Dr. Emilie Demarsy
Department of Plant Sciences
University of Geneva, Sciences III
30 Quai E. Ansermet
CH-1211 Geneva 4
Switzerland
Tel.: +41-22-379-6426
Email: emilie.demarsy@unige.ch
Born in 1980 in Suresnes, France
Nationality: French
2017 -
Senior Lecturer (Chargée de Cours), Department of Plant Sciences, University of Geneva
2013 - 2016
Junior Lecturer (Maître Assistante) and Group Leader, "Chloroplast biogenesis and Influence of the light environment", University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland (Laboratory of Prof. Dr. Felix Kessler). Supported by an SNSF Marie Heim-Vögtlin grant.
2007 - 2013
Post Doc, "Study of phot1 signaling during phototropism", Centre for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland (Laboratory of Prof. Dr. Christian Fankhauser)
2003 - 2007
PhD, CNRS/Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France. Thesis: "Ontologie de l'appareil transcriptionnel plastidial au cours de la germination et du développement de la jeune plantule" (Laboratory of Prof. Dr. Silva Lerbs-Mache)
2003
Master of Science in Cellular Biology and Plant Physiology, University of Nantes, France. Project: "Molecular and biochemical study of asparagine synthetase in the parasitic plant Striga hermonthica"
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Leonardelli, M., Tissot, N., Podolec, R., Ares-Orpel, F., Glauser, G., Ulm, R., and Demarsy, E. (2024) Photoreceptor–induced sinapate synthesis contributes to photoprotection in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 196: 1518-1533 (preprint: bioRxiv doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.26.582123).
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Dannay, M., Bertin, C., Cavallari, E., Albanese, P., Tolleter, D., Giustini, C., Menneteau, M., Brugière, S., Couté, Y., Finazzi, G., Demarsy, E., Ulm, R., and Allorent, G. (2024) Photoreceptor-induced LHL4 protects photosystem II in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. bioRxiv doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.23.581703.
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Chen, S., Podolec, R., Arongaus, A.B., Fuchs, C., Loubéry, S., Demarsy, E., and Ulm, R. (2024) Functional divergence of Arabidopsis REPRESSOR OF UV-B PHOTOMORPHOGENESIS 1 and 2 in repression of flowering. Plant Physiol. 194: 1563-1576.
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Demarsy, E. (2022) WRKY-ing in the light. New Phytol. 235: 5-7.
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Podolec, R., Demarsy, E., and Ulm, R. (2021) Perception and signaling of ultraviolet-B radiation in plants. Annu. Rev. Plant Biol. 72: 793-822.
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Pipitone, R., Eicke, S., Pfister, B., Glauser, G., Falconet, D., Uwizeye, C., Pralon, T., Zeeman, S., Kessler, F., and Demarsy, E. (2021) A multifaceted analysis reveals two distinct phases of chloroplast biogenesis during de-etiolation in Arabidopsis. eLife 10: e62709. (preprint: bioRxiv 274043; doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.30.274043).
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Kuschmierz, P., et al. (2021) European first-year university students accept evolution but lack substantial knowledge about it: a standardized European cross-country assessment. Evo. Edu. Outreach 14: 17.
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Schreier, T.B., Cléry, A., Schläfli, M., Galbier, F., Stadler, M., Demarsy, E., Albertini, D., Maier, B.A., Kessler, F., Hörtensteiner, S., Zeeman, S.C., and Kötting, O. (2018) Plastidial NAD-dependent malate dehydrogenase: a moonlighting protein involved in early chloroplast development through its interaction with an FtsH12-FtsHi protease complex. Plant Cell 30: 1745-1769.
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Schumacher, P., Demarsy, E., Waridel, P., Petrolati, L.A., Trevisan, M., and Fankhauser, C. (2018) A phosphorylation switch turns a positive regulator of phototropism into an inhibitor of the process. Nat. Commun. 9: 2403.
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Demarsy, E., Goldschmidt-Clermont, M., and Ulm, R. (2018) Coping with ‘dark sides of the sun’ through photoreceptor signaling. Trends Plant Sci. 23: 260-271.
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Zufferey, M., Montandon, C., Douet, V., Demarsy, E., Agne, B., Baginsky, S., and Kessler, F. (2017) The novel chloroplast outer membrane kinase KOC1 is a required component of the plastid protein import machinery. J. Biol. Chem. 292: 6952-6964.
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Demarsy, E., Lakshmanan, A.M., and Kessler, F. (2014) Border control: selectivity of chloroplast protein import and regulation at the TOC-complex. Front. Plant Sci. 5: 483.
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Hohm, T.*, Demarsy, E.*, Quan, C., Allenbach Petrolati, L., Preuten, T., Vernoux, T., Bergmann, S., and Fankhauser, C. (2014) Plasma membrane H⁺ -ATPase regulation is required for auxin gradient formation preceding phototropic growth. Mol. Syst. Biol. 10: 751. (*equal contribution)
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Willige, B.C., Ahlers, S., Zourelidou, M., Barbosa, I.C., Demarsy, E., Trevisan, M., Davis, P.A., Roelfsema, M.R., Hangarter, R., Fankhauser, C., and Schwechheimer, C. (2013) D6PK AGCVIII kinases are required for auxin transport and phototropic hypocotyl bending in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 25: 1674-1688.
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Demarsy, E.*, Schepens, I.*, Okajima, K., Hersch, M., Bergmann, S., Christie, J., Shimazaki, K., Tokutomi, S., and Fankhauser, C. (2012) Phytochrome Kinase Substrate 4 is phosphorylated by the phototropin 1 photoreceptor. EMBO J. 31: 3457-3467. (*equal contribution)
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Demarsy, E., Buhr, F., Lambert, E., and Lerbs-Mache, S. (2012) Characterization of the plastid-specific germination and seedling establishment transcriptional programme. J. Exp. Bot. 63: 925-939.
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Ding, Z., Galván-Ampudia, C.S., Demarsy, E., Łangowski, Ł., Kleine-Vehn, J., Fan, Y., Morita, M.T., Tasaka, M., Fankhauser, C., Offringa, R., and Friml, J. (2011) Light-mediated polarization of the PIN3 auxin transporter for the phototropic response in Arabidopsis. Nat. Cell Biol. 13: 447-452.
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Demarsy, E. and Fankhauser, C. (2009) Higher plants use LOV to perceive blue light. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 12: 69-74.
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Azevedo, J., Courtois, F., Hakimi, M.A., Demarsy, E., Lagrange, T., Alcaraz, J.P., Jaiswal, P., Maréchal-Drouard, L., and Lerbs-Mache, S. (2008) Intraplastidial trafficking of a phage-type RNA polymerase is mediated by a thylakoid RING-H2 protein. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105: 9123-9128.
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Courtois, F., Merendino, L., Demarsy, E., Mache, R., and Lerbs-Mache, S. (2007) Phage-type RNA polymerase RPOTmp transcribes the rrn operon from the PC promoter at early developmental stages in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 145: 712-721.
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Demarsy, E., Courtois, F., Azevedo, J., Buhot, L., and Lerbs-Mache, S. (2006) Building up of the plastid transcriptional machinery during germination and early plant development. Plant Physiol. 142: 993-1003.
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Simier, P., Delavault, P., Demarsy, E., Pouvreau, J.-B., Pageau, K., Le Bizec, B., Fer, A., and Thalouarn, P. (2005) Characterization of an unusually regulated gene encoding asparagine synthetase in the parasitic plant Striga hermonthica (Scrophulariaceae). Physiol. Plant. 123: 9-20.