CV Science

Jean-Luc Desseyn PhD Biology / Health

Course and current status

Senior Research Fellow Inserm (secured competitive position)
INFINITE U1286; Inserm/Univ. Lille/CHU Lille, Lille - France
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• Certified for research on animals
  
• Qualification for professorship (CNU 64-Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, 2015, 2020)
• Diploma of veterinary surgery
• Founding member of the regional ethics committee for animal experimentation
  
• Accreditation to supervise PhD students (HDR–2008)
• Scientific Advisory Board for the French Foundation Vaincre la Mucoviscidose (2018-now)
• Appointed substitute for the section 64 of the Conseil National des Universités (2023-2027)
  
• Acquisition of funding, via government, industry, and independent foundations (French & international)

• Molecular Biology, L3 of genetic engineering, IUP ILIS
  
• Transgenesis, Master of Biological and Medical Sciences, Master Drug design
  
• Lecturer for animal experimentation accreditation (National training), Mouse genetics
  

Dept. of Pharmacology, Univ. of Washington – Seattle
Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale postdoc Fellowship Award
Human Frontier Science Program long-term Fellowship Award

• Mucosal diseases
• Mucus / Mucins
• Transgenic mice / Transgenic large mammals

Scientific summary

I completed my PhD at the University of Lille (France) working on the human mucin gene MUC5B. I moved on to do postdoctoral work on the catalytic subunit of Protein Kinase A at the Univ. of Washington (Seattle, USA). In 2000, I was appointed to Research Scientist at the French Institute of Health and Medical Research and joined the laboratory EA3925 in 2009 to create a group within the Inserm Unit U995 (now INFINTE lab/U1286) at the University of Lille Medical School.

My current research interests focus on the role of gel-forming mucins. I study mucins and mucus gels in several diseases using mainly genetically modified mouse models.

Keywords: mucus, mucins