Hélène Yvanne

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Anthony Hall, exploring plant transcriptomes to study biological processes such as the circadian clock. I am involved in the ARIA-funded project SynPACs, which aims to design synthetic plant artificial chromosomes and deliver them to the potato crop. My role consists in the identification of regulatory elements enabling a spatial and temporal control of gene expression in potato.

I completed my PhD degree at the Earlham Institute, with Neil Hall and Mark McMullan. I was working on crop/pathogens interactions, studying the wild sea beet susceptibility/resistance to Uromyces beticola, the beet rust pathogen. In collaboration with the German breeding company KWS, the aim was to identify rust resistance genes applying an association genetics analysis based on k-mers, AgRenSeq (Sanu A. et al., 2019).

Previous to that, I completed a Master's degree at the University of Bordeaux, France, in Cellular and Molecular Genetics. I worked on the spok genes, involved in meiotic drive in the filamentous fungus Podospora anserina, at the Cellular Biochemistry and Genetics Institute of Bordeaux (IBGC).