Florence Parat

Florence is a PhD student from France with a degree in Plant Biology and Agronomy from AgroParisTech. She has been working on theoretical aspects of plant and animal domestication, and in particular on how to use pedigree and polymorphism data to study past demographic and selective events in cattle and/or maize populations.  Florence is submitting her thesis soon, and works now at the breeding company Bejo in the Netherlands.

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Education:

2012 - present: PhD student, Synbreed Project S3

"Population genetics of domesticated animals and crop species"

2007 - 2012: MSc - Diplôme d’ingénieur AgroParisTech

Majors: Agronomy, Plant Protection and Environment

Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon (INAPG), France

 

Professional experience:

Jan 2012 – Sep 2012: Master Thesis, Internship INRA - Centre du Rheu, Rennes, France

Topic: "Multiple criteria evaluation of the sustainability of cropping systems for open-field-grown vegetables"

 

Publications:

Parat F., Schwertfirm G., Rudolph U., Miedaner T., Korzun V., Bauer E., Schön C.C.* and A. Tellier*
2016, Geography and end use drive the diversification of worldwide winter rye populations, Mol. Ecol. 25: 500-514