Chantal Vaury

The paper identifies conserved small nucleotide sequences that drive piRNA biogenesis from genes and lncRNAs, revealing a new regulatory pathway in insect and mammalian species.

The paper shows that trapping a somatic endogenous retrovirus into a germline piRNA cluster silences it in germ cells, protecting the germline from further invasion.

This paper shows that high temperature can induce a stable epigenetic conversion of a transgene cluster into an active piRNA-producing locus in flies, without maternal piRNA inheritance.