Delphine Muriaux is a CNRS research director with a 1996 PhD in cellular and molecular biology from UPMC Paris and a 2006 HDR in virus assembly from University of Lyon. She is interested in the assembly of enveloped RNA viruses, especially BSL3 Retroviruses (HIV-1, HTLV-1) and Respiratory viruses (Influenza A, SARS-CoV2, RSV) in different model systems (biomimetic membranes, cell lines, lung organoids) with applied super-resolution microscopy on nanometric virus particles and in infected host cells.

Since 2012, she leads the MDVA team, with a biophysicist, at CNRS Montpellier, that shows advances in the field of lipids and host factor interactions with viral proteins, as well as fluorescent VLPs and super-resolution microscopy (STED, STORM, AFM). She also associated with J.deVos to developp iPSC derived lung organoids to study SARS-CoV-2 infection and immune innate response.

She authors 82 articles, reviews and a book chapter. She is investigated in several scientific boards such as Presidente of the Club Exocytosis-Endocytosis, member of the CSS5 Inserm and of the international Retroviral NC & Assembly Symposium board. Since 2017, she is also the Unit Director of the CEMIPAI facility for BSL3 host and training, antiviral screening and BSL3 advanced microscopy services at CNRS Montpellier, France.

Dr. Delphine Muriaux