Alumni 2023

Florine Bachelet

After studying microbiology at the University of Caen. Florine Bachelet joined BIOEPAR on 8 November 2021 as a contractual study engineer in support of research, until May 2023.

She worked in the framework of the FEAMP Medic'eau project.

Alexandra Cerqueira de Araujo

Alexandra Cerqueira de Araujo was a postdoc, employed by INRAE, working on tick genomics with Dr. Claude Rispe at the BIOEPAR unit (Oniris, Nantes, France). She obtained her PhD in 2022, at the University of Tours at the Insect Biology Research Institute (IRBI, Tours, France), under the supervision of Pr. Elisabeth Huguet and Dr. Thibaut Josse. During her thesis, she studied viral domestication in parasitoid wasps, using molecular biology and bioinformatics approaches (thesis title: Evolution of viral symbiosis in parasitoid wasps Campopleginae).

Vianney Sicard

Vianney Sicard is a computer engineer graduated from the École Polytechnique of the University of Tours. He arrived in the UMR BIOEPAR in September 2015.
He first contributed as a study engineer on the declination of research models into decision support tools (EvalBVD and EvalParaTuB). He then worked on the IVAN (Innovative Veterinary Assisted Necropsy) project for the development of a veterinary autopsy assistance tool based on Bayesian networks.

He did preparing a thesis on the coupling between agent, environment and levels of organization in mechanistic models in epidemiology, with an application to porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV)