NATHALIE PLANQUE

Nathalie is a former student of “l’école normale supérieure de Cachan” (now called Paris-Saclay) within the Biochemistry department. She completed her doctoral training at the Institut Pasteur/Institut de Biologie de Lille where she worked on oncogenic transcription factors and their role in cell differentiation during embryonic development, and earned a Ph.D. in Fundamental Bases of Oncogenesis from the Université Denis Diderot (now called Université de Paris) in 1999. She then performed a post-doctoral training at institut Curie at Orsay where she worked on a similar thematic. Following a second post-doctoral training at the hospital la Pitié-Salpétrière in Paris, on the role of transcription factors during neuronal differentiation, she was recruited as a Lecturer in the Biochemistry department of the Université Denis Diderot, and integrated a team to work on secreted proteins, deregulated in various cancers. In 2008, she came back to the institut Curie at Orsay and worked on a phosphatase involved in ocular melanoma cell migration, before joining the team in 2020. Her works now focus on transcription factors, potential targets of microRNAs in some subgroups of medulloblastomas.