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Alain Blanchard

Alain Blanchard

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
51
Citations
8642
World Ranking
17243
National Ranking
739

Overview

Alain Blanchard is affiliated with the University of Bordeaux in France and has contributed extensively to the fields of immunology, microbiology, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and environmental science. Their research encompasses a variety of topics with a focus on microbial infections and disease, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, as well as CRISPR and genetic engineering.

Their research output includes a number of papers published in notable scientific journals. Key papers include:

  • Contagious Bovine and Caprine Pleuropneumonia: a research community's recommendations for the development of better vaccines (2020), published in npj Vaccines
  • Genome Engineering of the Fast-Growing Mycoplasma feriruminatoris toward a Live Vaccine Chassis (2022), published in ACS Synthetic Biology
  • A RAGE Based Strategy for the Genome Engineering of the Human Respiratory Pathogen Mycoplasma pneumoniae (2020), published in ACS Synthetic Biology
  • Genome Editing of Veterinary Relevant Mycoplasmas Using a CRISPR-Cas Base Editor System (2022), published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • Cytoskeletal components can turn wall-less spherical bacteria into kinking helices (2022), published in Nature Communications

Blanchard's frequent coauthors include Pascal Sirand-Pugnet, Carole Lartigue, Géraldine Gourgues, Fabien Rideau, and Vincent Baby.

The scientist commonly publishes in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • ACS Synthetic Biology
  • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY
  • npj Vaccines
  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

The main fields of study in Blanchard's work cover:

  • Immunology and Microbiology
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Environmental Science

Subfields include:

  • Microbiology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Ecology
  • Plant Science
  • Immunology

Their research focuses on several main topics:

  • Microbial infections and disease research
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Plant Virus Research Studies
  • Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing

Best Publications

  • How small were the first cosmological objects

    Max Tegmark;Joseph Silk;Martin J. Rees;Alain Blanchard

  • The complete genome sequence of the murine respiratory pathogen Mycoplasma pulmonis.

    Isabelle Chambaud;Roland Heilig;Stéphane Ferris;Valérie Barbe

  • The cosmic microwave background anisotropy power spectrum measured by archeops

    Alain Benoit;P. Ade;A. Amblard;R. Ansari

  • Interactions between mycoplasma lipoproteins and the host immune system

    Isabelle Chambaud;Henri Wróblewski;Alain Blanchard

  • An Alternative to the cosmological 'concordance model'

    Alain Blanchard;Marian Douspis;Michael Rowan-Robinson;Subir Sarkar

  • Genomic repeats, genome plasticity and the dynamics of Mycoplasma evolution.

    Eduardo P. C. Rocha;Alain Blanchard

  • Being pathogenic, plastic, and sexual while living with a nearly minimal bacterial genome

    Pascal Sirand-Pugnet;Carole Lartigue;Carole Lartigue;Marc Serge Marenda;Daniel Jacob

  • Life on arginine for Mycoplasma hominis: clues from its minimal genome and comparison with other human urogenital mycoplasmas.

    Sabine Pereyre;Pascal Sirand-Pugnet;Laure Beven;Alain Charron

  • Detection of Ureaplasma urealyticum by Polymerase Chain Reaction in the Urogenital Tract of Adults, in Amniotic Fluid, and in the Respiratory Tract of Newborns

    A. Blanchard;J. Hentschel;L. Duffy;K. Baldus

  • Mycoplasmas and their host: emerging and re-emerging minimal pathogens

    Christine Citti;Alain Blanchard;Alain Blanchard

  • Ureaplasma urealyticum urease genes; use of a UGA tryptophan codon.

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  • Evaluation of intraspecies genetic variation within the 16S rRNA gene of Mycoplasma hominis and detection by polymerase chain reaction.

    A Blanchard;A Yáñez;K Dybvig;H L Watson

  • Small repeating units within the Ureaplasma urealyticum MB antigen gene encode serovar specificity and are associated with antigen size variation.

    Xiaotian Zheng;Lee-Jene Teng;H. L. Watson;J. I. Glass

  • MolliGen, a database dedicated to the comparative genomics of Mollicutes

    Aurélien Barré;Antoine de Daruvar;Alain Blanchard

  • Predicting the Minimal Translation Apparatus: Lessons from the Reductive Evolution of Mollicutes

    Henri Grosjean;Marc Breton;Pascal Sirand-Pugnet;Florence Tardy

  • Evolution of mollicutes: down a bumpy road with twists and turns.

    Pascal Sirand-Pugnet;Christine Citti;Aurélien Barré;Alain Blanchard

  • Archeops: a high resolution, large sky coverage balloon experiment for mapping cosmic microwave background anisotropies

    A. Benoit;Peter A. R. Ade;A. Amblard;R. Ansari

  • The evolution of clusters in the CLEF cosmological simulation: X‐ray structural and scaling properties

    Scott T. Kay;Scott T. Kay;Antonio C. Da Silva;Antonio C. Da Silva;Nabila Aghanim;Alain Blanchard

  • Role of mycoplasma infection in the cytopathic effect induced by human immunodeficiency virus type 1 in infected cell lines.

    M Lemaître;Y Henin;F Destouesse;C Ferrieux

  • Molecular Evidence for Nosocomial Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus from a Surgeon to One of His Patients

    Alain Blanchard;Stéphane Ferris;Sophie Chamaret;Denise Guétard

Frequent Co-Authors

Luc Montagnier
Luc Montagnier Institut Pasteur
Simona Mei
Simona Mei Université Paris Cité
Pablo Fosalba
Pablo Fosalba Spanish National Research Council
Simon Prunet
Simon Prunet Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur
Romain Teyssier
Romain Teyssier University of Zurich
A. Cappi
A. Cappi National Institute for Astrophysics
Chris A. Collins
Chris A. Collins Liverpool John Moores University
Guilaine Lagache
Guilaine Lagache Aix-Marseille University
P. de Bernardis
P. de Bernardis Sapienza University of Rome
François R. Bouchet
François R. Bouchet Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris

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