Amandine Thepault

Anses
PLOUFRAGAN France

Biographical Sketch: After a master degree in Genetics and Microbiology at the University of Rennes 1, Amandine Thépault started a PhD on November 2014, at Anses, the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety. Within the unit of Hygiene and Quality of Poultry and Pork Products, her PhD project aims to assess the ability of several genotyping methods to track Campylobacter jejuni and identify the origin of human campylobacteriosis. Three methods are compared MLST, CGF40 and Whole Genome Sequencing for source attribution. Thanks to a MedVetNet grant she has been trained to source attribution using Whole Genome Sequencing data at Swansea University, Wales.

Papers:
Gene-By-Gene Comparison of Campylobacter jejuni Genomes to Identify Host Segregating Epidemiological Markers for Source Attribution