Team members

Dr Vincent Vanoosthuyse_CR1 CNRS

I carried out my PhD in the RDP lab (Reproduction et Développement des Plantes) in Lyon (France), under the supervision of Dr Mark Cock. My PhD was dedicated to the study of the Self-Incompatibility Response in the plant Brassica oleracea. This molecular response favours genetic diversity by preventing self-pollination. As such it is of great agronomical interest. 

I then joined the lab of Dr Kevin Hardwick as a post-doc at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology in Edinburgh (Ecosse, UK) to study the mechanisms of genome stability in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. I was then more specifically interested in the different functions of the proteins of the mitotic checkpoint, a kinetochore-based signalling pathway that prevents anaphase onset until chromosomes are properly aligned on the mitotic spindle. During my time in Edinburgh, I developed a side project to study the mechanisms of chromosome condensation in mitosis. This is the project I follow up in Lyon, where I am now back as a permanent scientist with the CNRS.

Pénélope Legros_Research assistant

Amélie Malapert_Research assistant