Curiculum Vitae

FUNDING HISTORY

Dates Name of grant held. Position on the grant Total amount awarded
10/2022 - 09/2027 MRC Career development Award, York PI £1,200,499.32
05/2015 - 04/2017 Post-doctorate Fellowship of “Marie Curie-Sklodowska” PI 183,455€
11/2010 - 11/2013 PhD Fellowship of “DIM Maladies infectieuses”, Ile de France, France PI 95,850€

EMPLOYEMENT HISTORY

Dates Name of organisation and position held. PI name Type of appointment
10/2022 - date University of York – MRC Career Development Award Fellow (MR/W026996/1). Dr. Mathieu Cayla Fixed-term Full-time
05/2017 - 09/2022 University of Edinburgh – Post-doc - supported by the Wellcome Trust through Wellcome Investigator awards to K. R. Matthews (#103740, #221717). Prof. Keith R. Matthews Fixed-term Full-time
05/2015 - 04/2017 University of Edinburgh – Post-doc - As Marie Curie-Sklodowska Fellow (#65470). Prof. Keith R. Matthews Fixed-term Full-time
10/2014 - 03/2015 Pasteur institute Paris – Post-doc. Dr. Gerald F. Spãth Fixed-term Full-time
09/2010 - 09/2014 Pasteur institute Paris – University Paris 7 – PhD student – supported by a DIM Malinf fellowship. Dr. Gerald F. Spãth Fixed-term Full-time
11/2009 - 06/2010 Pasteur institute Paris – University Paris 6 – Master degree. Dr. Gerald F. Spãth Fixed-term full-time
07/2009 - 08/2009 Cordeliers Research Center – University Paris 6 – Licence degree. Dr. Véronique Fremeaux-Bacchi Fixed-term full-time
01/2009 - 05/2009 Cordeliers Research Center – Summer work as Study Engineer. Dr. Véronique Fremeaux-Bacchi Fixed-term full-time
06/2008 - 07/2008 Cordeliers Research Center – Laboratory stage. Dr. Véronique Fremeaux-Bacchi Fixed-term full-time

EDUCATION

Dates Universities/colleges attended Subjects Degree with details
2010-2014 Pasteur Institute, B3MI – University Paris 7, France Biological Science - Molecular Parasitology PhD with congratulations of the Jury
2008-2010 University Paris 6, France Molecular and Cellular Biology: speciality Parasitology and Mycology Master of Science
2004-2008 University Paris 6, France Biology: Life Science Licence degree
2000-2004 Lycee Robert Doisneau, Corbeil Essonnes, France General cursus in sciences Bachelor of Science with honours

Date of PhD Viva: 19/09/2014

My scientific story

I joined the Pasteur Institute with a DIM MalInf Fellowship to perform my PhD, under the supervision of Dr. Gerald Spath and co-supervision of Dr. Najma Rachidi, to study the role of protein kinases in Leishmania parasites. During that time, I performed a structure/function analysis of a protein kinase and studied its role in cellular differentiation (see PhD project)

I then joined the laboratory of Prof. Keith Matthews at the University of Edinburgh, with a Marie Curie-Sklodowska Fellowship, to characterise protein kinases implicated in the quorum−sensing differentition of the parasite T. brucei. During this PostDoc, I successfully lead several projects, collaborated and train Honours, Master and PhD students. I developed new enzymatic assays and pipelines to study the role of protein kinases as well as identifying molecular pathways regulating cellular differentiation of the mammalian blood stage of the parasite (see Current projects and Post-doctoral projects)

Since October 2022, I have started a MRC career development position at the University of York to study the regulation and role of autophagy during the differentiation steps of T. brucei life cycle.