Fonction
2nd year PhD student
Team
Membrane Domains and Viral Assembly
Education
I first obtained a bachelor’s degree in Microbiology at the University of Montpellier, with my L3 year as an Erasmus exchange student at the University of Umeå. During this exchange, I did an internship on the regulation of biofilm secretion in the bacterium Yersinia Pseudotuberculosis in Matthew Francis’ team at Umeå University. I then joined the Infection Biology master’s program at the University of Montpellier, where I completed two internships, the first in the Domaines Membranaires et Assemblage Viral (MDVA) team at the Institut de Recherche en Infectiologie de Montpellier (IRIM), where I worked on the production and characterization of SARS-CoV-2 pseudoviral particles (VLPs). My second internship was in Marta Bally’s team at Umeå University, where I worked on the membrane interaction between apolipoprotein E and herpesvirus type 1. During my Master 2, I returned to the MDVA team to work on the effect of the 5’UTRs regions of SARS-CoV-2 subgenomic RNAs on translation dynamics. Fascinated by the subject and willing to pursue it in a thesis, I applied to the CBS2 doctoral school in Montpellier, where I was awarded a thesis grant to study the spatio-temporal aspect of SARS-CoV-2 translation and assembly under the supervision of Jeremy Dufourt and Delphine Muriaux.
Contact
email : damien.avinens_at_irim.cnrs.fr Tél : 04 34 35 94 23
Publications
- Recruitment of apolipoprotein E facilitates Herpes simplex virus 1 attachment and release.
Liu L, Bano F, Conca DV, Thorsteinsson K, Jayaweera S, Avinens D, Pace H, Lövheim H, Olofsson A, Bally M. npj Viruses (2025) - Boosting the toolbox for live imaging of translation. Bellec M, Chen R, Dhayni J, Trullo A, Avinens D, Karaki H, Mazzarda F, Lenden H, Favard C, Lehmann R, Bertrand E, Lagha M, Dufourt J. RNA (2024)
- L’actualité scientifique vue par les étudiants du Master Biologie Santé de l’université de Montpellier. Avinens D, Cantaloube G, Fortuin A, Hornebeck J, Jégou P, Marchal L, Pinceloup-Sosa L, Revel J, Sarrazin L, Sauthon B et Vincent J. Med Sci (2022)