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I am the guy on the photo right here:
Date of birth: May 5th 1981
Place of birth: Montauban, France
Address: Robert-Koch-Institut, Emerging Zoonoses, Nordufer 20, 13353 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0)30-18754-2592
E-mail: calvignacs@rki.de
ResearcherID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/D-2313-2010
Cliquez pour agrandir l'imageA virologist by academic training, I have turned into a molecular evolutionnist during my doctoral studies. While staying in the global track of molecular evolution, my research has mainly developed along three axes:
  • the (not always) bifurcating history of animal species and populations as evidenced by neutral markers (such as mitochondrial DNA)
  • the evolution of viruses, with a particular emphasis on retroviruses
  • the development and assessment of bench methods
I am still unrolling these threads, now at the Robert-Koch-Institut, Berlin (http://www.rki.de).
2011
  • Scuda, N., Hofmann, J., Calvignac-Spencer, S., Ruprecht, K., Liman, P., Kuehn, J., Hengel, H., Ehlers, B. A novel human polyomavirus closely related to the African green monkey-derived lymphotropic polyomavirus (LPV). Journal of Virology, accepted.
  • Leendertz, F.H., Scuda, N., Cameron, K.N., Kidega, T., Zuberbühler, K., Leendertz, S.A.J., Couacy-Hymann, E., Boesch, C., Calvignac, S., Ehlers, B. African great apes are naturally infected with polyomaviruses closely related to Merkel cell polyomavirus. Journal of Virology, 85: 916-24.
  • Calvignac, S., Konecny, L., Malard, F., Douady, C.J. Preventing the pollution of mitochondrial datasets with nuclear mitochondrial paralogs (numts). Mitochondrion, 11: 246-54.
2010
  • Leendertz, S.A., Junglen, S., Hedemann, C., Goffe, A., Calvignac, S., Boesch, C., Leendertz, F.H. High prevalence, co-infection rate and genetic diversity of retroviruses in wild red colobus monkeys (Piliocolobus badius badius) in Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire. Journal of Virology, 84: 7427-36.
2009
  • Terme, J.M., Calvignac, S., Duc Dodon, M., Gazzolo, L. , Jordan, A. E box motifs as mediators of proviral latency of human retroviruses. Retrovirology, 6: 81.
  • Calvignac, S., Hughes, S. and Hänni, C. Genetic diversity of endangered brown bear (Ursus arctos) populations at the crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa. Diversity and Distributions, 15: 742-750.
  • Calvignac, S. Mito-communications. MTDNA.
2008
  • Calvignac, S. [Climatic events and geographical patterns of the genetic diversity]. French. Médecine/Sciences, 24 (8): 686-8.
  • Calvignac, S. [Alternative methods for the study of simian retroviral genetic diversity]. French. Médecine/Sciences, 24 (6): 577-8.
  • Orlando, L., Calvignac, S., Schnebelen, C., Douady, C.J., Godfrey, L.R. and Hänni, C. DNA from extinct giant lemurs links archaeolemurids to extant indriids. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 8:121.
  • Calvignac, S., Terme, J.M., Hensley, S., Jalinot, P., Greenwood, A. and Hänni, C. Ancient DNA identification of early 20th century Simian T-Cell Leukemia Virus Type 1 (STLV-1). Molecular Biology and Evolution, 25 (6): 1093-98.
  • Calvignac, S., Hughes, S., Tougard, C., Michaux, J., Thévenot, M., Philippe, M., Hamdine, W. and Hänni, C. Ancient DNA evidence for the loss of a highly divergent brown bear clade during historical times. Molecular Ecology, 17 (8): 1962-70.
  • Pagès, M., Calvignac, S., Klein, C., Paris M., Hughes S. and Hänni, C. Combined analysis of fourteen nuclear genes refines the Ursidae phylogeny. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 47 (1): 73-83.
2007
  • Orlando, L., Pagès, M., Calvignac, S., Hughes, S. and Hänni, C. Does the 43bp sequence from an 800,000 year old Cretan dwarf elephantid really rewrite the textbook on mammoths ? Biology Letters, 3 (1): 57-59.