Géraldine Bienvenu

Géraldine Bienvenu

Research Assistant IV
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Géraldine earned her PhD in cell biology and physiology in 2004 at the University of Paris VI, France. Her thesis work focused on understanding the role of the IGF system on metabolism, cancer and reproduction. She joined Matthias Hebrok’s lab at UCSF for her postdoc, studying pancreatic cancer and also taught biotechnology at City College of San Francisco. Back to France, she continued teaching biology (University of Nantes) and worked as research assistant in the Center for Research in Transplantation and Immunology (CRTI, Inserm UMR1064). She is one of the co-founders of “Le Lieu Utile”, a non-profit organization and an alternative school in France, working on urban environmental sustainability towards ecological training and awareness. Geraldine and her family moved to Boston in 2020, she joined Trible lab in October 2021 to investigate evolutionary developmental biology, particularly regarding the morphological castes of ants.