Dr. Fanni Borvet?

Research interests

• Host-pathogen interactions
• Viral evolution
• Experimental evolution
• Molecular evolution
• Ecology

Scientific projects

After a Master degree in Host-Pathogen-Environment interactions, I explored, for my PhD, the evolution of codon usage preferences and the manipulation of translation fidelity in Ignacio G. Bravo’s lab in Montpellier, France. With the aim of working more closely with viruses and their hosts, I joined the BeePath project (externer Link, ?ffnet neues Fenster) as a Postdoc in 2022 to study the viruses threatening the domestic honey bee as well as bumblebees. My goal is to reconstruct viral evolution with the help of experimental and molecular evolution tools in a controlled environment to better understand the host-pathogen dynamics of the Bee-Varroa-Virus system.

Publications

2023

Bourret J, Borvet? F, Bravo IG (2023). Subfunctionalisation of paralogous genes and evolution of differential codon usage preferences: The showcase of polypyrimidine tract binding proteins. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 0: 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.14212 (externer Link, ?ffnet neues Fenster)

2020

Borvet? F, Bravo IG, Willemsen A (2020). Papillomaviruses infecting cetaceans exhibit signs of genome adaptation following a recombination event. Virus Evol. 6(1):veaa038. https://doi.org/10.1093/ve/veaa038 (externer Link, ?ffnet neues Fenster)

Bourret J, Borvet? F, Bravo IG (2020). Subfunctionalisation of paralogous genes and evolution of differential codon usage preferences: the showcase of polypyrimidine tract binding proteins. bioRxiv; https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.30.274191 (externer Link, ?ffnet neues Fenster)

Jaguva Vasudevan AA, Balakrishnan K, Gertzen CGW, Borvet? F, Zhang Z, Sangwiman A, Held U, Küstermann C, Banerjee S, Schumann GG, H?ussinger D, Bravo IG, Gohlke H, Münk C (2020). Loop 1 of APOBEC3C Regulates its Antiviral Activity against HIV-1. J Mol Biol. 432(23):6200-6227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2020.10.014 (externer Link, ?ffnet neues Fenster)

Lefoulon E, Clark T, Borveto F, Perriat-Sanguinet M, Moulia C, Slatko BE, Gavotte L (2020). Pseudoscorpion Wolbachia symbionts: diversity and evidence for a new supergroup S. BMC Microbiol. 20(1):188. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12866-020-01863-y (externer Link, ?ffnet neues Fenster)