
Antoine CLAESSENS
- Laboratory of Pathogen and Host Immunity [Montpellier] (LPHI)
Présentation
Antoine Claessens https://lphi.umontpellier.fr/research-teams/genomic-approaches-to-asymptomatic-chronic-malaria/ Chargé de Recherche INSERM Head of équipe FRM GATAC-Malaria LPHI (UMR5294), Bat 24, cc107 CNRS/Université Montpellier Place Eugène Bataillon 34095 Montpellier cedex 5 France
EDUCATION
2000-2004: **University of Liège, Belgium, 4-year degree (MSc) in biochemistry 2004-2004: **University of Cambridge, UK, 6-month undergraduate project in developmental biology of Drosophila, supervised by Steve Russell, Ashburner group 2005-2006: **University of Edinburgh, UK. Master in Life Sciences: The molecular basis of disease.
** MALARIA CAREER** 2006-2011: Wellcome Trust PhD thesis with Alex Rowe at Edinburgh University, and Zbynek Bozdech at NTU-Singapore 2011: Short contract with Pierre Buffet at Pitié-Salpêtrière. 2011-2014: Postdoc with Dominic Kwiatkowski at the Sanger Institute and in Oxford University (UK) 2014-2017: MRC-Fellowship joint London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine / MRC-Gambia, The Gambia 2018: Chargé de Recherche INSERM at LPHI, Montpellier, France
**GRANTS**
2019 - 2021: ATIP-Avenir from CNRS – INSERM 2019 - 2023: ANR-JCJC personal grant: Based in LPHI, Montpellier, France € 446,000 2019: CNRS Transverse: Funding for a 3-year PhD student (M-A Guéry) € 81,000 2019: InfectioPole Sud / Méditérannée Infection: Funding for a 3-year PhD student € 40,000 2020: MUSE-Explore: Collaborative project with Texas BioMed, USA € 32,000 2021: LabEx ParaFrap: Selected member of the consortium € 10,000 2021: CNRS-Afrique: Initiating a collaboration with Centre Pasteur Cameroun € 19,000 2021: ATIP-Avenir renewal: Core funding for 2022 and 2023 € 60,000 2022: ITMO I3M: Initiating a ‘Projet Amorçage’ in Cameroon (Centre Pasteur) € 15,000 2022: Inserm First Step: Initiating a collaboration with Ian Cheeseman, Texas bioMed € 10,000 2022: InfectioPole Sud: Funding for a one-year post-doc € 50,000 2022: ANR-PRC: project MADBIO, coordinated by S Marquet (Marseille); 693k total. € 283,500 2022: Muse Pre-ERC: 18months postdoc + consumables. € 132,000 2023: INSB-Structure: Funding for a collaboration with sequencing platform MGX € 29,000 2024-2026: Equipe-FRM: Core funding secured for MADBIO-Ghana project € 448,500 2022: InfectioPole Sud: Funding for a one-year post-doc (to be recruited) € 50,000
** Member of MalariaGEN and ParaFrap consortium.**
Domaines de recherche
Publications
Publications
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Detection of novel Plasmodium falciparum haplotypes under treatment pressure in pediatric severe malaria2024
Pré-publication, Document de travail
(preprint/prepublication)
hal-04843179
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Diverse and weakly immunogenic var gene expression facilitates malaria infection2025
Pré-publication, Document de travail
hal-04958548
v1
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