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)

Carcel Aurore

She was recruited to BIOEPAR on 18 March 2019 as a research support engineer. She has been involved in budget management and communication for the COST SOUND-control project, and internal and external communication for the BIOEPAR unit.

Duarte Laurine

After obtaining a Master's degree in Biology-Health from the University of Bordeaux, Laurine Duarte joined the Immunocare team (UMR BIOEPAR), as a research technician in molecular biology. In collaboration with Caroline Hervet, Aline Perrin and Nicolas Bertho, she was involved in various projects based on improving the health and well-being of farm animals. Through her previous laboratory experiences, Laurine has also had the opportunity to enjoy research in different fields such as immunology and pharmacology.

Millar Nikky

After completing her doctorate in veterinary medicine in May 2019, Nikky Millar began a master's degree in veterinary sciences, option epidemiology at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Université de Montréal, supervised by Simon Dufour (DMV, PhD) and Cécile Aenishaenslin (DMV, MSc, PhD). She is particularly interested in antibiotic resistance and the various systems for monitoring the use of antibiotics at the interface between humans, animals and the environment. The objectives of her master's degree were 1) to determine the impact of the implementation of a new regulation aimed at restricting the use of category I antimicrobials in dairy production on the sale of veterinary drugs in Quebec, 2) to study the factors associated with the reduction in the use of category 1 antimicrobials, and 3) to explore the main obstacles and facilitators to the implementation of this new regulation. A mixed-methods approach was used to explore these elements. Nikky is currently on a one-year research placement as part of her university course at ONIRIS, supervised by Christine Fourichon.