Welcome to Pol Vendrell Mir at IPS2!
A new CNRS researcher in plant biology and genomics at IPS2
Pol Vendrell Mir is a CNRS researcher at the Paris-Saclay Institute of Plant Sciences – IPS2 (CNRS/INRAE/UEVE/UPSaclay, Gif-sur-Yvette).
After studying Biotechnology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, he completed a master's degree and a doctorate within the Plant Genome Structure and Evolution group, led by Josep M. Casacuberta i Suñer, at the Centre for Research in Agrigenomics (CRAG, Barcelona). His thesis focused on the impact of mobile genetic elements, including transposons and viruses, in the model organism Physcomitrium patens.
During his postdoctoral fellowship in the Plant Genomics and Quantitative Epigenomics group at IPS2, led by Leandro Quadrana, he studied how transposon mobilization contributes to genetic variation and possible adaptive responses to the environment in Arabidopsis thaliana. He has developed high-precision techniques to detect rare insertions, analyze their dynamics in large populations, and determine how genetic, epigenetic, developmental, and environmental factors regulate transposon activity.
His current research aims to understand how mobile genetic elements, epigenetic modifications, and DNA repair mechanisms interact to shape the formation, distribution, and functional impact of structural variants in plant genomes.
19/02/2026