Michel Tibayrenc
Michel Tibayrenc was born in 1947. He received his M.D. degree in 1975 and his Ph.D. degree in 1986, University of Paris. Specialized diploma: Sport Medicine (1974), Tropical Medicine (1974), Parasitology (1976), Leprology (1977), and Medical Entomology (1978). From 1970 to 1974, he was a general medical practitioner. Since 1977, he has been a researcher at the Institut de Recherche pour le développement (IRD), the French National Agency for Research in Developing Countries. He spent 1 year in French Guiana, 5 years in Bolivia, total of 4 years in the USA (UC Davis, UC Irvine, Centers for Disease Control). Since the 1st of October 2005, he is a IRD representative in Bangkok, Thailand. Grade: Directeur de Recherche de Classe exceptionnelle (the highest grade in the French research system).
He is the Initiator and main Organizer of the International Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics of Infectious Diseases (MEEGID) Congress (8th session held in Bangkok, November 2006). He is also the Initiator and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Infection, Genetics and Evolution (Elsevier), and the Initiator of the European Centre for Infectious Diseases project, a European equivalent to the US National Center for Infectious Diseases (one of the main branches of the CDC), presently developed into a proposal for a “world CDC Belt” composed of 5 major centers around the world.
Biography Updated on 18 March 2007
Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]
- Infection, Genetics & Evolution: a journal with a high impact but no Impact Factor (as yet)
Infection, Genetics and Evolution, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 145–146, 2007 - From MEEGID VII in Valencia to MEEGID VIII in Bangkok: 10th anniversary of the MEEGID congress
Infection, Genetics and Evolution, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 131–132, 2006 - The species concept in parasites and other pathogens: a pragmatic approach?
Trends in Parasitology, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 66–70, 2006 - Phylogenetic analysis of the glucose-6-phosphate isomerase gene in Trypanosoma cruzi?
Experimental Parasitology, vol. 113, no. 1, pp. 1–7, 2006 - Trypanosoma cruzi: Sequence analysis of the variable region of kinetoplast minicircles
Experimental Parasitology, vol. 114, no. 4, pp. 279–288, 2006 - Population structure of malaria parasites: The driving epidemiological forces
Acta Tropica, 2005 - Which species concept for pathogenic bacteria?An E-Debate
Infection, Genetics and Evolution, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 375–387, 2005 - A hard lesson for Europeans: the ASEAN CDC
Trends in Microbiology, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 266–268, 2005 - Bridging the gap between molecular epidemiologists and evolutionists
Trends in Microbiology, vol. 13, no. 12, pp. 575–580, 2005 - Differential Gene Expression in Benznidazole-Resistant Trypanosoma cruzi Parasites
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, vol. 49, no. 7, pp. 2701–2709, 2005 - A molecular biology approach to tuberculosis
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 101, no. 14, pp. 4721–4722, 2004 - Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Casablanca, a Moroccan City with High Incidence of Tuberculosis
Journal of Clinical Microbiology, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 461–466, 2004 - Predominant clonal evolution leads to a close parity between gene expression profiles and subspecific phylogeny in Trypanosoma cruzi
Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, vol. 137, no. 1, pp. 133–141, 2004 - Lack of correlation between in vitro susceptibility to Benznidazole and phylogenetic diversity of , the agent of Chagas disease
Experimental Parasitology, vol. 108, no. 1-2, pp. 24–31, 2004 - Trypanosoma cruzi: long-term sub-cultures in two different culture media do not confirm the existence of highly versatile multilocus genotypes
International Journal for Parasitology, vol. 34, no. 7, pp. 779–784, 2004 - Evolution and immunology of infectious diseases: what's new? An E-debate
Infection, Genetics and Evolution, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 69–75, 2004 - 2004: MEEGID VII and the year of Infection, Genetics and Evolution
Infection, Genetics and Evolution, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 3–4, 2004 - The European Commission pocket CDC: !
The Lancet Infectious Diseases, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 12–13, 2004 - An isoenzyme survey of Trypanosoma brucei s.l. from the Central African subregion: population structure, taxonomic and epidemiological considerations
Parasitology, vol. 128, no. 6, pp. 645–653, 2004 - Evidence for genetic exchange and hybridization in Trypanosoma cruzi based on nucleotide sequences and molecular karyotype
Infection, Genetics and Evolution, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 173–183, 2003 - Infectious diseases and the Human Genome Diversity Project
Infection, Genetics and Evolution, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 165–166, 2003 - MEEGID VI: Sixth International Meeting on Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Paris, 23–27 July 2002
Infection, Genetics and Evolution, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 231–234, 2003 - To the heroes of Columbia, departed for science and discovery Manned space flights do better than robots
Infection, Genetics and Evolution, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 1–2, 2003 - Corrigendum to “Phylogenetic diversity of bat trypanosomes of subgenus Schizotrypanum based on multilocus enzyme electrophoresis, random amplified polymorphic DNA, and cytrochrome b nucleotide sequence analyses” [Inf. Gen. Evol. 2 (2003) 201–208]
Infection, Genetics and Evolution, vol. 3, no. 2, p. 151, 2003 - Multilocus enzyme electrophoresis analysis of Trypanosoma cruzi isolates from a geographically restricted endemic area for Chagas' disease in Argentina
International Journal for Parasitology, vol. 33, no. 10, pp. 997–1003, 2003 - Chemotherapy with Benznidazole and Itraconazole for Mice Infected with Different Trypanosoma cruzi Clonal Genotypes
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 223–230, 2003 - Kinetoplastid Biology and Disease, vol. 2, no. 1, p. 12, 2003
- Impact of number of isoenzyme loci on the robustness of intraspecific phylogenies using multilocus enzyme electrophoresis: consequences for typing of Trypanosoma cruzi
Parasitology, vol. 127, no. 3, pp. 273–281, 2003 - Linkage disequilibrium between minisatellite loci supports clonal evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a high tuberculosis incidence area
Molecular Microbiology, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 529–538, 2003 - Microsatellite analysis of Toxoplasma gondii shows considerable polymorphism structured into two main clonal groups
International Journal for Parasitology, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 27–38, 2002 - isoenzyme variability in Ecuador: first observation of zymodeme III genotypes in chronic chagasic patients
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, vol. 96, no. 4, pp. 378–382, 2002 - The clonal theory of parasitic protozoa: 12 years on
Trends in Parasitology, vol. 18, no. 9, pp. 405–410, 2002 - Chromosomal size variation in Trypanosoma cruzi is mainly progressive and is evolutionarily informative
Parasitology, vol. 124, no. 3, pp. 277–286, 2002 - Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and its relevance to the surveillance and control of TB: an e-debate
Infection, Genetics and Evolution, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 153–158, 2002 - 2002 Neodarwinism and infectious diseases transmission: An e-debate
Infection, Genetics and Evolution, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 249–253, 2002 - The European Centre for Infectious Diseases: An adequate response to the challenges of bioterrorism and major natural infectious threats
Infection, Genetics and Evolution, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 179–181, 2002 - Basic vs. applied research, field vs. bench work: the never-ending dialogues of the deaf
Infection, Genetics and Evolution, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 263–264, 2002 - Basic research: what is it good for AIDS epidemiology and control? An e-debate
Infection, Genetics and Evolution, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 313–320, 2002 - Is integrated genetic epidemiology on the way? The MEEGID VI Congress
Infection, Genetics and Evolution, vol. 2, no. 1, p. 1, 2002 - Impact of Trypanosoma cruzi clonal evolution on its biological properties in mice
Experimental Parasitology, vol. 100, no. 3, pp. 161–172, 2002 - Trypanosoma cruzi: isoenzyme analysis suggests the presence of an active Chagas sylvatic cycle of recent origin in Paraná State, Brazil
Experimental Parasitology, vol. 100, no. 2, pp. 81–86, 2002 - Trypanosoma cruzi: presence of the two major phylogenetic lineages and of several lesser discrete typing units (DTUs) in Chile and Paraguay
Acta Tropica, vol. 78, no. 2, pp. 127–137, 2001 - Trypanosoma cruzi: A Considerable Phylogenetic Divergence Indicates That the Agent of Chagas Disease Is Indigenous to the Native Fauna of the United States
Experimental Parasitology, vol. 99, no. 2, pp. 73–79, 2001 - Infectious diseases and the golden age of phylogenetics: An E-debate
Infection, Genetics and Evolution, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 69–74, 2001 - The population structure of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup A fits the predictions for clonality
Infection, Genetics and Evolution, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 117–122, 2001 - The Golden Age of Genetics and the Dark Age of Infectious Diseases
Infection, Genetics and Evolution, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1–2, 2001 - Population genetics and population biology: what did they bring to the epidemiology of transmissible diseases? An e-debate
Infection, Genetics and Evolution, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 161–166, 2001 - The Golden Age of Genetics?
Infection, Genetics and Evolution, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 83–84, 2001 - Genetic heterogeneity and phylogenetic status of Leishmania (Leishmania) infantum zymodeme MON-1: epidemiological implications
Parasitology, vol. 123, no. 5, pp. 425–432, 2001 - Characterisation of large and small subunit rRNA and mini-exon genes further supports the distinction of six Trypanosoma cruzi lineages
International Journal for Parasitology, vol. 31, no. 11, pp. 1218–1226, 2001 - High-resolution minisatellite-based typing as a portable approach to global analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis molecular epidemiology
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 98, no. 4, pp. 1901–1906, 2001 - Evidence for clonal propagation in natural isolates of Plasmodium falciparum from Venezuela
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 98, no. 12, pp. 6725–6729, 2001 - Genetic Diversity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Strains Isolated from Ventilated Patients with Nosocomial Pneumonia, Cancer Patients with Bacteremia, and Environmental Water
Infection and Immunity, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 584–588, 2001 - Population structure and genetic typing of Trypanosoma cruzi, the agent of Chagas disease: a multilocus enzyme electrophoresis approach
Parasitology, vol. 120, no. 5, pp. 513–526, 2000 - Prevalence of Virulence Genes and Clonality in Escherichia coli Strains That Cause Bacteremia in Cancer Patients
Infection and Immunity, vol. 68, no. 7, pp. 3983–3989, 2000 - Is Leishmania (Viannia) peruviana a Distinct Species? A MLEE/RAPD Evolutionary Genetics Answer
The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 197–207, 2000 - Identification of six Trypanosoma cruzi phylogenetic lineages by random amplified polymorphic DNA and multilocus enzyme electrophoresis
International Journal for Parasitology, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 35–44, 2000 - Identification of six Trypanosoma cruzi lineages by sequence-characterised amplified region markers
Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, vol. 111, no. 1, pp. 95–105, 2000 - Infectivity of Clonal Genotype Infections in Acute and Chronic Phases in Mice
Experimental Parasitology, vol. 96, no. 2, pp. 61–66, 2000 - Experimental Trypanosoma cruzi biclonal infection in Triatoma infestans: detection of distinct clonal genotypes using kinetoplast DNA probes
International Journal for Parasitology, vol. 30, no. 7, pp. 843–848, 2000 - Plasmodium falciparum: Population Genetic Analysis by Multilocus Enzyme Electrophoresis and Other Molecular Markers, , ,
Experimental Parasitology, vol. 92, no. 4, pp. 232–238, 1999 - Evolutionary genetics of Trypanosoma and Leishmania
Microbes and Infection, vol. 1, no. 6, pp. 465–472, 1999 - European centre for infectious disease
The Lancet, vol. 353, no. 9149, pp. 329–329, 1999 - Molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics of Leishmania parasites
International Journal for Parasitology, vol. 29, no. 8, pp. 1137–1147, 1999 - Genetic epidemiology of parasitic protozoa and other infectious agents: the need for an integrated approach
International Journal for Parasitology, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 85–104, 1998 - A phylogenetic analysis of the Trypanosoma cruzi genome project CL Brener reference strain by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis and multiprimer random amplified polymorphic DNA fingerprinting
Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, vol. 92, no. 2, pp. 253–263, 1998 - Predicted and observed alleles of Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein-1 (MSP-1), a potential malaria vaccine antigen
Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, vol. 92, no. 2, pp. 241–252, 1998 - Beyond Strain Typing and Molecular Epidemiology: Integrated Genetic Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
Parasitology Today, vol. 14, no. 8, pp. 323–329, 1998 - Trypanosoma cruzi:Impact of Clonal Evolution of the Parasite on Its Biological and Medical Properties
Experimental Parasitology, vol. 89, no. 1, pp. 30–39, 1998 - Different Behavior of TwoTrypanosoma cruziMajor Clones: Transmission and Circulation in Young Bolivian Patients, ,
Experimental Parasitology, vol. 89, no. 3, pp. 285–295, 1998 - : Compared Vectorial Transmissibility of Three Major Clonal Genotypes by
Experimental Parasitology, vol. 90, no. 1, pp. 20–25, 1998 - Compared vectorial transmissibility of pure and mixed clonal genotypes of Trypanosoma cruzi in Triatoma infestans
Parasitology Research, vol. 84, no. 5, pp. 348–353, 1998 - Nature, vol. 396, no. 6707, pp. 108–108, 1998
- Comparison of chromosome and isoenzyme polymorphism in geographical populations of Leishmania (Viannia) peruviana
Parasitology, vol. 117, no. 6, pp. 547–554, 1998 - Population structure of Andean Triatoma infestans: allozyme frequencies and their epidemiological relevance
Medical and Veterinary Entomology, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 20–29, 1998 - Evidence for Hybridization by Multilocus Enzyme Electrophoresis and Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Between Leishmania braziliensis and Leishmania panamensis/guyanensis in Ecuador
The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 44, no. 5, pp. 408–411, 1997 - Aids, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 569–573, 1997
- Population Structure of Trypanosoma brucei s. l. in Cote D'Ivoire Assayed by Multilocus Enzyme Electrophoresis: Epidemiological and Taxonomical Considerations
The Journal of Parasitology, vol. 83, no. 1, p. 19, 1997 - Trypanosoma cruzi: Evaluation of a RAPD Synapomorphic Fragment as a Species-Specific DNA Probe
The Journal of Parasitology, vol. 83, no. 1, p. 52, 1997 - Are natural populations subdivided?
Trends in Microbiology, vol. 5, no. 7, pp. 253–254, 1997 - Impact of clonal evolution on the biological diversity of Trypanosoma cruzi
Parasitology, vol. 114, no. 3, pp. 213–218, 1997 - TOWARDS A UNIFIED EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS OF MICROORGANISMS
Annual Review of Microbiology, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 401–429, 1996 - Enzymatic variability and phylogenetic relatedness among Triatoma infestans, T. platensis, T. delpontei and T. rubrovaria
Heredity, vol. 77, no. 1, Article ID 6880070, 7 pages, 1996 - Putative Leishmania hybrids in the Eastern Andean valley of Huanuco, Peru
Acta Tropica, vol. 59, no. 4, pp. 293–307, 1995 - An Isoenzyme Survey of Trypanosoma cruzi Genetic Variability in Sylvatic Cycles from French Guiana
Experimental Parasitology, vol. 81, no. 1, pp. 20–28, 1995 - Genetic diversity and population structure of Trypanosoma brucei: clonality versus sexuality
Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, vol. 72, no. 1-2, pp. 89–101, 1995 - Antigenic diversity and the transmission dynamics of Plasmodium falciparum: The clonality/sexuality debate revisited
Parasitology Today, vol. 10, no. 12, pp. 456–457, 1994 - Clonality in Leishmania
Parasitology Today, vol. 9, no. 2, p. 58, 1993 - Entamoeba, giardia and toxoplasma: clones or cryptic species?
Parasitology Today, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 102–105, 1993 - Genetic Charcterization of Six Parasitic Protozoa: Parity Between Random- Primer DNA Typing and Multilocus Enzyme Electrophoresis
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 90, no. 4, pp. 1335–1339, 1993 - THE DECLINING POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF SOCIAL CLASS
International Sociology, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 293–316, 1993 - Leishmania: Sex, karyotypes and population genetics
Parasitology Today, vol. 8, no. 9, pp. 305–306, 1992 - Clonal defence
Nature, vol. 350, no. 6317, Article ID 350385b0, 1 pages, 1991 - Linkage Disequilibrium in Natural Populations of Trypanosoma cruzi (Flagellate), the Agent of Chagas' Disease
The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 81–85, 1988 - Trypanosoma cruzi populations: More clonal than sexual
Parasitology Today, vol. 3, no. 6, pp. 189–190, 1987 - Additional data on Trypanosoma cruzi isozymic strains encountered in Bolivian domestic transmission cycles
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, vol. 80, no. 3, pp. 442–447, 1986 - Natural Populations of Trypanosoma cruzi, the Agent of Chagas Disease, Have a Complex Multiclonal Structure
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 83, no. 1, pp. 115–119, 1986 - Agent of Chagas' disease from Honduran vector capable of developing in California insects: Implications for cardiologists
American Heart Journal, vol. 110, no. 3, pp. 605–608, 1985 - The microdistribution of isoenzymic strains of Trypanosoma cruzi in southern Bolivia; new isoenzyme profiles and further arguments against Mendelian sexuality
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, vol. 78, no. 4, pp. 519–525, 1984 - The presence in Bolivia of two distinct zymodemes of Trypanosoma cruzi, circulating sympatrically in a domestic transmission cycle
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, vol. 77, no. 1, pp. 73–75, 1983 - A genetic comparison between Brazilian and Bolivian zymodemes of Trypanosoma cruzi
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, vol. 77, no. 1, pp. 76–83, 1983