Catherine Feuillet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Catherine Feuillet

French geneticist

Date of Birth: 11-Jul-1965

Place of Birth: Orléans, Centre-Val de Loire, France

Profession: biologist, geneticist, molecular biologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Catherine Feuillet

  • Catherine Feuillet (French pronunciation: [kat?in fĹ“j?] (listen); born July 1965) is a French geneticist who is the head of trait research at Bayer CropScience and a co-chair of the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC).
  • Feuillet has been working on plant genetics since 1994, when she completed post-doctoral studies at the Swiss Federal Institute for Agroecology.
  • She wrote her thesis on Lignification of Eucalyptus which is the study of how wood is formed on a cellular basis.
  • After that she moved on to the University of Zurich in 1997 where she was a junior group leader investigating fungal disease resistance in plant genomes.
  • In 2008, she and her team successfully published the first mapping of the largest wheat chromosome, 3B and in 2014, they successfully completed mapping 3B's sequencing and published a draft of the entire wheat genome.
  • She has been awarded the Prix Foulon from the French Academy of Science, the gold TrophĂ©e de la Femme, was honored as a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, and received the Jean Dufrenoy Prize from the AcadĂ©mie d'Agriculture of France. Today, Feuillet works as the head of Trait Research at Bayer CropScience, where she is actively trying to decrypt the remaining 20 wheat chromosomes so as to identify and manipulate traits that would help eliminate biotic and abiotic stressors that inhibit the yield of wheat in the changing environment.
  • She is also the head of the project, Breedwheat, which works to manipulate the wheat genome to improve the yield of wheat in the changing environment due to global warming because it is a basic food source for upwards of 2 billion people worldwide.

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