About Me

When I was young, I became interested in plants in general and trees in particular thanks to my grandfather. He took me to his kitchen garden and taught me to recognize the wood species in his amateur woodworker studio. Then I had the chance to do an internship early in my training cycle at the Forest Genetics Laboratory of INRA Avignon. A passion was born, I only swore by genes! I liked both the meticulous side of the laboratory and the mathematical mind used to understand the discipline. So I pursued a university degree in agronomy with a specialization in genetics, and then I went to work for 2 years as an International Volunteer in Congo. I continued the work started in Congo by defending a PhD at the University of Bordeaux. At this time (2010), genomics was going through a revolution with the advent of next generation sequencing at low cost. This period was really frustrating for me because I always had to ask a bioinformatician for help, so I decided to learn programming by myself. That's how I found myself aboard Tara Oceans, the project that revolutionized our knowledge about plankton by sequencing seawater at high throughput.