Mariette Ducatez is research director at INRAe, in Interactions Hosts-pathogens (IHAP) research unit. She worked in Luxembourg and then in the United States before coming to Toulouse. She has been a researcher in virology since 2006 with a particular interest in influenza viruses with a human-animal interface, and more generally animal respiratory viruses. She works both on animal virus surveillance projects (mainly in Africa), projects aimed at understanding the pathogenesis and transmission of these pathogens, as well as on issues of prevention and control of viral diseases.