Benoît BoachonCNRS Research Engineer

Benoît Boachon has been a CNRS Research Engineer at the LBVpam laboratory (CNRS EMR 5003, Jean Monnet University, Saint-Étienne) since 2018. His work focuses broadly on the specialised metabolism of plants and more specifically on the biosynthesis and ecological role of volatile organic compounds (VOCs).

After training in molecular biology and plant chemistry and completing a thesis on the natural defences of plants at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland, he specialised in the study of the biosynthesis pathways of volatile organic compounds with a 5-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (IBMP_CNRS) in Strasbourg and a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship at Purdue University in the USA.

His research combines approaches from enzymatic biochemistry, genomics and transcriptomics, as well as metabolomics tools to identify and characterise the enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of these compounds. His work on roses and petunias in particular aims to understand how plants produce and regulate the production of VOCs, from their precursors to their derivatives, and how these molecules participate in the ecological interactions of plants, particularly with pollinators, herbivores and microorganisms, but also their role in plant communication.

Publications of Benoît Boachon: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CPrKibIAAAAJ&hl=fr

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2362-2238 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beno%C3%AEt-b-49473175/