Clinical Research Officer

Gabriela Certad is Medical Doctor from the Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV) (1992). She received her Master of Science (Parasitology) from McGill University in 1997. The following year she joined the Parasitology Department of the Faculty of Medicine of the UCV as Associate Professor and Hospital Practitioner.

To complete her academic training she obtained a Diploma in Tropical Medicine from the University of Alabama (USA)/Universidad Cayetano Heredia (Peru) in 2003, and her PhD degree from the University of Lille in 2008. From 2010 to 2013 she completed a Post Doctoral fellow in the laboratory Biology and Diversity of Emergent Eukaryotic Pathogens and then obtained a position of Clinical Research Officer in the Medical Research Department of the Group of Hospitals at the Catholic Institute of Lille (GHICL).

She obtained the Research Direction Habilitation (HDR) in 2014 from the University of Lille 1. Currently she is the leader of the group "Cryptosporidium" in the team Ecology and Physiopathology of Intestinal Protozoa , focusing her main research activities on the epidemiology, transmission and physiopathology of this intestinal parasite.

Laboratory technician

Jérémy obtained a BTS in Biological and biotechnological agro-food analysis in 2004 at LEGTA in Douai. In 2005, he began his career at the Institut Pasteur of Lille as a laboratory technician in the water department in Ecotoxicology. In 2011, he joined the medical biology laboratory to perform biochemical and hematology analyzes. In 2015, he joined the CIIL in the BLIM team where he trained as a research technician before joining the LAG-CRB of Professor Amouyel's unit in October 2019. Recently, he joined ECOPHIP and brings its technical assistance to the different projects of the team.

Doctoral student, Physician Epidemiologist

Timothé Guilavogui obtained his medical doctor degree in 2003 at the Faculty of Medicine in Conakry. After three years of experience in health care as chief medical officer, Timothé obtained a master's degree in epidemiology at the University of Abomey Calavi in Benin. Thereafter Timothé was appointed in Guinea as Head of the Monitoring and Evaluation Unit of the National STI/HIV/AIDS Prevention and Health Management Program, Deputy National Coordinator of the National Malaria Control Program and then National Director of Major Endemics and Disease Control at the Ministry of Health. Since September 2020, he is the Coordinator of the Support Unit for the Management and Coordination of Programs and Projects of the Ministry of Health of Guinea. He is also a PhD student in the ECOPHIP team and is interested in the molecular epidemiology of intestinal parasites in Guinea and the involvement of the protozoan Cryptosporidium in the occurrence of colorectal cancer in humans.

Dima Abdallah, PhD Student

Dima Abdallah obtained a Bachelor's degree in Medical Laboratory Technology from the Faculty of Public Health at the Lebanese University in 2021, then a Master's degree in Microbiology, Infectious Diseases, and Immunobiology (MIDI) from the University of Grenoble Alpes in 2023 (top of the class in the second year of the Master's program). After working as a research engineer at CNRS in the Host-Parasite Interactions Biomechanics team at the Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB) in Grenoble (2023-2024), Dima initiated her PhD in the ECOPHIP team on the study of colon carcinogenesis mechanisms induced by the parasite Cryptosporidium under the supervision of Dr. Gabriela Certad

Manon RYCKMAN Master 2 student

Manon RYCKMAN obtained a Bachelor's degree in Life and Natural Sciences at the University of the Littoral Côte d'Opale in 2021, followed by a Master's degree in Marine Ecology and Fisheries from the same university in 2023. Her doctoral research project focuses on the prevalence and virulence of the zoonotic intestinal protozoa Blastocystis and Cryptosporidium in seafood products in the Hauts-de-France region and the assessment of their risk to human health, under the supervision of Dr. Gabriela Certad (ECOPHIP) and Professor Sébastien Monchy (LOG Wimereux).

Lecturer, PharmD, PhD, HDR

Magali Chabé received her DES in Pharmacy in 2004 and her Ph.D. degree in Parasitology in 2005 at the University of Lille, France. Her thesis was co-directed by Dr. Eduardo Dei-Cas, Pasteur Institute of Lille, France and Prof. Sergio Vargas, Faculty of Medicine of Santiago de Chile, Chile. She obtained a position as Lecturer in the Parasitology Laboratory at the Faculty of Pharmacy of Lille in 2005 and the Research Direction Habilitation in 2018 from the same university.
After being interested until 2013 in the natural history of pneumocystosis (Lab. ECOPA at the Pasteur Institute of Lille, then BDPEE within the CIIL), she is since 2015 in charge of "omics" studies (comparative genomics and metagenomics) at the ECOPHIP team of CIIL, led by Dr. Eric Viscogliosi, in order to study the pathophysiology of Blastocystis and Cryptosporidium-induced infections of the gastrointestinal tract, as well as the role of intestinal protozoa in the gut microbiota.

Engineer, Institut Pasteur of Lille
Nausicaa Gantois obtained a BTS in Biochemistry in 2002 at the Lycée de L'Escaut in Valenciennes and a DU in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Drug Sciences at the University of Lille 2 Droit et Santé in 2003.
Immediately after her training, she started her career at the Institut Pasteur as a research technician in the ECOPHIP team. In 2010, she completed her academic studies by obtaining the Diploma of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes de la Sorbonne in Paris. This last training allowed her to obtain a position of Engineer in 2012.
Due to her broad expertise in molecular biology, biochemistry and animal experimentation, Nausicaa Gantois is currently involved in several research projects of the team on Blastocystis and Cryptosporidium and has a strong activity in laboratory management and supervision of students from different university levels.

Hospital Practitioner

Pierre Gosset has been certified in Pathology (MD) in 1992 (Lille). He obtained a Master’s degree in Envorinemental Toxicology (1995), a certification in Foetopathology (2000), a PhD in Toxicology (2002, Lille). He joined the GHICL (hospitals of the Lille Catholic University) in 1997 after a two-year experience in the Teaching Hospital of Lille (CHRU) as Professor Assistant and a two-year experience in the Cancer Center “Oscar Lambret” of Lille as pathologist. He is now Head of Pathology department, GHICL (2008) and Professor in Anatomical Pathology (2003). He has been Vice-Dean of Research at the Medical and Maieutic Faculty, Lille (Faculté de Médecine et de Maïeutique de Lille) for six years. He is general pathologist and developed a technical platform in pathology for researchers who need helps in technics and interpretation of cellular and histological samples. He cooperates and publishes with many teams in the fields of cancerology, inflammatory diseases and air pollution pathology. He has joined the team of Eric Viscogliosi to participate in the research on Cryptosporidium infection in patients with colorectal cancer.

Hospital Practitioner

Adriana Mihalache, born in Romania, received her Medical degree in 2000 from “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. After an internship in Pathology started at the University of Cluj-Napoca and completed in France, at Saint Vincent de Paul Hospital (GHICL) in Lille, she received her Pathology MD degree in 2009. She has continued to practice as MD in General Pathology at Saint Vincent de Paul Hospital till today. At the same time, she obtained her Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry and Molecular biology in 2016 from Lille 1 University, after a research on glycosylated markers in colorectal carcinoma carried out at the Structural and Functional Glycobiology Unit (UGSF), CNRS, research directed by Dr. Catherine ROBBE-MASSELOT and Dr. Sophie GROUX-DEGROOTE. Adriana Mihalache extended her knowledge in Moleular Biology by obtaining an inter-university diploma in Molecular Pathology in 2017, delivered by Nice University. She has joined the team of Eric Viscogliosi to participate in the research on Cryptosporidium infection in patients with colorectal cancer.

Master 2. Student

Constance DENOYELLE obtained a Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences at the Catholic University of Lille in 2021, followed by a Master's degree in Health Biology at the University of Lille in 2023. Her doctoral research project focuses on studying the life cycle and antioxidant enzymatic machinery of the enteric parasite Blastocystis, under the supervision of Dr. Eric Viscogliosi and Dr. Magali Chabé.