Prof. Dr. Amparo Acker-Palmer
Biological and related sciences , Health, Cell Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Vascular Biology, Tumour Biology
Biological and related sciences , Physical sciences
Environmental virology, Molecular and structural biology, biochemistry
Giant viruses diversity, Giant viruses physiology, Host/pathogen cross-talk, Role of DNA viruses in evolution, viruses and the origin of life
Officier de l'ordre national du mérite, 2020
Prize Jaffé from the French Académie des Sciences, 2019
Prize from la Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale, Lucien Tartois, 2017
Médaille citoyen d'honneur Cassis
Trophée de la femme 2016 Mairie 6-8 Marseille
Prix La recherche, 2015
Chevalier dans l’ordre national de la légion d’honneur, 2014
Prix Bettencourt-Schueller: Coup d’élan pour la recherché Française, 2014
CNRS Silver Medal, 2014
English, French
Abergel C, Legendre M, Claverie JM. The rapidly expanding universe of giant viruses: Mimivirus, Pandoravirus, Pithovirus and Mollivirus. FEMS Microbiol Rev. 2015;39(6):779-96.
Priet S, Lartigue A, Debart F, Claverie JM, Abergel C. mRNA maturation in giant viruses: variation on a theme. Nucleic Acids Res. 2015 Apr 20;43(7):3776-88.
Legendre M, Lartigue A, Bertaux L, Jeudy S, Bartoli J, Lescot M, Alempic JM, Ramus C, Bruley C, Labadie K, Shmakova L, Rivkina E, Couté Y, Abergel C, Claverie JM. In-depth study of Mollivirus sibericum, a new 30,000-y-old giant virus infecting Acanthamoeba. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015;112(38):E5327-35.
Legendre M, Bartoli J, Shmakova L, Jeudy S, Labadie K, Adrait A, Lescot M, Poirot O, Bertaux L, Bruley C, Couté Y, Rivkina E, Abergel C, Claverie JM. Thirty-thousand-year-old distant relative of giant icosahedral DNA viruses with a pandoravirus morphology. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014;111:4274-9.
Philippe N, Legendre M, Doutre G, Couté Y, Poirot O, Lescot M, Arslan D, Seltzer V, Bertaux L, Bruley C, Garin J, Claverie JM, Abergel C. Pandoraviruses: amoeba viruses with genomes up to 2.5 Mb reaching that of parasitic eukaryotes. Science. 2013;341(6143):281-6.
Structural genomics of conserved proteins of unknown function in search of new targets for new antibiotics (bacteria, fungi)
Giant viruses diversity and evolution
Giant viruses physiology
Structural biology of giant viruses
Television: BBC, LCI, France2, France 5, FR, Russian and Australian channels, etc.
Radio: France info, France Inter, Europe 1, France culture, dozens of foreign radios
Newspapers: Le Monde, Le Figaro, Libération, Washington Post, New York Times, main Japanese newspapers
Popular scientific press: Science et Vie, Science et Avenir, Biofutur, La Recherche, Todays News, National Geographic
Internet: as of today, "Giant virus" retrieves 39,700,000 Google hits, Mimivirus >80,000, Pandoravirus, Pithovirus and Mollivirus >30,000 each.
Gardening, Cooking
Mother of two boys, Nicolas (21) and Raphaël (18)
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Biological and related sciences , Health, Cell Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Vascular Biology, Tumour Biology
Physical sciences
Biological and related sciences , Evolutionary biology, Animal behaviour, Gender studies, Science studies
Physical sciences, Quantum simulation, ultracold atoms