I was born and raised in the beautiful city of Toulouse in the Southwest of France, where I also earned my Bachelors’ Degree in Organismal Biology in 1997. My fascination for transposable elements and genome evolution truly began with my PhD research for the University of Paris VI (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie) during which I worked on mosquitoes with Dr. Claude Mouches who also taught me molecular biology at the bench. My passion continued to blossom as I crossed the pond to work as a postdoc with Dr. Susan Wessler (then at the University of Georgia), who pioneered the molecular and genomic analysis of plant transposons. Sue was a terrific mentor and a major influence. I started my own lab in 2004 in Texas, then relocated to Utah in 2012, and here I am now at Cornell -back to McClintock’s roots!

 The Feschotte lab is also a proud member of the Cornell Center for Comparative and Population Genomics (3CPG).

 You can read more about me and the other things I love here.  A recent CV is here.  And back by popular demand, that day I told Morgan Freeman everything about transposons, aliens, and skateboarding.

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