Curriculum vitae Véronique Villiers
Citizenship French
Professional address :
INSTITUT PASTEUR
Bacteria-cell interactions Unit – INSERM U604 – INRA USC2020
Department of Cell biology and Infection
25 rue du Docteur Roux -75724 PARIS Cedex 15-France.
E-mail: vvill@pasteur.fr
Present position and status: Technician
UNIVERSITARY EDUCATION
1974 Baccalauréat of Biology
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
1996-Present Laboratory Technician, Interactions Bactéries-Cellules, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France. "Entry mechanismsof Rickettsia conorii into eukaryotic cells".
1979-1995 Laboratory Technician, Service des Rickettsiales et Chlamydiales "Serology and Research on Rickettsia conorii".
1976-1978 Laboratory Technician, Laboratoire du BCG, Institut Pasteur, Paris. "Control of BCG viability".
Mai 1975 Laboratory Technician, Centre de transfusion sanguine,Pasteur Institut ,Paris.
SELECTED PUBLICATION LIST
1. Gouin, E, Egile, C, Dehoux, P, Villiers, V, Adams, J, Gertler, F, Li, R, and Cossart, P. 2004. The RickA protein of Rickettsia conorii activates the Arp2/3 complex. Nature. 427, 457-461.
2. Gouin, E, Gantelet, H, Egile, C, Lasa, I, Ohayon, H, Villiers, V, Gounon, P, Sansonetti, PJ, and Cossart, P. 1999. A comparative study of the actin-based motilities of the pathogenic bacteria Listeria monocytogenes, Shigella flexneri and Rickettsia conorii. J. Cell Sci. 112, 1697-1708.
3. Thibon, M, Villiers, V, Souque, P, Dautry-Varsat, A, Duquesnel, R, and Ojcius, DM. 1996. High incidence of Coxiella burnetii markers in a rural population in France. Eur. J. Epidemiol. 12, 509-513.
4. Veras, PS, de Chastellier, C, Moreau, MF, Villiers, V, Thibon, M, Mattei, D, and Rabinovitch, M. 1994. Fusion between large phagocytic vesicles: targeting of yeast and other particulates to phagolysosomes that shelter the bacterium Coxiella burnetii or the protozoan Leishmania amazonensis in Chinese hamster ovary cells. J. Cell Sci. 107, 3065-3076.