Current members:
AMELIE BAUER
e-mail: amelie.bauer (at) umontreal.ca
Amelie is a Postdoctoral Fellow. Her research focuses on the understanding of patterning and differentiation of the valve margins in the fruits of the Brassicaceae family.
ELVIS BRANCHINI
e-mail: elvis.branchini (at) umontreal.ca
Elvis is a Ph.D. student co-supervised by Anne-Lise Routier. He works on growth analysis of plant organs with a special focus on Arabidopsis thaliana.
JUN CHEN
e-mail: jun.chen.1 (at) umontreal.ca
Jun is a Ph.D. student. He works on cellular and molecular mechanisms controlling fast stamen filament elongation in Arabidopsis thaliana.
AYANAVA GIRI
e-mail: ayanava.giri (at) umontreal.ca
Ayanava is a Ph.D. student. His work focuses on the initiation and symmetry changes during the initiation and establishment of the gynoecium in Arabidopsis thaliana.
DANIEL KIERZKOWSKI
e-mail: daniel.kierzkowski (at) umontreal.ca
Daniel is an associate professor. He obtained M.Sc. in Plant Biology from AgroParisTech, Paris, and his Ph.D. in Biology from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. He was a postdoc at the University of Bern (2010-2013) and at the MPI for Plant Breeding Research (2013-2017).
BENJAMIN LAPOINTE
e-mail: Benjamin.lapointe (at) umontreal.ca
Ben is a Ph.D. student. He is co-supervised by Anne-Lise Routier. He aims to understand how leaf development is coordinated between different organ parts in 3D.
NEHA
e-mail: neha.neha (at) umontreal.ca
Neha is a Ph.D. student. She is supervised by Anne-Lise Routier and co-supervised by Daniel. Her research focuses on leaf development.
SYLVIA SILVEIRA
e-mail: sylviarsilveira (at) gmail.com
Sylvia is a research professional in Kierzkowski’s and Routier’s labs. Her research focuses on how 3D organ shapes are generated in plants using stamens as a model system.
BINGHAN WANG
e-mail: binghan.wang (at) umontreal.ca
Binghan is a Ph.D. candidate. Her research focuses on how fruit shape diversity is generated during the development of fruits in Brassicaceae.
ALEXIS DE CARUFEL
e-mail: alexis.de.carufel (at) umonteal.ca
Alexis is a Master student. He works on leaf development and architecture.
MAIKA HAYASHI
e-mail: hayashi.maika.hh6 (at) bs.naist.jp
Maika is a visiting Ph.D student from the Nara Institute of Science and Technology in Japan. She works on leaf movement in Arabidopsis thaliana.
LORIS CAILLAT-MIOUSSE
e-mail: loris.caillat-miousse (at) umontreal.ca
Loris is a Ph.D student supervised by Magalie Uyttewaal (INRAE, Versailles, France) and co-supervised by Daniel Kierzkowski. He works on the role of TRM proteins and cortical microtubules in fruit development in the Brassicaceae.
CHARLIE BOUTIN
e-mail: charlie.boutin (at) umontreal.ca
Charlie is a Ph.D. student supervised by David Morse and co-supervised by Daniel Kierzkowski. She works on redox signaling and S-glutathionylation regulation.
Past members:
Emilie Tran (B.Sc. student, Université de Montréal, Canada – 2025)
Daniel Gregoire (B.Sc. summer student, Université de Montréal, Canada – 2025)
Lou Fontaine (B.Sc. summer student, Université de Montréal, Canada – 2025)
Lucie Reuille (Master 2 student, Polytechnique, Clermont-Ferrand, France – 2025)
Aubry Fenestre (Master 2 student, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium – 2025)
Wenye Lin (Ph.D. student 2020-2025)
Currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wageningen, Netherlands.
Rachelle Fontaine (Master 2 student from SupBiotech, France – 2024)
Vishwadeep Mane (Visiting Ph.D. student from the Indian Institute of Science, September 2023 – February 2024)
Andrea Gomez-Felipe (Postdoc 2020-2023)
Currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bloomington, IN, USA.
Constance LE GLOANEC (Ph.D. student 2019 – 2023)
Currently a postdoctoral fellow at the National University of Singapore.
Xuan Zhou (Ph.D. student from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, China – 2024-2025)
Joanna SKRZYDEL (visiting Ph.D. student from the University of Silesia, Poland, 2022)
Daniel ALIQUE (visiting Ph.D. student from CGBP, Spain, 2023)
Joseph CHAMOUN (B.Sc. summer intern student UdeM – 2022)
Luc LAPIERRE (B.Sc. summer intern student UdeM – 2022)
Emilie ECHEVIN (M.Sc. student 2019-2021)
Hana BERTRAND-RAKUSOVA (postdoc 2019-2020)
Noah BOODHOO (B.Sc. summer intern in 2021, currently Ph.D. student at Agriculture Canada)
Bejamin MAZIN (Ph.D. student 2015-2019)
Souad MROUE (visiting Ph.D. student from CEITEC, the Czech Republic – 2020)
Zoe GRIESSER (Master 2 student 2018)
Saul JIMENEZ (Visiting Ph.D. student from Mexico – 2018)
Jerome BURKIEWICZ (Master 1 intern student, France – 2021)
Carlos MONTOYA (Visiting M.Sc. student, Columbia – 2019), Currently Ph.D student at the University of Florida, USA)
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