Dr.Jean-François Picimbon born 11-11-1969 in Marseille (France) and completed his Ph.D (1992-1995) in Neurosciences-Neurobiology Univ. Provence (Aix-Marseille I), CNRS-INRA co-direction, doc and postdoc USA and Canada, S.T.A. JISTEC Research fellow-Tsukuba (Japan), Alexander von Humboldt fellow-Stuttgart (Germany), “One of the top ten most talented international young scientists” (14th NAITO Conference, “Bioactive Natural Products and their Mode of Action, Kanagawa, Japan, 2001), Asst/Assoc. Prof. (2001-2005) “Pheromone Group”, DNA lab, Ecology Department, Lund University (Sweden), Research School Functional Genomics-Bioinformatics (Göteborg), Adjunct Asst/Assoc. Prof. Agric. Dr.Jean-François Picimbon born 11-11-1969 in Marseille (France) and completed his Ph.D (1992-1995) in Neurosciences-Neurobiology Univ. Provence (Aix-Marseille I), CNRS-INRA co-direction, doc and postdoc USA and Canada, S.T.A. JISTEC Research fellow-Tsukuba (Japan), Alexander von Humboldt fellow-Stuttgart (Germany), “One of the top ten most talented international young scientists” (14th NAITO Conference, “Bioactive Natural Products and their Mode of Action, Kanagawa, Japan, 2001), Asst/Assoc. Prof. (2001-2005) “Pheromone Group”, DNA lab, Ecology Department, Lund University (Sweden), Research School Functional Genomics-Bioinformatics (Göteborg), Adjunct Asst/Assoc. Prof. Agric.

He is interested in understanding pathogenicity, latency and reactivation of viruses in their host to produce vaccine. He is also interested in how bacterial cells respond to the environment by altering which protein they synthesize and in how bacteria detect and respond to stressful conditions.