People

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

alizee.malnoe@umu.se
Office room: B4-48-45

Postdoctoral Researchers

Maria Paola Puggioni [research gate]

Postdoc, Umeå University, Sweden, joined September 2021
Visiting Scholar with Federica Brandizzi, Michigan State University, USA, 2019
Visiting Scholar with ShinHan Shiu, Michigan State University, USA, 2018
PhD, Plant Biology with Shizue Matsubara, iGRAD Plant, HHU, Germany, 2016
MS, Molecular Biology, Padova University, Italy, 2015
Master internship with Tomas Morosinotto and Alessandro Alboresi, Padova Uni, Italy, 2014
BS, Biology, Cagliari University, Italy, 2012
Research internship with Rosaria Medda, Cagliari University, Italy, 2012

maria.paola.puggioni@umu.se
Office room: B4-36-45

Graduate Students

Pierrick Bru [research gate][scholar][orcid]

PhD student, Umeå University, Sweden, joined May 2019, graduated Dec 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

pierrick.bru@umu.se
Office room: B4-18-45

Former lab members

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
Current position: 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

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
Current position: 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
Current position: 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