Jean-Yves Bouet is a CNRS Research Director in Toulouse, France, specializing in bacterial DNA segregation and genome organization.
He trained in Microbiology at the University of La Rochelle and in Molecular Genetics at the University of Toulouse, where he earned his Ph.D. (1992-1996) studying bacterial genome organization using Escherichia coli and bacteriophage T4. During his postdoctoral research in Dr. B.E. Funnell’s lab at the University of Toronto (1996-1999), he studied molecular mechanisms of the P1 prophage partition system.
Since joining the CNRS in 2000, he has led an interdisciplinary research program integrating cell biology, molecular genetics, and biochemistry to investigate bacterial genome dynamics. He became a team leader in 2011 and currently co-leads the “Bacterial Genome Dynamics” team at the Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI) in Toulouse. His research focuses on the molecular mechanisms governing the maintenance, adaptability, and segregation of bacterial replicons.