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Laboratory Assistant SV GHI UPCOL

Philippe Busso Prof. Cole Group Lab Tech web site: http://cole-lab.epfl.ch/page-21730.html office(s): SV3533 SV3729 phone(s): [+41 21 69] 31774,30623 MISSION Mycobacterium leprae: -Phylogeography -Drug resistance survey -Immune responses -Genome sequencing & genotyping -Wild armadillo/Human Zoonosis In charge of the Genetic Analyzer BIOGRAPHY 2000-2003: Apprenticeship in the "Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques" (CJB) in Geneva. Project on the phylogeography and post-glacial redistribution of Eryngium alpinum. 2003: Internship in "Station Fédérale de Recherche Agronomiques" (RAC) of Changins-Wädenswil. Fungal diseases in field crops. 2004-2008: In charge of the sequencing + DNA fragments analysis unit and also responsible of the greenhouse experiments in the "Département d'Ecologie et d'Evolution"(DEE) in Lausanne University. 2008-current: Mycobacterium leprae project in Stewart Cole's lab in the Global Health Institute (GHI) at EPFL. MAIN PUBLICATIONS L. Vera-Cabrera, W. G. Escalante-Fuentes, M. Gomez-Flores, J. Ocampo-Candiani, P. Busso, P. Singh, and S. T. Cole. A Case of Diffuse Lepromatous Leprosy associated with Mycobacterium lepromatosis. Journal of clinical microbiology, 2011. [ DOI | Details ] R. W. Truman, P. Singh, R. Sharma, P. Busso, J. Rougemont, A. Paniz-Mondolfi, A. Kapopoulou, S. Brisse, D. M. Scollard, T. P. Gillis, and S. T. Cole. Probable zoonotic leprosy in the southern United States. The New England journal of medicine, 364(17):1626-33, 2011. [ DOI | Details ] P. Singh, P. Busso, A. Paniz-Mondolfi, N. Aranzazu, M. Monot, N. Honore, A. de Faria Fernandes Belone, M. Virmond, M. E. Villarreal-Olaya, C. Rivas, and S. T. Cole. Molecular drug susceptibility testing and genotyping of Mycobacterium leprae strains from South America. Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 55(6):2971-3, 2011. [ DOI | Details ] M. Monot, N. Honoré, T. Garnier, N. Zidane, D. Sherafi, A. Paniz-Mondolfi, M. Matsuoka, G. M. Taylor, H. D. Donoghue, A. Bouwman, S. Mays, C. Watson, D. Lockwood, A. Khamesipour, A. Khamispour, Y. Dowlati, S. Jianping, T. H. Rea, L. Vera-Cabrera, M. M. Stefani, S. Banu, M. Macdonald, B. R. Sapkota, J. S. Spencer, J. Thomas, K. Harshman, P. Singh, P. Busso, A. Gattiker, J. Rougemont, P. J. Brennan, and S. T. Cole. Comparative genomic and phylogeographic analysis of Mycobacterium leprae. Nature genetics, 41(12):1282-9, 2009. [ DOI | Details ]