Deborah Bourchis PhD

Deborah Bourc’his, aged 34, is a research scientist at the Jacques Monod Institute in Paris, specializing in the genetic and epigenetic control of genomic imprinting and retrotransposons in mammals. She gained a Ph.D. in human genetics at Denis Diderot University in Paris in 2000, then had a postdoctoral position at Columbia University, New York in the Department of Genetics and Development under Professor Timothy Bestor, before joining her present post in 2005.