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Dr. Richard CORDAUX
Université de Poitiers
CNRS UMR 7267
Ecologie et Biologie des Interactions
Equipe Ecologie Evolution Symbiose
Bat B8
40 Avenue du Recteur Pineau
86022 Poitiers Cedex
FRANCE
Phone: +33-(0)5-49-45-36-51
Fax: +33-(0)5-49-45-40-15
Email: richard.cordaux@univ-poitiers.fr
Richard CORDAUX received his PhD in 2004 from the University of Leipzig (Germany) after working on human genetic diversity in the laboratory of Prof. Mark Stoneking at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. For his postdoctoral training, he joined the laboratory of Prof. Mark A. Batzer at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (USA), where he worked on the evolution of transposable elements in primate genomes. In 2006, he joined the Laboratory Ecology Evolution Symbiosis, a joint research unit of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the University of Poitiers (France). In 2009, he received the CNRS Bronze Medal and he was awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant in 2010.
Keywords: evolutionary genomics, molecular evolution, transposable elements, endosymbionts, Wolbachia
Richard participated in the "1000 scientists talk about the future" exhibition (1000 chercheurs parlent d'avenir), in which the pictures of one thousand French scientists were projected on the walls of the prestigious Panthéon building in Paris, in October 2010.
LATEST NEWS
December 7, 2011: Welcome to Myriam Badawi who recently started her Ph.D. project on Wolbachia genomics! Good luck to Sébastien Leclercq who recently joined the group of Daniel Falush at the Max Planck Institute EVAN in Leipzig, Germany! Congratulations to Nicolas Cerveau who was awarded a Ph.D. degree yesterday!
September 13, 2011: Our paper on IS evolutionary dynamics in Wolbachia endosymbionts has been accepted for publication in Genome Biology and Evolution. Congratulations to Nicolas, Sébastien, Elodie and Didier!
June 15, 2011: Our paper on vectors of IS horizontal transfer in prokaryotes has been accepted for publication in Evolution. Congratulations to Sébastien!
May 5, 2011: Our review article on the impact of endosymbionts on host sex determination mechanisms has been accepted for publication in Trends in Genetics.
February 2, 2011: Richard was awarded the degree of "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches" (HDR).
January 18, 2011: Our book chapter on the evolution and genomic impact of prokaryote transposable elements has been accepted for publication. Congratulations to Nicolas, Sébastien and Didier!
December 22, 2010: Myriam Badawi will be joining our group in early January 2011 to start her Master (M2) research project on Wolbachia transposable element evolution. Welcome Myriam!