Professor Cédric Feschotte

Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics, Cornell University, USA

Cédric Feschotte, Ph.D is the Barbara McClintock Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Cornell University. His laboratory studies the evolution and biological impact of mobile genetic elements and endogenous viruses in a wide range of eukaryotes, including humans. Dr. Feschotte obtained his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Toulouse, France in 1996 and his PhD from the University of Paris in 2001, studying mosquito transposable elements with Prof. Claude Mouchès. From 2000 to 2004, he was a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Susan Wessler at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA, investigating plant transposons. He launched his independent laboratory in 2004 as an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas Arlington. He then joined the University of Utah School of Medicine in 2012 as an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Genetics, where he was promoted to Professor in 2016. In 2017, Dr. Feschotte relocated his laboratory to the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Cornell University where he was appointed the Barbara McClintock Professorship in 2023.