Francois Roudier

Our research aims at understanding the extent to which chromatin-based mechanisms and epigenetic processes regulate cell fate acquisition, maintenance and reprogramming during plant development. Three research axes that combine genetic, molecular, imaging and genomic approaches at cellular resolution are implemented in order to: - characterize epigenome dynamics during cell differentiation and reveal the specific role of chromatin regulators in the activity of stem cell niches, cell fate acquisition and identity maintenance. - determine the impact of chromatin state dynamics on the target repertoire of select transcription factors (and vice-versa). - evaluate how epigenomic variation contributes to shaping developmental programs during evolution