Research vision
By integrating evolutionary biology, molecular virology, and systems approaches, my work uncovers how viruses evolve, impact host biology, and interact with environmental factors to shape infection outcomes.
I completed my PhD under the supervision of Santiago F. Elena at the Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio, Spain), where I investigated the factors driving the evolution of plant viruses.
I subsequently obtained an EMBO postdoctoral fellowship to join the Marie-Anne Félix laboratory at the Institute of Biology of the École Normale Supérieure (IBENS, France). My research identified host genetic factors and environmental bacterial interactions that modulate the susceptibility of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to Orsay virus infection.
As a Pasteur-Roux-Cantarini postdoctoral fellow at the Carla Saleh laboratory (Institut Pasteur, France), I used Drosophila melanogaster to investigate how viral infections alter host aging trajectories, the impact of the microbiome on viral pathogenesis, and the experimental evolution of RNA viruses.
Currently, I am a Nano4Talent research fellow (MSCA-COFUND) at the Center for Research in Nanomaterials and Biomedicine (CINBIO) of the University of Vigo, Spain. My ongoing research expands upon the mechanistic basis of host-virus interactions by integrating the use of nanomaterials to modulate and dissect viral infection dynamics.
