Patrick Forterre#
| Membership Number: | 4628 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://research.pasteur.fr/fr/team/molecular-biology-of-gene-in-extremophiles |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - until now Professor, Institut Pasteur
- 2014 - until now Emeritus Professor, University Paris-Saclay
- 1988 - 2014 Professor, University Paris-Sud
- 2004 - until now Head of Unit, Institut Pasteur
- 2003 - 2010 Head of the Microbiology Department, Institut Pasteur
- 1999 -2005 Head of the Institut Fédératif de Recherche, Genome: Structure, function and evolution', CNRS, University Paris-Sud
- 1988 - 2014 Head of the research group at the Institut de Génétique et Microbiology, CNRS, University Paris-Sud
- 1986 - 1988 Associated Professor, University Denis Diderot, Paris VII
- 1973 - 1986 Research Assistant, University Denis Diderot, Paris VII
Fields of Scholarship
- Early life history: topology of the universal tree of life and nature of the Last Universal Common Ancestor.
- Origin, nature and role of viruses in life evolution
- Evolution of mobile elements, viruses and plasmids
- Origin of DNA and DNA replication mechanisms
- Molecular adaptation to high temperature, reverse gyrase
- Molecular biology of Archaea and hyperthermophiles
- Biochemistry of DNA topoisomerases and DNA polymerases
- Extracellular membrane vesicles and viral vesicles
- Comparative genomics, phylogenomics, molecular phylogeny
Honours and Awards
- 2015 Elected to the European Academy of Microbiology
- 2014 - 2019 ERC Advanced Grant, EVOMOBIL
- 2004 - 2015 Senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF)
