Jean-Christophe Boyer

**Name** Jean-Christophe Boyer **Born** May 4th 1964 in Valence (26), France. **Marital status** Married, 2 children **Position** Permanent Researcher (Chargé de Recherche Classe Normale, INRAE), Travailleur handicapé (RQTH). **Affiliation** Equipe TICER-Transport ionique chez les céréales et adaptation à l'environnement Institute for Plant Sciences of Montpellier (ex-BPMP) Institut de Biologie Intégrative des Plantes "Claude Grignon" UMR 5004 CNRS/UMR 0386 INRA/L'Institut Agro/Université de Montpellier 2 place Viala F-34060 Montpellier Cedex 1, France Phone +33-499612368 <a>jean-christophe.boyer@inrae.fr</a> **Career** 2015 Group of Anne-Aliénor Very (CNRS, TICER team, BPMP). Study on HKT transporters from cereals. 2007 Group of Hervé Sentenac (INRA, Canaux Ioniques team, BPMP). 2001 Promotion to CR1 1995 Recruitement as a Permanent Researcher (CR2) at the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) in the group of Dr Rémy Gibrat (BPMP, Montpellier, France) to study magnesium and NAXT nitrate transporters. 1993 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Virology headed by Prof. Rob Goldbach, Wageningen Agricultural University (the Netherlands). Study on Cowpea Mosaic Virus movement protein in the group of Dr Jan Van Lent. **Scholarship** 1993 PhD thesis “Molecular and cellular tools for the study of Turnip Yellow Mosaic Virus: synthetic infectious transcripts and protoplast systems”, in the group of Dr. Anne-Lise Haenni, Institut Jacques Monod (CNRS), Université Paris VII, France 1989 M.S. Degree (DEA) in Molecular Biology at Université Paris VII (Jussieu), Paris, France **Supervising (since recruitment)** L3, M1 & M2: 22 students PhD students: PhD Gilles Borrelly (1995-1999); Cécile Segonzac (2002-2006), Emilie Ipotesi (2004-2009), Christelle Taochy (2008-2012)