Christine Petit
Christine Petit ( born February 4, 1948 in Laignes, department Côte- d'Or ) is a French physician, geneticist and molecular biologist, which deals among other things with genetics of sensory defects.
Christine Petit studied medicine from 1967 to 1973 at the University of Paris VI in 1974 and his doctorate in medicine at the University of Paris V (for which they in the Laboratory for Cell Genetics at the Institut Pasteur worked among others with Francois Jacob). They also received his doctorate in 1982 in science and biochemistry at the University of Paris VII. As a post - doctoral student, she was in 1983/84 at the Center for Molecular Genetics at the CNRS in Gif- sur -Yvette and 1982 at the Institute for Immunology in Basel. From 1975 she was a scientist in the Laboratory for Immunochemistry of the Institut Pasteur. In 1985 she moved to the laboratory for recombination and gene expression ( with Jean Weissenbach and Pierre Tiollais ) and 1991 to the laboratory of Human Molecular Genetics ( also in Weissenbach ) that she headed from 1993 to 1996. 1995 to 2001 she was director of a CNRS research group at the Laboratory of the mammalian genome of the Pasteur Institute. 1998 to 2001 she headed the Department of Biotechnology of the Pasteur Institute.
Christine Petit is a professor at the Pasteur Institute, where she directs the Department of Neuroscience since 2006 and the Laboratory of Genetics of defects of sensory perception ( Laboratory of Genetics of Sensory Defects ), and at the Collège de France ( professor of genetics and cell physiology ).
Your laboratory identified the first genes ( DFNB 1, DFNB 2), which are involved in congenital deafness, and identified some twenty other genes. They had previously identified the first a gene that was involved in a congenital hearing loss ( Kallmann syndrome). They investigated the pathogenesis of various forms of deafness in the mouse model.
In 2002 she became a member of the Academie des Sciences ( corresponding member since 1996 ). She is a Knight of the Legion of Honour ( 2002). Petit is a member of the Academia Europaea ( 1998) and the European Molecular Biology Organization ( EMBO).