The project in which UJI researcher Jordi Gamir participates obtains funding from the Human Frontier Science Program to study how viruses manipulate hosts to maximise their dispersal



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## The project in which UJI researcher Jordi Gamir participates obtains funding from the Human Frontier Science Program to study how viruses manipulate hosts to maximise their dispersal

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The researcher Jordi Gamir Felip from the Cell Signalling and Metabolic Integration Group of the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló leads one of the teams that has obtained one of the Research Grants Early Career awarded by the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP). The study is made up of four working groups led by Cristina Crava from the UV Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Lucía Prieto Godino from the Francis Crick Institute in the UK and Felipe Yon from the Cayetano Heredia University in Peru.

The aim of the project “Cellular and molecular bases of behavioural manipulation by viral infection”, funded with nearly one and a half million euros over three years, is to study how viruses can manipulate the behaviour of their hosts to maximise their dispersal. Specifically, the research groups will analyse, from different perspectives (neurophysiology, ecology, immunology, chromatography and genetics) how baculoviruses (usually used in the control of insect pests) manipulate the sense of smell of the caterpillars they infect, and how these change the emission of volatile compounds by the host plants and modify the perception of the infected caterpillars.

The UJI researcher will study the interaction of the insects with the plants, more specifically, if the viruses modify the feeding pattern of the insects or their way of perceiving the odours emitted by the plants. “Today, we know that baculoviruses modify the behaviour of the larvae and cause their destruction. The aim of the project is to find out more precisely how they do this and the behavioural changes associated with the infection”, explains Jordi Gamir.

Human Frontier Science is an international research support programme implemented by the Human Frontier Science Program International Organisation based in Strasbourg. Its objectives are to promote intercontinental collaboration and training in interdisciplinary and cutting-edge research focused on life sciences. With its collaborative research grants and postdoctoral fellowships, the Program has delivered over 4,500 awards to more than 7,500 scientists worldwide. Since its inception in 1989, 28 HFSP recipients have won the Nobel Prize.

In the 2022 edition, the consortium in which the researcher Jordi Gamir participates has been one of the thirty-two research teams (seven in the Early Career category) that has obtained funding after a rigorous selection process that began a year ago, with the reception of more than 700 presentation letters from researchers from more than fifty countries. The HFSP particularly values the innovative thinking and depth of approach of the proposals from multidisciplinary and international teams working in laboratories in different countries.

**Jordi Gamir Felip**

The researcher holds a PhD degree cum laude from the Universitat Jaume I (2014). After two postdoctoral stages at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland, 2015-2016) and the CSIC centre Estación Experimental del Zaidín (Granada, 2017-2018), he joined the Department of Biology, Biochemistry and Natural Sciences of the UJI as a researcher distinguished by the GenT programme (CDEIGENT) of the Generalitat Valenciana. He has participated in eight national and international projects and six technology transfer projects with different companies in the agrochemical sector. He is the author of 25 scientific articles and two book chapters, all of them peer-reviewed.

His research is based on the study of the immune system of plants in order to reduce the use of pesticides that are harmful to human health. By understanding the signalling and response mechanisms at the molecular level, the ability of plants to defend themselves against viruses, bacteria, fungi and insects can be enhanced. This line of research aims to implement the directive launched by the European Commission (2009/128/EEC) which seeks to reduce the use of pesticides and promote the use of sustainable products that are not harmful to human health and to the environment.

Official press release: <https://www.hfsp.org/hfsp-news-events/press-release-2022-hfsp-research-grants>

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