Amelia Felipo Benavent and Corrado Viotti, two newcomers on the 4th floor
After finishing the Biotechnology degree in the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Amelia Felipo Benavent joined the laboratory of Miguel Blazquez and David Alabadí at the IBMCP in Valencia (Spain) to make her PhD Thesis. She worked with them on the role of gibberellins in plant plasticity. Now she starts her post doc in the team of Patrick Achard and will continue her research work by studying how gibberellins affect morphogenesis. Her post doc position is funded for 3 years by an ANR contract.
After a PhD thesis at the University of Milan (Italy), Corrado Viotti moved to the University of Heidelberg (Germany) for a first a Post-Doc. He then joined Umeå University (Sweden) with an independent researcher position, and continued to work on vacuolar transport and vacuole biogenesis. In 2014, he moved back to Germany at the University of Potsdam, where he continued his own project within the Plant Physiology lab headed by Markus Grebe. He joins the lab of Pascal Genschik, where he will work on the cellular mechanisms of AGO1 degradation.