People

Principal Investigator

Picture of Alizée Malnoë in front of Myers Hall taken in August 2024

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

Picture of Pierrick Bru in Myers Hall 330 taken in June 2024

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