{"id":10421,"date":"2023-02-16T10:04:50","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T10:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/targetmalaria.org\/people\/professeur-austin-burt-il-lui\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T17:50:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T16:50:01","slug":"professeur-austin-burt","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/targetmalaria.org\/fr\/profiles\/porte-paroles\/professeur-austin-burt\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof Austin Burt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Austin Burt est professeur de g\u00e9n\u00e9tique \u00e9volutive au <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/silwood-park\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">d\u00e9partement des sciences de la vie de l\u2019Imperial College ( Campus de Silwood Park)<\/a> et chercheur principal pour Target Malaria. Le professeur Burt se sp\u00e9cialise en biologie \u00e9volutive et fait figure de chef de file pour ce qui est de l\u2019utilisation de la technologie d\u2019impulsion g\u00e9n\u00e9tique pour le contr\u00f4le du paludisme. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Austin a fait ses \u00e9tudes \u00e0 l\u2019universit\u00e9 de McGill, \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al , o\u00f9 il a obtenu une licence et un doctorat, dans le cadre duquel il s\u2019est particuli\u00e8rement int\u00e9ress\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019histoire naturelle des endonucl\u00e9ases de ciblage (en anglais, HEG&nbsp;: homing endonucleases genes) chez la levure. En tant que chercheur postdoctoral, il a travaill\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019universit\u00e9 de Californie \u00e0 Santa Cruz, avec William Rice et Robert Trivers, avant de se rendre \u00e0 l\u2019universit\u00e9 de Californie \u00e0 Berkeley pour travailler en collaboration avec John Taylor sur l\u2019\u00e9tude des \u00ab&nbsp;g\u00e8nes \u00e9go\u00efstes&nbsp;\u00bb (HEGS), de courtes s\u00e9quences d\u2019ADN qui peuvent \u00eatre introduites dans le g\u00e9nome d\u2019un organisme puis propag\u00e9es \u00e0 travers une population sur plusieurs g\u00e9n\u00e9rations successives. Il a montr\u00e9 la voie pour ce qui est d\u2019examiner comment les \u00ab&nbsp;g\u00e8nes \u00e9go\u00efstes&nbsp;\u00bb pourraient \u00eatre utilis\u00e9s pour modifier les populations de moustiques vecteurs du paludisme en vue de contribuer \u00e0 mettre fin \u00e0 la transmission de cette maladie. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Le professeur Burt a re\u00e7u de nombreux prix et distinctions dont&nbsp;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>La M\u00e9daille du Pr\u00e9sident pour l\u2019excellence en mati\u00e8re d\u2019engagement social (President\u2019s Medal for Excellence in Societal Engagement, Imperial College, Londres, 2017), \n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Le Prix Cozzarelli pour un article publi\u00e9 dans PNAS d\u00e9montrant une grande \u00ab&nbsp;excellence et originalit\u00e9 scientifique&nbsp;\u00bb,\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Le Prix Wolfson Research Merit 2016, <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>La M\u00e9daille 2000 de l\u2019Institute of Zoology Science (Institut des sciences zoologiques). <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Couverture m\u00e9diatique r\u00e9cente&nbsp;: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Vox, \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/23364075\/future-perfect-50-target-malaria-gene-drive-mosquito\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Target Malaria\u2019s scientists are working to rid Africa of an ancient plague<\/a>\u2018<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wired UK, \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Rb-uDVbbFt8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Austin Burt: How genetically-modified mosquitoes could eradicate Malaria<\/a>\u2018<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>European Scientist, \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.europeanscientist.com\/en\/public-health\/interview-with-professor-austin-burt-role-of-gene-drive-technology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Interview with Professor Austin Burt: Role of gene drive technology in the context of the EU\u2019s Biodiversity Strategy 2030<\/a>\u2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9988,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","featured_image_focal_point":[]},"position":[195],"profile_tax":[648],"class_list":["post-10421","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","country-royaume-uni","languages-en-fr"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Prof Austin Burt - Target Malaria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/targetmalaria.org\/fr\/profiles\/porte-paroles\/professeur-austin-burt\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Prof Austin Burt - Target Malaria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Austin Burt est professeur de g\u00e9n\u00e9tique \u00e9volutive au d\u00e9partement des sciences de la vie de l\u2019Imperial College ( Campus de Silwood Park) et chercheur principal pour Target Malaria. 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