Microtubule Dynamics

Microtubules provide essential mechanical support and drive key processes like cell division and intracellular transport. Our research explores how…

Plant bio-factories as a sustainable source of high-value compounds

Engineering plant bio-factories as a sustainable source of high-value compounds Plants have played a vital role in human history providing us with…

Effect of viral and host factors on innate immunity, respiratory virus replication and pathogenesis

Influenza viruses and coronaviruses are respiratory pathogens with drastic health and economic consequences for many animal species, including humans…

Light signalling and plant adaptation to the environment

As sessile photoautotrophic organisms, plants evolved sophisticated strategies to perceive light environmental signals and to transduce them into…

Functional and comparative multiomics

For over 500 million years, evolution has shaped animal species, resulting in a vast array of unique traits and molecular configurations. Studying…

Biocomputation Lab

Microbial Population and Comparative Genomics

Our research group focuses on comparative genomics and population genomics of microorganisms to better understand their diversity, evolution and…

Host-microbiome Interactions Along the Gut-Brain Axis

My group focuses on understanding the role that bacterial amyloids produced by the gut microbiome play in promoting neurodegeneration to help develop…

Regulation of gene expression and metabolism in bacteria

Our work is aimed at identifying and characterizing the global regulatory networks that allow bacteria to modulate the expression of their genes in…

Intracellular bacterial pathogens

Our group is interested in deciphering at a molecular and cellular level the mechanisms involved in infectious processes caused by intracellular…