EMBO Member
Institut Curie, Paris | France
EMBO 1989
My main scientific interest concerns eukaryotic genomes. From my early studies on mitochondrial inheritance in yeast, I discovered the mobile introns and the first homing endonuclease, I-Sce I. I then contributed to the original sequencing of the entire yeast genome and subsequently extended my research to comparative yeast genomics with a constant interest on the architecture and evolutionary dynamics of eukaryotic genomes.
Keywords: Yeast genomics / eukaryotic genomes / mobile introns / homing endonucleases / genomic engineering / evolution
Subject area(s): Genome Stability & Dynamics | Genomic & Computational Biology | Evolution & Ecology