Astrid VABRET Coordinator & Meriadeg LE GOUIL, scientific director of the EpiCOREM project.
ASTRID VABRET (Pr.), responsable du service de virologie du CHU de Caen. Ce laboratoire détient une expertise historique des coronavirus (depuis les années 90) et des virus respiratoires. Il assure la surveillance épidémiologique des infections respiratoires et héberge le CNR-ROR (Centre National de Référence pour les virus de la Rougeole, des Oreillons et de la Rubéole).
ASTRID VABRET (Pr.) is Head of the Virology department at the University Hospital of Caen. This lab has a historical expertise of coronaviruses (since 90’s) and respiratory viruses, performs epidemiological surveillance of respiratory infections and is the reference center for Measles, Mumps and Rubella viruses.
Contacts : CHU de Caen, Avenue Georges Clemenceau, 14000 Caen, France. T +33 2 3127 2014 Email: vabret-a@chu-caen.fr http://bit.ly/AstridVabretANR
MERIADEG LE GOUIL a une formation universitaire en écologie, en génétique des populations, science de l’évolution, systématique et phylogénétique, avec un intérêt particulier pour la coevolution hôte-parasite qui l’a naturellement mené vers une vision intégrative et interdisciplinaire de la virologie. Après une thèse de doctorat et des post-doctorats menés entre le Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, l’IRD et l’Institut Pasteur, sur les origines sauvages du SARS-CoV et d’autres virus zoonotiques et émergents hébergés par les chiropteres et d’autres animaux, il a rejoint l’université de Caen et le CHU de Caen.
MERIADEG LE GOUIL has a background in ecology, population genetics, evolutionary biology, phylogenetics and systematic, with a focus on host-parasite coevolution. This brought him to adopt an integrative and interdisciplinary vision of viral ecology and evolution, in the study of processes driving viruses to emerge and of environmental impact on virus fitness. After a degree in biology of populations and ecosystems and a master of systematics, he obtained his PhD in 2009 from the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France. His PhD research focused on the origin of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) related coronaviruses in wildlife, and on zoonotic and emerging viruses infecting bats, and was hosted within the Unit “Territories and context of emergence” (french Institue for Research and Development – IRD) in Thailand in partnership with the Center for Vector and Vector-borne diseases, Bangkok, Thailand. After postdocs at Institut Pasteur, Paris, he endorsed the scientific direction of the ANR founded project EPICOREM (Eco Epidemiology of coronaviruses, from wildlife to human : Emergence threat assessment) and was recently hired by the University of Normandy and University Hospital of Caen to conduct research on coronaviruses (and other respiratory viruses) evolution in close collaboration with clinicians.
