Biography:

Flavien Marguerie graduated with a Master’s in fundamental biology course in Physiology, Immunity, Differentiation and Genetics at the University of Caen Normandie, France in 2018.  Then, he joined the PhD course “Systems Biology in Immune and Infectious Pathologies” of the University of Perugia, Italy. He is carrying out his research activity at the Biosciences & Medical Embryology Section, Department of Medicine and Surgery supervised by Dr. Katia Fettucciari. He is studying the molecular mechanisms responsible of the increase susceptibility of enteric glial cells to cytotoxic effects of Clostridioides difficile oxin B in synergy with proinflammatory cytokines (TNF-α and IFN-γ).