Catherine Daniel PhD

Dr. Catherine got her Ph.D. in Microbiology in 1998 on a research topic entitled “Iron metabolism in Bilophila Wadsworth and Acinetobacter baumannii: mechanisms of iron uptake, cloning and sequencing of a fur-like gene in Acinetobacter baumannii “ supervised by Pr. Rene Courcol from the Centre Hospitalier Regional et Universitaire de Lille. She then worked as a postdoctoral researcher from 1998 to 2001 at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA in the laboratory of Dr. J. Leigh, where she worked on the mechanisms of transcriptional regulation in the Archaea domain.

She then joined the Institut Pasteur Lille in 2001 to work as a project leader on the European 5th Framework program project on ‘Oral delivery of vaccine and therapeutic products using non-pathogenic lactic acid bacteria’ (LABDEL) in the laboratory of Dr. A. MERCENIER. She acquired management and reporting skills during this project which involved 8 different research groups in Europe.