Principal Investigator
Alizée Malnoë [research gate][scholar][orcid] @AlizeeMalnoe
Associate Professor, Indiana University, USA, 2024
Associate Professor, Umeå University, Sweden, 2022
Assistant Professor, Umeå University, Sweden, 2018
Postdoc, Niyogi Lab, UC Berkeley, USA, 2017
PhD, Biology with Catherine de Vitry, IBPC CNRS UMR7141, France, 2011
MS, Plant Biology with Ben Hankamer, University of Queensland, Australia, 2007
Summer internship with Laurent Cournac, LB3M, CEA Cadarache, France 2006
BS, Agronomical Sciences, Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique, Toulouse, France, 2006
amalnoe@iu.edu
Office room: Myers Hall 316C
Lab manager
Pierrick Bru [research gate][scholar][orcid]
Lab manager, Indiana University Bloomington, USA, May 2024
PhD, Plant Physiology with Alizée Malnoë, Umeå University, Sweden, 2023
Researcher with Jean-Pierre Perreault, Sherbrooke University, Canada, 2018
Master internship with David Jones at ANU, Australia, 2016
BS-MS, Plant Biology, Montpellier University, France, 2016
Research internship with Ann Hirsch at UCLA, USA, 2015
pbru@iu.edu
Myers Hall 330
Postdoctoral researchers
Vera Sham [orcid]
Postdoctoral researcher, Indiana University Bloomington, USA, November 2024
PhD, Plant Molecular Biology with Kirsten Bomblies, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2024
Pre-doctoral training, Plant Sciences with Matthew Moscou, The Sainsbury Laboratory, UK, 2019
Master internship with Mark Banfield, John Innes Centre (JIC), Norwich, UK, 2018
MS, Plant Sciences, Wageningen University and Research (WUR), Netherlands, 2018
BS, Agriculture, University of Buea, Cameroon, 2015
shamvera@iu.edu
Myers Hall 330
Undergraduate students
Ally Horwitz
BS, Biology, Indiana University Bloomington, USA, 2025
Undergraduate researcher, joined Sept 2024
Undergraduate teaching assistant Fall 2023, Summer Fall 2024
achorwit@iu.edu
Myers Hall 330
High School students
Isha Harbaugh
Bloomington High School South, USA, 2025
Senior high school student, joined Sept 2024
isha.harbaugh@gmail.com
Myers Hall 330
Former lab members
Benjamin Royce Shepard, rotation graduate student, IU Biochemistry Graduate Program, Nov-Dec 2024
Cynthia Kinyua, visiting summer student from University of Nairobi, Kenya through Afrisnet & ISURP, July-August 2024
Maria Paola Puggioni, postdoctoral researcher, Sept 2021-April 2024
Aurélie Crepin, postdoctoral researcher, Sept 2021-Oct 2023
Current position: teaching & research associate, CEA-CNRS UMR 7265 AMU Marseille, France
Ahmet Gökçebel, bachelor student from Dept. of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Sweden, Jan-June 2021
Master student from Dept. of Plant Physiology, Umeå University, Sweden, March-August 2023
Subsequently: master student in the group of Olivier Keech, Umeå University
Jingfang Hao, postdoctoral researcher, Dec 2018-Dec 2022
Yuka Fukushi, visiting graduate student from Toru Hisabori’s lab, Tokyo Tech, Japan, Oct-Dec 2022
Current position: graduate student in the group of Keisuke Yoshida, Tokyo Tech, Japan
Fadime Demirel, Erasmus+ graduate student from Münevver Aksoy and Tarlan Mammedov’s labs, Akdeniz University, Turkey, Feb-May 2022
Jianli Duan, researcher, May-Dec 2021
Current position: researcher at the University of Maryland, USA
Yolande Provot, Erasmus+ student from Master Plant Biology, Montpellier University, France, March-June 2021
Current position: master student in La Dargoire, CNRS Claude Bernard University/Bayer CropScience in Lyon, France
Alexander Johansson, master student from Dept. of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Sweden, Jan-June 2021
Current position: graduate student in the group of Clare Gough, Toulouse, France
Julie Guerreiro, master student from Dept. of Plant Physiology, Umeå University, Sweden, Sept-June 2020-21
Current position: graduate student in the group of Peter Marhavy, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå
Sanchali Nanda, graduate student from Dept. of Plant Physiology, Umeå University, Sweden, Aug 2019-March 2021
Current position: graduate student in the group of Stefan Jansson, Umeå University
Esteban Duneau, bachelor student from Aix-Marseille Université, France, Nov-Jan 2020-21
Johan Svensson Fall, master student from Dept. of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Sweden, Jan-Aug 2020
Subsequently: research scientist at Dynamiccode, Linköping, Sweden
Johanne Adam, bachelor student from Magistère Européen de Génétique, Paris University, France, joined remotely June-July 2020
Cynthia Amstutz, graduate student co-advised by Alizée Malnoë & Kris Niyogi, UC Berkeley, USA, 2015-2019
Subsequently: research scientist at Sound Agriculture, Emeryville, USA
Bee Gek Ng, postdoctoral researcher, March-June 2019
Current position: postdoctoral researcher at Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
Eva Szczyrbová, Erasmus+ student from Palacky University Olomouć, Czech Republic, Aug-Sept 2019
Current position: graduate student in prostate cancer research, Department of Molecular and Clinical Pathology, Olomouć
Julia Avander, Cornelia Byström, Johanna Nilsson, Joacim Nyman, Björn Sundqvist, Martin Sundqvist, Johanna Wuotila, bachelor students from Bioresource and Technology course, Umeå University, Sweden, Apr-Jun 2019