Published on 26/05/2014
European Union Reference Laboratory team presentation
The EURL team, under the direction of Dr. Florence Cliquet, has a staff of 3 people dedicated to the Lyssavirus Unit.
Director of the EURL for rabies
♦ Dr. Florence Cliquet: Senior Scientist; PhD in Immunology; 22 years of experience in rabies; Head of the Lyssavirus unit; Head of the rabies serology EURL and the rabies EURL; Head of the WHO Collaborating Centre; OIE rabies expert
Head of rabies EURL project
♦ Dr. Emmanuelle Robardet: Scientist; PhD in Epidemiology; 6 years of experience in rabies; Head of the Rabies EURL
Rabies EURL technical scientist
♦ Jonathan Rieder
Rabies EURL administrative officer
♦ Sylvie Tourdiat
The Lyssavirus Unit represented by 15 agents is headed by Dr Florence Cliquet. Each scientist of the Lyssavirus Unit can provide expertise, scientific and technical support under the rabies EURL mandate in accordance with their specialty (diagnosis, molecular biology, bait titration, virology, etc.).
♦ Dr. Evelyne Picard-Meyer: Scientist; PhD in molecular biology; 13 years of experience in rabies diagnosis and molecular epidemiology; Deputy Head of the Lyssavirus Unit.
♦ Dr. Jacques Barrat: Doctor of Veterinary Medecine; 31 years of experience in rabies; OIE rabies expert; Head of animal experimentation.
♦ Marine Wasniewski: Scientific engineer; 12 years of experience in rabies; Head of the Rabies serology EURL; Head of virology section; responsible for immunology work in seroneutralisation tests.
♦ Alexandre Servat: Scientific engineer; 14 years of experience in rabies; Head of vaccinology section and diagnosis.
♦ Jean-Michel Demerson: Head technician; 26 years of experience in fox ecology and in field rabies oral vaccination programmes using aerial and manual methods.
Group picture of the Lyssavirus Unit
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Last updat: 06 August 2014