Stéphane CanaanDr. Stéphane Canaan is currently Director of Research at the CNRS in the Laboratory of Engineering of Macromolecular Systems, Marseille, France. Dr Canaan has been working for 26 years in the field of lipolytic enzymes, his main interest being to decpher their physiological functions and biochemical mechanisms of action in several organisms. He earned his doctoral degree in biochemistry and cellular biology from Aix-Marseille University, in 1999. In 2000, he received the GERLI prize for his thesis. He spent five years as a post-doctoral fellow, three years at Seattle University, USA, and two years in the AFMB lab in Marseille, France. He acquired a permanent position at CNRS in 2004. He has published 87 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has three patents in this field. Since 2004, he has headed the Lipolysis and Bacterial Pathogenicity team, consisting of 9-10 members, whose main research topics involve characterizing the lipolytic enzymes in lipid metabolism of pathogenic mycobacteria (Mycotuberculosis, Mycoabscessus, Mycoulcerans, etc.), to develop specific and potent inhibitors of these enzymes, thus opening new possibilities of controlling mycobacterial infections. In 2015, he organized a mycobacterial meeting with 160 participants. The team is internationally recognized in the field of biochemistry of mycobacterial lipases. Since 2006, Dr Canaan has obtained more than 15 projects, 9 as principal investigator and 6 as partner. Moreover, since 2005, he has supervised 10 PhD students, 3 currently in progress, and more than 60 graduate and undergraduate students. Read More Read Less