Manon Curaudeau
Fire PhD student
manon.curaudeau@learningplanetinstitute.org
I am a first year PhD student in the FIRE doctoral program. I am working at the Institut Pasteur and the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN) on the reservoir(s) of Monkeypox, an emerging viral disease. Originally found in monkeys in 1958, hence the name, it affects humans since 1970. However, the animal reservoir is unkown, and this is what I am looking for in my PhD, using Phylogenomics, Ecology, and Virology methods.
Manon's Bio



BSc. Frontières du Vivant

Interests

  • Evolutionary Biology, Programming, and Education

Projects

  • Harvard Summer School: Paris as a smart city
  • MOOC: Science at the Polls: Biology for voters

Internships and Semester abroad

  • L3: Droplet digital PCR for cancer study (Paris Descartes, Paris, France)
  • L3: Comparison of phylogenetic methods for palaeontological data (MNHN, Paris, France)
  • Erasmus in L3: Zoology and Botany, Paleoclimates, Programming (Leicester University, Leicester, UK)


MSc. Systématique, Évolution, Paléontologie

Interests

  • Molecular Phylogenetics, Genomics, and Science outreach

Projects

  • 5th Young Natural History scientists Meeting
  • Bureau des Doctorants et Etudiants du Museum

Internships

  • M1: Impact of wheat diversity on spiders abundance and diversity (MNHN, Paris, France)
  • M2: Phylogeny of buffaloes and assembly of the anoa (Bubalis depressicornis) genome (MNHN and Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)


MSc. Biology Bioinformatics

Interests

  • Molecular Phylogenetics , Genomics, and Structural Bioinformatics

Internships

  • M2: Evolution of milk protein genes in the Bovidae (MNHN, Paris, France)


Engineer in Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology

Interests

  • Ecological Niche Modelling, Molecular Phylogenetics, and Genomics

Projects

  • Modelling the ecological niche of SARS-CoV-2 like viruses (MNHN, Paris, France)
  • Modelling the ecological niches of Monkeypox virus and squirrels of the tribe Protoxerini (MNHN, Paris, France)
  • Phylogenetics and Genomics of the Protoxerini tribe (MNHN, Paris, France)


FIRE PhD. Program

Interests

  • Molecular Phylogenetics, Genomics, Ecological Niche Modelling, Virology

PhD project

  • A multidisciplinary approach to identify the animal reservoir(s) of Monkeypox virus in Africa (Institut Pasteur and MNHN, Paris, France)



Personal BIO

When I am not in the lab or behind my computer, I spend most of my time reading, especially 20th century plays. You could also find me playing board games, visiting a museum (art, history, or science related), taking photographs, or even ice skating!

A Multidisciplinary approach to identify the animal reservoir(s) of Monkeypox virus in Africa
PhD project
Thematic Workshop: Thinking Fair - Climate, Justice & Inclusion
Come on in and co-create new ways of talking & learning about the interwoven topics climate, justice and inclusion
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