Short biography - Charlotte Kirchhelle

After my undergraduate and Master’s degrees in Biology at the Technical University Munich, I did a PhD with Prof Ian Moore at the University of Oxford (completed in 2017). My project focussed on endomembrane trafficking during plant morphogenesis, and found that plant cells specify their edges as essential domains of directional growth control. After my PhD, I continued my research on edge-based growth control as a post-doc and independent research fellow in Oxford before moving to the Plant Development and Reproduction Laboratory at the ENS de Lyon in 2021, where I am a permanent Research Fellow. At the RDP, my ERC-funded research team uses a multi-disciplinary approach to investigate how geometric and mechanical factors pattern intracellular transport and cell identity to promote robust morphogenesis.