Research Vision
By integrating evolutionary biology, molecular virology, and systems approaches, we uncover how viruses evolve, impact host biology, and interact with environmental factors to shape infection outcomes.
I owe my interest in viruses to Santiago F. Elena. I completed my PhD under his mentorship at I2SysBio (Valencia, Spain), where I studied factors influencing the evolution of viruses, using plant-pathogen systems as model organisms.
After my PhD, I obtained an EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship and joined the Marie-Anne Félix Laboratory (IBENS, France). There I investigated host factors and bacterial environments that modulate the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans susceptibility to Orsay virus infection.
Currently, I am a Pasteur-Roux-Cantarini Postdoctoral Fellow at the Carla Saleh Laboratory (Institut Pasteur, France). Here I am a happy researcher studying viral infections in the fly Drosophila melanogaster [Image of Drosophila melanogaster] . My research here focuses in the aging induced by viruses, the impact of the microbiome on infections, and the evolution of RNA viruses.
