Center of Infection and Immunity of Lille
INSERM U1019 – CNRS UMR9017 – Université de Lille – CHU Lille
Director : Jean Dubuisson
The Center for Infection & Immunity of Lille (CIIL) is composed of 14 research teams. The majority of its researchers are biologists specialized in the study of infectious agents and the immune response. The presence of chemists and biophysicists within the CIIL is an additional asset which offers the potential for technological developments in protein chemical synthesis and mechanobiology.
The CIIL develops research projects on the molecular and cellular mechanisms of infectious and chronic inflammatory diseases with the aim of applying this knowledge to the development of improved diagnostics, vaccines and therapeutics.
Multidisciplinary projects
To achieve these goals, our center gathers complementary expertise, covering a wide range of disciplines including epidemiology, microbiology, virology, parasitology, molecular and cellular biology, immunology, chemistry and biophysics. The CIIL studies bacterial, viral and parasitic diseases and the immune reaction against these infections as well as related immune dysfunctions of non-infectious diseases such as allergic asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
We also work on opportunistic infections in the context of cystic fibrosis which is the most frequent human genetic disease. The major infectious diseases that we investigate are tuberculosis, pneumococcal pneumonia, whooping cough, plague, hepatitis C and E, influenza, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), malaria, schistosomiasis, toxoplasmosis, cryptosporidiosis and blastocystosis. The CIIL focuses its research activities on three major themes: (1) innovative anti-infective approaches, (2) respiratory diseases and (3) emerging zoonotic infectious diseases.
Research teams
Chemogenomic of intracellular mycobacterium
Group leader : Priscille Brodin
Molecular and cellular virology
Group leader : Jean Dubuisson
Opportunistic Infections, Immunity, Environment and Lung Diseases
Group leader : Philippe Gosset
Biology of Apicomplexa parasites : factors regulating growth differenciation and virulence
Group leader : Jamal Khalife
Cellular and physical microbiology of infection
Group leader : Frank Lafont
Biology and chemistry of Plathelminthes
Group leader : Oleg Melnyk
Research on Mycobacteria and Bordetella
Group leader : Nathalie Mielcarek
Tropical biomes and immune-pathophysiology
Group leader : Sylviane Pied
Group leader : Florent Sebbane
Bacteria, Antibiotics and Immunity
Group leader : Jean-Claude Sirard
Influenza, Immunity and Metabolism
Group leader : François Trottein
Group leader : Anne Tsicopoulos
Ecology and pathophysiology of intestinal Protozoa
Group leader : Eric Viscogliosi
Chemical biology of antibiotics
Group leader : Ruben Hartkoorn
Mechanobiology of Host-Microbe interactions
Group leader : Alexandre Grassart
Chronicity of Viral Infections (CVI)
Group leader : Fernando Real