A. FIRON is an assistant professor in the team Biology of Gram-Positive Pathogens led by Prof. P. TRIEU-CUOT in the Microbiology Department of the Institut Pasteur, Paris, France. He received his PhD in 2002 from University of Paris and works on GBS physiology and virulence since 2009. He specialized in microbial functional genomics to discover the function of essential and virulence genes.