About Helene Robert Boisivon, Ph.D.
Since 2017, I am the group leader of the “Hormonal crosstalk in Plant Development” research team, in the Mendel Centre for Plant Genomics and Proteomics, headed by Prof. Jiří Fajkus, at CEITEC Masaryk University, in Brno, Czech Republic.
I studied biology in my hometown at the University of Rouen and did my Master studies at the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon, France. My practical training marked the starting of a long relationship with seed development at Laboratory of Reproduction and Development of Plants, under the supervision of Dr. Fred Berger, now at the Gregor Mendel Institute in Vienna, Austria.
In 2002, I started my PhD at the Institute of Biology, in Leiden, The Netherlands, under the supervision of Prof. Remko Offringa. I worked on the regulation of the protein kinase PINOID for the polar transport of auxin. I graduated in May 2008. In Sept. 2007, I moved to the Center for Plant Systems Biology at VIB-University of Ghent in Belgium to join the group of Prof. Jiří Friml, now at IST Vienna, Austria. I worked on unraveling how auxin production is involved in embryo development in Arabidopsis thaliana. I moved to CEITEC Masaryk University in Nov. 2012, as a post-doc (SoMoPro, 2014-2016), to continue my work on the regulation of auxin production in seed development. And I became a Junior Group Leader in 2017.
I am involved in teaching different courses at CEITEC MU including:
C9950 Seminar of the Department Functional Genomics and Proteomics
S2009 Mendel Centre Seminars in the Bio-omics
S2011 Hormones in plant development (spring semester) S2012 Applying Mendel’s laws of genetics to plant biology in the lab (autumn semester)
I am a member of
the International Association of Sexual Plant Reproduction Research (IASPRR)
the American Society of Plant Biology (ASPB)
the Editorial board of Biologia Plantarum