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Marie-Odile Soyer-Gobillard

Marie-Odile Soyer-Gobillard is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Marie-Odile Soyer-Gobillard rather than just read about it. In short: Marie-Odile Soyer-Gobillard (born 9 April 1939) is a French biologist, Doctor of Science, Honorary Emeritus Director of Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and President of an association dedicated to scientific research. At the Arago Laboratory, her scientific work, recognized worldwide, focused on the cellular and molecular study of protists, in particular dinoflagellates.

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Marie-Odile Soyer-Gobillard (born 9 April 1939) is a French biologist, Doctor of Science, Honorary Emeritus Director of Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and President of an association dedicated to scientific research. At the Arago Laboratory, her scientific work, recognized worldwide, focused on the cellular and molecular study of protists, in particular dinoflagellates. She formed and led a cell and molecular biology team, which supported her scientific activity. She has progressively introduced the most advanced techniques for the study of marine cell biology. Over the past ten years, she has become known to the general public for her studies on psychiatric disorders in children exposed in utero to synthetic hormones, in particular diethylstilbestrol (DES), as well as on their multigenerational effect. This work is carried out in close collaboration with the association Hhorages-France of which she is the President.

Career In September 1961, at 22, after obtaining a Graduate Degree (Diplôme d'études supérieures), she joined the CNRS at the Observatoire océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer (OOB), a marine laboratory, known as the "Laboratoire Arago", where she spent her entire career. In 1974, she founded the Cell and Molecular Biology Department, dedicated to the study of the mechanisms that control the functioning of certain marine organisms used as models by researchers on, among other things, the structure of chromosomes, the proteins of the mitotic apparatus and the course of the cell-cycle. From 1980 to 1989, she was an elected member of the Board of Directors of the Arago Laboratory. From 1987 to 1991, she was an appointed member of the National Committee of the CNRS (section 28, Biology of Organisms) of which she was vice-president. From 1975 until her retirement in 2000, she was in charge of a research group, of the Electron Microscopy Service as well as of the Cell and Molecular Biology Department until 1995

Work

Scientific papers To date, Marie-Odile Soyer-Gobillard has published more than 180 publications in international peer-reviewed scientific journals, particularly in cell and molecular biology, and has given more than 200 presentations at conferences.

Selected books Margulis L., M.O. Soyer-Gobillard & J. Corliss, Evolutionary protistology. The organism as cell. Rep. Origins of Life, 1984, 13 (3-4). D.Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht/Boston, 183 pp (ISBN 9789027717658). Soyer-Gobillard, M.O. & Schrevel, J, The Discoveries and Artistic Talents of Édouard Chatton and André Lwoff, Famous Biologists. (Bilingual version, French-English). Cambridge Scholars Publishing (CSP) Editor, June 2020. (283 pp., 123 Figs) (ISBN 978-1-5275-5066-7). Testimonial (in French): Une résilience ou les trois Marie-Odile, Nombre 7 Editions, 2021 (ISBN 9782381536606) Resilience: A scientist's campaign against synthetic hormones. Nombre 7 Editions, collection Hippocrate, 2022, 416 pp. ISBN 978-2-38351-211-0

Artwork In October 1998, after the death of her son, she started working with clay in a workshop in Perpignan. In 2000, she became a sculptor and held her first exhibition in Banyuls-sur-Mer, the homeland of Aristide Maillol. In 2013, she declares "I had lived the ignoble, and I wanted to recreate beauty". Her work has been exhibited on numerous occasions, notably in Paris, Perpignan, Barcelona and Sézanne. In September 2000, she received the 3rd international prize of Sculpture at the International Art Fair of Argèles-sur-Mer

Awards and honors In 1974, Marie-Odile Soyer-Gobillard received the Paul Wintrebert Foundation Prize In 1988, she received the Trégouboff Prize of the National Academy of Sciences (quadrennial marine biology prize). From 2000 to 2005, she was Emeritus Research Director at the CNRS. From 2004 to 2009, she was a corresponding member of the National Museum of Natural History (MNHN) of Paris. On July 14, 2021, on the occasion of the Bastille Day, she was appointed Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, in recognition of her scientific and associative career.

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Example 1 — a first encounter with Marie-Odile Soyer-Gobillard

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Marie-Odile Soyer-Gobillard ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Marie-Odile Soyer-Gobillard

In research: Marie-Odile Soyer-Gobillard appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Marie-Odile Soyer-Gobillard in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Marie-Odile Soyer-Gobillard is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1939 births, 20th-century French sculptors, 20th-century French women sculptors, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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