Current members:
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.
KADIRA PEERBACCUS
e-mail: mehfouza.beebee.kadira.peerbaccus (at) umontreal.ca
Kadira joined the lab as a summer intern and now continues working with us on valve margin development.
ALEXIS DE CARUFEL
e-mail: alexis.de.carufel (at) umonteal.ca
Alexis is a Ph.D. student. He works on leaf development and architecture, focusing on the role of auxin in patterning and growth.
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.
JAZIB JAVED
e-mail: jazib.javed (at) umontreal.ca
Jazib joined the lab with the IMPACT+ fellowship. He works on the development of laminar organs in Arabidopsis with a focus on the interlayer mechanical conflicts.
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:
Malak ABOUDI
(B.Sc. internship student, Université de Montréal, Canada – 2026)
Laetitia BAILLY
(B.Sc. internship student, Université de Montréal, Canada – 2026)
Amelie BAUER
(Postdoc 2024-2025)
Binghan WANG
(Ph.D. student 2021-2026)
Maika HAYASHI
(visiting Ph.D. student from NAIST, Japan – 2026)
Emilie Tran
(B.Sc. internship student, Université de Montréal, Canada – 2025)
Daniel Gregoire
(B.Sc. summer student, Université de Montréal, Canada – 2025)
Lou FOUTAINE
(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 UdeM – 2021)
Bejamin MAZIN
(Ph.D. student 2015-2019)
Souad MROUE
(visiting Ph.D. student from CEITEC, the Czech Republic – 2020)
Zoe GRIESSER
(Master 2 student from France – 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)
