2024 Beth Levine PhD Award to Baptiste Pradel

We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Baptiste Pradel has been selected as the recipient of the 2024 Beth Levine PhD Award. During his PhD, Baptiste Pradel demonstrated the crucial role of Atg8ylation in the entry process of HIV-1 in CD4⁺ T cell lymphocytes. His work, supervised by Lucile Espert at IRIM, was recently published in the Autophagy journal. His research revealed a non-canonical role of LC3B conjugation, subverted by HIV-1 to achieve a critical step in its replication cycle. In addition to his scientific discoveries during his PhD, Baptiste Pradel demonstrated exceptional dedication to the autophagy field. He actively participated in numerous national and international autophagy conferences and played a key role in organizing the very first CFATG online seminar in 2021, during the COVID19 pandemic. After defending his thesis, Dr. Baptiste Pradel joined the group led by Max Guttierez at the Francis Crick Institute in London to explore the role of ATGs in the context of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. We are confident that Baptiste will continue to make groundbreaking discoveries in the autophagy field and inspire future generations of researchers. Please join us in congratulating Baptiste on this well-deserved recognition!