LEPESANT Julie M.J.
27 rue du Stade
66690 Saint André
FRANCE
Phone: + 33 (0)6 74 13 64 28
Email : julie.lepesant@free.fr
: julie.lepesant@univ-perp.fr
CURRICULUM VITAE
FORMATION
2009-2012
PhD Student (present)
Team Environmental and evolutive epigenetics of interactions
UMR 5244 CNRS-UPVD (Perpignan)
2007-2009
Master Integrative Biology and Physiology (with honor)
Speciality Comparative Biology and Physiology
Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris IV)
2006-2007
Third year of Organisms Biology Licence
Speciality Aquatic Ecology
Montpellier University (UM II)
2004-2006
First and second year of Biology Licence
Joseph Fourier University (Grenoble I)
2004
Scientific High School Diploma, speciality Biology, european section
(German)
Highschool Champollion of Grenoble
EXPERIENCES
2009-2012
PhD Student
 Team : Ecology and Evolution of Interactions
 Subject: The role of epigenetics in the generation of phenotypic
variability in Schistosoma mansoni and its impact on infection success.
Directors Mr Guillaume Mitta and Mr Christoph Grunau.
 Technics : Dissections, DNA and RNA extractions, QPCR, RT-PCR,
Chromatin Immunoprecipitation, Massive sequencing
2009 (6 months)
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2008 (3 months)
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Research training in Arago Laboratory in Banyuls sur Mer (Master 2)
Team: Factors of the Mediums and Adaptive Mechanisms
Subject: Study of the circadian rhythms and the gonadotropines in the
seabass Dicentrarchus labrax. Directors Mr Jack Falcon
Technics : Dissections of fishes brains, proteins extraction and
quantification, enzymatic activity, QPCR, cloning, In Situ Hybridization
Research training in Ecolag Laboratory in Montpellier II (Master 1)
Team: Immunity Reactions, Aquaculture and Environment
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Subject: Contribution under investigation of the immune reaction in
oyster Crassostrea gigas. Director Ms Viviane Boulo.
Technics : RNA extractions, RT-PCR, QPCR, Agarose gels, Northern
Blot
2007 (1 month)
Voluntary Research training in Ecolag Laboratory in
Montpellier II (Master 1)
 Team: Ecophysiologic Adaptation and Ontogenesis
 Subject: Study of the physiological adaptations of the seabass
Dicentrarchus labrax to variations of salinity, Director Ms Patricia
Cucchi-Mouillot.
 Technics: Fishery, immunohisto/cytochemestry, histology, Western Blot
TEACHING
2009-2012
Practical classes of Animal Physiology (Licence), Animal cellular Physiology
(Licence), Informatic certificate (Licence), Bibliography studies (Licence), Molecular
Biology (Master)
PUBLICATIONS
2011
Julie M.J. Lepesant, Céline Cosseau, Christoph Grunau. Towards an understanding of the
epigenetics of schistosomes: A comparative epigenomic study. Memorias do Instituto
Oswaldo Cruz (in press) {IF 2.097}
Julie M.J. Lepesant, David Roquis, Rémi Emans, Céline Cosseau, Nathalie Arancibia,
Guillaume Mitta, Christoph Grunau. De-novo assembly of massive sequencing reads into the
repeat genome of Schistosoma mansoni and first-pass annotation. Internationnal Journal of
Parasitology (submit) {IF 3,822}
Julie M.J. Lepesant, Céline Cosseau, Jérome Boissier, Michael Freitag, Julien Portela,
Déborah Climent, Cécile Perrin, Adhemar Zerlotini Neto, Christoph Grunau. The role of
heterochromatization in sex chromosome emergence: lessons from the human parasite
Schistosoma mansoni. Genome Biology (in correction). {IF 6.626}.
COMMUNICATIONS
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
2010
National Congress
Lepesant J.M.J., Cosseau C., Perrin C., Mitta G. & Grunau C. (2010) A role for epigenetics
in adaptative evolution. 13e congrès Young Researchers in Life Science (session : Hostpathogen interactions), Paris, June 7-9
2010
National Congress
Lepesant J.M.J., Cosseau C., Perrin C., Mitta G. & Grunau C. (2010) Rôle de l’épigénétique
dans l’évolution adaptatives. Congrès Ecologie 2010 (session : Intégration de l’interaction
Génotype x Environnement dans l’étude des capacités d’adaptation), Montpellier, september
2-4
POSTERS
2011
International congress
Herrero M.J., Isorna E., Besseau L., Fuentes M., Lepesant J.M.J., Sauzet S., Delgado M.J. &
Falcon J. (2011) Daily variations of clock genes : testing endogenous rhythms and influence
of exogenous melatonin in pituitary of sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax). 8th congress of iberic
association of compared endocrinology, Madrid, Spain, September 5-7 2011.
2011
International congress
Lepesant J.M.J., Cosseau C., Boissier J., Rognon A. & Grunau C. (2011) Changes in the
epigenome of a human parasite during expérimental adaptative évolution : antihelminth drug.
ESF-EMBO Symposium : Epigenetics in Context: From Ecology to Evolution, Sant Feliu de
Guixols, Spain, September 18-23 2011
2010
International Congress
Lepesant J.M.J., Cosseau C., Portela J., Boissier J., Dejean B. & Grunau C. (2010)
Chromatin status and transcription patterns of several new classes of female specific repeats
of Schistosoma mansoni. ICOPA XII, Melbourne, Australia, August 15-20 2010
SCIENTIFIQUE VULGARISATION
2009
Joining author of the teaching case “Darwin, l’évolution c’est tout bête”.
Case financed by CNRS, composed of 5 posters and 4 workshops (heredity, DNA, natural
selection, tree of life), realized within the framework of a partnership between UMR CNRS
5096 and 5244 and association “Les Petits Débrouillars”. Inaugurated and animated at the
time of the village of Sciences 2009 (November 23-23) at the convention center of Perpignan
then diffused via the association in the school structures.
INFORMATIC
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MAC et PC : Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, Keynote, Internet, logiciel libre R,
GraphPad, logiciel LightCycler
OTHERS
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French (maternal language)
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English (read, spoken and written)