Dr. Natacha Delrez is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow of IFREMER Research Institute at La Tremblade (France). She graduated as a veterinary in 2016, after which she began a PhD in Wel Research Institute in the University of Liège, Belgium under the supervision of Pr. Alain Vanderplasschen. She received a FNRS research grant and FEAMP funding to study the pathogenesis of anguillid herpesvirus 1 as part of her doctoral project. In 2022, her thesis manuscript was awarded by the French Virology Society in the ‘other viruses’ category. Her current research focuses on marine bivalve herpesviruses, host-pathogen interactions and immunology.