Melanie Hamon#
| Membership Number: | 7349 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://research.pasteur.fr/fr/team/chromatin-and-infection/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-5078-4083 |
| Publication Link: | https://research.pasteur.fr/fr/team/chromatin-and-infection/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 - now Head of the Unit Chromatin and Infection, Institut Pasteur (IP), Paris
- 2016 - 2022 Head of the G5 group Chromatin and Infection, IP, Paris
- 2011 6 month career break (maternity)
- 2011 - 2015 Research associate (Chargée de Recherche), Unité des Interactions Bacteries-Cellules, IP, Paris
- 2008 - 2011 Research assistant (Assistante de Recherche), Unité des Interactions Bacteries-Cellules, IP, Paris
- 2006 5 month career break (maternity)
- 2005 - 2008 Post-doctoral fellow, Unité des Interactions Bacteries-Cellules, IP, Paris
- 2000 - 2004 Graduate student in Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Cell signaling
- Cellular microbiology
- Innate immune memory
- Bacterial pathogenesis
- Histone modifications
- Epigenome
Honours and Awards
- 2024 France 2030 Excellence Research Chair (French equivalent of ERC grant)
- 2023 Louis Pasteur Bicentenary Prize
- 2022 EMBO Young Investigator
- 2020 iXCore-iXlife-iXblue award for research
- 2020 Prix Canetti
- 2015 Prix Deschiens de l’Académie Nationale de Médecine
