Jean-Yves Roignant carried out his thesis in the laboratory of Dr. Jean-Antoine Lepesant at the Jacques Monod Institute and received his Ph.D. in 2003 from the University of Paris Diderot. He became postdoctoral fellow and research associate in the group of Dr. Jessica Treisman at New York University Langone Medical Center. He then started his independent group in 2012 at the Institute of Molecular Biology in Mainz and joined the Center for Integrative Genomics at the University of Lausanne in August 2019 where he was appointed Associate Professor. His research is focusing on post-transcriptional gene regulation, in particular the role of RNA modifications in the nervous system, using drosophila and human cells as experimental models.
His group has pioneered the characterization of the m6A mRNA modification pathway in Drosophila melanogaster and demonstrated its involvement in the function of the nervous system.
