Sylvie DUFOUR

Sylvie DUFOUR

MNHN Paris

Research director

The French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)

EVOREG

sylvie.dufour@mnhn.fr

+33 1 40 79 36 12

+33 1 40 79 36 18

Statutaire

General topics

Comparative and Evolutionary Neuroendocrinology:

Molecular and functional evolution of neuroendocrine systems;
Roles of neuroendocrine systems in the structure, plasticity and evolution of life cycles;
Neuroendocrinology and ecophysiology of puberty and metamorphosis

Non-conventional aquatic models (mainly teleosts, and also chrondrosts, molluscs, cnidaria) of biological, phylogenetic, ecological or economic relevance. Field and laboratory investigations.

Basic research with applications to: aquaculture, biodiversity conservation, ecotoxicology and endocrine disruptors.

Teaching

Chair Professor, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan : Comparative and Evolutionary Endocrinology

Expertise and Valorization

Research Grants for Aquaculture and Biodiversity Conservation (List since 2012):

European Community: 7th PCRD: PRO-EEL (eel); Life+ Alosa (shad); ITN IMPRESS (eel,salmon, sturgeon); Erasmus; COST Aquagamete
ANR: France Taiwan PUBERTEEL (eel); France-Taiwan NEMO (eel, mollusks, coral); France-Quebec: Immorteel (eel); France: Saltemp (salmon);
Global Networking Talents (Taiwan-France-UK); GDRI Coral; GDR Repro
Sorbonne Universities: Convergence : MADREPOP (medaka); DESYNCHRO (salmon)

Expertise for conservation of aquatic biodiversity :

International Scientific Council for Conservation of Loire Salmon population, Ministry of Environment
MNHN committee for CITES expertise of the eel, Ministry of Environment

Administrative responsibilities

Deputy-Director of the Research Unit BOME, MNHN, CNRS, UPMC (2003-2006)
Director of the Research Unit BOREA, MNHN, CNRS, IRD, SU, UCN, UA (2007-2018)
Scientific Council of the National Museum of Natural History (MNHN) (2006-2015)
Scientific Council of the Department of Physiology (Phase), National Institute for Agronomic Research (INRA) (2007-2020)
Scientific Council of the Institute of Ecology and Environnement (INEE) of the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) (2011-2019)
Scientific Council of the French Agency for Biodiversity (AFB) (2017-2019)
Head of Mission for the Sea, MNHN (2018-present)
Scientific Council of the Porte Dorée Aquarium and Guidance Council of the Public Institution of the Porte Dorée (2018-present)
Deputy-Director of the "Ocean Institute" of the Alliance Sorbonne University (2019-present)
Committee of Experts for Technologies of Genome Edition, INRAE (2021-present)

Gallery

My Papers

2022

Maugars, Gersende , Xavier Mauvois, Patrick Martin, Karine Rousseau, Salima Aroua, and Sylvie Dufour. 2022. “New Insights Into The Evolution Of Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone Family With A Special Focus On Teleosts”. Frontiers In Endocrinology 13: 937218. doi:Doi: 10.3389/fendo.2022.937218.
Maugars et al CRH_fendo2022-13-937218.pdf (5.26 MB)

2021

Irachi, Shotaro , Daniel J Hall, Mitchell S Fleming, Gersende Maugars, Björn Thrandur Björnsson, Sylvie Dufour, Katsuhisa Uchida, and Stephen D McCormick. 2021. “Photoperiodic Regulation Of Pituitary Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone And Brain Deiodinase In Atlantic Salmon”. Molecular And Cellular Endocrinology 519: 111056. doi:10.1016/j.mce.2020.111056. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0303720720303580.
Rousseau, Karine , Patrick Prunet, and Sylvie Dufour. 2021. “Special Features Of Neuroendocrine Interactions Between Stress And Reproduction In Teleosts”. General And Comparative Endocrinology 300: 113634. doi:10.1016/j.ygcen.2020.113634. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0016648020303877.
Wu, Guan-Chung , Sylvie Dufour, and Ching-Fong Chang. 2021. “Molecular And Cellular Regulation On Sex Change In Hermaphroditic Fish, With A Special Focus On Protandrous Black Porgy, Acanthopagrus Schlegelii.”. Mol Cell Endocrinol 520: 111069. doi:10.1016/j.mce.2020.111069.
Dufour, Sylvie , and Laurent M Sachs. 2021. “The Chicken And Egg Situation Of Thyroid Hormone And Glucocorticoid Signaling During Postembryonic Development”. Endocrinology 162 (3). doi:10.1210/endocr/bqaa243. https://academic.oup.com/endo/article/doi/10.1210/endocr/bqaa243/6054192.
Zhang, Yan , Shinya Shikina, Yu-Ying Ho, Yi-Ling Chiu, Jack I-Chen Yao, Céline Zatylny-Gaudin, Sylvie Dufour, and Ching-Fong Chang. 2021. “Involvement Of Rfamide Neuropeptides In Polyp Contraction Of The Adult Scleractinian Corals Euphyllia Ancora And Stylophora Pistillata”. General And Comparative Endocrinology 314: 113905. doi:10.1016/j.ygcen.2021.113905. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0016648021001982.
Lin, Chien-Ju , Shan-Ru Jeng, Zhen-Yuan Lei, When-Shiun Yueh, Sylvie Dufour, Guan-Chung Wu, and Ching-Fong Chang. 2021. “Involvement Of Transforming Growth Factor Beta Family Genes In Gonadal Differentiation In Japanese Eel, Anguilla Japonica, According To Sex-Related Gene Expressions”. Cells 10: 3007. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells10113007.
Lin et al_Cells_2021.pdf (5.67 MB)
Rousseau, Karine , Sylvie Dufour, and Laurent M Sachs. 2021. “Interdependence Of Thyroid And Corticosteroid Signalling In Vertebrate Developmental Transitions”. Frontiers In Ecology And Evolution 9: 735487. doi:10.3389/fevo.2021.735487.
Rousseau et al2021_Frontiers_Ecol_Evol.pdf (2.69 MB)

2020

Jeng, Shan-Ru , Peter Thomas, Yefei Pang, Sylvie Dufour, Chien-Ju Lin, Wen-Shiun Yueh, and Ching-Fong Chang. 2020. “Elevated Estradiol-17Β Levels Inhibit Final Oocyte Maturation Via G Protein-Coupled Estrogen Receptor (Gper) In Yellowfin Porgy, Acanthopagrus Latus”. General And Comparative Endocrinology 299: 113587. doi:10.1016/j.ygcen.2020.113587. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0016648020303403.
Trudeau, Vance L, Sylvie Dufour, and Patrick Prunet. 2020. “The Life And Times Of Olivier Kah Through The Lens Of Fish Endocrinologists”. General And Comparative Endocrinology 293: 113480. doi:10.1016/j.ygcen.2020.113480. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S001664802030188X.
Morini, M. , A. G Lafont, G. Maugars, S. Baloche, Sylvie Dufour, J. F Asturiano, and L. Pérez. 2020. “Identification And Stable Expression Of Vitellogenin Receptor Through Vitellogenesis In The European Eel”. Animal 14 (6): 1213 - 1222. doi:10.1017/S1751731119003355. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1751731119003355/type/journal_article.
Dufour, Sylvie , Bruno Quérat, Hervé Tostivint, Catherine Pasqualini, Hubert Vaudry, and Karine Rousseau. 2020. “Origin And Evolution Of The Neuroendocrine Control Of Reproduction In Vertebrates, With Special Focus On Genome And Gene Duplications”. Physiological Reviews 100 (2): 869 - 943. doi:10.1152/physrev.00009.2019. https://journals.physiology.org/doi/10.1152/physrev.00009.2019.
Lin, Chien-Ju , Gersende Maugars, Anne-Gaelle Lafont, Shan-Ru Jeng, Guan-Chung Wu, Sylvie Dufour, and Ching-Fong Chang. 2020. “Basal Teleosts Provide New Insights Into The Evolutionary History Of Teleost-Duplicated Aromatase”. General And Comparative Endocrinology 291: 113395. doi:10.1016/j.ygcen.2020.113395. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0016648019303326.
Maugars, G. , J. Pasquier, C. Atkinson, A.-G. Lafont, A. Campo, Nedia Kamech, B. Lefranc, J. Leprince, Sylvie Dufour, and K. Rousseau. 2020. “Gonadotropin-Inhibitory Hormone In Teleosts: New Insights From A Basal Representative, The Eel”. General And Comparative Endocrinology 287: 113350. doi:10.1016/j.ygcen.2019.113350. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0016648019303296.
Bertolini, Francesca , Michelle Grace Pint Jørgensen, Christiaan Henkel, Sylvie Dufour, and Jonna Tomkiewicz. 2020. “Unravelling The Changes During Induced Vitellogenesis In Female European Eel Through Rna-Seq: What Happens To The Liver?”. Plos One 15 (8): e0236438. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.023643810. https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236438.
Bertolini_PLoSOne_2020.pdf (2 MB)
Renneville, Clémentine , Alexis Millot, Simon Agostini, David Carmignac, Gersende Maugars, Sylvie Dufour, Arnaud Le Rouzic, and Eric Edeline. 2020. “Unidirectional Response To Bidirectional Selection On Body Size. I. Phenotypic, Life‐History, And Endocrine Responses”. Ecology And Evolution. doi:10.1002/ece3.6713. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.6713.
Renneville2020ece3.6713.pdf (1.2 MB)
Dufour, Sylvie , and Karine Rousseau. 2020. “Endocrinology: An Evolutionary Perspective On Neuroendocrine Axes In Teleosts”. In The Physiology Of Fishes, Fifth Edition, Suzanne Curie and David H. Evans, Editors, 105-116. Boca Raton,FL: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. doi:10.1201/9781003036401 .
Fleming, Mitchell Stewart, Gersende Maugars, Patrick Martin, Sylvie Dufour, and Karine Rousseau. 2020. “Differential Regulation Of The Expression Of The Two Thyrotropin Beta Subunit Paralogs By Salmon Pituitary Cells In Vitro”. Frontiers In Endocrinology 11. doi:10.3389/fendo.2020.603538. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fendo.2020.603538/full.
Fleming2020fendo-11-603538.pdf (1.13 MB)

2019

Jeng, Shan-Ru , Guan-Chung Wu, Wen-Shiun Yueh, S-F Kuo, Sylvie Dufour, and Ching-Fong Chang. 2019. “Dmrt1 (Doublesex And Mab-3-Related Transcription Factor 1) Expression During Gonadal Development And Spermatogenesis In The Japanese Eel.”. General And Comparative Endocrinology 279: 154-163.
Lin, Chien-Ju , Guan-Chung Wu, Sylvie Dufour, and Ching-Fong Chang. 2019. “Activation Of The Brain-Pituitary-Gonadotropic Axis In The Black Porgy Acanthopagrus Schlegelii During Gonadal Differentiation And Testis Development And Effect Of Estradiol Treatment.”. General And Comparative Endocrinology 281: 17-29.

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