Postdoctoral researcher
After having finished my studies in Plant Sciences at Paris Saclay University, I joined the group of Dr. Catherine Rameau at the Jean-Pierre Bourgin Institute (IJPB) in Versailles. There, I awfully tortured Physcomitrium patens plants to uncover the secrets of this moss response pathways to strigolactones and to the elusive KL putative phytohormone. I then left for the pink city of Toulouse to study root nodule symbiosis (my first scientific love), as a postdoc fellow in the team of Dr. Fernanda de Carvalho-Niebel at LIPMe. There I mainly explored how both Medicago truncatula and its symbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti reprogram to enable the successful early infection of root hairs. This interest then led me to join the Marín group, from February 2024 on. My main objective during this second postdoc experience will be to investigate specific cell wall modifications enabling the accommodation of symbiotic bacteria inside nodules cells.
Outside of the lab, I love baking, gardening, playing video games and getting lost while walking around various cities.