Marina Elez was born in Split, Croatia. She received her bachelor’s degree in Molecular Biology from the University of Zagreb. Her main research interests have been to understand how cells maintain the stability of their genome while achieving a certain degree of diversification and control of this fine balance.
She obtained her PhD in Microbiology and Virology, in the laboratory of Professor Miroslav Radman, INSERM, University Paris Descartes. During her Post-Doc in this laboratory, she developed the first method to study mutations at the single-cell level. In 2012, she was appointed Associate Professor at the University of Evry-Val-d’Essonne and joined the CNRS Institute of Systems and Synthetic Biology.
She started an independent research activity in 2014, in collaboration with Lydia Robert, at Sorbonne University, Jean Perrin Laboratory, aimed at studying processes related to genome evolution and maintenance using live cell imaging and microfluidics and Escherichia coli as a model system. In 2020, she was appointed Research Director at INRAE where she continues this line of research.
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