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EDUCATION

• 2008-2009
  

  Licence 1 in Modern and Classical Litterature, Université Lyon 2 (Lyon, France)
  

• 2005-2008
  

  Ph.D. in Biology, École Normale Supérieure (Lyon, France)
  

• 2004-2005
  

  M.S. in Biology, École Normale Supérieure (Lyon, France)
  

• Summer 2004
  

  School "Mediterranean Ecology", Laboratoire Arago (Banyuls-sur-Mer, France)
  

• 2002-2004
  

  B.S. in Biology, École Normale Supérieure (Lyon, France)
  

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• 2019-
  

  National University of Singapore (Singapore)
  Antónia Monteiro / Vinod Saranathan labs
  Project: "Evolution of structural coloration in butterflies."

• 2015-2018
  

  Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon (Lyon, France)
  Abderrahman Khila lab
  Project: "Evolutionary genetics of bristle development in water striders."

• 2014-2015
  

  University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK)
  Bénédicte Sanson lab
  Project: "Oriented cell division and epithelium morphogenesis in the Drosophila embryo."

• 2010-2014
  

  University of Wisconsin (Madison, USA)
  Sean Carroll lab
  Project: "Evolutionary genetics of wing pigmentation in Diptera."

• 2005-2008
  

  Laboratoire de Reproduction et Développement des Plantes (Lyon, France)
  Charlie Scutt lab
  Project: "Evolutionary genetics of carpel development."

• 2004 (5 months)
  

  Evolutionary Biology Centre (Uppsala, Sweden)
  Martin Lascoux lab
  Project: "Recent degeneration of an old duplicated flowering time gene in Brassica nigra."

• 2003 (2 months)
  

  Institute of Ecology and Evolution (Lausanne, Switzerland)
  Laurent Keller lab
  Project: "Nestmate recognition and genetic distance in the super-colonial ant Formica paralugubris."

GRANTS & AWARDS

• 2023
  

  Ministry of Education, Singapore, Tier 2 Research Grant (1.2 M SGD) "The genetic basis for differences in cuticle polarization and regionalization in butterfly wing scales."

• 2006
  

  Best Poster Award - 15^th Congress of the Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology (FESPB)

• 2006
  

  Meeting grant to participate to the 14O^th extraordinary session of the Société Botanique de France (Alpes-Maritimes, France)

• 2005-2008
  

  PhD grant from the French ministry of education and research

REVIEW ACTIVITY

• Advanced Photonics

• Biology Letters

• BMC Biology

• BMC Evolutionary Biology

• BMC Genomics

• BMC Plant Biology

• Chemosphere

• Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects

• Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part D

• eLife

• European Journal of Entomology

• Evolution Letters

• Frontiers in Genetics

• Frontiers in Plant Science

• Genes

• Genome Biology and Evolution

• Integrative and Comparative Biology

• International Journal of Molecular Sciences

• Journal of Ethology

• Journal of Genetics & Genomics

• Journal of Imaging

• Journal of Molecular Evolution

• Journal of Phycology

• Molecular Biology and Evolution

• Molecular Biology Reports

• Plant Foods for Human Nutrition

• Plant Methods

• Plants

• Plant Science

• PNAS

• Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B

• Scientific Reports

• The Plant Journal

• Zoological Research

OUTREACH & TEACHING

• Outreach
  

  2018. Déclics - Dialogues entre Chercheurs et Lycéens (Lyon, France)

  2018. Fête de la Science "Ces petites bêtes qui nous aident à comprendre les gènes" (Lyon, France)

  2018. "Dans la blouse d’un chercheur, ou d’une chercheuse" – elementary school pupils (Lyon, France)

  2017. Introduction to the world of biological research for middle school students (Lyon, France)

  2016. Fête de la Science "Punaises d'eau: modèles de recherche au laboratoire" (Lyon, France)

  2009: Seminar "On the Origin of Flowering Plants" at Lyon Botanic Garden (Lyon, France)

  2009. Exhibition "Évolution...Révolution" for the celebration of the 200^th birthday of Darwin at Lyon Botanic Garden (Lyon, France)

  2007. Colloquium "Autour de Linné" for the celebration of the 300^th birthday of Linnaeus and organized by the Société Botanique de France (Lyon, France)

  
  
• Teaching
  

  2024. "LSM4256-Evolution of Development" Licence 4 class at National University of Singapore (Singapore)

  2023. "Embryogenèse précoce" Licence 1 class at Université Laval (Canada)

  2022. "LSM4256-Evolution of Development" Licence 4 class at National University of Singapore (Singapore)

  2021. "Introduction to Phylogenetic trees" Master class at Hokkaido University (Japan)

  2021. "ENT812-Insect Molecular Biology" Licence 1 class at Michigan State University (USA)

  2016. Practical courses in Genetics (Licence 1) at the University Lyon 1 (France)

  2007. "Integrative Plant Biology" Master 2 class at the École Normale Supérieure (France)

  
  
• Mentoring
  

  2024. Mentoring of Judith Han Jia En (undergraduate)

  2022. Mentoring of Yuqi Weng (undergraduate)

  2021. Mentoring of Yi Yang Bei (undergraduate)

  2018. Mentoring of Alice Roussel (Master 1)

  2018. Mentoring of Laura Volff and Louis Rolland (Classes Préparatoires)

  2013. Mentoring of Hung Tae Kim (undergraduate)

  2011-2013. Mentoring of Korynne DeCloux (undergraduate)

  2007. Mentoring of Nicolas Rode (Master 2)

RESPONSABILITIES

• 2024
  

  Grant Evaluation Panel - European Science Foundation (section: interdisciplinary)

• 2023-
  

  Guest Editor - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution "Biological and physical basis of the development of integument and associated structures"

• 2023-
  

  Editorial Board - Humanities & Social Sciences Communications

• 2022-2024
  

  Guest Editor - Evolution & Development"Old hypotheses and theories at the heart of current evo-devo research"

• 2022-
  

  Review Editor - Frontiers in Genetics

• 2021-
  

  Preprint Editorial team - Proceedings of the Royal Society B (section Developmental Biology)

• 2021-2023
  

  Grant manager NRF "From genes to products: study and application of butterfly structural colors for biomimetic manufacture" (SGD$4.9M - 4 PIs, 5 Postdocs)

• 2021
  

  Organizer of the symposium "Evolution of structural coloration in animals", 2^ndAsiaEvo Conference (Tokyo, Japan)

COMMUNICATIONS

• 2024
  

  Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte (Tours, France) "Insect cuticle and associated structures: evolution, development, and bioinspiration." - invited seminar -

• 2023
  

  Département de Biologie (Québec, Canada) "Developmental and evolutionary photonics." - invited seminar -

• 2023
  

  Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo (Sevilla, Spain) "Developmental and evolutionary photonics." - invited seminar -

• 2022
  

  Trends in Biodiversity and Evolution (TiBE) "The Biology of Colour" (Vila do Conde, Portugal) "Evolution of butterfly wing photonic nanostructures." - poster -

• 2022
  

  Tokyo Metropolitan University, Department of Biological Sciences (host: Dr. Yuichi Fukutomi) "How the semi-aquatic bugs invaded the water surface: an evo-devo approach." - invited seminar -

• 2019
  

  National University of Singapore, Department of Biological Sciences (host: Pr. Antónia Monteiro) "Evolution and development of coloration in drosophilids." - invited seminar -

• 2018
  

  7^th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology (EED, Galway, Ireland) "Evolutionary genetics of bristle development in semi-aquatic insects." - poster -

• 2015
  

  University of Cambridge, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience Symposium (Cambridge, UK) "Orientation of Cell Division during Drosophila embryogenesis." - talk -

• 2013
  

  University of Oxford, Department of Zoology (host: Pr. Peter Holland) "Recruitment of a partial gene network underlies morphological innovation in Samoaia flies." - invited seminar -

• 2013
  

  EMBO|EMBL Symposium "New model systems for linking evolution and ecology" (Heidelberg, Germany) "Wing pigmentation pattern novelty in Samoaia flies: development, evolution, and functional genomics." - poster -

• 2012
  

  Conference Jacques Monod "Emergence and evolution of developmental patterns" (Roscoff, France) "To understand wing pattern novelty in flies or the Holy enGrailed Quest." - poster -

• 2008
  

  Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE, Barcelona, Spain) "Evolution of ARF gene family in the land plants." - poster -

• 2007
  

  11^th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB, Uppsala, Sweden) "ARF gene family in carpel evolution." - poster -

• 2006
  

  1^st Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology (EED, Prague, Czech Republic) "ARF gene family in carpel evolution." - talk -

• 2006
  

  15^th Congress of the Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology (FESPB, Lyon, France) "ARF gene family in carpel evolution." - poster -

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

• Ru H, Finet C, Monteiro A. Calreticulin is required for cuticle deposition and trabeculae formation inside butterfly wing scale cells. bioRxiv

• Finet C ^✉, Bei YY, Saranathan V, Ruan Q ^✉, Monteiro A ^✉. The upper surface of butterfly wing scales is a toolbox for structural color diversity. bioRxiv

• Prakash A, Balakrishnan D, Daurer BJ, Finet C, Lim YC, Shen Z, Thibault P, Loh ND, Monteiro A. Nanoscale cuticle density variations correlate with pigmentation and color in butterfly wing scales. arXiv

• Finet C ^✉. (2024) Developmental genetics of cuticular micro- and nano-structures in insects. Current Opinion in Insect Science 65:101254. online

• Banerjee TD* ^✉, Finet C* ^✉, Seah KS, Monteiro A ^✉. (2024) Optix regulates nanomorphology of butterfly scales primarily via its effects on pigmentation. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 12:1392050. online | pdf

• Kompa A, Finet C, Saranathan V, Fernandez JG. (2024) Large-scale artificial production of Coleoptera cuticle iridescence and its use in conformal biodegradable coatings. Advanced Engineering Materials 26:2301713. online | pdf | Phys.org

• Finet C ^✉. (2023) Light as matter: natural structural colour in art. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications 10:248. online | pdf

• Finet C* ^✉, Ruan Q*, Bei YY, Chan JYE, Saranathan V, Yang JKW ^✉, Monteiro A ^✉. (2023) Multi-scale dissection of wing transparency in the clearwing butterfly Phanus vitreus. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 20:20230135. online | pdf

• Raut HK, Ruan Q, Finet C, Saranathan V, Yang JKW, Fernandez JG. (2022) The height of chitinous ridges alone produces the entire structural colour palette. Advanced Materials Interfaces 2201419. online | arXiv

• Prakash A, Finet C, Banerjee TD, Saranathan V, Monteiro A. (2022) Antennapedia and optix regulate metallic silver wing scale development and cell shape in Bicyclus anynana butterflies. Cell Reports 40:111052. online | pdf

• Finet C ^✉, Decaras A, Rutkowska M, Roux P, Collaudin S, Joncour P, Viala S, Khila A ^✉. (2022) Leg length and bristle density, both necessary for water surface locomotion, are genetically correlated in water striders. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119:e2119210119. online | pdf | This week in PNAS

• Pu J, Wang Z, Cong H, Chin JSR, Justen J, Finet C, Yew JY, Chung H. (2021) Repression precedes independent evolutionary gains of a highly specific gene expression pattern. Cell Reports 37:109896. online | pdf

• Zhang Y, Katoh TK, Finet C, Izumitani HF, Toda MJ, Watabe H, Katoh T. (2021) Phylogeny and evolution of mycophagy in the Zygothrica genus group (Diptera: Drosophilidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 163: 107257. online

• Finet C ^✉, Kassner VA, Carvalho AB, Chung H, Day JP, Day S, Delaney EK, De Ré FC, Dufour HD, Dupim E, Izumitani HF, Gautério TB, Justen J, Katoh T, Kopp A, Koshikawa S, Longdon B, Loreto EL, Nunes MDS, Raja KKB, Rebeiz M, Ritchie MG, Saakyan G, Sneddon T, Teramoto M, Tyukmaeva V, Vanderlinde T, Wey EE, Werner T, Williams TM, Robe LJ, Toda MJ, Marlétaz F. (2021) DrosoPhyla: resources for drosophilid phylogeny and systematics. Genome Biology and Biology 13: evab179. online | pdf

• Saranathan V, Finet C. (2021) Cellular and developmental basis of avian structural coloration. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development 69: 56-64. online | arXiv

• Luo M*, Finet C*, Cong H, Wei H, Chung H. (2020) The evolution of insect metallothioneins. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 287: 20202189. online

• Dufour HD, Koshikawa S ^✉, Finet C ^✉. (2020) Temporal flexibility of gene regulatory network underlies a novel wing pattern in flies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117: 11589-11596. online | pdf | The Node

• Finet C, Slavik K, Pu J, Millar JG, Carroll SB, Chung H. (2019) Birth-and-death evolution of the fatty acyl-CoA reductase gene family and diversification of cuticular hydrocarbon synthesis in Drosophila. Genome Biology and Evolution 11: 1541-1551. online | pdf

• Scarpa E, Finet C, Blanchard GB, Sanson B. (2018) Actomyosin-driven tension at compartmental boundaries orients cell division independently of cell geometry in vivo. Developmental Cell 47: 727-740. online | pdf | preLights | DevCell Preview | EMBO News&Views

• Finet C ^✉, Decaras A, Armisén D, Khila A ^✉. (2018) The achaete-scute complex contains a single gene that controls bristle development in the semi-aquatic bugs. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 285: 20182387. online | pdf

• Armisén D, Rajakumar R, Friedrich M, Benoit JB, Robertson HM, Panfilio KA, Ahn SJ, Poelchau MF, Chao H, Dinh H, Doddapaneni H, Dugan S, Gibbs RA, Hughes DST, Han Y, Lee SL, Murali SC, Muzny DM, Qu J, Worley KC, Munoz-Torres M, Abouheif E, Bonneton F, Chen T, Childers C, Cridge AG, Crumière AJJ, Decaras A, Didion EM, Duncan E, Elpidina EN, Favé MJ, Finet C, Jacobs CGC, Jarvela A, Jennings EJ, Jones JW, Lesoway MP, Lovegrove M, Martynov A, Oppert B, Lillico-Ouachour A, Rajakumar A, Refki PN, Rosendale AJ, Santos ME, Toubiana W, van der Zee M, Vargas Jentzsch IM, Lowman AV, Viala S, Richards S, Khila A. (2018) The genome of the water strider Gerris buenoi reveals expansions of gene repertoires associated with adaptations to life on the water. BMC Genomics 19: 832. online | pdf

• Finet C* ^✉, Floyd SK*, Conway SJ, Zhong B, Scutt CP, Bowman JL ^✉. (2016) Evolution of the YABBY gene family in seed plants. Evolution & Development 18: 116-126. online

• Finet C ^✉, Berne-Dedieu A, Scutt CP, Marlétaz F. (2013) Evolution of ARF gene family in land plants: old domains, new tricks. Molecular Biology and Evolution 30: 45-56. online | pdf

• Finet C ^✉, Jaillais Y. (2012) AUXOLOGY: when auxin meets plant evo-devo. Developmental Biology 369: 19-31. online | pdf

• Vialette-Guiraud AC, Alaux M, Legeai F, Finet C, Chambrier P, Brown S, Chauvet A, Magdalena C, Rudall P, Scutt CP. (2011) Cabomba as a model for studies of early angiosperm evolution. Annals of Botany 108: 589-598. online | pdf

• Vialette-Guiraud AC, Adam H, Finet C, Jasinski S, Jouannic S, Scutt CP. (2011) Insights from ANA-grade angiosperms into the early evolution of CUP-SHAPED COTYLEDON genes. Annals of Botany 107: 1511-1519. online | pdf

• Banks JA, Nishiyama T, Hasebe M, Bowman JL, Gribskov M, dePamphilis C, Albert VA, Aono N, Aoyama T, Ambrose BA, Ashton NW, Axtell MJ, Barker E, Barker MS, Bennetzen JL, Bonawitz ND, Chapple C, Cheng C, Correa LG, Dacre M, DeBarry J, Dreyer I, Elias M, Engstrom EM, Estelle M, Feng L, Finet C, Floyd SK, Frommer WB, Fujita T, Gramzow L, Gutensohn M, Harholt J, Hattori M, Heyl A, Hirai T, Hiwatashi Y, Ishikawa M, Iwata M, Karol KG, Koehler B, Kolukisaoglu U, Kubo M, Kurata T, Lalonde S, Li K, Li Y, Litt A, Loqué D, Lyons E, Manning G, Maruyama T, Michael TP, Mikami K, Miyazaki S, Morinaga S, Murata T, Mueller-Roeber B, Nelson DR, Obara M, Oguri Y, Olmstead RG, Onodera N, Petersen BL, Pils B, Prigge M, Rensing SA, Riano-Pachon DM, Roberts AW, Sato Y, Scheller HV, Schulz B, Schulz C, Shakirov EV, Shibagaki N, Shinohara N, Shippen DE, Sorensen I, Sotooka R, Sugimoto N, Sugita M, Sumikawa N, Tanurdzic M, Theissen G, Ulvskov P, Weng JK, Willats WG, Wipf D, Wolf PG, Yang L, Zimmer AD, Zhu Q, Mitros T, Helstein U, Otillar R, Salamov A, Schmutz J, Shapiro H, Lindquist E, Lucas S, Rokhsar D, Grigoriev IV. (2011) The compact Selaginella genome identifies changes in gene content associated with the evolution of vascular plants. Science 332: 960-963. online | pdf

• Finet C ^✉, Timme RE, Delwiche CF, Marlétaz F. (2010) Multigene phylogeny of the green lineage reveals the origin and diversification of land plants. Current Biology 20: 2217-2222. online | pdf | F1000 Biology

• Kremer N, Dedeine F, Charif D, Finet C, Allemand R, Vavre F. (2010) Do variable compensatory mechanisms explain the polymorphism of the dependence phenotype in the Asobara tabida-Wolbachia association? Evolution 64: 2969-2979. online | pdf

• Finet C, Fourquin C, Vinauger-Douard M, Berne-Dedieu A, Chambrier P, Paindavoine S, Scutt CP. (2010) Parallel structural evolution of Auxin Response Factors in the angiosperms. The Plant Journal 63: 952-959. online | pdf

• Sjödin P, Hedman H, Shavorskaya O, Finet C, Lascoux M, Lagercrantz U. (2007) Recent degeneration of an old duplicated flowering time gene in Brassica nigra. Heredity 98: 375-384. online | pdf

• Holzer B, Chapuisat M, Kremer N, Finet C, Keller L. (2006) Unicoloniality, recognition and genetic differentiation in a native Formica ant. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19: 2031-9. online | pdf

• Scutt CP, Vinauger-Douard M, Fourquin C, Finet C, Dumas C. (2006) An evolutionary perspective on the regulation of carpel development. Journal of Experimental Botany 57: 2143-52. online | pdf

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

• Finet C, Marlétaz F. Editorial: Old hypotheses and theories at the heart of current evo-devo research. Evolution & Development 26: e12487. online

• Finet C. Hanging by a hair: the life of a semi-aquatic bug. The Node | 23 February 2022

• Dufour HD, Koshikawa S, Finet C. An evolutionary fable: the black pencil and the rubber. The Node | 18 June 2020

• Scutt CP, Vinauger-Douard M, Fourquin C, Finet C, Dumas C. (2005) A portrait of the ancestral flower. Flowering Newsletter 39, Spring 2005: 3-8. pdf