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After receiving all of my early education in France, I came to UCL in 2011 and am currently in my 4th year of an MSci in Human Genetics. I have a strong interest in how the combined use of sequencing technologies and bioinformatics are helping to get a much broader overview of human diseases. In 2011, I worked on developing reagents for cell transfection experiments at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France. More recently, I worked at the UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing (IHA), where I studied the effects of unhealthy diets on long-lived Drosophila melanogaster mutants. In 2013, I studied the impact of exome sequencing on the diagnosis of primary immune deficiencies at the UCL Genetics Institute, focusing on loss and gain-of-function variants.
The aim of my current project is to gain a better understanding of which evolutionary factors are involved in pathogen host-switching. By looking at the broad spectrum of human and animal pathogens, I hope to determine whether factors such as host taxonomic relatedness and breadth of host range underlie the potential for pathogen host-switching. Understanding host-switching dynamics should help predict which pathogens are the most likely to emerge and cause outbreaks.