CHROMOSOME DYNAMICS
People – Current members.
Our incredible team of researchers, students and technicians.
Moussa BENHAMED
Group leader of the Chromosome Dynamics team (ChromD)
Research Focus: Study of chromatin organization and dynamics in the plant development and stress response contexts.
Cécile RAYNAUD
Researcher
Researchs Focus: Cell cycle control, repair of DNA damage.
David LATRASSE
Assistant Professor
Researchs Focus: Chromatin dynamics, stress responses.
Sophie PIQUEREZ
Assistant Professor
Researchs focus : Crop genome plasticity
sophie.piquerez@universite-paris-saclay.fr
Marianne DELARUE
Professor University Paris-Saclay
Head of the Doctoral School of Plant Sciences
Research focus: Epigenetic control of plant development.
marianne.delarue@universite-paris-saclay.fr
Catherine BERGOUNIOUX
CNRS Emeritus Researcher
Researchs focus : Cell Death, Polyadenylation complex.
Martin CRESPI
CNRS Emeritus Researcher
Researchs focus : Root development, non-coding RNA
Christelle MAZUBERT
Technician
Research Focus: Cell cycle, Plant Physiology.
Jeannine DROUIN WAHBI
Technician
Research Focus: Molecular biology, plant cultures.
Leonardo PEREYRA BISTRAIN
Postdoctoral – Research Fellow
PhD in Molecular Biology
Research Focus: Chromatin dynamics and Control of gene expression in tomato.
Bidhan Chandra MALAKAR
Postdoctoral – Research Fellow
PhD in Plant Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata
Research Focus: Understanding chromatin regulatory mechanisms in response to heat stress
Xiaoning HE
Postdoctoral – Research Fellow
Research Focus: Data analysis of dynamic changes in 3D genome organization in epigenetic.
Chloé DIAS LOPES
PhD Student – Master degree in agronomy and environment / Biotechnology engineer degree
Research Focus: Deciphering the role of chromatin modifiers in gene expression and in genome organization.
Qingyi WANG
PhD student
Master Engineer in Computer Science, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China
Research Focus : Bioinformatics
Xing MA
PhD student
Master of Agronomy, Crop Genetics and Breeding, Nanjing Agricultural University, China
Research Focus : deciphering the mechanisms driving tomato chromatin plasticity in response to biotic stress and priming
Zezhao SU
PhD student
MSc in Biotechnology, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Research Focus : Investigating Histone modifications and 3D genome organization dynamics of plant in response to environmental stress
Alejandra LARA VARGAS
PhD student
MSc in Biochemical Sciences from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Research Focus : Transcriptional regulation of transcription factors involved in the DNA damage response (DDR) and heat stress in tomato.
Ye XIONG
PhD student
Master of Science, Systematics and Evolution,Joint Training Programme. Chinese Academy of Sciences & Xizang University.
Research Focus : Exploring HSF-dependent chromatin regulation and plant thermomemory
Rim BRIK CHAOUCHE
Engineer
Master’s degree in platform engineering in biology / Master’s degree in genetics and physiology
Research Focus: Experiments related to chromatin states, chromatin architecture and single cell.
Vickie KAISER
Engineer
Master’s degree in Plant, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
Researchs Focus: DNA damage, Chromatic dynamics
Alexia PERIN
Assistant engineer
M2 Genetics, Genomics, Epigenetics and Evolution (GenE2)
Research Focus: Epigenetics in Tomato plant