CURRICULUM VITAE - BAYER Emmanuelle
Laboratory of Membrane Biogenesis (LBM), CNRS, UMR5200,
Univ. of Bordeaux, France. ORCID: 0000-0001-8642-5293
· EDUCATION
2001-05 PhD in Plant Biology, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.
2000 Engineer degree in Biotechnology, University of Bordeaux, France
1996 B.Sc. Life Sciences University of Poitiers, France
· CURRENT POSITIONS
2014-now Principal investigator, CNRS Research Director (class1 since 2024 ranked 1st at the national level) at the Laboratory of Membrane biogenesis (LBM) UMR5200, CNRS-University of Bordeaux, France
Since 2024 Deputy Director of the Bordeaux Imaging Centre
· PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2010-2014 Research associate (CR2 CNRS) in Sebastien Mongrand's team at LBM, University of Bordeaux, France
2006-20010 Post-Doc in Prof. Kuhlemeier’s lab, Institute of Plant Sciences, Berne, Switzerland.
· FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2025 Raimond Castaing award - recognizes their remarkable achievements in the field of microscopy.
2025 France National Science Academy, Award "Major scientific advances in biology"
2022 CNRS Scientific Excellence Award
2021 Académie des Sciences prix Leconte
2020 Nominated by EMBO to join AcademiaNet (expert database for outstanding female academics)
2020 Laureate Human Frontier Science Program
2019 Laureate of EMBO Young Investigator program investigator
2018 ERC Consolidator Grant
2018 Bronze Medal CNRS (reward outstanding early career scientist).
2017 CNRS Scientific Excellence Award
· MENTORING
5 Postdocs: 1 is still under contract (T. Moraes), 1 became a principal investigator at the INRAE-Bordeaux (A. Gaston), one became PI at the university of Almeria, Spain (J. Perez-Sancho), and 2 were hired by the CNRS and University of Bordeaux and joined my team (M. Smokvarska and H. Moreau)
5 PhDs: 1 became Senior scientist in cryoEM lead at Exelixis USA (W. Nicolas), 1 became research engineer CNRS (M. Grison), 1 became artist (J. Petit) and 2 are a Post-Doc (P. Z. Li and S. Sritharan)
12 undergraduates students, Bordeaux University
2017-now PhD student advisor (12 PhD), PhD committee (6 PhD), HDR panel (3)
2012-2014 Evaluation committee for master students, University of Bordeaux, France
- TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2024-26 Main organizer, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory course, "Frontiers & techniques in plant science", 1 month
2024 & 26 EMBO-FEBS course: proteins & lipids in organelle biogenesis, Spetze, Greece
2019 Malaga University. Seminar course master students on high resolution microscopy. 4h
2019 ENS Lyon. Seminar course in stem cells and developmental biology in animal & plants. 4h
2017 University of Bordeaux lecture on “ intercellular communication” Master recherche
Biologie et Biotechnologie des Plantes, and Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes 4h
· ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS and WORKSHOPS
2026 Co-organizer, Membrane contact Sites in cellular homeostasis, Biochemical Society
2025 Main organizer, conf. J. Monod " Molecular basis for membrane remodelling and organisation"
2024 Organising committee, international meeting on plasmodesmata, Saint Louis USA
2022 Organising committee, EMBO workshop on Interorganellar contacts biology, Italy
2021 Main organiser, EMBO workshop on plasmodesmata intercellular communication
2017 Scientific Committee, EMBO workshop on plasmodesmata, Germany.
· PUBLIC OUTREACH
2025 "Une révolution dans l’imagerie des cellules végétales" CNRS biologie
2025 "When plant cells communicate " Video creation with studio troispetitpoints
2024 "Quand la séparation crée le lien : comment les cellules végétales se connectent alors qu’elles se divisent ?", INSB
2023 "Découverte du mécanisme de transport des stéroides", INSB
2022 "how do plant cell communicate ?" Studio Curieux. https://fb.watch/igUXCxym5D/
2019 "Comment les plantes contrôlent-elles le transport des nutriments", CNRS
2019 Nuit Européenne des Chercheurs, CapSciences, Bordeaux
· INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
From 2024 Deputy Director of the Bordeaux Imaging Centre
From 2022 Member of the board of directors LBM unit, Bordeaux France
From 2022 Co-director (with Y. Boutté) of the research team on membrane dynamics in intra and intercellular trafficking, LBM unit Bordeaux France
From 2020 France BioImaging R&D team
From 2014 Member of the Evaluation Committee for Master students, University of Bordeaux, France
2021-2024 Member of the Strategic steering committee of the Bordeaux Imaging Center
2015-2024 National representative for the microscopy users committee France-Bio-imaging
· REVIEWING ACTIVITIES
§ Reviewer for journals: J. Exp. Bot, New Phytologist, Plant Journal, Nature Plants, The Plant Cell, Nature Com, Development, Current biology, Science
§ Grant evaluation: Leverhulme trust, German Research Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation, National Science Centre Poland, National Science Foundation USA., ERC
§ External Evaluator for professor position University of Zurich, University of Vancouver, Cold Spring Harbor
· MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
Since 2024 French Society of Cell biology
· MAJOR COLLABORATIONS
Past: Jens Tilsner, School of Biology, University of Saint Andrews, U.K (plant RNA viruses); Abel Rosado, University of British Columbia, Canada (membrane contact sites plant stress tolerance); Yrjö Helariutta, Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge, U.K (vascular development). Peter Dörmann, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, University of Bonn, Germany (lipids). Laurence Lins, Biophysique moleculaire aux interfaces, University of Liège, Belgium (membrane/protein interaction, biophysics). Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso, Leeds University, U.K. (callose and plasmodesmata regulation); MC Caillaud ENS/CNRS, Lyon, France (cell division).
Current: Yvon Jaillais, ENS/CNRS, Lyon, France (lipid signalling in development); Antoine Taly, CNRS laboratory of theoretical chemistry, Paris, France (molecular dynamics membrane processes); Kaare Jensen, Technical University of Denmark (soft matter biophysics); Christel Genoud, Lausanne, Switzerland (cryo-EM)
· INVITED SPEAKER
To international meetings:
2026 VIB conference ‘At the Forefront of Plant Research’, Ghent, Belgium.
2026 Phosphoinositides: key regulators of cell signaling and membrane dynamics in health and disease, France
2026 Symposium Membrane shaping and remodeling by proteins" Yazhou Bay, China
2026 EMBO-FEBS course: proteins & lipids in organelle biogenesis, Spetze, Greece
2025 APICOM meeting "Integrative Approach for a multi-scale understanding of Membrane Proteins Functions", Dourdan, France
2025 MIFOBIO "Functional microscopy for biology" Seignosse, France
2025 EMBO Workshop "Membrane contact sites: methodology, biology and pathology" Monopoli, Italy
2025 Meeting Jacque Monod, "Molecular basis for membrane remodelling and organisation"
2024 Plasmodesmata meeting, Saint Louis, USA (EMBO lecture)
2024 Int. Conference of the French Society of Plant Biology, keynote speaker, Bordeaux, France
2024 EMBO-FEBS course: proteins & lipids in organelle biogenesis, Spetze, Greece (EMBO lecture)
2024 ITC Organelle communication:from fundamental understanding to therapeutics, Titisee, Germany
2024 SBF1101 Molecular encoding of specificity in plant processes, Tübingen, Germany
2023 EMBO workshop inter-organelle contacts biology, Fiugii, Italy (EMBO lecture)
2023 BIPSA Bio-imaging Nouvelle Aquitaine, France
2022 European Plant Science Organization meeting, Bordeaux France
2021 EMBO Intercellular Communication in Plant Development and Disease, St Andrew, Great Britain
2021 Society for Experimental Biology Annual Meeting, Praha, Tchec republica
2021 CRC Symposium “molecular encoding of specificity in plant processes” Tübingen, Germany
2020 MSC-SMC symposium University of Sherbrokoke, Canada (virtual)
2019 International meeting, “Plant in a changing world”, Helsinki, Finland (EMBO lecture)
2019 Cell wall meeting French society, keynote speaker, Roscoff, France (EMBO lecture)
2019 Botanical microscopy meeting for the Royal microscopical society, Oxford, U.K. (EMBO lecture)
2019 Dynamo international symposium “The evolution, biogenesis and dynamics of energy transducting membranes” Paris, France
2017 International research group France-Japon "Integrative Plant Biology", Lyon, France
2017 EMBO International Plasmodesmata Meeting, Berlin, Germany
2017 Society for Experimental Biology Annual Meeting, Gothenberg, Sweden
2017 Bordeaux Cell Biology Gathering, Bordeaux, France
2016 Unconventional Protein and Membrane Traffic. Lecce, Italy
2015 11th International Congress of Plant Molecular Biology IPMB 2015. Iguazù falls, Brazil
2015 Gordon Conference “Plant Lipids: Structure, Metabolism and Function”. Texas, USA
2014 EMBO Intercellular Communication in Plant Development and Disease, Strasbourg, France
To research Institutes:
2025 Yale medical school, invited by Pietro Di Camilli
2024 Edinburgh university, invited by Andrea Paterlini
2024 Ecole Normale Supérieure Lyon, France invited by Christophe Godin
2023 Cutting egde-science seminar serie, Univ. Umeä, Sweeden, invited by Stéphanie Robert
2021 Center for Plant molecular Biology, Tübingen, Germany, invited by Julien Gronier
2021 University of Zurich, Switzerland, invited by Cyril Zipfel
2021 VIB-Gent Belgium, Center for Plant Systems biology, invited by Jenny Russinova
2021 University of Tennesee, USA, BCMB seminar, invited by Amit joshi
2019 University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, invited by Marie Barberon
2019 Max-Planck Institute Plant Breeding Research, Köln, Germany, invited by Richard smith
2019 University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain, invited by Miguel Botella
2019 Plant Biology Institut of Toulouse, Toulouse, France, invited by Gregory Vert
2018 Biochemistry & Plant Molecular Physiology, Montpellier, France, invited by A. Martinière
2018 Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Versailles, France, invited by Gregory Mouille
2018 Ecole Normale Supérieure Lyon, RDP, France, invited by Yvon Jaillais.
2017 Institute of Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology, Valbonne, France. Invited by Bruno Antonny.
2017 Laboratory of Plant Development Biology, Cadarache, France. Invited by Laurent Nussaume.
2017 Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell, Paris France, invited by B. Satiat-Jeunemaitre
2016 James Hutton Institute, Dundee U.K., invited by Jens Tilsner
2016 Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford University, USA, Invited by Wolf Frommer.
2016 Institute Marie Curie, Lab. of Physico-Chemistry, Paris France, invited by P. Bassereau
2015 Max Planck Institute Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany, invited by Jahn Reinhard
2015 Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, Uni. of Liège, Belgium, invited by Laurence Lins
2015 Plant Development Biology, University of Munich, Germany, invited by Kay Schneitz
· MAIN GRANTS
2026-28 INRAE EXPLORAE "The plant Mobilome-ID" Coordinator, (150k€)
2026-30 ANR PRC QUICKSHARE "Fast regulation of cell-cell communication " Coordinator, (230k€)
2022-26 ANR PRC DIVCON "Building up cell-cell continuity during plant cell division" Coordinator, (180k€)
2020-24 HFSP, "the OS of tree" Partner, (180k€)
2020-24 ANR PRC "3C-Fruit-Growth:Cell‐Cell Communication in Fruit Growth regulation?", Partner (112k€)
2019-23 ANR PRC "The function of anionic lipids in plasmodesmata cell-cell trafficking" Coordinator, (150k€)
2018-24 ERC consolidator, "Membrane contacts in plant intercellular communication" Coordinator, (1.8M€)
2016-18 “Osez l’interdiciplinarité "Modelling & in vitro reconstitution of plasmodesmata", Coordinator, (144k)
2015-17 ANR starting grant, "the function of lipids in plasmodesmata regulation" Coordinator, (219k€)
2013-16 Région Aquitaine "ultrastructural analysis of plasmodesmata by tomography" Coordinator, (98k€)