Catherine Curie is a Research Director at IPSiM, the Institute for Plant Science of Montpellier in France. She obtained her PhD in 1992 at the University of Toulouse on the transcriptional regulation of Arabidopsis genes involved in protein translation. She went on working on the determinants of transcription through a postdoc in the lab of Prof. Sheila McCormick at UC Berkeley, focusing this time on pollen-specific regulated genes. In 1997, Catherine got a full research position at French CNRS where, first in collaboration with Dr Jean-François Briat, then as an independent group leader, she developed her project on metal homeostasis and transport in plants.
At IPSiM, her team studies the physiological and molecular mechanisms of metal ions transport in plants, through a variety of approaches including cell biology, biochemistry and molecular physiology. Among her significant contributions, we can cite the functional characterization of IRT1 and NRAMP1, the high-affinity transporters of respectively iron and manganese at the root surface of Arabidopsis, as well as the powerful histochemical method to image iron in plant tissues and cells. Catherine Curie is the author of 61 peer-reviewed articles (> 12 000 citations, H-index = 37). She has coordinated several national research grants including the 2 ANR grants “PlantMan” and “DEFIMAN” on Manganese transport, and the French-Taiwanese program “ManOmics” with Taipei Academia Sinica. She is partner of the COST European action “PLANTMETALS” involving more than 30 European Countries.
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