DrSc. Justine COLLIER,
Principal investigator, Senior lecturer (MER1),
Vice-Director of the School of Biology
PhD, University Paris XI, France (2004)
Postdoc, Stanford University, USA (2004-2008)
Assistant Professor, University of Lausanne, Switzerland (2008-2014)
Senior group leader and lecturer (MER1), University of Lausanne, Switzerland (2015-now)
Vice-Director of the School of Biology at University of Lausanne, Switzerland (2021-now)
Sandra MARTIN, Graduate student (SNSF-funded)
MSc, University Aix-Marseille, France (2019)
Sandra joined the team in September 2019 to study the impact of adenine methylation on cell cycle control in Agrobacterium tumefaciens.
DrSc. Noémie MATTHEY, Post-doctoral fellow (SNSF-funded)
PhD, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (2019)
Noémie joined the team in March 2020 to study the impact of cytosine methylation on gene expression and genome maintenance in Caulobacter crescentus.
DrSc. Florian FOURNES, Senior Research Scientist
PhD, University Toulouse III, France (2016)
Florian joined the team in January 2022 to study the impact of adenine methylation on genome replication and segregation in Agrobacterium tumefaciens.
Giorgia Wennubst, Research technician
MSc, University of Lausanne, Switzerland (2020)
Giorgia joined the team in March 2022 for her Master project to study the impact of cytosine methylation by orphan DNA methyltransferases in Caulobacter crescentus. She now continues this project as a Research technician since May 2023.
Leana Keel, Master student
BSc, University of Lausanne, Switzerland (2023)
Leana will join our team in February 2024 for her First Step project in the Molecular Life Sciences Master of our University. Her project will be jointly supervised by and performed in the Benton lab at the Center for Integrative Genomics (CIG) and will aim to explore the expression and function of cryptic homologues of putative chemosensory ion channels across vast evolutionary scales.