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Simon Bourdareau is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Zeitlinger Lab working on genomics and developmental biology. Bourdareau joined the lab in May 2019 after obtaining his Ph.D. in Mark Cock/Susana Coelho's lab at the Roscoff Marine Institute of the CNRS and Sorbonne Université in Paris, France. He earned a bachelor’s degree in 2012 and a master’s degree in 2014 in life sciences focusing on land plant biology from the Université de Poitiers, France before moving on to Stramenopiles during his Ph.D. There, he worked on homeodomain-containing transcription factors and histone dynamics involved in the haploid-to-diploid transition in the emerging research organism Ectocarpus. Outside the lab, Bourdareau enjoys playing cello, hiking and landscape photography.