Frédéric Choulet

Dr Frédéric Choulet completed his PhD in bacterial genomics at the University of Nancy (France), working on Streptomyces genome sequencing and evolution. After his PhD in 2006, he joined the INRA GDEC (Genetics Diversity and Ecophysiology of Cereals) in Clermont-Ferrand (France) as a postdoctoral fellow to work on plant genomics and, more precisely, on the complex bread wheat genome.

Since 2009, he has been a bioinformatics group leader at INRA GDEC and an active member of the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium, which aims at obtaining a reference sequence for this amazingly large and polyploid genome. He leads projects in wheat genome sequencing and he is particularly interested in understanding the relationship between genome structure, expression, and evolution, mainly focusing on transposable element dynamics and gene duplications.