Mohamed Hijri

I obtained my PhD in Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology (option: Molecular Genetics) at the University of Burgundy (Dijon, France) in 1999. My PhD project aimed to study the organization of the genetic polymorphism of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Scutellospora castanea under the supervision of Prof. Hubert Dulieu at the INRA Dijon Centre. In 1999, I joined the lab of Dr. Ian Sanders at the University of Basel (Switzerland) as a postdoctoral fellow and worked on molecular genetics and the evolution of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. I moved with the Sanders lab to the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) in 2000 and continued as a postdoctoral fellow until 2005. I then joined the IRBV and the Department of Biological Sciences of the University of Montreal in September 2005 as an assistant professor, and I was promoted to associate professor in June 2010, followed by Full Professor promotion in June 2016.