M. Bolotin-Fukuhara
Emeritus Research Director at the Institute of Genetics and Microbiology, Genetics and Microbiology
University of Paris-Sud France
France
Biography
Monique Bolotin-Fukuhara completed her Ph.D. in 1977 at University Paris-Sud-Orsay and worked as an assistant-professor in Genetics at the University of Paris up to 1984. She then entered the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique as Director of Research. During this period she went twice to the United States (in Chicago -Prs Esposito- and Madison- Pr M. Nomura) for training or sabbatical. From 2006 to 2010, she was Director of the Institute of Genetics and Microbiology at Orsay. She has served on different scientific committees such as the Science Academy of Finland or Scientific board of Institut de la Recherche Agronomique. She was editor of Yeast for many years and is now editor of FEMS Yeast Research while reviewing for many Journals. She has published about one hundred publications in international journals. She is now an Emeritus Research Director of CNRS.
Research Interest
yeasts mitochondrial genetics - Use yeast for mitochondrial diseases, in particular, to search for correcting genes