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Prof. Dr. Pascale Romby

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University of Strasbourg
Molecular Biology

External Senior Fellow (Joint Fellowship Freiburg/Strasbourg)
October 2018 – September 2019

E-Mail: p.romby@ibmc-cnrs.unistra.fr

Last Update: 31.08.2019

Curriculum Vitae

Pascale Romby, born in 1958, is Director of the CNRS Unit “Architecture and Reactivity of RNA” at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMC) since september 2016. Doctor ès Sciences, Pascale Romby has a CNRS researcher position since 1987, and leads the research team entitled ” mRNAs and regulatory RNAs in bacteria”. She has contributed to 130 publications in peer-reviewed international journals. She is a member of various editorial committees including RNA Biol, Pathogens and Diseases, Biochemistry, and Virulence. She has received various awards, i.e. the silver medal of the CNRS in 2016 and the Langevin Prize of the Academy of Sciences in 2010.

P. Romby’s team has the main objectives to get a global and integrated view of the roles of RNAs in gene regulation and to decipher the intricate links between transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulators in the opportunistic pathogen Staphylococcus aureus. Two main axes are currently being studied: (i) the translation initiation of structured mRNAs and its control in Escherichia coli and S. aureus in bacteria, and (ii) the functions of regulatory RNAs and their networks in the opportunistic pathogen Staphylococcus aureus. The team has demonstrated novel translational regulatory mechanisms mediated either by proteins or non-coding RNAs (sRNAs) in Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus, and the key roles of several regulatory networks involving sRNAs that link stress adaptation, metabolism, and virulence in S. aureus.

Selected Publications

FRIAS Project