- Activités professionnelles :
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- Head of Unit General Bacteriology in the Veterinary Bacteriology Service at Sciensano 2018-Today
- - Head of NRL antimicrobial resistance in Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Enterococci from animals
- - Head of NRL Mycoplasma spp.
- - Head of NRL Salmonella Gallinarum/Salmonella Pullorum
- - Partner of the EUP Animal Health and Welfare (2024-2027) in the action OO1-Action 4 task 1.2 ECOFFs for aquatic bacteria.
- - Partner of the JPIAMR-ACTION Network MyMIC (2023-2024) : Standardization of diagnostics and antimicrobial susceptibility testing and clinical interpretation in animal mycoplasmas
- - Co-coordinator of the non-institutionalised horizontal cooperation (2023-2024). Study on the development of (co,cross-)resistances to antimicrobials following the use of biocidal products
- - Coordinator of the RT21_1_PET-AMR_1 project (2021-2024): One Health implications of the use of antibacterial agents in pet animals (PET-AMR).
- - Partner of an ARES project (2020-2025): « Surveillance de la résistance aux antimicrobiens en RDC : création d'un centre universitaire de référence » (2020-2025)
- - Partner of the Missing-Link project (2019-2024): Investigation of resistance mechanisms in emerging pathogens with the 'One Health' concept as missing link.
- - Coordinator of the OHEJP PhD project LIN-RES (2019-2021): Investigation of the molecular basis, origin, transferability and risk factors associated with linezolid-resistance emergence in Gram-positive bacteria of human and animal origin.
- - Coordinator of the RF Project AMR ARRAY (2017-2019): A liquid bead array system for the rapid genetic screening of antimicrobial resistance determinants: development and valorization in the one-health perspective. Co-promoter of the PhD student.
- - Partner in the ValueBugs Innoviris project (2018-2021): Participatory action research project to produce proteins from insects fed on our peels.
- - Co-promoter of the PhD thesis of M. Timmermans, defended on the 9 March 2022 and entitled Etude de la résistance aux antibiotiques : développement d'une technique multiplexée de détection de gènes de résistance chez les bactéries Gram-négatives
- (AMR-ARRAY) et étude de la résistance au linézolide chez les bactéries Gram-positives (LIN-RES) ».
- - Tasks and responsibilities as supervisor and scientist: AMR monitoring of MRSA and enterococci, analyses for the control programme of severe diseases in animals (Mycoplasmosis (CRD and M. meleagridis), Fowl Typhoid, Pullorum disease), antigen batch
- controls, general bacteriology routine analyses, genetic pathotyping of E.coli, QC Mycoplasma for clients, validation and accreditation of laboratory procedures, organization of/participation to Proficiency tests (PTs), collection of field and reference isolates,
- production of reference materials (sera, swabs,), molecular epidemiology (a.o. based on whole genome sequencing data), development of new custom molecular arrays (a.o. Gram positive AMR array), collaboration with other public institutes, the European
- commission, research centers and universities worldwide, custom laboratory analyses, scientific communication, reporting to the authorities (FASFC, EFSA, FPS), advisory role, member of committees/working groups, etc.
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- Expérience(s) professionelle(s) :
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- Scientist in the Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Centre (CODA-CERVA) 2015-2018
- - Project management, development and application to the field of new multiplex assays for a Luminex platform (monophasic Salmonella Typhimurium and Salmonella Enteritidis subtyping, detection of antimicrobial resistance genes, etc), supervision of laboratory
- technicians for various research and routine analyses, detection of clusters of bacterial isolates through PFGE, MLVA, and home-made bead-array analyses, NGS analyses, validation and accreditation of laboratory procedures, etc.
- Scientific Attaché in the Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Centre (CODA-CERVA) 2011-2014
- - Research project: « Development of new molecular tools for characterizing Salmonella spp. strains isolated in Belgium, with new insights into monophasic variants of serovar Typhimurium». Referee : Pierre Wattiau (pierre.wattiau@coda-cerva.be).
- - Project management, design of experiments, development of new assays, lab work, supervision of laboratory technicians, data analysis, scientific writing and oral communications.
- Scientific Collaborator in the Scientific Institute of Public Health (WIV-ISP) 2010
- - Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in Salmonella and Shigella. Referee : Sophie Bertrand (sophie.bertrand@wiv-isp.be)
- Research Assistant in Euroscreen S.A. 2007 - 2010
- - G protein coupled receptors functional assays for compounds screening, assay development, customers studies report writing. Referee: Michel Detheux (michel.detheux@iteostherapeutics.com)
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