Current Position: Graduate Student, Plant Genome & Development Laboratory, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Montpellier, France.
Education: Master degree in Physiology and Genetics, Université Blaise Pascal / ENITA, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Non-scientific Interests: Rock climbing, running, playing music and reading.
I have always been fascinated by two questions in biology: how thoughts come into existence, and how life is transmitted. After completing my Master’s course in Physiology and Genetics, I tried both: neurobiology and reproduction. I finally chose to do my PhD deciphering how gametes acquire the potential to make a new organism. I joined the Plant Genome & Development Lab in 2007, under the supervision of Daniel Grimanelli, learned about reprogramming during plant reproduction and fell in love with epigenetics! The main focus of my research project is to investigate in the gametes the different pathways involved in setting transcriptional and chromatin states within these peculiar and specialized reproductive cells, as described in this paper.