Etienne Dervyn is a Researcher at INRAE in the SyBER group. After years of working on genome stability and segregation, his current research focuses on the global transcription of the Bacillus subtilis chromosome and its regulation, as well as on the construction of minimal strains and chassis strains using synthetic biology approaches.
Dr. Dervyn obtained his PhD in Cellular and Molecular Genetics from the University of Paris XI in Orsay in 1992 within the Microbial Genetics Laboratory at INRA in Jouy-en-Josas. His thesis focused on illegitimate recombination between short repeated sequences. Dr. Dervyn then completed a postdoc at the Pasteur Institute on the regulation of toxin gene expression in Bacillus thuringiensis under the supervision of George Rapoport and André Klier. In August 1994, he passed the second-class Research Scientist examination for a position in the Microbial Genetics Laboratory led by Dusko Ehrlich at INRA in Jouy-en-Josas. He defended his HDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches) in September 2009 and joined the Micalis Institute (UMR1319-AgroParisTech) upon its creation in 2010.
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