Marc Choisy (Марк Шуази)

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Personal Details

Date of birth: 30th of October 1976. Citizenship: French. Martial status: single. Professional address Genetique et Evolution des Maladies Infectieuses UMR CNRS-IRD 2272 Centre IRD, 911 Avenue Agropolis, BP 64501 34394 Montpellier Cedex 5 France phone: +33 4 67 41 61 80 fax: +33 4 67 41 62 99 e-mail: choisy@mpl.ird.fr Personal address 14, rue des Arbousiers 34070 Montpellier France phone: +33 4 67 04 82 20

Education and Qualifications

2005-2006   Post-doc at the Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, USA
2001-2004   PhD in Integrative Biology. University of Montpellier, France.
2000-2001   MSc in Biostatistics. University of Montpellier, France.
1999-2000   MSc in Evolutionary Biology and Ecology. University of Montpellier, France.
1998-1999   Credits in Quantitative Ecology. University of Wisconsin, USA.
1998-1999   Credits in Wildlife Population Dynamics. University of Wisconsin, USA.
1996-1998   Engineer in Agronomy. ENSA, Montpellier, France.
1994-1996   Two-year intensive preparation to enter ENSA. Maths, Physics, Biology. Grenoble, France.
1993-1994   High School Diploma. Honours, Science Major. Maths, Physics, Chemistry. Valence, France.

Grants and Awards

2001-2004   PhD grant, co-funded by CNRS and Region Languedoc-Roussillon.
1999-2000   MSc grant from the French Minister of Agriculture.
1998-1999   Graduate Studentship, University of Wisconsin, McIntire-Stennis Project #3885.

Teaching and Supervising

2004   Supervision of a MSc student in Biomathematics (University of Paris, France) on the spatio-temporal dynamics of chickenpox in France. 2004   (3.5 hours). Dynamic aspects of vaccination. Fifth year students in Evolutionary Biology and Ecology. University of Montpellier, France. 2003   (3.5 hours). Modelling in epidemiology. Fourth year students in Population Biology. University of Montpellier, France. 1999   (2 hours). The exponential law in biology. Third year students in Natural Resources. College of Natural Resources, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, USA.

Trainings and Visits

• 2002   (2 weeks) Department of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia.
  Advisor: Prof Anatoli T Teriokhin.
  Topic: Global study of repartition, prevalence and virulence of HIV strains.
• 2001   (1 month) Evolutionary Biology Group, Department of Zoology, University Oxford, UK.
  Advisor: Dr David L Robertson.
  Topic: Maximum likelihood analysis of adaptive evolution in HIVs and SIVs.
• 2001   (4 months) Centre d'Etude sur le Polymorphisme des Micro-organismes (CEPM, UMR CNRS-IRD), Montpellier, France.
  Advisors: Dr Jean-Francois Guegan & Dr Eric Elguero.
  Topic: Modelling human retroviruses virulence evolution.
• 2000   (8 months) Centre de Biologie et de Gestion des Populations (CBGP, UMR INRA-ENSAM-IRD-CIRAD), Montpellier, France.
  Advisor: Dr Jean-Marie Cornuet.
  Topic: Comparing methods of estimating genetic introgressive rate using extensive computer simulations.
• 2000   (1 month) Mangrove Ecosystem Research Centre (MERC), University of Hanoi, Vietnam.
  Advisors: Dr Ester Serrao & Dr Claire Billot.
  Topic: Population dynamics of Avicennia marina mangrove trees.
• 2000   (1 week) Unidade de Ciencias e Tecnologias dos Recursos Aquaticos (UCTRA), Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal.
  Advisors: Dr Ester Serrao & Dr Claire Billot.
  Topic: Population dynamics of Avicennia marina mangrove trees.
• 1999   (10 months) Department of Forest Ecology and Management, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.
  Advisor: Prof Mark S Boyce.
  Topic: Population dynamics of Jack Pine budworm (Choristoneura pinus pinus).
• 1999   (1 month) College of Natural Resources, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, USA.
  Advisor: Dr Evelyn H Merrill.
  Topic: Courtship behaviour of the Greater Prairie Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido pinnatus).
• 1998   (6 months) Australian School of Environmental Science, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.
  Advisor: Dr Ronda J Green.
  Topic: Foraging behaviour of frugivorous birds in tropical rainforest.
• 1997   (1 year) Chaire d'Ecologie Animale, ENSAM, Montpellier, France.
  Advisors: Prof Serge Kreiter & Dr Marie-Jeanne Perrot-Minot.
  Topic: Foraging behaviour of Lesser Kestrel (Falco naumanni).
• 1997   (2 months) Instituto de Ecologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico DF, Mexico.
  Advisor: Dr Rodrigo A. Medellin.
  Topic: Seed dispersal by birds, bats and opossums in tropical rainforest.

Congresses and Workshop Participations

• Choisy M., Woelk C.H., Guegan J.-F., Robertson D.L. Comparative study of adaptive molecular evolution in different HIV clades. 11^th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), February 8^th-11^th 2004, San Francisco, USA (poster).
• Choisy M., Woelk C.H., Guegan J.-F., Robertson D.L. A comparative study of adaptive molecular evolution in different HIV clades. 9^th Meeting of PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology, September 11^th-16^th 2003, Fiesch, Switzerland (communication).
• Fargette D., Pinel A., Abubakar Z., Traore O., Brugidou C., Fatogoma S., Hebrard H., Choisy M., Yacouba S., Fauquet C., Konate G. Evolutionary history of rice yellow mottle virus in Africa and phytopathological implications. EMBO Workshop on Genomic Approaches in Plant Virology, May 28^th-31^st 2003, Keszthely, Hungary (communication).
• Choisy M., Woelk C.H., Guegan J.-F., Robertson D.L. Maximum likelihood analysis of adaptive evolution in primate lentiviruses. 8^th Meeting of PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology, August 28^th-September 1^st 2002, Lohja, Finland (communication).
• Choisy M., Woelk C.H., Guegan J.-F., Robertson D.L. Maximum likelihood analysis of adaptive evolution in primate lentiviruses. 6^th International Meeting on Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics of Infectious Diseases (MEEGID), July 24^th-27^th 2002, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France (communication).
• Guegan J.-F., Broutin H., Choisy M. Can we suspect different epidemiological patterns and processes for parasite and infectious diseases between developed and developing countries? Pertussis Modelling Workshop, May 9^th-10^th 2001, Barcelona, Spain (communication).
• Boyce M.S., Choisy M., Mladenoff D.J. Plantation forestry destabilises Jack-pine budworm populations. Pine Barrens Research and Management Workshop, March 10^th-11^th 1999, Ashland, Wisconsin, USA (communication).

• Choisy M. Ecological Modeling of Infectious Diseases In Encyclopedia of Infectious Diseases. Modern Methods (Tibayrenc M. Ed) John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York (in preparation).
• Choisy M., Boyce M.S., Niemuth N.D., Radeloff V., Mladenoff D.J. Birds and jack-pine budworm in the northwestern pine barrens of Wisconsin. (in preparation).
• Boyce M.S., Viljugrein H., Radeloff V.C., Niemuth N.D., Choisy M., Gorham R.M., Mladenoff D.J. Low landscape diversity destabilizes jack-pine budworm populations (to be submitted).
• Prugnolle F., Choisy M., Theron A., Durand P., De Meeus T. Sex-specific correlation between heterozygosity and clone size in the trematode Schistosoma mansoni (to be resubmitted).
• Hide M., Choisy M., Banuls A.-L. Molecular phylogeny and evolution of Cathepsin like cystein proteases within Leishmania genus and other Trypanosomatids (to be resubmitted).
• Choisy M., Rohani P., Guegan J.-F. Resonance effects and the dynamics of infectious diseases. (resubmitted).
• Fargette D., Pinel A., Abubakar Z., Traore O., Brugidou C., Fatogoma S., Hebrard H., Choisy M., Yacouba S., Fauquet C., Konate G. (2004) Inferring the evolutionary history of Rice Yellow Mottle Virus from genomic, phylogenetic, and phylogeographic studies. Journal of Virology. (in the press).
• Choisy M., Franck P., Cornuet J.-M. (2004) Estimating admixture proportions with microsatellites: comparison of methods based on simulated data. Molecular Ecology (in the press).
• Choisy M., Woelk C.H., Guegan J.-F., Robertson D.L. (2004). Comparative study of adaptive molecular evolution in different human immunodeficiency virus groups and subtypes. Journal of Virology 87 (4) (in the press).
• Choisy M., Brown S.P., Lafferty K.D., Thomas F. (2003). Evolution of trophic transmission in parasites: Why add intermediate hosts? American Naturalist 162 (2): 172-181.

Meeting Organisations and Services

Reviewer for Infection, Genetics and Evolution (2 ms) and Parasitology (3 ms).
2002 2^nd Host-Parasite Evolutionary Dynamics Workshop, September 16^th-20^th 2002, Le Pous, Notre Dame de Londres, France.
2001 1^st Host-Parasite Evolutionary Dynamics Workshop, September 25^th-28^th 2001, Agropolis International, Montpellier, France.
1997 Staff of the 7^th International Theriological Congress (ITC), September 6^th-12^th 1997, Acapulco, Mexico.

Computer and Language Skills

Operating Systems: WindowsXP, MacOS 8.6, UNIX systems.
Developing Environment: Delphi 5.
Scientific Softwares: S-PLUS 2000, Mathematica 4.1, MATLAB 6.5.
Programming Languages: Object-oriented Pascal, PERL, S, LaTeX, HTML.
Languages: French (mother tongue), English (spoken, written, read - TOEFL score: XXX points).