Emilie WIDEMANN newly recruited
as an assistant professor at the University of Strasbourg. She teaches Plant Sciences in various bachelor and master courses and joined Patrick Achard’s “Gibberellins and adaptation to the environment” team in September 2021.
Let Emilie present us her scientific background:
From 2011 to 2014, I conducted my Master and Ph.D. research at the IBMP, under the supervision of Dr. Franck Pinot and Dr. Thierry Heitz. I studied the metabolism of Jasmonates in Arabidopsis, especially the enzymatic inactivation of the phytohormone Jasmonoyl-Isoleucine, in various physiological contexts. Then I joined Dr Qianwen Sun‘s lab at Tsinghua University (Beijing, China), where I studied plant R-loops during two years as a postdoctoral researcher. From September 2017 to July 2021, I worked as a postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of Dr. Dr Vojislava Grbić at the University of Western Ontario (London, ON, Canada). I have been dissecting the molecular defense mechanisms of Arabidopsis against the herbivore pest Tetranychus urticae, also called the two-spotted spider mite.