Ingrid MERCIER has obtained her master degree in biology (Genes expression and recombinant proteins) at the University Paul Sabatier (Toulouse). Before joining CNRGV, she had a first experiment in the laboratory LIPM (Laboratoire des Interactions Plantes Micoorganisms) where she worked on screening mutants of Medicago truncatula.
Then she was involved in a project of screening therapeutic molecules of interest in Pierre Fabre company.

She joined the technical team of CNRGV in January 2009. She is involved in BAC library management and screening and she participates in the Triticeae genome project and the Sunyfuel project.