STATUS
Nationality : French
Birth date : October ,1st. 1976
Presently
: PhD
student at the AFMB-CNRS laboratory in Marseilles
2000-2001 DEA in Bioinformatics
and structurale biology UNIVERSITE DE PROVENCE Marseilles
2000 Summer Student in btructural biology FEINBERG GRADUATE School /Weizmann Institute of science
Rehovot Israel
1999-2000 "Maitrise" in structural biology UNIVERSITE DE TOULOUSE III (UPS) (Graduate level)
1998-1999
"Licence" in biochemistry UNIVERSITE DE TOULOUSE III (UPS)
(undergraduate level)
1997-1998 Second year of "DEUG" in life sciences UNIVERSITE D'ANGERS (diploma taken after two years at university)
1995-1997
First year of Pharmacy UNIVERSITE D'ANGERS (competitive
examination)
1995 Baccalauréat général série S (school living certificate)
European first aid certificate (AFPS) French Red Cross
1997 Office automation training : WORD 97,EXEL 5, CLARIS HOME PAGE, LIVE PIX
1997 Junior official
at the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale)
The Institute for Higher Defence Studies
LANGUAGES
English Good
Spanish Medium
Hebrew Learning
STAGES AND SUMMER WORK
2001 CNRS : Marseilles
(13) 
Internship of 6 months at the AFMB(AFMB) (CNRS lab) with B. Canard's staff.
During this internship, I have worked on enzymes imply in the capping of mRNA of RNA-virus . I became acquainted during my lab period with:
Ø Bioinformatic reasearch , molecular biology ,Overexpression , extraction, purification, crystallization and I solve a structure
Ø Bibliographical research.
Ø Redaction of a report.
2000
Institut des Sciences Weizmann : Rehovot Israël
Internship of 2 months in Prof. J.L.Sussmann 's staff
During this period I worked on the inhibition and crystllization of Torpedo califonica acethylcholinesterase, using enzymatic activity measurment, and classical tool of crystallography, from crystallization to X-ray data processing.
Ø Bibliographical research.
2000 CNRS : Toulouse
(31)
Internship during university year in bioinformatics during four months at the Pharmacology and structural biology institute (IPBS) (CNRS lab) with J-P.Samama's staff.
During this internship, I have worked on the protein PhoR of Bacillus subtillis. I became acquainted during my lab period with:
Ø UNIX, , clustalw
, seaview, Threader2, Turbo, CNS, ESPript
,Blast2,
PRODOM, Dali.
Ø Bibliographical research.
Ø Rédaction of a report.
1999 CNRS : Toulouse
(31)
Summer internship of 13weeks at the Pharmacology and structural biology institute (IPBS) (CNRS lab) with J-P.Samama's staff.
During this internship, I have worked to the structural determination of Cpxr-N . I became acquainted during my lab period with:
Ø Overexpression , extraction, purification, analyse by mass spectroscopy, and cristalization.
Ø Bibliographical research.
Ø Rédaction of a report .
Workshop, posters & publications
Workshop :
ISSCB 2003 "Third
International Summer School On Computational Biology 2003 "- Warsaw 2003
Poland.
Posters :
VaZyMoLO:
a tool to define and classify modularity in viral proteins François Ferron &
Corinne Rancurel, Sonia Longhi, and Bruno Canard. 23rd Annual Meeting of The
American Society for Virology (ASV),July 10th-14th, 2004, McGill University,
Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
F.Ferron,
(2003) : "Large protein": from Bioinformatics to Crystals.
"XIe colloque de l'école doctorale des sciences de la vie et de
la santé" June- 19-20th, 2003 , Faculté des Sciences de Luminy,
Marseilles, France
F.Ferron,
D.Karlin, S.Longhi, B.Canard. (2003) : Structural Disorder in Paramyxovirinae
N and P. Twelfth
International Conference Negative Strand Viruses 2003 June 14th - 19th, 2003
Palazzo dei Congressi, Pisa, Italy
F.Ferron,
S.Longhi, B.Canard. (2002) : Viral RNA-polymerases - A predicted 2'-O-ribose
methyltransferase domain Shared by all Mononegavirales. XIIth International
Congress of Virology , hosted by "Société Française
de Microbiologie" , Paris, France 27 th July-1st August, 2002.
B.Canard,
D.Benarroch, M-P Egloff, B.Selisko, F.Ferron, L. Mulard, H. Tolou, J-L Romettee.
(2002) : Structural and biochemical insights into the RNA capping pathway of
flavivirus. XIIth International Congress of Virology , hosted by "Société
Française de Microbiologie" , Paris, France 27 th July-1st August,
2002.
Nicolas A., Ferron F., Toker L., Sussman J.L. & Silman I. (2001) : Application of the Karnovsky Histochemical Method for Identification andCharacterization of Acetylcholinesterase Crystals. 9th Annual Meeting ofIsrael Society for Neurosciences, Eilat, Israel, Dec. 3-6, 2000.(Abstract published in Neuroscience Letters (Special Issues) suppl. 54)
http://www.isfn.org.il/elsvabstracts.html
Publications :
Egloff
MP, Ferron F, Campanacci V, Longhi S, Rancurel C, Dutartre H, Snijder EJ, Gorbalenya
AE, Cambillau C, Canard B.
The severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus replicative protein nsp9 is a single-stranded RNA-binding subunit unique in the RNA virus world.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Mar 16;101(11):3792-6.
D.
Karlin, F. Ferron, B. Canard and S. Longhi.
Structural disorder and modular organization in Paramyxovirinae N and P .
J. Gen . Virol ; Dec 1, 2003; 84 (12) : 3239-3252
Campanacci
V, Egloff MP, Longhi S, Ferron F, Rancurel C, Salomoni A, Durousseau C, Tocque
F, Bremond N, Dobbe JC, Snijder EJ, Canard B, Cambillau C.
Structural genomics of the SARS coronavirus: cloning, expression, crystallization and preliminary crystallographic study of the Nsp9 protein.
Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2003 Sep;59(Pt 9):1628-31.
F.Ferron,
S.Longhi, B. Henrissat and B.Canard.
Viral RNA-polymerases - A predicted 2'-O-ribose methyltransferase domain Shared by all Mononegavirales.
Trends in Biochemical Sciences . Vol.27, N°5 May 2002 , 222-224.
A.
Nicolas, F. Ferron, L. Toker, J. L. Sussman and I. Silman
Histochemical method for characterization of enzyme crystals: application to crystals of Torpedo californica acetylcholinesterase
Acta Cryst. (2001). D57, 1348-1350
VOLUNTARY PARTICIPATION
1999 Summer work camp in Artas (Israel) : with other volonteers, we reconstruct the local inheritance patrimony(rebuild roads, Paint school, cultural exchange)
1998 Summer work camp in Espolla (Spain) : with other volonteers, we reconstruct the local inheritance patrimony(rebuild roads, mountain refuge), and we also work to the counting of a mediterranean flower wich is is threaten.
HOBBIES
Design & realization of new bookshelves concept 100% recyclable
Participation to the information WWF progam " Panda Passport Compain " via internet.
Member of a UNESCO club, and WWF.
Practice Aïkido, Tennis.
