Dr Elise Belle
Freelance Translator specialised in Scientific and Medical Translations

177 Kings Way
Flat 3
Brighton BN3 4GL
United Kingdom
E-mail: bape6@sussex.ac.uk
PERSONAL DETAILS
Nationality:
Date of birth:
French
29th July 1977
LANGUAGES SKILLS
French
English
Italian
Mother tongue
Proficient: Over 5 years spent in an English speaking country, working language
and teaching in biology at the University of Sussex (Brighton, UK)
Fluent: 3 years spent in Italy and teaching at the University of Ferrara (Emilia
Romagna, Italy)
EDUCATION AND WORK EXPERIENCE
From May 2008
French Game Tester for Babel Media (Brighton, UK)
Proofreading and translation of video games from English to French
From April 2007
Associate Research fellow at the University of Sussex (UK)
April 2007 – April 2008
Research fellow at University College London (UK)
April 2004 - March 2007
Research fellow at the University of Ferrara (Italy)
October 2000 - March 2004
PhD in molecular evolution at the University of Sussex (Brighton, UK)
funded by the John Maynard-Smith studentship
October 1999 - Sept. 2000
Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies (DEA) (Master) of Population Biology
and Eco-Ethology.
Université François Rabelais, Tours (France)
October 1998 - June 1999
Maîtrise (4th and final year of undergraduate studies) of Population
and Ecosystem Biology
Diploma obtained at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA)
within the frame of the exchange program of the University of Montpellier.
October 1997 - June 1998
Licence (Bachelor of Sciences) in Biology of Organisms
Université ‘Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc’, Montpellier (France)
October 1996 - June 1997
‘Diplôme d’Etudes Universitaires Générales’ (DEUG) (two year
undergraduate diploma) in Life Sciences.
Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble (France)
TRANSLATION AND PROOFREADING EXPERIENCE
English to French translations:
Scientific articles, letters and project proposals, mostly in the
biological sciences, including anthropology and genetics, and in
the video game sector.
Scientific Proofreading:
Scientific articles mainly in genetics, archaeology, anthropology
and molecular biology.
SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
 Belle E., Beckage N., Rousselet J., Poirie M., Lemeunier F. and Drezen J.-M. 2002.
Visualization of polydnavirus sequences in a parasitoid wasp chromosome. Journal of Virology
76: 5793-5796.
 Belle E., and Eyre-Walker A. 2002. A test of whether selection maintains isochores using
sites polymorphic for Alu and L1 element insertions. Genetics 160: 815-817.
 Belle E., Smith N., and Eyre-Walker A. 2002. Analysis of the phylogenetic distribution of
isochores in Vertebrates and a test of the thermal stability hypothesis. Journal of Molecular
Evolution 55: 356-363.
 Belle E., Duret L., Eyre-Walker A., and Galtier N. 2004. The decline of isochores in mammals:
An assessment of the GC content variation along the mammalian phylogeny. Journal of
Molecular Evolution 58: 653-660.
 Belle E., Webster M., and Eyre-Walker A. 2004. How can we explain the differential
distribution of young and old repetitive elements in the human genome? Journal of Molecular
Evolution 60: 290-296.
 Belle E., Gardner M., Piganeau G., and Eyre-Walker A. 2005. The transition-transversion ratio
in animal mitochondrial DNA. Gene 355: 58-66.
 Belle E., Landry P.-A., and Barbujani G. 2006. Origins and evolution of the Europeans’
genome: Evidence from multiple microsatellite loci. Proceedings of the Royal Society B
Biological Sciences 273: 1595-1602.
 Barbujani G., and Belle E. 2006. Genomic boundaries between human populations. Human
Heredity 61: 15-21.
 Belle E., Ramakrishnan U., Mountain J., and Barbujani G. 2006. Serial coalescent simulations
suggest weak genealogical relationships between Etruscans and modern Tuscans. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 103: 8012-8017.
 Fraumene C., Belle E., Castrì L., Sanna S., Mancosu G., Cosso M., Marras F., Barbujani G.,
Pirastu M., and Angius A. 2006. High resolution analysis and phylogenetic network construction
using complete mtDNA sequences in Sardinian genetic isolates. Molecular Biology and
Evolution 23: 2101-2111.
 Belle E., and Barbujani G. 2007. A worldwide analysis of multiple microsatellite loci suggests
that human genetic diversity is significantly influenced by the distribution of languages. American
Journal of Physical Anthropology 133: 1137-1146.
 Belle E., Benazzo A., Ghirotto S., and Barbujani G. (submitted). Neanderthals, Cro-Magnons
and modern Europeans are not part of the same mitochondrial genealogy.
 Belle E., Shah S., and Thomas M. (submitted). Y chromosomes of self-identified Syeds from
India and Pakistan show evidence of elevated Arab ancestry but not of a recent common origin.
 Powell A., Belle E., Thomas M., and Shennan S. (in prep). Quantitative measurements of
departure from neutrality in cultural artefacts: The case of LBK pottery from the first European
farmers.
SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS
 ‘Phylogenetic distribution of isochores in vertebrates and a test of the thermal stability
hypothesis’ JOBIM (Journées Ouvertes Biologie, Informatique, Mathématique), June 2002 (St
Malo, France).
 ‘A test of whether selection maintains isochores using sites polymorphic for Alu and L1
element insertions’ SMBE (Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution), June 2002 (Sorrento,
Italy).
 ‘The transition-transversion ratio in vertebrate mitochondrial DNA’. PGG (Population Genetics
Group), January 2003 (Leicester, UK).
 ‘Are GC-rich isochores really vanishing from mammalian genomes?’. EBM (7th Evolutionary
Biology Meeting), August 2003 (Marseille, France).
 ‘How can we explain the differential distribution of young and old repetitive elements in the
human genome?’. PGG (Population Genetics Group), December 2003 (Brighton, UK).
 ‘Origins and evolution of the Europeans’ genome: Evidence from multiple microsatellite loci’.
FISV (Federazione Italiana Scienze della Vita), October 2004 (Riva del Garda, Italy).
 ‘An analysis of the genetic relationships between Etruscans and modern Tuscans by serial
coalescent simulations’. Cambridge simulation symposium, July 2005 (Cambridge, UK).
 ‘Serial coalescent simulations suggest weak genealogical relationships between Etruscans and
modern Tuscans’:
• ESEB (European Society for Evolutionary Biology), August 2005 (Krakow, Poland).
• FISV (Federazione Italiana Scienze della Vita), September 2005 (Riva del Garda, Italy)
• AAPA (American Association of Physical Anthropology), March 2006 (Anchorage, USA)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Evolution I
First year tutorial: basic concepts in evolution (University of Sussex, Brighton)
Evolution II
First year tutorial: following of Evolution I (University of Sussex)
Genetics
Second year tutorials: Eukaryotic genetics (University of Sussex)
Banche Dati
Biologiche
Third year course: Biological databases (University of Ferrara, Italy)
SCIENTIFIC REFEREEING
Refereed manuscripts for  Annals of Human Genetics
 Current Biology
 Human Heredity