Jaques Guillot, France

Personal info

• Position: Professor in Parasitology and Mycology
• Doctor in Veterinary Medicine 1993
• PhD Mycology Pasteur Institute of Paris 1995
• Dipl. European Veterinary Parasitology College since 2004
• Ecole Nationale Veterinaire d’Alfort, France since 1991

Career Summary

• Graduated from the veterinary college of Alfort in 1991.
• PhD in 1995 (Taxonomy of Malassezia yeasts).
• Member of the French Society of Parasitology (SFP), the French Society of Medical Mycology (SFMM), the European Confederation of Medical Mycology (ECMM) and the International Society of Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM).
• Diplomate of the European Veterinary Parasitology College (EVPC) since 2004.
• Associate member of the National Academy of Medicine since 2008.
• Scientific director of the Veterinary College of Alfort From 2003 to 2007.
• Head of the Joint Research Unit ANSES, ENVA, UPEC BIPAR (Molecular biology and immunology of parasitic and fungal diseases) since 2008.
• Member of ESCCAP (European Scientific Counsel Companion Animal Parasites), an independent, non-profit making organisation whose objective is to develop guidelines for the diagnosis, the treatment and control of major parasitic infections in companion animals.
• Member of the Editorial Board of Veterinary Dermatology from 2001 to 2009, of ISRN Veterinary Science since 2010.
• Author of 88 articles in international journals of Microbiology or Parasitology since 1994.

Current focus

Areas of interest are:

• the taxonomy, ecology and evolution of Malassezia yeasts
• the pathogeny of avian aspergillosis
• the intestinal parasites of apes

Recent papers

• Féménia F, Fontaine JJ, Lair-Fulleringer S, Huet D, Berkova N, Ibrahim-Granet O, Le Loc’h G, Arné P, Guillot J. 2007. Clinical, mycological and pathological findings in turkeys experimentally infected by Aspergillus fumigatus. Avian Pathology 36: 213-219
• Cafarchia C, Otranto D, Campbell BE, Latrofa MS, Guillot J, Gasser RB. 2007. Multilocus mutation scanning for the analysis of genetic variation with Malassezia. Electrophoresis 28: 1176-1180
• Nieguitsila A, Deville M, Halos L, Taoufik J, Berthelemy M, Chermette R, Latouche S, Arné P, Guillot J. 2007. Evaluation of fungal aerosols using temporal temperature gradient electrophoresis (TTGE) and comparison with culture. Journal of Microbiological Methods 70: 86-95
• Fréalle E, Rodrigue M, Gantois N, Aliouat CM, Delaporte E, Camus D, Dei-Cas E, Kauffmann-Lacroix C, Guillot J, Delhaes L. 2007. Phylogenetic analysis of Trichophyton mentagrophytes human and animal isolates based on MnSOD and ITS sequence comparison. Microbiology 153: 3466-3477
• Krief S, Jamart A, Mahé S, Leendertz FH, Matz-Rensing K, Crespeau F, Bain O, Guillot J. 2008. Clinical and pathological manifestation of oesophagostomosis in African great apes. Does self-medication in wild apes influence disease progression? Journal of Medical Primatology 37: 188-195
• Lair-Fulleringer S, Féménia F, Huet D, Wagner C, Sarfati S, Shingarova L, Guillot J, Chermette R, Boireau P, Berkova N. 2009. Effect of conidia of various Aspergillus species on apoptosis of human pneumocytes and bronchial epithelial cells. Mycopathologia 167: 249-262
• Krief S, Vermeulen, Lafosse S, Kasenene J, Nieguitsila A, Berthelemy M, L’Hostis M, Bain O, Guillot J. 2010. Nodular worm infection in wild chimpanzees in Western Uganda: a risk for human health? PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 4: e630
• Nieguitisla A, Goldenberg O, Deville M, Arné P, Benoît-Valiergue H, Chermette R, Latouche-Cottenot S, Pissard S, Guillot J. 2010. Molecular monitoring of fungal communities in air samples by denaturing high performance liquid chromatography (D-HPLC). Journal of Applied Microbiology (in press)
• Machado M, Ferreiro L, Ferreira RR, Deville M, Berthelemy M, Bianchi SP, Guillot J. 2010. Malassezia dermatitis in dogs in Brazil; clinical signs, diagnosis and molecular identification of causative agents. Veterinary Dermatology (in press)