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Estelle Hess

Estelle Hess

Experienced project manager and preclinical scientist

39 years old
Driving License
France
Employed Just looking around
Expertise in immunology, microbiology and diagnostic tests development
Good scientific and interpersonal communication skills
Proficiency in scientific publications, research projects and reports writing
Rigorous, reliable, organized, optimistic, frank and pedagogue
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  • Management of the R&D immunology department
  • Development of veterinary diagnostic kits, including point of care testing
  • Responsible for the cell culture facility
  • Study of the dog oral commensal Capnocytophaga canimorsus which causes rare but severe infections in humans
  • Writing and carrying out projects financed by the ERC and the Walloon region
  • Scaning of scientific literature, writing scientific publications and patent
  • Training and supervision of students and technicians
  • Development of new protocols to study host-pathogen interactions
  • Redaction of ethic proposals for evaluation by animal experimentation committee
  • Unraveling new functions of the Receptor Activator of NF- κB Ligand in the control of adult lymph node plasticity and hair follicles cycle
  • Designing and conducting experiments
  • Management of different murine models
  • Scaning of scientific literature and writing scientific publications
  • Granting of two personal funding (3 years from the French Ministère de l’Education Nationale de la Recherche et de la Technologie and 1 year from the Ligue contre le cancer association)
  • Characterization of T cell proliferation and activation in RANK-transgenic mice
  • Perform experiment, analyze data and report results

M.Sc. in Microorganisms biology - Virology specialty

Université de Strasbourg

2005 to 2007

B.Sc. in Biochemistry

Université de Strasbourg

2002 to 2005
  • Design and write research project
    Research projects financed by (i) the French Ministère de l'Education, de la Recherche et de la technologie, (ii) "Ligue contre le cancer" association, (iii) European Research Council and (iv) the Walloon region.
  • Time management
    Task planning and tracking of milestones
  • Communication of results
    Scientific publications and reports writing and oral presentations of achievements
  • Scaning of scientific literature
  • Risk assessment
  • Data management, analyses and reporting
  • Design and conduct experiments
  • Supervision and training of Ph.D., M.Sc., technicians and students
  • Handle scientific collaboration
  • Communication
  • Decision making
  • Problem solving
  • Critical thinking
  • Flexibility
  • Mentoring skills
  • Organizational
  • Development of diagnostic tests
    Development of labratory (ELISA) and Point of Care teste (Laterafl Flow Assays)
  • Cellular biology
    Cell culture (primary cells and cell lines), generation and production of monoclonal antibodies. Purification of immune and stromal cells (Ficoll, magnetic sorting), cell culture (cell lines and primary cells), ELISA, multicolor flow cytometry (FACSCalibur, FACSVerse, Cell Lab Quanta), transient and stable transfections, proliferation assays (3H-thymidine, MTS, CFSE), measurement of apoptosis (AnnexinV, Dioc6)
  • Microbiology
    Culture of class 2 bacteria, habilitated to work in a BSL3 laboratory
  • Microscopy
    Culture of class 2 bacteria, habilitated to work in a BSL3 laboratory
  • Molecular biology
    DNA/RNA isolation, PCR techniques (PCR, RT-PCR and qRT-PCR), expression and purification of recombinant proteins in bacterial system, SDS-PAGE, Western-blotting
  • Animal experimentation
    Animal experimentation and small animal surgery agreement (category C), strong experience with murine model
  • Microsoft Office
    Word, Excel, Power Point
  • ImageJ, CellProfiler
  • CellQuest Pro, FlowJo
  • GraphPad Prism
  • EndNote
  • French: native speaker
  • English: fluent (C1), TOIEC 2009-955/990
  • German: intermediate (A2)
  • Traveling in Asia
  • Reading Scandinavian novels
  • Body balance