- Functional genomics, genomics, genetics, molecular biology, cell biology applied to symbiosis research
- Antimicrobial peptides: mode of action and resistance in bacteria
- Endoreduplication in plants
Honours and Awards
- 2018 The Adam Kondorosi Academia Europaea Award attributed by the Academia Europaea and the European Nitrogen Fixation Conference
- 2014 - 2015 – Long-term Invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan from the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- 2011 Le « Prix La Recherche », section “Biologie” attributed by the magazine La Recherche
- 1997 - 1999 – Post doctoral fellowship from the Flemish Agency for Scientific Research (FWO), Belgium
- 1991 - EMBO short term fellowship.-
- 1990 - 1994 – PhD fellowship from the Agency for Innovation by Research and Technology, Flanders, Belgium
- 1990 - Biotechnology price – Plant Genetic Systems N.V. / Roche Research Gent, Belgium, awarded for my diploma work
