Marie Helene METZ Dr ès Sciences
Course and current status
METZ Marie-Hélène, December 31, 1947, Pau (Pyrénées Atlantiques)
Nationality : french Marital Status : Married, 2 children 25 and 24 years
Present address :
Inserm U977- Biomaterials and Tissue engineering
bâtiment Leriche, faculté de chirurgie dentaire, hôpital civil, 1 place de l'hôpital 67000 Strasbourg Cedex
Tel : 00-33-3-68-85-54-71 Fax : 00-33-3-68-85-54-72 E-mail : metz@neurochem.u-strasbg.fr
Personal address :
5 rue Baldung Grien 67000 Strasbourg
Languages : french, english, spanish
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Degrees
§ 1965 Baccalauréat Sciences Expérimentales (Pau)
§ 1971 DEA Organic Chemistry (University Poitiers)
§ 1972 University thesis Organic Chemistry (University Poitiers)
§ 1981 Thesis ès-Sciences in Biochemistry (University Paris VII)
Career
§ 1974 Tenure position as a researcher (Attachée de Recherches) at Inserm : Laboratoire des Proteines (Pierre Jollès, University Paris V)
§ 1980 promoted to the CR level
§ 2000 promoted to Director of Research (DR2) at Inserm
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Direction appointements
§ 1991 : Team leader, research group : Bioactive Peptides Inserm U338 and U575
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Technical expertise
Protein biochemistry : isolation of proteins and peptides; characterization of primary structure of proteins and peptides; identification of post-translational modifications; proteomic analysis
Characterization of antimicrobial molecules
Cellular biology
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Scientific Committees
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2002-2007 Inserm CSS8 Neurosciences ; evaluation for the CNRS ( protein biochemistry)
since 2004 CNU 69
since 2009 member of the scientific committee of the university of Strasbourg
Member of the Editorial Board
Cellular and Molecular Life Science
Referee
Antimicrobial Agents Chemotherapy, Cellular and Molecular Life Science, Journal of Proteome Research, Cell Host and Microbe, faseb J, Plos one, Biochemistry, ANR, Regions
Scientific Societies
Société des Neurosciences, Société de Neuroendocrinologie (member of the Scientific Committee)
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Teaching Activities at the University Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg
2000-2004 Licence (IUP2) : organizer of the proteomic course 15h/year
2004-Master Neurosciences : organizer of the Neuroimmunology course15h/year
2007- Master Cellular and Molecular Physiology 2h/year
Scientific summary
My expertises concern in basic research:
structural and biological biochemistry of proteins
antimicrobial activities
molecular mechanisms of the interactions host-pathogen
coating to materials to prevent nosocomial infections
in clinical research sepsis and infections diseases
