Stèf Blanc
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Stèf Blanc
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Virology, multipartite virus, virus-host interaction, vector-transmission, virus evolution, INRAE, PHIM, Montpellier, France, life is so good !
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Zoe Denis a PhD student in our lab , describing the first marsupial deltavirus ! :)
A replication-competent deltavirus from the marsupial fat-tailed dunnart Sminthopsis crassicaudata
Deltaviruses are circular, negative-sense RNA agents that replicate autonomously but depend on heterologous envelope glycoproteins for spread. Only partial sequences of deltaviruses had been reported ...
www.microbiologyresearch.org
January 16, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Deadline approaching
Do Not Forget to join us !!!
Beautiful Science program 👍🏻
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isdv2026.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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The American Society for Virology (ASV) is dedicated to advancing knowledge of viruses and the diseases they cause. ASV does not support the scaling back of the childhood vaccine schedule recently announced by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. See our statement attached.
January 13, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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Petition Letter of Support for Pierre-Yves Teycheney
Letter of Support for Pierre-Yves Teycheney
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December 15, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Terre-native - MIDA
YouTube video by MIDA
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October 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Great crowd and attendance for our France-Japan Virology workshop we kicked off this morning !
October 9, 2025 at 11:35 AM
It is now on air.
Please look it up and join us!
Great science and wonderful venue👍🏻

www.isdv2026.com
September 23, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Finally! Translon: A term for the sequence that actually gets translated. ORF or CDS just won't do when you work with viruses that break the rules by frameshifting, readthrough, non-AUG starts, etc. Thank you Pavel Baranov et al! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Translon: a single term for translated regions - Nature Methods
Nature Methods - Translon: a single term for translated regions
www.nature.com
September 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
One can at last now get notification from selected BlueSky accounts !!! That is cool !
August 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
To all friends and colleagues virologists

SAVE THE DATE for the next International Symposium on Single Stranded DNA viruses

Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil
June 15-19 2026

Stay put for more info soon when website goes on air !
August 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
⚡️ Permanent Researcher position opening in Stephane Blanc group at PHIM, INRAE, Montpellier France 

“Traffic of viral macromolecules within host plants and role in the biology of multi-component viral systems  🦠

More info 👉
jobs.inrae.fr/concours/con...

❗️Deadline March 4th 2025
Chargé-e de recherche sur le trafic des macromolécules de virus de plante
CR-2025-SPE-6 - Le Plant Health Institute of Montpellier (PHIM) développe des recherches sur la santé des plantes, et plus particulièrement sur les interactions plantes-microorganismes et bioagresseur...
jobs.inrae.fr
February 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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January 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM

ssDNA viruses lovers !!!!!
Don’t miss the next IS3DV international meeting 8th-13th June 2025
Varadero- Cuba

www.cigb.edu.cu/en/event/is3...
November 25, 2024 at 6:03 PM