Sabine FILLINGER, Dr. habil.                                                                            

Education

• 1989-1992: Undergraduate studies in Biology, Biochemistry, Genetics & Microbiology, University of Cologne (Germany), University Toulouse III (France), University Paris XI, (France)
• 1996: PhD Genetics & Microbiology, University Paris XI, France
• 2007: HDR, Accreditation to supervise research, University Paris XI, France

Research activities

1990: Undergraduate internship (2 months) Investigation of self-compatible mutations in Solanum tuberosum (H.H. Kirch, R.D. Thompson) Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne.
1992-1996: MSc & PhD Transcriptional regulation in the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans (B. Felenbok) University Paris XI, France.
1996-1998: Postdoc “Systematic functional analysis of Bacillus subtilis genes, C-metabolism” (S. Aymerich) INRA INA-PG, Grignon, France.
1998-2001: Postdoc “Role of polyols and cAMP in germination in Aspergillus nidulans” (C. d’Enfert) Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
2001-2013: Research scientist       at INRA, Versailles-Grignon.
       Genetics of fungicide resistance in filamentous fungi.
       Functional genomics of signal transduction in Botrytis cinerea.
Since 2014: Research Director at INRA, Versailles-Grignon.
       2013-2018: Group leader of the “fungicide” research team.
       2015-2019: Associate head of the BIOGER Institute (80 persons).
       Genetics of fungicide resistance in filamentous fungi.
Since 2020: Head of BIOGER Institute, University Paris-Saclay, INRAE, Palaiseau.
       Management of BIOGER Institute (65 persons).
       Genetics of fungicide resistance in filamentous fungi.

PhD students

Weiwei Liu (2004-2008), Anaïs Lalève (2009-2012), Saad Azeddine (2010-2013), Jaafar Kilani (2014-2017), Yosra Ben M’henni (2015-2020), Guillaume Fouché (2017-2021), Simon Patry-Leclaire (2020-2024), Elza Neau (2022-2025)

Editorial & expert activities

• Editor of “Botrytis –the Fungus, the Pathogen and its Management in Agricultural Systems” (2015), S. Fillinger & Y. Elad (eds.), Springer books, 596 pp.;
• Guest Associate Editor for Frontiers in Microbiology: Co-editor of Frontiers in Microbiology Research Topic “Antifungals used against animal and plant pathogenic fungi"; Co-editor of Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology Research Topic ” Antifungal Resistance: from Molecular to Global Issues”; Invited editor of mBio; Editorial board member of Pesticide Biochemistry & Physiology.
• Reviewer for microbiological and phytopathological journals.
• Evaluation of scientific projects (EU-MSCA Fellowships, AIAS-COFUND Fellowships, BARD, Wellcome Trust, ETH Zürich/Switzerland, Région Pays de Loire, Portugal, ANVUR/Italy, INRAE internal projects)
• President of HCERES visiting committee (2020); Professor-recruitment committee member (Université de Lorraine, France; Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany); Internal recruitment & evaluation committees of INRAE scientists.
• 2024 :External expert of “ Centre National de Reference Mycoses invasives et Antifongique (CNRMA, Institut Pasteur)”
• Evaluation of 20 PhDs & 3 Habilitations (France, Austria, Australia)

Publications

http:////cv.hal.science/sabine-fillinger

Conference & Worshop organization

• Scientific committee member of Botrytis genome workshops 2005 (Germany), 2006 (France), 2009 (Spain) & 2011 (France)
• Scientific committee member of the 14^th-17^th International Botrytis Symposiua (2006, Capetown/SA; 2010, Cadiz/SP; 2013 Bari/IT; 2016, Santa Cruz/Chile)
• Coordinator of 2^nd Botrytis Genome workshop, (2006, Versailles)
• Coordinator of the 1^st Joint Botrytis-Sclerotinia Symposium (2021 reduced online event; 2022 Avignon, FR)
• Organization of “Antifungal” concurrent sessions at Fungal Genetics Conference, Asilomar/CA, USA (2011, 2017, 2024)
• Organization of “Antifungal” concurrent sessions at the EuropeanFungal Genetics Conference (2018, Haifa/ISR)