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Jean-Christophe Avarre

Senior researcher
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My main research topic is the diversity and evolution of an aquatic virus, Cyprinid herpesvirus-3, which has recently emerged and is causing high mortalities in carp farms. The aim of this work is to better understand its virulence pathways and modes of propagation in traditional carp farms in Southeast Asia.
Convinced that frugal innovation represents an appropriate response not only to the ecological and climatic crises, but also to the challenges of North-South inequalities, I’m devoting part of my activity, in the frame of a start-up, to making idiagnostics of infectious disease  accessible to all, particularly in the contexts of the South.

Keywords :

Sustainable aquaculture – Virus – Genomics – Molecular diagnostics

Responsabilities :

– Director of the ECOBIO (Ecology and Biodiversity of Continental Ecosystems) scientific department at IRD
– IRD scientific advisor for the Montpellier site
– Member of the CIRAD scientific council
– Co-head of the “Bioinformatics Learning Lab” (HAU802I) and “Molecular Microbial Ecology” (HAA804V) teaching units for the IMHE and BCD Master’s programs at the University of Montpellier