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Jocelyn Turpin completed his PhD in the retroviral oncogenesis team of Pr Renaud Mahieux at the ENS de Lyon/CIRI (France). During his PhD he worked on the characterization of auxiliary proteins encoded by complex retroviruses and the zoonotic transmission of those viruses. Then, he joined the group of Pr Charles Bangham at Imperial College London (UK), where he studied the factors regulating the human T-cell Lymphotropic Virus type 1 latency and clonality. In 2019 he also obtained a 6 months’ JSPS fellowship to visit Pr Yorifoumi Satou at Kumamoto University (Japan) to develop a new technique to characterize the retroviral reservoir at the single cell level. 

He is now joining the Pathogenesis, Retrovirus, Rare Thoracic Tumors team of Dr Caroline Leroux at the IVPC, where he will apply his expertise in the study of retroviral integration and next generation sequencing in particular to investigate cancers induced by the β-retroviruses in small ruminants.