Position
Post-doctoral researcher
Equipe
Players in the Pathogenesis of the Retroviral Infections
Contact
email : marie.villaresl[at]irim.cnrs.fr
Tél : 04 34 35 94 55
Mini-bio
After a DUT in “Biological Engineering” in Toulon, and then a License in “Cellular and Molecular Biology” at the University of Montpellier, Marie obtained, in 2018, a Master’s degree from the European Magistry of Genetics in Paris, including an M1 internship at New York University.Following her M2 internship in the “Epigenetics and Cell Fate” Unit of Paris Cité University, Marie completed a PhD on host-pathogen interactions in a tumor cell model, defended in December 2021.She joined the APIR team in January 2023 for a Post-doctorate on the “Role of mitophagy and pexophagy in the first stages of HIV-1 infection of CD4+ T lymphocytes infection”.
• Villares M, Berthelet J, Weitzman JB. The clever strategies used by intracellular parasites to hijack host gene expression.
Semin Immunopathol. 2020 Jan 30. doi: 10.1007/s00281-020-00779-z
• Cheeseman K*, Jannot G*, Lourenco N*, Villares M* Weitzman JB et al. Dynamic methylation of histone H3K18 in differentiating Theileria parasites.
Nature Communications. 2021 Mai 28. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-23477-2
• Villares M*, Lourenco N*, Berthelet J* Weitzman JB et al. Trifloxystrobin blocks the growth of Theileria parasites and is a promising drug to treat Buparvaquone resistance.
Communications Biology, July 2022. doi: 10.1038/s42003-022-03981-x
