Dr. Chantal Abergel

Previous positions

• 1990 – 1994
  Fogarty Visiting Scientist (Research Fellow), David Davies Laboratory, National Institute of Health, NIDDK, Bethesda, USA. Structure determination of mouse anti-tumour antibodies. Introduction of bioinformatic studies of immunoglobulins in order to humanize mouse antibodies. (supervisor Dr. Eduardo Padlan).
  
  

• 1995 – 2003
  Research engineer CNRS
  
  

• 2004 – 2012
  CNRS Research Director (2nd class)
  
  

• Since 2019
  CNRS Research Director (Class exceptional)
  
  

Current position

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  CNRS Research Director, Co-founder of the IGS laboratory (created 01/01/95)
  
  

• Since 2018
  Director of the IGS laboratory
  
  

• 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

• Associate Editor Genome Biology and Evolution

• 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.

Additional interests

• Gardening, Cooking

Other activities and achievements/family

• Mother of two boys, Nicolas (21) and Raphaël (18)

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