Gaelle Saint-Auret

Gaelle Saint-Auret is an expert in large-scale functional genomics. Her Ph.D. research involved implementing a DNA microarray platform (transcriptomic analysis and chip-on-chip) at the INSERM U905 lab in collaboration with the Genomics Laboratory of Genopole d’Evry near from Paris.

In 2009, she joined as researcher, the Biomics Laboratory (under the direction of Xavier Gidrol) of the French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission in Grenoble (CEA). She enhanced her skills in RNA interference-based screening and developed new strategies to study microRNA biology and mechanism of action. Its team showed for the first time that miRNA can be located in the mitochondria (ref-2). She participated in several studies conducted by Dr. Xavier Gidrol’s team dedicated to the role of several proteins and miRs in epidermis homeostasis and skin DNA damages (ref-3 to -6). She is continuing to work with Xavier Gidrol team to develop new technologies and increase insights in skin biology.

Gaelle Saint-Auret, feels strongly that the different technologies developed by Biomics lab, have the potential to become a biotech firm. After a successful training in strategic and business management in the famous French business school HEC Paris, she created GENEL.