Pascale Cossart - Curriculum vitae#
Present Position:
- Head of the "Unité des Interactions Bactéries-Cellules"
- Director of the INSERM Unit, U604 and of the INRA Unit, USC2020
- Status: Professor at the Pasteur Institute, Classe exceptionnelle
Academic titles
- 1968 Maîtrise ès Sciences (Chemistry) (Lille University, France)
- 1971 Master of Science (Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA)
- 1977 Doctorat ès-Sciences physiques (Paris VII University, France)
Positions
- Oct 1969 - Sept 1970 Assistante à l’IUT de Biologie appliquée de Lille.
- Oct 1970 - Sept 1971 University fellow à Georgetown University, Washington D. C.
- Mar 1972 - Sept 1972 Boursière de la Fondation Philippe. Institut Pasteur, Paris.
- Oct 1972 - Sept 1974 Boursière de la Fondation Roux. Institut Pasteur, Paris.
- Oct 1974 - Dec 1975 Professeur de Biochimie à l’École Royale de Médecine, Vientiane, Laos.
- Jan 1976 - Dec 1979 Assistante à l’Institut Pasteur, Paris.
- Jan 1980 - Dec 1987 Chargée de Recherches à l’Institut Pasteur, Paris.
- Jan 1988 - Dec 1996 Chef de Laboratoire à l’Institut Pasteur, Paris.
- Jan 1997 - Dec 2005 Professeur à l’Institut Pasteur, Paris.
- Jan 2006 - Present Professeur de Classe Exceptionnelle à l’Institut Pasteur, Paris.
Laboratories
- 1968 - 1970 Laboratoire de Chimie Biologique de la Faculté des Sciences de Lille (Pr Jean Montreuil).
- Jul 1970 - Aug 1971 Laboratory of Protein Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., USA (Pr J. Steinhardt).
- Sept - Oct 1971 Laboratoire de Chimie Biologique de la faculté de Médecine de Lille ( Pr Boulanger).
- Dec 1971 - Sept 1974 Unité de Biochimie Cellulaire, Institut Pasteur (Pr G. Cohen).
- Jan 1976 - Dec 1977 Unité de Biochimie Cellulaire, Institut Pasteur (Pr G. Cohen).
- Jan 1978 - Aug 1980 Unité des Virus Oncogènes, Institut Pasteur (Pr M. Yaniv).
- Sept 1980 - Feb 1986 Unité de Biochimie Cellulaire, Institut Pasteur ( Pr G. Cohen).
- Mar 1986 - Mar 1991 Unité de Génie Microbiologique, Institut Pasteur (Pr J. Davies).
- Mar 1991 - Mar 1994 Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire des Listeria, Institut Pasteur (Dr P. Cossart).
- Apr 1994 - Present Unité des Interactions Bactéries-Cellules, Institut Pasteur, Paris. (Pr P. Cossart).
Distinctions and Prizes
- EMBO member, (1995)
- Academia Europae member, (1998)
- Corresponding member of the French “Académie des Sciences”, Paris, (1999)
- Member of the “Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina”, Germany, (2001)
- Member of the French “Académie des Sciences”, Paris, (2002)
- Member of the CCNE (Comité Consultatif National d’Ethique), (2003-2007), (2008-2011)
- Member of the Academy of Microbiology, (2004)
- Member of the European Academy of Microbiology, (June 2009)
- Member of the American National Academy of Sciences, USA, (2009)
- Fellow of the Royal Society (RS), London, (2010)
- UNESCO Prize “;Carlos Finlay”, (1995)
- Louis Rapkine Award, (1997)
- L’Oreal/UNESCO Award for Women in Science, (1998)
- Richard Lounsbery Prize, Académie des Sciences, Paris/National Academy of Sciences, USA, (1998)
- NESTLE Prize “L’homme et sa nutrition”, (2000)
- Louis Pasteur Gold Medal, Swedish Society of Medicine, Stockholm, (2000)
- Valade Senior Prize, Fondation de France (2003)
- INSERM Prize of Fundamental Research (2005)
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, International Research Scholar, September 2000-2005, September 2005-2010
- GLAXO SMITH KLINE International Member of the Year Award, (ASM, Toronto), May 2007
- Robert Koch Prize, Berlin, (2007)
- René Descartes Prize (2008) for collaborative transnational research, Brussels, (2008)
- Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine (2008)
- ERC Advanced Grant Award (2008)
- Doctor honoris causa, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, October (2009)
- Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur (1998)
- Officier de l’Ordre National du Mérite (2002)
- Officier de la Legion d’honneur (2007)
- Commandeur de l'Ordre Nationale du Mérite (2010)
- Balzan Prize (2013)
Honorary Lectures
- May 18-24, 1996 Lecture and Visiting Professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
- April 16, 1997 Louis Rapkine lecture. Birmingham, UK.
- February 11, 1998 The Normandy Lecture - Moyne Institute, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
- May 19-23, 2002 Division B lecture, ASM : 102nd General Meeting, Salt lake city, Utah, USA.
- March 5-6, 2003 The Chiron Lectures - University of California, Berkeley, USA.
- May 7, 2003 The NIH Director’s Lecture, Margaret Pittman Lecture - National Institutes of Health, Behesda, USA.
- February 24, 2004 RGE Murray Lectureship, London, Canada.
- May 21, 2004 The Meyer Lecture - University of California, San Francisco, USA.
- December 1-3, 2004 The Embo Lecture - XXVI Annual Meeting of the Chilean Society for Microbiology, Valparaiso, Chile.
- May 24, 2005 The Marvin E. Brennecke Lecture - Washington University, Saint-Louis, USA.
- January 25-26, 2006 The BBVA Foundation Lectures, Granada and Madrid, Spain.
- June 18, 2006 The E.C. Slater Plenary Lecture, 20th IUBMB Int. Congress of Biochem. and Molecul. Biology and 11th FAOBMB Congress, Kyoto, Japan.
- November 17, 2006 The 22nd Shipley Symposium, Harvard Medical School, USA.
- November 20, 2006 The Mayer Lecture, Biology Colloquium, Massachussets Institute of Technology, USA.
- December 14, 2006 The Rickett symposium Lecture, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA.
- May 22, 2007 The International Member of the Year Lecture, ASM, Toronto (Canada).
- November 8, 2007 The Robert Koch Lecture, Berlin, Germany.
- March 2008 Opening lecture, Genomes 2008, Paris, France.
- July 23, 2008 The Robert Koch Lecture, Tubingen, Germany.
- September 2008 Opening lecture, ELSO 2008, Nice, France.
- January 2009 Ernst A. H. Friedheim Memorial Lecture – Rockeffeler University, New-York, USA.
- February 2009 “Perspectives in Molecular Medicine” Lecture, Goethe University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.
- June 15, 2009 keynote lecture – 59th Annual Conference of the Canadian Society of Microbiologists, Montreal, Canada.
- June 28, 2009 Opening plenary lecture - FEMS 2009 – 3rd Congress of European microbiologists, Goteborg, Sweden.
- October 4, 2009 Opening lecture – ProkaGenomics 2009, Gottingen, Germany.
- January 29, 2010 Keynote lecture - Robert Koch Kolloquium, Berlin, Germany.
- March 22-25, 2010 Keynote lecture – Mexican Society for Biochemistry, San Miguel Regla, Hidalgo, Mexico.
- November 23, 2010 MTC celebrating Karolinska Institutet 200 years, Stockholm, Sweden.
- December 3, 2010 The Embo Lecture - XLVI Annual Meeting of the Argentinian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Puerto Madryn, Argentina.
- February 11, 2011 The 2011 John H. Erskine Lecture in Infectious Diseases – St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
- March 6, 2011 Opening lecture - EMBO Workshop, Function and structure of Septins, filament-forming GTP-binding proteins, St. Goar, Germany.
- January 11, 2012 EMBL Distinguished Visitor Lecture - Large Operon, Heidelberg, Germany.
- February 22, 2012 The Joel Mandelstam Lecture – University of Oxford, UK.
Editorial Boards
- “Current opinion in Microbiology”, 1998, Chief Editor 2001-Present
- “Journal of Cell Biology”, Monitoring Editor 2003-Present
- “PLoS Pathogens”, Associate Editor 2005-Present
- “Molecular Microbiology”, Editorial board 1992-2003
- “EMBO Journal”, Editorial board 1996-2008
- “Trends in Cell Biology”, Editorial board 1999-Present
- “Cellular Microbiology”, Editorial board 2000-Present
- “Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology”, Editorial board 2000-2005
- “Microbes and Infection”, Editorial board 2000-Present
- “EMBO Reports”, Editorial board 2001-Present
- “FEBS Letters”, Editor 2002-2008
- “International Journal of Medical Microbiology”, Editorial board 2004-Present
- Member of “Faculty of 1000”- 2001-Present
- “Cell: Host and Microbe ”, Editorial board 2007-Present
- “Cell”, Editorial board 2008-Present
Scientific Societies
- Member of the Société Française de Microbiologie since 1977
- Member of the American Society for Microbiology since 1987
- Member of the American Society for Cell Biology since 1993
- Member of the Sociéte Française de Biologie Cellulaire since 2007
- Member of the Société Française de Biochimie et de Biologie Moléculaire since 2007
Main present activities
- Member of the Jury of the L’Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science, 1999-present
- Member of the Scientific Council of Fondation Recherche Médicale (FRM), 2008-present
- European Research Council (ERC) LS6 Panel member, 2008-present
- Member of the Scientific Council of Institut Pasteur of Tunis, 2009-present
- Member of the Teaching and Research Council of Ecole Polytechnique, Paris 2009-present
- Member of the EMBO Council, Heidelberg, 2010-present
- Member of AXA Research Fund Scientific Board, Paris, 2010-present
- Co-Director of Labex IBEID 2011-present
- Member of Scientific Council of Fondation ALLIANZ-Institut de France, 2012-present
Main recent activities
- Member of the Scientific Council of the Institut Pasteur, 2002-2006, President 2003-2005, member 2011.
- Member of the Scientific Council of INRA, 1998- 2006. In charge of "Mission Microbiologie in INRA" in 2001
- Member of the EMBO Course and Workshop Committee, 1999-2004. "Chair" 2001-2004
- Member of the Review Panel of the EMBL « Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit », Heidelberg, Germany, May 2005
- Member of the Jury of the 2006 INBEV-Baillet Latour Health Prize, FNRS, Brussels, 2006
- Member of the Scientific Council of the Fondation Bettencourt-Schueller, 2003-2007
- Member of the « Comité de Pilotage » of ANR, Agence Nationale pour la Recherche, « Microbiol., Immunol. et Maladies Emergentes », 2006-2009
- Member of the Scientific Council of the CNRS, 2005-2006
- Member of the Program Committee of the 2006 ASCB Annual Meeting in San Diego, US, December 2006
- Member of the Scientific Council of the « Ville de Paris », 2003-2008
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Würzburg University, Germany, 2000-2008
- Member of the Scientific Council of American Society Cell Biology (ASCB), 2008-2010
- Member of the FEBS Advanced Course Committee, 2008-2009
- Member of the Council of Scientific of Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO), 2008-2011
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland, 2002-2011
- Member of the HHMI review panel for the Early Career Initiative, 2011
Meetings and courses organization
- Organization of an international INSERM/P.Laudat Conference “Microbial pathogenesis and Cell Biology”, Aix-les Bains, France, October 1995
- Co-organization of a “Cellular Microbiology” EMBO-EBNIC Workshop, Sienna, Italy, January 1999
- Organization of an ESF/EMBO Conference “Frontiers of Cellular Microbiology and Cell Biology”, Giens, France, October 2000
- Co-organization of the Meeting “New challenges in Biological Research : Pasteurian missions in 21st century”, Académie des Sciences, Institut de France ; Arc et Senans, France, October 2000
- Organization of EMBO/FEBS Lecture Course “Molecular basis of bacterial virulence and survival in infected hosts and in the environment”, Spetsai, Greece, September 2002
- Co-organization of the International Symposium on Threat of infection: “Microbes of high pathogenic potential –Strategies for detection, control and eradication ”, joint Meeting of the Académie des Sciences, Paris, the Deutsche Akademie d er Naturforscher Leopoldina, Halle, and the Research Center for Infectious Diseases of the University of Würzburg ;Würzburg, Germany, July 2004
- Chair of the Gordon Research Conference: “Molecular mechanisms of bacterial adhesion and signaling”, Newport, USA, August 2005
- Co-organization of the Colloquium “Frontiers in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases”. Académie des Sciences, Institut de France, Paris, France, September 2005
- Co-organization of the “Gene regulation in health and disease” meeting, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, March 2006
- Organization of EMBO/FEBS/FEMS Lecture Course “Molecular basis of bacterial virulence and survival in infected hosts and in the environment”, Spetsai, Greece, September 2006
- Co-Organization of the IUBMB/FEBS/ICGEB/UNESCO lecture course “ Molecular and Cellular Basis of Infection ” Hermanus, South Africa, March 2008
- Co-Organisation of the EMBO/FEBS pratical course “ Cell Biology of Host-Pathogen Interactions ” Institut Pasteur, Paris, August 2008
- Co-organization of the 5th EIMID meeting, Arc-et Senans, France October 2008
- Organisation of the EMBO Workshop “ Emerging Themes in Infection Biology ”, France, June 2010
- Organisation of the EMBO / FEBS Lecture Course “ Host Microbes Interactions ”, Spetses, Greece, September 2010
- Co-organization of Inter-Academies Symposium on "The New microbiology". Académie des Sciences, Institut de France, Paris, France, May 2012