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Sylvain Gandon is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with particular emphasis on Genetics, Ecology, and Molecular Biology as subfields. They have also contributed to studies in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, as well as Infectious Diseases.

Their scientific work covers several main topics, including:

  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research

Recent publications by Sylvain Gandon include the following:

  • "On the evolutionary epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2," 2020, Current Biology
  • "Phage-host coevolution in natural populations," 2022, Nature Microbiology
  • "Targeting of temperate phages drives loss of type I CRISPR-Cas systems," 2020, Nature
  • "Regulation of prophage induction and lysogenization by phage communication systems," 2021, Current Biology
  • "The Price equation and evolutionary epidemiology," 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Sylvain Gandon has frequently published in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The ISME Journal
  • Current Biology
  • Nature

Their collaborative work includes frequent co-authorship with:

  • Sébastien Lion
  • Edze R. Westra
  • Martin Guillemet
  • David V. McLeod
  • Troy Day

Sylvain Gandon's research intersects multiple scientific disciplines and contributes to the understanding of evolutionary epidemiology, microbial dynamics, and molecular genetic mechanisms, often within the context of infectious disease and environmental health.

Best Publications

  • Imperfect vaccines and the evolution of pathogen virulence

    Sylvain Gandon;Margaret J Mackinnon;Sean Nee;Andrew F Read

  • A practical guide to measuring local adaptation

    François Blanquart;Oliver Kaltz;Scott L. Nuismer;Sylvain Gandon

  • Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

    Patrick Abbot;Jun Abe;John Alcock;Samuel Alizon

  • Local Adaptation and Gene-For-Gene Coevolution in a Metapopulation Model

    Sylvain Gandon;Yvan Capowiez;Yvain Dubois;Yannis Michalakis

  • Local adaptation, evolutionary potential and host–parasite coevolution: interactions between migration, mutation, population size and generation time

    S. Gandon;Y. Michalakis

  • Insecticide control of vector-borne diseases: when is insecticide resistance a problem?

    Ana Rivero;Julien Vézilier;Mylène Weill;Andrew F. Read;Andrew F. Read

  • Kin competition, the cost of inbreeding and the evolution of dispersal

    Sylvain Gandon

  • Local adaptation and the geometry of host–parasite coevolution

    Sylvain Gandon

  • The effect of migration on local adaptation in a coevolving host–parasite system

    Andrew D. Morgan;Sylvain Gandon;Angus Buckling

  • The diversity-generating benefits of a prokaryotic adaptive immune system

    Stineke van Houte;Alice K. E. Ekroth;Jenny M. Broniewski;Hélène Chabas;Hélène Chabas

  • Host–parasite coevolution and patterns of adaptation across time and space

    S Gandon;A Buckling;Ellen Decaestecker;T Day

  • EVOLUTION OF MULTIHOST PARASITES

    Sylvain Gandon

  • Anti-CRISPR Phages Cooperate to Overcome CRISPR-Cas Immunity

    Mariann Landsberger;Sylvain Gandon;Sean Meaden;Clare Rollie

  • Phage–host coevolution in natural populations

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  • THE EVOLUTION OF SPECIFICITY IN EVOLVING AND COEVOLVING ANTAGONISTIC INTERACTIONS BETWEEN A BACTERIA AND ITS PHAGE

    Virginie Poullain;Sylvain Gandon;Michael A. Brockhurst;Michael A. Brockhurst;Angus Buckling

  • LOCAL MALADAPTATION IN THE ANTHER-SMUT FUNGUS MICROBOTRYUM VIOLACEUM TO ITS HOST PLANT SILENE LATIFOLIA: EVIDENCE FROM A CROSS-INOCULATION EXPERIMENT.

    Oliver Kaltz;Oliver Kaltz;Sylvain Gandon;Yannis Michalakis;Jacqui A. Shykoff

  • Evolution of parasite virulence against qualitative or quantitative host resistance.

    Sylvain Gandon;Yannis Michalakis

  • Applying population‐genetic models in theoretical evolutionary epidemiology

    Troy Day;Sylvain Gandon

  • Imperfect vaccination: some epidemiological and evolutionary consequences.

    Sylvain Gandon;Margaret Mackinnon;Sean Nee;Andrew Read

  • Evolution of virulence in emerging epidemics.

    Thomas W. Berngruber;Rémy Froissart;Rémy Froissart;Marc Choisy;Marc Choisy;Sylvain Gandon

  • Evolution of the distribution of dispersal distance under distance-dependent cost of dispersal

    F. Rousset;S. Gandon

  • On the evolutionary epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2.

    Troy Day;Sylvain Gandon;Sébastien Lion;Sarah P. Otto

Frequent Co-Authors

Troy Day
Troy Day Queen's University
Andrew F. Read
Andrew F. Read Pennsylvania State University
Yannis Michalakis
Yannis Michalakis University of Montpellier
Angus Buckling
Angus Buckling University of Exeter
François Rousset
François Rousset University of Montpellier
Sean Nee
Sean Nee University of Edinburgh
Isabelle Olivieri
Isabelle Olivieri University of Montpellier
Sylvain Moineau
Sylvain Moineau Université Laval
Chris I. Newbold
Chris I. Newbold Wellcome Sanger Institute

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