Date:
Friday, 19 April, 2024 - 14:30
Ending date:
Friday, 19 April, 2024 - 15:30
Place:
Salle 52 (5e étage aile rouge - 5th floor red section)
- Point vulgarisation assuré par Gaelle Capraz sur "La poussière de cellules".
- Valérie Delague is invited by Gaelle Capraz
- Valerie Delague is a human geneticist and molecular biologist. While setting-up and leading the Molecular Genetics lab, during 7 years (1997-2004), at the Medical Genetics Unit (UGM) at Saint-Joseph University in Beirut, she obtained her PhD in Genetics in 2001. Since 2004, she is an Inserm Researcher in the MMG Research Unit, where she is focusing her research on Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease and other Inherited Peripheral Neuropathies, as an Inserm Research Director (DR2 Inserm) and leader of her own research group, “Genetics and physiopathology of Inherited Peripheral Neuropathies (IPN)”. She has a strong expertise in the genetics of this class of neuromuscular diseases with 62 publications, including the description of 3 new disease causing genes in the pathology. She is well-known for expertise in the field of recessive diseases in a context of consanguinity. She is also responsible of the Genomics and Bioinformatics Platform at the MMG.
- She will present the platform's activities and technologies "Genomics and Bioinformatics Marseille"
