Meet our Master's students - Mathilde Quinchon

" The quality of the teaching, its international recognition, and the content of the Plant Sciences program led me to pursue my master's degree at the Paris-Saclay University. Plant Biology is a field that fascinates me and in which I aspire to pursue a career. Passing through a PhD, my goal is to become a university lecturer and researcher. A research-oriented Master's degree focused entirely on plants is therefore perfectly in line with my objectives.

I appreciate the teaching methods: assessment is based on research projects, oral presentations, and analysis of scientific articles, which are all skills that researchers need to master.

Moreover, the fact that this master's program is taught entirely in English is a real opportunity, as English skills are essential for the world of academic research, which is my intended career path.

The international environment is a source of personal enrichment: meeting students from very different backgrounds is a great learning experience.

I will be doing my M2 internship at the Institute Jean-Pierre Bourgin for Plant Sciences (INRAE, Versailles), supervised by Jean-Luc Cacas within the PHYGERM team. I will be working on the regulation of triglyceride metabolism in A. thaliana. This topic, which is a continuation of my previous internships, fascinates me because it approaches plant biology from a biochemical and physiological perspective. "