Michel Labouesse

Michel Labouesse grew up near Paris. He studied maths and physics for a degree in engineering, but subsequently embraced a career in biology. He learned genetics during his PhD with Piotr Slonimski in Gif/Yvette, where he analysed how the nuclear genome controls expression of mitochondrial genes in yeast. He then went on to learn developmental biology of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as a postdoc with Bob Horvitz at MIT. He is now a group leader at the Institut de Génétique et Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire near Strasbourg. His lab focuses on the analysis of epithelial morphogenesis in C. elegans.