Antimicrobial Resistance

The Graduate School of Antimicrobial Resistance offers a variety of courses that focused on extensive, up-to-date and original expertise that can be used to combat antimicrobial resistance from prevention to treatment, and through vaccination, detection, identification and dissemination.

Presentation

In collaboration with teachers and researchers with scientific and medical trainings, the Graduate School of Antimicrobial Resistance aims at developing a research-based training centre on antimicrobial resistance.

It offers a structured programme of excellence in the fields of microbiology, virology, mycology, parasitology and infectious diseases, and a multidisciplinary vision via:

• Specialisation in biochemistry and molecular and cellular biology offering students an integrated vision of the molecular, cellular and functional properties of biological systems necessary to understand physiological and pathological processes.
• Specialisation in bioinformatics, programming methodology and data processing providing students with the required skills to deliver innovative solutions in the field of antimicrobial resistance.
• Specialisation in life, learning and digital sciences including innovative courses and practical training through internships in various laboratories, start-ups and other companies.

The Graduate School of Antimicrobial Resistance equips students with broad, up-to-date and original knowledge to enable them to the respond to the contemporary challenges of antimicrobial resistance and emerging infections.

Antimicrobial resistance is addressed in terms of prevention, vaccination, detection, identification, dissemination and treatment. There is an emphasis on the understanding host-pathogen interactions, host responses to antimicrobials and pathogenesis.

In order to identify new therapeutic targets and developing new antimicrobial approaches, these fields include the vitality cost of resistance and virulence but also the virulence/resistance trade-off. The impact in terms of society, economy and public health policy is also be discussed.

Contact

Isabelle MARTIN-VERSTRAETE
isabelle.martin-verstraete@pasteur.fr

André BIRGY
andre.birgy@aphp.fr

Imane EL MEOUCHE
imane.el-meouche@inserm.fr

Stéphanie PETRELLA
stephanie.petrella@pasteur.fr

Jérôme CLAIN
jerome.clain@u-paris.fr

Research

The Graduate School of Antimicrobial Resistance benefits from a large number of institutes and laboratories working in the fields of microbiology at Université Paris Cité. Microb’UP, a recently created outside-the-walls institute federating the multidisciplinary community interested in microbiology and infectious diseases, and the Institut Pasteur, supporting both the LabEx Integrative Biology of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IBEID) and the Institut INCEPTION, are also valuable to the Graduate School.

Adding to that, the unit “Infection, Antimicrobials, Modelling, Evolution” (IAME) is connected to the university of Freiburg in the INSERM associated European laboratory “Emerging Antibiotic Resistance in Gram-negative Bacteria”. This numerously skilled community allows  collaborative projects and the creation of a strong training dynamic through research for Master’s and Ph.D. students.

Executives

• Dr. André BIRGY
  Faculty of Health
  Co-director of the Graduate School of Antimicrobial Resistance
  Member of the Steering Committee of the Institut hors murs Microb’UP
• Pierre-Emmanuel CECCALDI
  Co-director of the Graduate School of Antimicrobial Resistance
  Group Leader in the Epidemiology and Pathophysiology of Oncogenic Viruses Unit at the Institut Pasteur
• Prof. Isabelle MARTIN-VERSTRAETE
  Faculty of Science
  Co-director of the Graduate School of Antimicrobial Resistance
  Head of the BMC Master’s degree in Microbiology
• Stéphanie PETRELLA
  Faculty of Science
  Co-director of the Graduate School of Antimicrobial Resistance
  Lecturer
  Researcher at Pasteur Institute

Office:

• Imane EL MEOUCHE
  Research Officer, INSERM
• Jérôme CLAIN
  Lecturer
  Researcher in the MERIT unit on resistance to malaria treatments and associated resistances