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Joëlle Goüy de Bellocq, Ph.D.
Position: research scientist
Research topics: Molecular epidemiology
Department: Department of Population Biology
Phone:
E-mail: Joelle.GouydeBellocqua.ac.be
Research interests
host-parasite interaction, parasitism, arenaviruses,
emerging infectious diseases, immunogenetics, major histocompatibility complex (MHC), immunoecology,
rodents.
Education
1999: undergraduate study - University of Montpellier II France, Biology of Organisms and Populations, option Parasitology. Diploma thesis: Phylogeny of Trichostrongylina Nematodes.
2000-2003: Ph.D. study - University of Perpignan, France. PhD thesis: Insularity and Parasitism: impacts in immune response investment and MHC genetic diversity in the woodmouse.
2003: course Animal experimentation - University of René Descartes, Paris V, France. Level I of animal experimentation (French equivalence of Home office licence for Animal experimentation).
International experience
2004-2005: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Ramon Science Center, Israel. Thesis: Investment in immune defences and flea parasite pressure in desert rodents, (collaborators B.Krasnov, B.Pinshow) - Post-Doc.
2006: Centre de Biologie et de Gestion des Populations (CBGP), France. Project: Development of phylogeographic markers, (collaborator J.Michaux) - short term contract.
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Department of population biology Studenec, Czech Republic. Project: MHC diversity in the hybrid zone of Mus musculus, (collaborators J.Bryja and J.Piálek) - visitor Post-Doc.
2006-2007: Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology of the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria. Projetc: Immune genes and endoparasites in brown hares, (collaborators F.Suchentrunk and H.Schaschl) - Post-Doc.
2007: University of Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Biology. Projetc: Evolutionary ecology of arenavirus-rodent interactions, (collaborator H.Leirs) - Post-Doc.
2011-present: Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Department of Population Biology Studenec. Project: Biogeography and evolutionary history of two RNA viruses in Africa - vědecký pracovník.
Actual Students
Wasimuddin: Genetic variation of pathogens in the house mice hybrid zone (supervisor J.Bryja, consultants J.Piálek, J.G.Bellocq).
Publications
2012
STUART J. E. BAIRD, A. RIBAS, M. MACHOLÁN, T. ALBRECHT, J. PIÁLEK, J. GOÜY DE BELLOCQ: Where are the wormy mice? A re-examination of hybrid parasitism in the European house mouse hybrid zone, Evolution 66 (2012) 2757-2772. F. BORDES, N. PONLET, J. GOÜY DE BELLOCQ, A. RIBAS, B. R. KRASNOV, S. MORAND: Is there sex-biased resistance and tolerance in Mediterranean wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) populations facing multiple helminth infections?, Oecologia 170 (2012) 123-135. Y. MEHERETU, D. ČÍŽKOVÁ, J. TĚŠÍKOVÁ, K. WELEGERIMA, Z. TOMAS, D. KIDANE, K. GIRMAY, J. SCHMIDT-CHANASIT, J. BRYJA, S. GÜNTHER, A. BRYJOVÁ, H. LEIRS, J. GOÜY DE BELLOCQ: High diversity of RNA viruses in rodents, Ethiopia, Emerging Infectious Diseases 18 (2012) 2047-2050. WASIMUDDIN, D. ČÍŽKOVÁ, A. RIBAS, J. PIÁLEK, J. GOÜY DE BELLOCQ, J. BRYJA: Development and characterization of multiplex panels of microsatellite markers for Syphacia obvelata, a parasite of the house mouse (Mus musculus), using a high throughput DNA sequencing approach, Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 185 (2012) 154-156.
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