Guillaume Dumenil PhD

After his PhD in the lab headed by Philippe Sansonetti in the Institut Pasteur, G. Dumenil joined the lab headed by Ralph Isberg at Tufts University as a postdoctoral fellow. G. Dumenil then obtained a position at INSERM to join the lab headed by Xavier Nassif to study infections caused by the extracellular pathogen Neisseria meningitidis. After obtaining a prestigious starting grant from INSERM (ATIP-Avenir) G. Dumenil is now directeur de recherche in the Paris Center for Cardiovascular Research (PARCC) located in Paris. The main focus of his research is the study of the interaction of pathogenic bacteria with blood vessels during septicemia and meningitis.