Jean-Marc Collard

Dr. Jean-Marc Collard is a senior scientist (36 years of experience on 3 different continents) with more than 110 peer-reviewed publications and extensive experience in bacteriology, molecular biology and public health. After having directed National Reference Centers (Salmonella/Shigella, Neisseria meningitidis, Listeria) in Belgium and Niger, he extended his expertise in Africa, where he coordinated important field and research projects in bacteriology (MenAfriCar, PAGe, Epidemic Meningitis Control FSP, MVP), antimicrobial resistance (CHARLI, Birdy, Birdy II), and microbiota in malnourished children (Afribiota, Malinea), including cohort studies with over 2000 children. The results of these projects have been published in landmark scientific reviews, such as Lancet Global Health, J Allergy Clin Immunol, CID, PNAS, Microbiome or PLOS NTD. As an expert in bacteriology, he has collaborated with the WHO, the UNICEF, the Ministry of Health in Niger, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Wellcome Trust, and the Gates Foundation. Scientifically, his main expertise is antimicrobial-resistant Gram-negative bacteria and their transmission, managing their detection by the LAMP technology. He also assessed the usefulness and the accuracy of MALDI-TOF mass-spectrometer to identify mosquito vector species. During his two years in the Center for Microbes Development and Health–Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, China he focused on the construction of the intestinal microbiota in infants leading to homeostasis or dysbiosis. He developed a simplified workflow (culturomics) for large-scale cultivation of gut microbes using anaerobic, microaerophilic and aerobic conditions. Since September 2022, he integrated the Enteric Bacterial Pathogens Unit, at the Department of Global Health of the Institut Pasteur. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jean-Marc_Collard ORCID iD 0000-0002-1490-3978 Scopus : Author ID: 7103192085 h-in