Organizing Committee Member
Michel Leclerc
Director
University of Orleans France
France
Biography
Dr Michel Leclerc was born the 31 th of January 1941 at Saint Benoit sur Loire (France) He obtained his Master in Biological Sciences at the University of Orléans. He possessed a "D.E.S in Biology" and then a"Doctorat ès Sciences" in 1977 in this last University. Later he collaborated to the Institut Pasteur of Paris as a co-researcher for five years and then directed the laboratory of Immunology of Invertebrates, in the University of Orléans. He has been the first to culture invertebrate cells"in vitro" and more particurlaly sea star lymphocytes. In 1975 he spoke already in a paper at the Science Academy of France of Invertebrate antibody, in a world Where this last notion was" forbidden" ! Again he is the first to immunize sea stars with various antigens. In the years 1980 he published a papet at Eur.J.Immunol with Francis Delmotte et al, about the isolation and purification of Antibody-like substances in the sea star Asterias rubens.Then the last period comes with the genomics: He discovered the sea star IGKappa gene (2014) with 2 Ig sites. It is the first time we can speak of IAP (Invertebrate Primitive Antibody). So the Fab gene, the Fc receptor gene, the Cr gene. Besides the sea star Innate response, he spoke of ADAPTATIVE IMMUNITY in an Invertebrate for the first time. With 170 international publications, he said: "What is wrong yesterday is true to-day".
Research Area
Dr Michel Leclerc research interset is based on Immunology, immunize sea stars with various antigens, isolation and purification of Antibody-like substances in the sea star.