Fonction
1st 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
- L’actualité scientifique vue par les étudiants du Master Biologie Santé de l’université de Montpellier. Damien Avinens, Guilhem Cantaloube, Annemarie Fortuin, Joëlle Hornebeck, Paul Jégou, Lila Marchal, Laura Pinceloup-Sosa, Justine Revel, Louis Sarrazin, Benjamin Sauthon et Jéremy Vincent Med Sci (2022)
