Sandra Martin-Latil

Anses
Maisons-Alfort France

Biographical Sketch: Sandra Martin-Latil obtained her PhD in 2004 at the University of Paris XI, France. During the period 2004-2009 she performed two post-doctoral stages at the Pasteur Institute (Paris, France). Her research aimed at investigating the interactions of viruses with the human intestinal epithelium for a better understanding of viral diseases. She is a research scientist at the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (Anses) since 2009. Her current research interests are varied and focus on food virology: improvement of the existing methods for detecting viruses in complex food matrices, development of methods for measuring infectivity of enteric viruses in food (using cellular systems and/or combined approaches) and understanding of the mechanisms used by enteric viruses for crossing the intestinal epithelial barrier. She has mentored several students and authored or co-authored 23 several peer-reviewed publications. She is also a member of the CEN TC275/WG6/TAG4 ‘Viruses in foods” working group responsible for writing the draft technical specification “Microbiology of food and animal stuffs _ Horizontal method for detection of hepatitis A virus and norovirus in food using real-time RT-PCR”.

Papers:
Detection and Assessment of Viral Risk in Food