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.
Christelle MAZUBERT
Technician
Research Focus: Cell cycle, Plant Physiology.
Jeannine DROUIN WAHBI
Technician
Research Focus: Molecular biology, plant cultures.
Jing AN
Postdoctoral – Research Fellow
PhD in Bioinformatics, China Agriculture University, Beijing.
Research Focus: Epigenetics, Chromosome conformation, Developing algorithms and methods to analyse 3D genomes
Leonardo PEREYRA BISTRAIN
Postdoctoral – Research Fellow
PhD in Molecular Biology
Research Focus: Chromatin dynamics and Control of gene expression in tomato.
Clara BERGIS
Postdoctoral – Research Fellow
PhD in response to DNA damage
Research Focus: Finding new factors involved in DNA damage response.
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.
Xiaoning HE
PhD student – MSc in Bioinformatics, JiangSu University, China
Research Focus: Data analysis of dynamic changes in 3D genome organization in epigenetic.
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
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.
Hugo ZALZALE
Engineer – Master degree in Environmental Biology & Biotechnology
Research Focus : Develop and improve methods for epigenetic analysis in the laboratory.
Layla SHMAYS
Assistant engineer
Research Focus : Genetics screen, cloning, Plant growth.
Alexia PERIN
Assistant engineer
M2 Genetics, Genomics, Epigenetics and Evolution (GenE2)
Research Focus: Epigenetics in Tomato plant