Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo is a French researcher of evolutionary biology and genetics. She is a director of research at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and head of the Evolution & Genetics Team at the Institut Jacques Monod.[1]
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| Born | Virginie Courtier Meaux, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) Pierre and Marie Curie University Princeton University |
| Occupation | Biologist. CNRS research director |
Life and work
editBorn in Meaux, Courtier-Orgogozo took preparatory classes in Life and Earth Sciences so she could pursue a career in biology, and she graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS). She earned her Ph.D. at Pierre and Marie Curie University with the thesis titled, Formation of sensory organs in D. Melanogaster: cell lineages, apoptosis and evolution supervised by François Schweisguth.[2] She continued her post-doctoral work at Princeton before returning to France and joining the CNRS.[3][4]
Her interests have centered on the molecular and cellular mechanisms that lead to the formation of a complex multicellular being from a single egg.[5][6]
In April 2010, Courtier-Orgogozo began supervising an ATIP-AVENIR four-person team at the Institut Jacques Monod in Paris. In time, her team grew to ten people working in the Courtier-Orgogozo Laboratory who are studying several concrete cases of evolution in insects to identify general rules that govern the evolution of living beings.[5]
The Irène Joliot-Curie Prize that she received in 2014 cited her research on mutations responsible for changes that occurred during the evolution of several species of Drosophila flies, to trace their evolutionary history and to better understand the fundamental mechanisms and the general understanding of their evolution, past and future.[5]
Awards and honors
edit- CNRS bronze medal (2014)
- Irène Joliot-Curie Prize, Young Woman Scientist category (2014) [5]
- Knight of the National Order of Merit (2015)[7]
- Lacassagne Prize, College of France (2018)[3][8]
Selected publications
edit- Courtier‐Orgogozo, V., Morizot, B., & Boëte, C. (2017). Agricultural pest control with CRISPR‐based gene drive: time for public debate: should we use gene drive for pest control?. EMBO reports, 18(6), 878-880.
- Courtier-Orgogozo, V., & Martin, A. (2020). The coding loci of evolution and domestication: current knowledge and implications for bio-inspired genome editing. Journal of Experimental Biology, 223(Suppl_1), jeb208934.
- Courtier-Orgogozo, V., Arnoult, L., Prigent, S. R., Wiltgen, S., & Martin, A. (2020). Gephebase, a database of genotype–phenotype relationships for natural and domesticated variation in Eukaryotes. Nucleic acids research, 48(D1), D696-D703.
- Courtier‐Orgogozo, V., Danchin, A., Gouyon, P. H., & Boëte, C. (2020). Evaluating the probability of CRISPR‐based gene drive contaminating another species. Evolutionary applications, 13(8), 1888-1905.
- Courtier-Orgogozo, V., & de Ribera, F. A. (2022). SARS-CoV-2 infection at the Huanan seafood market. Environmental Research, 113702.
References
edit- ^ "Courtier Lab VF". Institut Jacques Monod (in French). Retrieved 2024-10-17.
- ^ Courtier-Orgogozo, Virginie (2003-01-01). Formation des organes sensoriels chez D. Melanogaster : lignages cellulaires, apoptose et évolution (These de doctorat thesis). Paris 6. (in French)
- ^ a b "Discussion et remise du prix Lacassagne à V. Courtier-Orgogozo". www.college-de-france.fr (in French). 19 September 2018. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
- ^ "Virginie Courtier". Quartz. 4 June 2021. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
- ^ a b c d "Remise du Prix Irène Joliot-Curie 2014 : trois femmes d'exception récompensées - ESR : enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr". www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr (in French). Retrieved 2022-06-26.
- ^ "ID ref - Courtier-Orgogozo, Virginie". ID ref. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
- ^ "Promotions 2015". www.legifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
- ^ "Université Paris Cité| u-paris.fr | Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo reçoit le Prix Lacassagne". fr.u-paris.fr. Retrieved 2022-06-26.