Ph.D.
Professor
Division of Plant Science and Technology
Affiliated Faculty
Interdisciplinary Plant Group (IPG)
Principal Investigator
Research at a glance
Area(s) of Expertise
Research Summary
The Libault lab combined expertise in plant cellular biology, molecular biology, plant-omics and computational biology to characterize the role of plant genes in each cell composing a plant. We are also interested in understanding the regulatory mechanisms of their expression in response to environmental stresses.
Marc Libault is a Professor in the Division of Plant Science and Technology at the University of Missouri-Columbia (USA). He received his Ph.D. degree in 2004 from the University of Paris-Saclay in Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology.
In 2005, he joined the University of Missouri-Columbia as a postdoctoral associate to study the symbiotic interaction between soybean roots and nitrogen-fixing bacteria. In 2011, as a faculty member at the University of Oklahoma, Dr. Libault developed a systems biology approach on the root hair cell, the first cell infected by Rhizobia in legume plants. In 2018, he joined the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and pioneered the field of plant single-nucleus technologies to analyze differential use of genomic information across plant cells.
As a faculty member at the University of Missouri-Columbia, he is expanding the use of plant single-nucleus biology to study the symbiosis between legumes and nitrogen-fixing bacteria and plant response to environmental abiotic and biotic stress.
Educational background
- Ph.D., Molecular and Cellular Plant Physiology, Paris 11 University (Sud-Orsay, France), IJPB, INRA of Versailles, 2004
- M.S., Molecular and Cellular Plant Physiology, Paris 6 Pierre et Marie Curie University (Paris, France), 2000
- B.A., Cellular Biology and Physiology, Molecular and Cellular Genetic section, Paris 7 Denis Diderot University (Paris, France), 1999