Affiliation entity
PPL Parasites and Free-living Protists
Interdisplinary research theme
Free-living protozoa
Speciality
Cell Biology, Photobiology, Protistology, Fluorescence Microscopy and image treament

Contact

E-mail
marc.dellinger [at] mnhn.fr
Phone
01 40 79 37 30
Address(es)

61 rue Buffon (CP52)
75005 Paris

Collections

- Curator of the Ciliate collections

- Curator of the collection Unicellular Eukaryotes (“free-living” protists)

Teaching

  • MVE2 Introduction to the biodiversité of eukaryotic microorganismes
  • MVE5 Diversity and Biology of the Ciliophora and the Rhizaria
  • MVE27 Practical course in video and confocal microscopy and numerical imaging

Presentation

Research activities

Former research :

- Photobiology-anti-cancer photochemotherapy: incorporation of porphyrins in cancer cells in culture, perturbations of the cell physiology after photosensibilisation, cell death, effects of UVA, study of fullerenes (C60, C70), multi-drug resistance.

- Fluorescence microscopy: autofluorescence of cells and their mitochondria, detection of mitochondrial DNA, mitochondrial perturbations, 3D microscopy.

 

Ongoing research :

- Biodiversity in ciliates

- Interactions ciliates-cyanobacteria

Nassula sp. © MNHN - Marc Dellinger

Nassula sp. est un microorganisme isolé du lac d'Engien-les-Bains (Val d'Oise) par Marc Dellinger en 2008. © MNHN - Marc Dellinger

Credits
© MNHN - Marc Dellinger

Publications

2017
  • Warren Alan, Patterson David J., Dunthorn Micah, Clamp JohnC., Achilles-Day Undine E. M., Aescht Erna, Al-Farraj SalehA., Al-Quraishy Saleh, Al-Rasheid Khaled, Carr Martin, Day John G., Dellinger Marc, El-Serehy Hamed A., Fan Yangbo, Gao Feng et al., January 2017 — Beyond the "Code": A Guide to the Description and Documentation of Biodiversity in Ciliated Protists (Alveolata, Ciliophora). J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. , ,
    ISSN
    1550-7408
    https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12391
2016
  • Souidenne Dhikra, Florent Isabelle, Dellinger Marc, Romdhane Mohamed Salah, Grellier Philippe & Furuya Hidetaka, November 2016 — Redescription of Dicyemennea eledones (Wagener, 1857) (Phylum Dicyemida) from Eledone cirrhosa (Lamarck, 1798) (Mollusca: Cephalopoda: Octopoda). Syst. Parasitol. vol. 93, n° 9, p. 905-915
    ISSN
    1573-5192
    https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11230-016-9659-3
  • Souidenne Dhikra, Florent Isabelle, Dellinger Marc, Justine Jean Lou, Romdhane Mohamed Salah, Furuya Hidetaka & Grellier Philippe, 2016 — Diversity of apostome ciliates, Chromidina spp. (Oligohymenophorea, Opalinopsidae), parasites of cephalopods of the Mediterranean Sea. Parasite vol. 23, , p. 33
    ISSN
    1776-1042
    https://dx.doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2016033
2014
  • Dellinger Marc, Labat Amandine, Perrouault Loïc & Grellier Philippe, May 2014 — Haplomyxa saranae gen. nov. et sp. nov., a new naked freshwater foraminifer. Protist vol. 165, n° 3, p. 317-329
    ISSN
    1618-0941
    https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2014.03.007
2013
  • Combes Audrey, Dellinger Marc, Cadel-six Sabrina, Amand Severine & Comte Katia, January 2013 — Ciliate Nassula sp. grazing on a microcystin-producing cyanobacterium (Planktothrix agardhii): impact on cell growth and in the microcystin fractions. Aquatic Toxicology vol. 126, , p. 435-441
    ISSN
    0166445X
    https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aquatox.2012.08.018
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