Claire Remacle earned her Master’s degree in Botany in 1989. She then began work on a doctoral dissertation concerning the mode of transmission of the mitochondrial genome of the green microalgae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii in the laboratory of Microorganism genetics at ULg, under the supervision of Fr. René-Fernand Matagne. Once she had obtained her doctoral degree, Claire Remacle obtained a grant from EMBO to study at the Institute of Molecular Plant Biology in Strasbourg, where she studied the potato. Returning to Belgium in 1996, Remacle rejoined the Microorganism genetics laboratory, and was named FNRS research associate. In 2003 she became an instructor. Now head of the laboratory, she supervises research, once again, on the genetics of the unicellular algae, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

Selection of publications

VINO GRADOVA E., SALINAS T., COGNAT V., REMACLE C.*, MARECHAL DROUARD L.*, Steady-state of imported tRNAs in Chlamydomonas mitochondria are correlated with both cytosolic and mitochondrial codon usages, Nucleic Acids Res, 2009, Jan 12, doi:10.1093/nar/gkn1073 (*co-corresponding authors)

REMACLE C., M. BARBIERI R., CARDOL P., HAMEL P. P., Eukaryotic complex I: functional diversity and experimental systems to unravel the assembly process, Mol. Gen. Genomics, 280 (2008), 93-110.

REMACLE C., CARDOL P., COOSEMANS N., GAISNE M., BONNEFOY N., High-biolistic transformation of Chlamydomonas mitochondria can be used to insert mutations in complex I genes, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 103 (2006), 4771-4776.

CARDOL P., GONZALEZ-HALPHEN D., REYES-PIETRO A., BAURAIN D., MATAGNE R.F., REMACLE C.,_The mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation proteome of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii deduced from the genome sequencing project_, Plant Physiol, 137 (2005), 457-459.

CARDOL P., MATAGNE R.F., REMACLE C., I_mpact of mutations affecting ND mitochondria-encoded subunits on the activity and assembly of complex I in Chlamydomonas. Implication for the structural organization of the enzyme_, J. Mol. Biol, 319 (2002), 1211-1221.

REMACLE C., MARECHAL-DROUARD L., Characterization of the potato mitochondrial transcription unit containing “native” trnS(GCU), trnF(GAA) and trnP(UGG), Plant Mol. Biol, 30 (1996), 553-563.