Curriculum Vitae Céline Poux

• EDUCATION AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2007-2009 Post Doc

Vertebrate department of the Royal Museum of National History (Brussels, Belgium). MOLARCH project.

2002-2006 PhD Student (Nijmegen Center for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetic Applications of Amino Acid Repeats in Mammalian Proteins under the supervision of Wilfried W. de Jong

2001-2002 Pre-doctoral Traineeship (Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

1999-2000 Master's Degree (DEA) Evolutionary Biology and Ecology (Univ. Montpellier II, France)

• PUBLICATIONS

1. Poux C. Afrosoricida (In press) In Timetree of life. S. B. Hedges and S. Kumar, Eds. (Oxford University Press, New York)

2. Poux C., Ole Madsen, Julian Glos, Wilfried W. de Jong and Miguel Vences. (2008)Molecular phylogeny and divergence times of Malagasy tenrecs: influence of data partitioning and taxon sampling on dating analyses. BMC Evol. Biol. 8:102.

3. Poux C., Chevret P., Huchon D., de Jong W.W. & Douzery E.J.P. (2006) Arrival and diversification of caviomorph rodents and platyrrhine primates in South America. Syst. Biol. 55(2):228-244.

4. Poux C., Madsen O., Marquard E., Vieites D.R., de Jong W.W. & Vences M. (2005)Asynchronous colonization of Madagascar by the four endemic clades of primates, tenrecs, carnivores, and rodents as inferred from nuclear genes. Syst. Biol. 54(5):719-730.

5. Poux C. & Douzery E.J.P. (2004) Primate phylogeny, evolutionary rate variations, and divergence dates: a contribution from the nuclear gene IRBP. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 124(1):1-16.

6. Facon B., Pointier J.-P., Glaubrecht M., Poux C., Jarne P. & David P. (2003) A molecular phylogeography approach to biological invasions of the New World by parthenogenetic Thiarid snails. Mol. Ecol. 12(11):3027-3039.

7. de Jong W.W., van Dijk M.A.M., Poux C., van Rheede T., Kappe G. & Madsen O. (2003) Indels in protein-coding sequences of Euarchontoglires constrain the rooting of the Eutherian tree. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 28(2):328-340.

8. Poux C., van Rheede T., Madsen, O. & de Jong W.W. (2002). Sequence gaps join mice and men: phylogenetic evidence from deletions in two proteins. Mol. Biol. Evol. 19(11):2035-2037.

• ORAL PRESENTATION ON INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

1. Poux C., Chevret P., Huchon D., de Jong W.W. & Douzery E.J.P. (June 20-24, 2003). Independent or concomitant colonization of South America by primates and rodents? Joint meeting of the society for the Study of Evolution, Society of Systematic Biologists and Society of American Naturalists in Chico, California (USA).

2. Poux C., Madsen O. & de Jong W.W. (June 26-29, 2003). Molecular evolution of polyglutamine repeats in the mammalian Androgen Receptor gene (AR). 10th Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution in Newport Beach CA (USA).

3. Poux C., Madsen O. & de Jong W.W. (June 17, 2002). Preliminary analyses of the polyQ tracks in the mammalian androgen receptor gene and mammalian phylogeny. Meeting of the European Network "Mammalian phylogeny - Molecular phylogeny of mammalian orders: a model study", in Sorrento (Italy).

4. Poux C., Madsen O. & de Jong W.W. (July 22-29, 2001). Evolution of poly-Q encoding genes among mammals. Meeting of the European Network "Mammalian phylogeny - Molecular phylogeny of mammalian orders: a model study", in Reykjavik (Island).

5. Poux C. & Douzery E. J. P. (October 19-21, 2000). Study of systematic and molecular evolution of primates based on nuclear phylogenies. Meeting of the European Network "Mammalian phylogeny - Molecular phylogeny of mammalian orders: a model study", in Montpellier (France).

• GRANTS AND AWARDS

2006 Publisher's Award for Excellence in Systematic Research. The award is presented to the two best papers based on student research published in Systematic Biology during the previous year.

2005 Long term fellowship from the Netherlands Genomics Initiative (4 months support).

2001 Huygens scholarship from the Netherlands organization for international cooperation in higher education (Nuffic) (10 months support).

• TEACHING AND SCIENTIFIC SUPERVISION

2002-2003 Biochemistry practical courses: “Construction and characterization of a recombinant plasmid”. Second year Chemistry, Radboud University, Nijmegen.

2004-2005 Practical courses: “Recombinant DNA" for second year students in Molecular Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen

1. Building a restriction map,

2. Construction and characterization of a recombinant plasmid,

3. The pET-expression system,

4. Nucleotide sequence analysis and

5. Computer analyses of given nucleotide sequences.

2003 Co-supervision of Elisabeth Marquard from the Master program “Systematic & Evolutionary Biology” (University of Amsterdam).

Subject: “The mammalian colonization of Madagascar as assessed by nuclear gene phylogenies”.

• COLLABORATIONS

Ole Madsen , University of Wageningen (The Netherlands),

Subject: Phylogeny and molecular evolution.

Miguel Vences , Zoological Institute, Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany).

Subject: Phylogeny of mammalian Malagasy taxa.

Frédéric Delsuc and Emmanuel J.P. Douzery , Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution de Montpellier (France).

Subject: Phylogeography of the armadillo Dasypus novemcinctus.

M. Mar Albà , Research Unit on Biomodical Research (GRIB), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) (Spain).

Subjects: Evolution of poly-amino acids containing proteins.