Pascale Cossart
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Pascale Cossart (born March 21, 1948 in Cambrai ) is a French microbiologist .
life and work
Cossart studied chemistry and graduated in 1968 from the University of Lille with a Maîtrise ès Sciences . In 1971 she graduated from the Georgetown University the Master of Science and in 1977 she was at the University of Paris VII doctorate. Since 1991, Cossart has headed the “Interaction Bacteries-Cellules” working group at the Pasteur Institute and has published numerous articles on the molecular biology and cell biology of the pathogenic bacterium Listeria monocytogenes . With Stanley Falkow and Philippe J. Sansonetti, Cossart coined the term cellular microbiology and received the Robert Koch Prize in 2007 for their work on Listeria monocytogenes .
Fonts
- Cellular Microbiology , 2nd Edition, editors Pascale Cossart, Patrice Boquet, Staffan Normark
- P. Cossart, P. Boquet, S. Normark, R. Rappuoli: Cellular microbiology emerging. In: Science, Volume 271, 1996, pp. 315-317.
- S. Dramsi, P. Cossart: Intracellular pathogens and the actin cytoskeleton. In: Annual Review Cell Dev Biol., Volume 14, 1998, pp. 137-166
Prizes and awards
- 1995 Carlos J. Finlay Prize for Microbiology
- 1997 Louis Rapkine Awards
- 1998 Richard Lounsbery Award (National Academy of Sciences)
- 1998 L'Oreal / UNESCO Award for Women in Science Leadership
- 1998 Knight of the Legion of Honor
- 2000 Louis Pasteur Gold Medal (Swedish Society of Medicine)
- 2002 officer of the Ordre national du mérite
- 2003 Valade Prize (Fondation de France)
- 2005 Inserm Price of Fundamental Research
- 2007 Robert Koch Prize
- 2008 Louis Jeantet Prize
- 2010 Commander of the Ordre national du mérite
- 2011 Van Deenen Medal
- 2013 Balzan Prize
- 2017 Gold Ernst Jung Medal for Medicine
- 2018 Heinrich Wieland Prize
- 2019 Lwoff Award
Memberships
- 1977 Société Française de Microbiologie
- 1987 American Society for Microbiology
- 1993 American Society for Cell Biology
- 1995 European Molecular Biology Organization
- 1998 Academia Europaea
- 1999 corresponding member and 2002 member of the Académie des sciences
- 2001 Leopoldina
- 2004 American Academy of Microbiology
- 2009 National Academy of Sciences
Web links
Commons : Pascale Cossart - Album with pictures, videos and audio files
- Pascale Cossart on the Institut Pasteur website , Paris (pasteur.fr)
- Pascale Cossart on the website of the International Balzan Prize Foundation (balzan.org)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cossart, Pascale |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French microbiologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cambrai |