Name: Audrey ARNAL
Nationality: French
ORCID: 0000-0002-5977-8816
French, English, and Spanish spoken and written fluently
2009-2012. PhD in Ecology and Evolution
University of Montpellier II (France), Date received: 24/05/2013
Names of supervisors: Thierry Boulinier and Michel Gauthier-Clerc
2010. University certificate “Everything you ever wanted to know about the influenza virus»
University of Lyon (France), Date received: 01/09/2010
2008. University certificate «Practice of public health and primary health care in developing countries»
Medical University of Montpellier I (France), Date received: 01/09/2008
2007-2009. MSc (Hons) in Evolution and Epidemiology of parasites
University of Montpellier (France), Date received: 01/09/2009
2004-2007. BSc (Hons) in Biology of organisms
University of Montpellier II (France), Date received: 01/09/2007
01/10/2021-Present. Associate researcher
French National Research Institute for Sustainable Developement (IRD)
Impact of vertebrate and vector diversity on viral evolution
01/04/2021-30/09/2021. Postdoctoral position
French National Research Institute for Sustainable Developement (IRD)
Viral diversity in rodents sampled in urban green spaces
01/01/2021-31/03/2021. Postdoctoral position
Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Research on Cancer (CREEC), Montpellier, France
Cancer and mosquitoes
01/01/2020-31/07/2020. Postdoctoral position
International Research Center on Mathematical and Computational Modeling of COmplex Systems (UMMISCO) IRD, Paris, France
Estimation of transmission networks between the genotype diversity of Mycobacterium ulcerans and their hosts
01/05/2019-31/10/2019. Associate researcher
Institute of Ecology, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico
Ecology and evolution of infectious diseases
01/02/2019-30/04/2019. Postdoctoral position
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico.
Co-infection between bacteria and protozoans in a multi-species system in Northwestern Mexico: health and conservation implications
01/02/2017-31/01/2019. Postdoctoral position
Regional Research Center Hideyo Noguchi, Autonomous University of Yucatan (UADY), Merida, Mexico.
Chagas disease transmission cycles in peri-urban areas and ecology of its vectors
01/04/2014-31/12/2016. Postdoctoral position
Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Research on Cancer (CREEC), Montpellier, France
Evolutionary consequences of cancer in ecosystems through experimental approaches on Drosophila melanogaster
01/09/2009-30/10/2012. PhD in Eco-Epidemiology
Functional and Evolutionary Ecology Center (CEFE), University of Montpellier, France
Circulation of infectious agents in wild bird populations: eco-epidemiological approaches with the Yellow-Legged Gull (Larus michahellis)
Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (México): Nivel 1, 2017-2020 (awards 10% of Mexico researchers)
Member of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene: 2018
Member of the International Society for Evolution, Ecology and Cancer: 2015
Infection, Genetics and Evolution
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS); Ecology Letters; Plos Biology; Proceeding of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences; Evolutionary Applications; EcoHealth; Transboundary and Emerging Diseases; Infection, Genetics and Evolution; Tropical Medicine
2019
Invited conference, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) Mexico City
The One Health approach: Insights from epidemiology, ecology and evolution for human health in veterinary medicine
2018
Invited conference, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) Mexico City
Cancer and life-history traits: lessons from host-parasite interactions
National Congress of Parasitology, Puebla, Mexico
Waleckx E., Arnal A. et al. Identificación detallada de las asociaciones ecológicas de los vectores de la enfermedad de Chagas para el diseño de estrategias de control
2017
International Congress of vectors (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae) and Trypanosoma cruzi, Oaxaca, Mexico
Waleckx E., Arnal A. et al. Metabarcoding, a new approach to the study of Trypanosoma cruzi transmission cycles and the ecology of the triatomines
International Congress, FLAP XXIV Latin American Congress of Parasitology, Santiago du Chili, Chili
Waleckx E., Arnal A. et al. Metabarcoding, un nuevo enfoque para el estudio de los ciclos de transmisión de Trypanosoma cruzi y la ecología de los triatominos
2015
International Congress, Third International Biannual Evolution and Cancer Conference, San Francisco, US
Arnal A., et al. Cancer and life-history traits: lessons from host-parasite interactions
International Congress, Evolutionary Medicine Conference, Zurich, Switzerland
Arnal A., et al. Fecundity compensation in cancerous flies Drosophila melanogaster
2012
International Congress, European Wildlife Disease Association (EWDA), Lyon, France
Arnal A.*, Gomez-Diaz E.* et al. Meaban flavivirus in yellow-legged gull (Larus michahellis) and seabird ticks (Ornithodoros maritimus) in the Mediterranean basin
MSc students
Adrian Serrano (2020-2021)
Master in veterinary medicine (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico)
Reservoir/vector diversity effects on the evolution of flavivirus communities: multi-pathogen, multi-reservoir, and multi-vector approaches.
Deyra Ortiz (2020)
Master in Public Health, Erasmus Mundus (University of Tours, France; Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain; University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
A systematic review and meta-analysis of West Nile virus in USA and Mexico.
Aubane Renard (2020)
Master in Public Health (School of Advanced Studies in Public Health (EHESP), France)
Summary of the risk factors for exposure to arboviruses transmitted by Aedes and Culex.
Alexandre Suire (2015)
Master in Ecology and Evolution (University of Montpellier II, France)
Impact of cancer on the sexual selection process: case of intra-sexual competition in Drosophila melanogaster.
BSc students
Salma Samantha Uc Díaz (2018-2019).
Effect of Trypanosoma cruzi on the selection of blood hosts by Triatoma dimidiata.
Amandine Amalric (2016).
Impact of cancer on the life characteristics of cancerous individual descendants in Drosophila melanogaster.
Lea Pradier (2013).
Cancer and the Peto’s Paradoxe
2019
Teaching module: Introduction of Evolutionary Medicine (3 days, 3h per day), UNAM, Mexico
2018
Teaching module: Introduction to insect and small mammal sampling (1 day, 3h), Tulane University, New Orleans
2016
Teaching module: Health, Medicine and Evolutionary Sciences (3 days, 6h per day), Paris-Descartes University
2015
Teaching module: Evolutionary Medicine (5 days, 8h per day), University of Montpellier II, France
2010 à 2012
Teaching assistant: University of Montpellier II (64h per years)
2017-2019
Organization and realization of the sampling sessions of Triatoma dimidiata (principal vector of Chagas disease in Yucatan, Mexico) in different ecosystems of Yucatan.
Responsible for 16 BSc students, 2 MSc students and 1 PhD student
2009-2012
Organization and realization of the sampling of eggs of Yellow legged gull (Larus michahellis) in 19 colonies in France and Spain.
Responsible for 2 BSc students and 1 MSc students
Annual survey of an endangered species, the pink flamingos: August 2012
Lagoon of Fangassier, Camargue (France)
Volunteer in E. Mallon research team to assist a PhD student with their data analyses: March/May 2013
Biology Department, University of Leicester (England)