Fabienne Desmots was born in Saint-Nazaire, France, in 1971. She received the Ph.D. degree in cellular and molecular biology from the University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France, in 2000. She obtained a one-year teaching position in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Rennes 1 in 2001. Then, in 2002, she joined the Department of Genetics at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, as a Postdoctoral Fellow for three years. Since 2005, she has been a Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Michel's team (“Homéostasie Intracellulaire des Protéines (HIP)”) in the UMR CNRS 6026 Laboratory, University of Rennes 1. Her main subject of interest was the understanding of cellular responses to alteration of protein homeostasis and the biological roles of chaperones and co-chaperones proteins. She is now a Supervisor of a core facility named “Molecular Genetics of Cancer” at the Pontchaillou Hospital, Rennes, France. She is the author and coauthor of two articles in research news journals, 11 scientific publications, and 14 communications in national and international conferences.