Sylvain Brisse#
| Membership Number: | 7517 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Affiliated section(s): | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/biodiversity-and-epidemiology-of-bacterial-pathogens/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-2516-2108 |
| Publication Link: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=brisse+s&sort=date |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2016 Head, Research Unit “Biodiversity and Epidemiology of Bacterial Pathogens”, Institut Pasteur; Director, Natl. Ref. Center for Whooping cough and Other Bordetella infections; Director, Natl. Ref. Center for Corynebacteria of the diphtheriae complex; Coordinator, Pasteur genomic taxonomies of bacterial strains (https://bigsdb.pasteur.fr )
- Previous professional experience:
- 2020 - 2022 Director of the Biological Resource Center of Institut Pasteur (CRBIP)
- 2013 - 2016 Group leader, Microbial Evolutionary Genomics unit, Institut Pasteur
- 2005 - 2012 Head, Core Facility Genotyping of Pathogens and Public Health, I. Pasteur.
- 2003 - 2007 Researcher, Institut Pasteur, Biodiversity of Emerging Bacterial Pathogens.
- 1998 - 2002 Post-doctoral fellow, Microbiology Dept., Univ. Med. Center Utrecht, NL.
- 1994 - 1997 PhD student, Research Institute for Development, Montpellier, France
Fields of Scholarship
- International epidemiological tracking
- Emergence of pathogenic microbial strains
- Genomic taxonomy systems
- Universal strain subtype genotyping systems
- Corynebacterium diphtheriae
- Multidrug resistant pathogen Klebsiella pneumoniae
- Microbial population biology
- Vaccine escape and antimicrobial resistance
- Public health surveillance
- Microbiological surveillance of diphtheria and pertussis
- Bordetella pertussis
Honours and Awards
- 2025 Chevalier, Ordre National du Mérite, France
- 2023 Canetti Prize, Institut Pasteur and Canetti family Foundation
- 2020 Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate™
- 2016 Beauperthuy Prize, French Academy of Sciences
- 2016 Academic Excellence Chair “Genomic Epidemiology of Bacterial Pathogens”, I Pasteur
- 2008 Young Investigator Award, European Soc. for Clin Microbiol & Infectious Diseases
