People

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


Marianne DELARUE


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.



Leonardo PEREYRA BISTRAIN

Postdoctoral – Research Fellow

PhD in Molecular Biology
Research Focus: Chromatin dynamics and Control of gene expression in tomato.



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.

Beatriz ORTEGA

Engineer

Master’s Degree in Plant Sciences / Postgraduate Diploma in Bioengineering Management
Research Focus: Investigate transcriptional regulation and DNA damage in plant cells.

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