Biography
Aline Muyle is a CNRS researcher in Montpellier, France. Her lab studies the evolution of plant separate sexes (dioecy), sex chromosomes, epigenetics, mating systems and polyploidy, with a particular focus on the Silene genus, where dioecy and sex chromosomes evolved multiple times independently. Using experimental biology, genomics and bioinformatics, she addresses the following fundamental questions: what are the evolutionary forces driving and constraining sexual dimorphism; how is it determined; how do sex chromosomes and dosage compensation evolve; why do some genes show parental-origin-dependent expression (imprinting); and how does polyploidy impact sex chromosome evolution? Her goal is to better understand the diversity and evolution of plant sex chromosomes and reproductive systems and their impact on plant genomes.
