At the end of this year, we are very happy to welcome three new PhD students to our group, in the context of new exciting projects and collaborations.
Kylian Trepat will study the alterations of the antiviral innate immune response in severe respiratory infections. The project will focus on the role of autoantibodies in the context of viral co-infections. This doctoral work, co-directed by Sophie Trouillet-Assant and Olivier Terrier, is being carried out in collaboration with the joint HCL-BioMérieux laboratory (MESRI grant).
Charles Terra will study the impact of SARS-CoV-2 and other types of viral infections on the metabolism of lung epithelium cells. Our knowledge of the interplay between SARS-CoV-2 and cell metabolism is still limited and may reveal potential biomarkers that could improve the early diagnosis of the most severe forms of COVID-19. This work is part of a collaboration between our group and the TIMC/CHU Grenoble Alpes laboratory and will be co-directed by Audrey Le Gouellec and Olivier Terrier. The project is supported by Fondation Air-Liquide.
Aurélien Gibeaud will study the modeling of viral co-infections in the epithelium, as part of a Franco-German collaborative project funded by the ANR-DFG (MORIARTY Project). This project will combine different in vitro and in vivo experimental approaches with mathematical modeling tools, in order to better understand the interactions between viruses but also treatments in this context.
Respiratory coinfections 