- 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
Publications
- FERONIA and microtubules independently contribute to mechanical integrity in the Arabidopsis shoot – A. Malivert, Ö. Erguvan, A. Chevallier, A. Dehem, R. Friaud, M. Liu, M. Martin, T. Peyraud, O. Hamant, S. Verger – Plos Biology, 2021
- Nitrate modulates stem cell dynamics in Arabidopsis shoot meristems through cytokinins – B. Landrein, P. Formosa-Jordan, A. Malivert, C. Schuster, C. Melnyk, W. Yang, C. Turnbull, E. M. Meyerowitz, J. C. W. Locke, H. Jönsson – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018
- How Mechanical Forces Shape Plant Organs – D.C Trinh, J. Alonso-Serra, M. Asaoka, L. Colin, M. Cortes, A. Malivert, S. Takatani, F. Zhao, J. Traas, C. Trehin, O. Hamant – Current Biology, 2021
- The contribution of mechanosensing to epidermal cell fate specification – A. Malivert, O. Hamant, G. C. Ingram – Current opinion in genetics and development, 2018
Research
2019-
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
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
Talks
- Why plant cells do not pop like soap bubbles? Doctoral school BMIC days, Lyon, 2021
- Why plant cells do not pop like soap bubbles? FERONIA and microtubules independently contribute to mechanical integrity in the Arabidopsis shoot Plant Biomechanics Day 2021, online, 2021
- Turning plant cells into soap bubbles: FERONIA and microtubules independently contribute to mechanical feedback and turn plants from passive to active material Shaping Life 2, Société Française de Biologie du Développement (SFBD), online, 2021
Grants
- Shaping Life 2 Boarding Pass, Travel Grant from the Société Française de Biologie du Développement (SFBD, French Society for Developmental Biology), 2021
- Contrat Doctoral Spécifique Normalien (PhD grant for ENS students), ENS de Lyon, 2020