Solenne Ithurbide

Research Scientist

I love studying unusual microbes to understand how they grow and divide and how DNA content is maintained and segregated during these processes. During my PhD at the Université Paris-Saclay, France, I studied homologous recombination mechanisms and stress response in the radioresistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans. I then studied cell division mechanisms in the halophilic archaeon Haloferax volcanii both at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia and the University of Freiburg, Germany. In the Brun Lab, I am developing high-throughput microscopy methods and genetic screens to fast forward our discoveries of antimicrobials and fundamental cellular processes. Outside the lab, when not hiking with my dog and a camera in each hand, I swap my pipettes and cultures with brushes and paint.

Contact: solenne (dot) ithurbide (at) umontreal (dot) ca