Dr. Roland Brosch Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Roland Brosch is an associate professor at the Institut Pasteur. He received his doctoral training at the Universities of Graz and Salzburg in Austria, and continued his post-doctoral studies at the University of Wisconsin, USA, and at the Institut Pasteur in France. He was involved in pioneering genomics-, evolution- and... read morevirulence studies on the causative agent of tuberculosis. He became head of the research unit for Integrated Mycobacterial Pathogenomics in 2008 and focuses his current work on mycobacterial genome evolution and its impact on host-pathogen interaction.