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Research

2023- Research on artificial intelligence tool development for agricultural use (Schmidt futures post-doctoral fellowship) Imperial X (IX) and Bioengineering Department, Imperial College London (United Kingdom), hosts: Naomi Nakayama, Anil Bharath Image-based AI diagnosis platform for early drought stress in plant leaves
  • Monitoring plant ecophysiological responses to drought stress in a lab
  • Designing and implementing a statistic and AI strategy (Python) to classify plant pictures into drought intensity stages
2022 Research in mechanics of plant development (4-month contract) Olivier Hamant's team, RDP, Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Lyon (Lyon, France) Study of fer mechanical properties
  • Initiated collaborations with Y. Long (National University of Singapore) for atomic force microscopy, D. Borowska-Wykręt (University of Silesia in Katowice) for electronic microscopy, G. Mouille (INRAE Versailles) for cell wall biochemistry, B. Muller (INRAE Montpellier) for ecophysiology
  • Adapted a Python model from E. Muller (Ecole polytechnique) for the biophysical characterization of the feronia mutant
  • Wrote a review (Malivert & Hamant, 2023), participated to the writing of a method paper (Smet et al., 2023) and a resesarch paper (Trozzi et al., preprint)
2019-2022 Research in mechanics of plant development (PhD) Olivier Hamant's team, RDP, Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Lyon (Lyon, France) Mechanical signals and developmental plasticity, role of CrRLKs
  • Participated to the writing of a review (Trinh et al., 2021), wrote a research paper (Malivert et al., 2021)
  • Designing, conducting and analysing experiments studying the role of mechanosensors in the environmental response of A. thaliana
2019 Research in plant cell biology (6-month internship) Staffan Persson's team, The University of Melbourne (Melbourne, Australia) Exploring the role of two microtubule-associated proteins in cell wall synthesis and mechanics
  • Adapted protocols of biochemistry and conducted experiments of microscopy to characterize the role of CMU1 and IQD2 in cellulose synthesis, as well as their link to microtubules in A. thaliana
2017-2019 Research in mechanics of plant development (two 6-month internship) Olivier Hamant's team, RDP, ENS de Lyon (Lyon, France) A four-step genetic screen suggests a prominent role of FERONIA in the molecular response of plant cells to mechanical signals
  • Wrote and published a review (Malivert et al., 2018)
  • Tested the phenotype of forty-two mutants in the response to mechanical stress in A. thaliana (Malivert et al., 2021)
2017 Research in plant developmental plasticity (5-month internship) Henrik Jönsson's team, The Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University (United Kingdom) SHOOT MERISTEMLESS is involved in developmental plasticity in Arabidopsis shoot apical meristem
  • Conducted molecular biology and microscopy experiments studying the shoot apical mersitem adaptation to hormones and environmental conditions (light, nutrients) in A. thaliana
  • Participated to a research article (Landrein et al., 2018)
2016 Research in ecology and bioinformatics (7-week internship) Bernard Reynaud's team, Pôle 3P CIRAD Réunion (Saint-Pierre, Réunion, France) Comparative analysis of two methods to automatically analyse electropenetrography signals
  • Conducted electropenetrography experiments on corn delphacidae, manually and automatically analysed the results, quantitatively compared the different analysis modes

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Media coverage

14 national and local articles written about my research in printed and online press, 1 TV interview (on Antenne Réunion), 2 local radio interviews.

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