Curriculum vitae

Bérengère Julie Christine Luthringer

E-mail: luthring@uni-mainz.de

Nationality: France

Work experience:

• 2006 – PhD student (Marie Curie grant, second part of PhD), Laboratory of molecular genetics National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Prof. Dr. Keve Merike

• 2005 – PhD student (Marie Curie grant, first part of PhD), Institut für Physiologische Chemie, Abt. Angewandte Molekularbiologie, Prof. Dr. Werner E.G. Müller, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany

• 2004 - Biologist, mixed research unit INSERM EMI-U 613 “ génétique moléculaire et épidémiologie génétique ” - Study on vectorization for the genetic transfer (Etude sur la vectorisation pour le transfert génétique), Pr Claude Férec, INSERM U 613 “Génétique moléculaire et génétique épidémiologique”, Brest, France

• 2003 - Training researcher (Master degree), INRA-SCRIBE station (Station Commune de Recherche en Ichtyophysiologie, Biodiversité et Environnement), “ Stress and Adaptation ” team – Effect of salinity stress on cytochromes P450 1A gene expression in the rainbow trout gills (Effet d’un stress de salinité sur l’expression des gènes des cytochromes P450 1A dans les branchies de truite arc-en-ciel), P. Prunet, Station INRA-SCRIBE, Campus de Beaulieu, Rennes, France

• 2001 - Laboratory technician, Morice-Vallée laboratory of pathology and clinical biology: Study on aromatherapy, Dr Morice Vallée, Lorient, France

Education:

2003 Biology and Health Master degree, options : genetic and immunology, Université de Rennes 1, Rennes, France

2004 Biochemistry Master, Université de Bretagne Sud, Vannes, France

Congress, workshop / publication:

• 28-30 September 2005
European Marie Curie Conference 2005 'Making Europe more attractive for researchers' Poster presentation “Allograft rejection in marine sponges”

• 16-21 December 2005
Institut für Physiologische Chemie, Mainz University Deep Metazoan Phylogeny workshop, “Molekularbiologie”

Publications:

• Paper for Conference Proceedings - European MC Conference Pisa 2005; Bérengère Luthringer, Matthias Wiens and Werner E.G. Müller, Allograft rejection in marine sponges.
• Scientific part in the book “L’abeille dans le monde du vivant” written by Dr A Morice, 2005, Dimatel edition, ISBN 2-9522944-0-2.
• Wiens M, Belikov SI, Kaluzhnaya OV, Schröder HC, Hamer B, Perovic-Ottstadt S, Borejko A, Luthringer B, Müller IM, Müller WEG. Axial (apical-basal) expression of pro-apoptotic and pro-survival genes in the lake baikal demosponge Lubomirskia baicalensis. DNA Cell Biol. 25:152-164 (2006).
• Leguen I, Odjo N, Uzbekova S, Kalujnaia S, Luthringer B, Baron D, Monod G, Prunet P. Effect of salinity transfer on CYP1A gene expression in rainbow trout gills. Submitted.

Other work experience:

Medical assistant:
• in a center of leisure (Kerpape, Locqueltas, august 1998, July and August 2000)
• in a centers holidays (St Pierre Quiberon, July 1999)
Free-lance in Treasury accountancy section in Creteil (August 1999)
Reception hostess in morbihannaise company of navigation in Belle Ile (summer 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004)

Personal skills and competences:

Mother language: French
Other languages: English fluent, German oral comprehension

Center of interests: cooking, photography and decoration