Jerome ESTAQUIER is a Research Director at CNRS FRE3636, Paris Descartes University, and at Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, Québec, Canada. He received his Ph.D. degree in Immunology at the University of Lille (1994). His work focuses on the study of intracellular agents such as the AIDS virus or the protozoan Leishmania, responsible for leishmaniasis.