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Antoine Danchin

Antoine Danchin

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Genetics
France
2024
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Genetics and Molecular Biology
France
2024

D-Index & Metrics

Genetics

D-Index
99
Citations
41554
World Ranking
772
National Ranking
22

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in France Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in France Leader Award
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Antoine Danchin is a researcher affiliated with the Institut Cochin in France, specializing in the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant focus on medicine. Their work spans molecular biology, infectious diseases, genetics, modeling and simulation, and ecology. The scientist's research topics highlight a strong emphasis on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 studies, encompassing epidemiological and clinical research on COVID-19, as well as bacterial genetics and biotechnology, genomics and phylogenetic studies, microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction, and RNA modifications related to cancer.

Among the recent papers linked to Antoine Danchin's body of work are the following:

  • "Phylogenomics of expanding uncultured environmental Tenericutes provides insights into their pathogenicity and evolutionary relationship with Bacilli," 2020, BMC Genomics
  • "The importance of naturally attenuated SARS-CoV-2 in the fight against COVID-19," 2020, Environmental Microbiology
  • "A roadmap for the functional annotation of protein families: a community perspective," 2022, Database
  • "In vivo, in vitro and in silico: an open space for the development of microbe-based applications of synthetic biology," 2021, Microbial Biotechnology
  • "Interpretable and accurate prediction models for metagenomics data," 2020, GigaScience

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Antoine Danchin include Gabriel Turinici, Kenneth N. Timmis, Agnieszka Sekowska, Yong Wang, and Lisheng He.

The scientist has published extensively in various venues, with a notable number of works appearing in Microbial Biotechnology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Environmental Microbiology, Comptes Rendus Biologies, and Environmental Microbiology Reports.

Antoine Danchin is recognized as a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), reflecting an acknowledged position within the molecular biology community.

Best Publications

  • The complete genome sequence of the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis

    F. Kunst;N. Ogasawara;I. Moszer;A. M. Albertini

  • Selective stabilisation of developing synapses as a mechanism for the specification of neuronal networks.

    Jean-Pierre Changeux;Antoine Danchin

  • Essential Bacillus subtilis genes

    K. Kobayashi;S.D. Ehrlich;A. Albertini;G. Amati

  • Organised Genome Dynamics in the Escherichia coli Species Results in Highly Diverse Adaptive Paths

    Marie Touchon;Marie Touchon;Claire Hoede;Olivier Tenaillon;Valérie Barbe

  • Cross-host evolution of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus in palm civet and human

    Huai-Dong Song;Chang-Chun Tu;Guo-Wei Zhang;Sheng-Yue Wang

  • Unique physiological and pathogenic features of Leptospira interrogans revealed by whole-genome sequencing

    Shuang-Xi Ren;Shuang-Xi Ren;Gang Fu;Xiu-Gao Jiang;Rong Zeng

  • The genome sequence of the entomopathogenic bacterium Photorhabdus luminescens

    Eric Duchaud;Christophe Rusniok;Lionel Frangeul;Carmen Buchrieser

  • Genome-based analysis of virulence genes in a non-biofilm-forming Staphylococcus epidermidis strain (ATCC 12228).

    Yue-Qing Zhang;Shuang-Xi Ren;Hua-Lin Li;Yong-Xiang Wang

  • Open-Source Genomic Analysis of Shiga-Toxin–Producing E. coli O104:H4

    Holger Rohde;Junjie Qin;Yujun Cui;Dongfang Li

  • Base composition bias might result from competition for metabolic resources.

    Eduardo P.C. Rocha;Antoine Danchin

  • CotA of Bacillus subtilis Is a Copper-Dependent Laccase

    Marie-Françoise Hullo;Ivan Moszer;Antoine Danchin;Isabelle Martin-Verstraete

  • Secretion of cyclolysin, the calmodulin-sensitive adenylate cyclase-haemolysin bifunctional protein of Bordetella pertussis.

    P Glaser;H Sakamoto;J Bellalou;A Ullmann

  • Large-scale monitoring of pleiotropic regulation of gene expression by the prokaryotic nucleoid-associated protein, H-NS.

    Florence Hommais;Evelyne Krin;Christine Laurent-Winter;Olga Soutourina

  • Evidence for horizontal gene transfer in Escherichia coli speciation.

    C. Médigue;T. Rouxel;P. Vigier;A. Hénaut

  • From a consortium sequence to a unified sequence: The Bacillus subtilis 168 reference genome a decade later

    Valérie Barbe;Stéphane Cruveiller;Frank Kunst;Patricia Lenoble

  • Coping with cold: The genome of the versatile marine Antarctica bacterium Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis TAC125

    Claudine Médigue;Evelyne Krin;Géraldine Pascal;Valérie Barbe

  • Generation of mutation hotspots in ageing bacterial colonies

    Agnieszka Sekowska;Sofie Wendel;Emil Christian Fischer;Morten Helge Hauberg Nørholm

  • The calmodulin-sensitive adenylate cyclase of Bordetella pertussis: cloning and expression in Escherichia col.

    P. Glaser;D. Ladant;O. Sezer;F. Pichot

  • A Theory of the Epigenesis of Neuronal Networks by Selective Stabilization of Synapses

    Jean Pierre Changeux;Philippe Courrège;Antoine Danchin

  • Multiple Control of Flagellum Biosynthesis in Escherichia coli: Role of H-NS Protein and the Cyclic AMP-Catabolite Activator Protein Complex in Transcription of the flhDC Master Operon

    O. Soutourina;A. Kolb;E. Krin;C. Laurent-Winter

Frequent Co-Authors

Philippe Glaser
Philippe Glaser Institut Pasteur
Eduardo P. C. Rocha
Eduardo P. C. Rocha Institut Pasteur
Claudine Médigue
Claudine Médigue University of Paris-Saclay
Agnes Ullmann
Agnes Ullmann Institut Pasteur
Víctor de Lorenzo
Víctor de Lorenzo Spanish National Research Council
Isabelle Martin-Verstraete
Isabelle Martin-Verstraete Université Paris Cité
David Vallenet
David Vallenet University of Paris-Saclay
Christos A. Ouzounis
Christos A. Ouzounis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Daniel Ladant
Daniel Ladant Institut Pasteur
Frank Kunst
Frank Kunst Institut Pasteur

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