Abstract
ABSTRACT Charlotte Kirchhelle is Chargée de Recherche at the Laboratory for Plant Reproduction and Development in the National Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment Research (INRAE) at École normale supérieure (ENS) de Lyon in Lyon, France. After earning her undergraduate and master's degrees in plant genetics at the Technical University of Munich in Germany, Charlotte moved to the UK for her PhD at the University of Oxford. Supervised by Dr Ian Moore, her doctoral work uncovered a novel endomembrane trafficking pathway that controls cell edge-based growth in Arabidopsis thaliana. After a short postdoc, she started her own lab at Oxford and subsequently moved to ENS de Lyon in 2021, where her team continues to investigate the role of the cell edge in plant signalling, mechanotransduction and morphogenesis. Charlotte joins Journal of Cell Science as an Associate Editor in 2025, bringing to JCS her expertise in mechanobiology and computational modelling for plant model systems as well as a passion for asking fundamental questions about cell and developmental biology. We spoke with Charlotte over Zoom about her career, advice for young scientists, and her mission to encourage plant scientists to ‘branch out’ into the biological community.
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