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09/2017-08/2019 Postdoc (with Alexander von Humboldt fellowship), LMU Munich (Institute of Genetics, Germany) “Elucidating the regulation and function of pathogen-produced host immune-suppressive small RNAs in the plant pathogen Botrytis cinerea”
10/2013-12/2016 PhD, INRA (BIOGER) of Thiverval-Grignon, France, supervised by Dr. Muriel VIAUD. “Study of the regulation mechanisms of secondary metabolism in the gray mold disease agent Botrytis cinerea.”
01/2013-06/2013 Master’s degree lab internship, Fungisem, University of Angers (France), supervised by Dr. Thomas Guillemette, “Responses of Alternaria brassicicola against the phytoalexins camalexin and brassinin”
09/2011-06/2013 Master’s degree, University of Angers (France), “Integrative vegetal biology, gene, plant and agrosystem” with specialization in phytopathology
06/2012-07/2012 Voluntary internship, University of Nottingham (UK), supervised by Dr. Simon Avery, “Phenotypic heterogeneity in yeast”
09/2008-06/2012 Bachelor’s degree in biology, University of Angers (France), specialization in plant biology and phytopathology
Publications:
Porquier A., Tisserant C., Salinas F., Glassl C., Wange L., Enard W., Hauser A., Hahn M., Weiberg A. (2021). Retrotransposons as pathogenicity factors of the plant pathogenic fungus Botrytis cinerea. Genome Biol 22:225.
Porquier, A, Morgant, G, Moraga, J, Dalmais, B, Luyten, I, Simon, A, Pradier, J-M, Amselem, J, Collado, IG, Viaud, M, (2016). The botrydial biosynthetic gene cluster of Botrytis cinerea displays a bipartite genomic structure and is positively regulated by the putative Zn(II)2Cys6 transcription factor BcBot6. Fungal Genet. Biol. 96, 33–46.
Viaud, M, Schumacher, J, Porquier, A, Simon, A, (2016). Regulation of Secondary Metabolism in the Gray Mold Fungus Botrytis cinerea. Host-Pathog. Interact. Microb. Metab. Pathog. Antiinfectives 201–216.
Schumacher, J, Simon, A, Cohrs, KC, Traeger, S, Porquier, A, Dalmais, B, Viaud, M, Tudzynski, B, (2015). The VELVET Complex in the Gray Mold Fungus Botrytis cinerea: Impact of BcLAE1 on Differentiation, Secondary Metabolism, and Virulence. Mol. Plant. Microbe Interact. 28, 659–674.