Yanniv Dorone

I am an international (half-French, half-Israeli) graduate student in the Stanford Biology department. During my “Classes Préparatoires aux Grandes Ecoles” years at the Lycée Henri IV in France, I focused my education in physics, chemistry and mathematics. However, the biological applications these fields provide stoked my interest in biology. Therefore, after getting into the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, I decided to make a special request to change my major to biology. While this was a risky and challenging change to make during the last year of my B.S., I look back at this as one of the three best decisions I have made career-wise (the other two being applying to Stanford and joining the Rhee lab!). I was really excited about biology in general and had finally found a passion: plant genetics. Since then, I had the privilege of working in four different labs on four different continents: I worked on the initiation of translation at the Mechulam lab (Ecole Polytechnique, France), meiosis in the autotetraploid plant A. arenosa at the Bomblies lab (Harvard, US), temperature perception in A. thaliana at the Wigge lab (Cambridge, UK) and projects related to meiosis in A. thaliana at the Levy lab (Weizmann Institute, Israel). As a PhD student, my goal is to identify and characterize novel mechanisms of transcriptional regulation in A. thaliana. When I’m not doing science, my free time is devoted to movies, reading and traveling.