Assistant Professor
Group Leader
USPN, UFR SMBH, Bureau 344
1 rue Chablis 93000 Bobigny (France)
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Biography
Tony Palama studied biology at University of La Réunion and University of Montpellier 2. He obtained a Licence in Cell Biology and Physiology (in 2003) and a Master in Plant Genomics and Advanced Technologies (in 2006). Tony has continued his interest in biology, chemistry and physics by spending some years in The Netherlands where he started a sandwich PhD between Universiteit Leiden (NL) and Université de La Réunion (FR). He was supervised by Prof. Robert Verpoorte (Head of the Pharmacognosie group, Leiden) and Dr. Hippolyte Kodja (UMR PVBMT, La Réunion). His PhD thesis, entitled “Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)-based metabolomics characterization of Vanilla planifolia”, was defended on the 10th of June 2010, in Leiden.
After his PhD, Tony returned to La Réunion as a post-doctoral researcher at the GIP CYROI to continue his research on the characterization of vanilla and others aromatic and medicinal plants. The skills he developed in NMR-based metabolomics were efficiently employed in a second post-doc where he made the discrimination of bacteria species using the analysis of culture supernatant by NMR spectroscopy. This work was performed at the High-Field NMR Center in Villeurbanne (FR) under the supervision of Dr. Bénédicte Elena-Herrmann and worked in collaboration with BioMérieux Lab. Then, in Toulouse (FR), Tony got the opportunity to work on the metabolomic and fluxomic study of cancer cells as a research engineer with support of Canceropole GSO at the MetaToul platform. During this period, he developed skills and expertise in 13C-labelling experiments, flux analysis and metabolic network visualization.
Since September 2017, Tony Palama has an assistant-professor position at Université Paris Sorbonne Paris Nord, in Bobigny, where he is conducting research in NMR metabolomics.
Research
Keywords
Metabolomics, Metabolic Network, Fluxomics - NMR spectroscopy, Mass spectometry - Plant, Bacteria, Cancer, Human cell
Teaching (USPN, UFR SMBH, Bobigny)
Licence Science de la Vie
Master Biologie Santé - spécialité Thérapies et Technologies du Vivant