Genetics and Evolution of Infectious Diseases

Dr. Michel Tibayrenc has worked on the evolution of infectious diseases for more than 45 years. He is a director of research emeritus at the French Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD) and the founder and editor-in-chief emeritus of the Elsevier journal Infection, Genetics and Evolution. From 1996-2021 he was the founder and principal organizer of Elsevier’s international MEEGID congress (Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics of Infectious Diseases). He has held professional appointments in France, Algeria, French Guiana, Bolivia, Thailand, and the United States; is the cofounder of the Bolivian Society of Human Genetics; and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

1. Virus Species 2. A Theory-Based Pragmatism for Discovering and Classifying Newly Divergent Bacterial Species 3. Population Structure of Pathogenic Bacteria 4. Diverse Strategies and Evolutionary Histories of Fungal Pathogens 5. Molecular Epidemiology of Pathogenic Microorganisms and The Predominant Clonal Evolution (PCE) Model 6. Coevolution of Host and Pathogen 7. Human Population Diversity and Transmissible Diseases 8. Pathogens as Tracers of Past Human Demography and Migrations 9. Evolutionary Responses to Infectious Disease 10. Infectious Diseases Genomics 11. Proteomics and Host/Pathogen Interactions: A Bright Future? 12. The Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance 13. Evolution of Resistance to Insecticide in Disease Vectors 14. Genetics of Major Insect Vectors 15. Modern Morphometrics of Medically Important Insects 16. Multilocus Sequence Typing of Pathogens 17. Omics, Bioinformatics, and Infectious Disease Research 18. Genomics of Infectious Diseases And Private Industry 19. Biodiversity, Ecology, and Zoonoses 20. Genetic Exchange in Trypanosomatids and its Relevance to Epidemiology 21. Genomic Insights into the Past, Current and Future Evolution of Human Parasites of the Genus Plasmodium 22. Host Adaptation in the Mycobacterium Genus: An Evolutionary and Genomic Perspective 23. Evolution, Phylogenetics and Phylogeography of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis 24. The Evolution of Staphylococcus Aureus 25. Origin and Emergence of HIV/AIDS 26. Evolution of SARS Coronavirus and the Relevance of Modern Molecular Epidemiology 27. Ecology and Evolution of Avian Influenza Viruses