INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER
Prof Jacques Ravel
Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland, USA
Dr. Ravel is the Director of the Center for Advanced Microbiome Research and Innovation (CAMRI) (camri.umaryland.edu) at the Institute for Genome Sciences (IGS) (igs.som.umaryland.edu) and the John L. Whitehurst Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Maryland, College Park, in Environmental Molecular Microbiology and Ecology and performed his postdoctoral training as a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research fellow at Johns Hopkins University in the Department of Chemistry, working on microbial natural product chemistry.
Before accepting his current position in 2007, Dr. Ravel was an Assistant Investigator at the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) in Rockville, MD, where the first microbial genome was sequenced in 1995. He was elected to the American Academy of Microbiology in 2012 and in 2015, he was awarded the Blaise Pascal International Research Chair (www.chaires-blaise-pascal.ens.fr). Dr. Ravel is the Editor in Chief of the journal Microbiome (www.microbiomejournal.com) and an Associate Editor for the journal mBio.