• Awarded with the gold medal (La médaille d’or) for the oral presentation at “Journée l’Infectiopôle Sud-Méditerranée Infection, 2021” held at IHU Méditerranée Infection – 19-21 bd Jean Moulin – 13005 Marseille on July 2, 2021. Some of the glimpses of the day are shown in this video – https://youtu.be/S1iYvSZzlXE

Publications

2022

2022
A second type of N7-guanine RNA cap methyltransferase in an unusual locus of a large RNA virus genome

Ashleigh Shannon, Bhawna Sama, Pierre Gauffre, Théo Guez, Françoise Debart, Jean-Jacques Vasseur, Etienne Decroly, Bruno Canard, François Ferron

Nucleic Acids Research 50:11186-11198 (2022)10.1093/nar/gkac876

2022
A dual mechanism of action of AT-527 against SARS-CoV-2 polymerase

Ashleigh Shannon, Véronique Fattorini, Bhawna Sama, Barbara Selisko, Mikael Feracci, Camille Falcou, Pierre Gauffre, Priscila El Kazzi, Adrien Delpal, Etienne Decroly, Karine Alvarez, Cécilia Eydoux, Jean-Claude Guillemot, Adel Moussa, Steven S Good, Paolo La Colla, Kai Lin, Jean-Pierre Sommadossi, Yingxiao Zhu, Xiaodong Yan, Hui Shi, Francois Ferron, Bruno Canard

Nature Communications 13 (2022)10.1038/s41467-022-28113-1

2021

2021
The enzymes for genome size increase and maintenance of large (+)RNA viruses

Francois Ferron, Bhawna Sama, Etienne Decroly, Bruno Canard

Trends in Biochemical Sciences (2021)10.1016/j.tibs.2021.05.006