A portrait of our newly minted IMCBio PhD researchers
This week we present the portrait of Filippo Battaglia, from Italy.
Filippo Battaglia – Pascal Genschik’s team, IBMP
Filippo is from Italy. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in General Biology at the University of Palermo. Driven by a long-standing interest in plant biology, he then enrolled in a double-degree master’s program between Université Grenoble Alpes and the University of Milan.
During his master’s studies, he carried out several research internships in both Milan and Grenoble. In Milan, he worked in Perrella’s lab on Histone Deacetylase Complex1, while in Grenoble he joined Carles’s lab, where he studied ULTRAPETALA1. For his master’s thesis, supported by a scholarship from the University of Milan, he joined the lab of Gallego-Bartolomè and worked on chromatin remodelers in Arabidopsis.
After completing his master’s degree, Filippo took a six-month break to travel across Europe, from Scandinavia to the Balkans. Following this experience, he returned to research as a fellow in Perrella’s lab, where he worked again on HDC1, this time in tomato, for six months.
In September 2025, he joined the lab of Pascal Genschik at the Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes (IBMP). His current research focuses on Post-Transcriptional and proteolytic control of DNA damage responses in Arabidopsis.
In his free time, I enjoy hiking and reading.
He adds “I chose IMCBio because of the international reputation of the IBMP, the strong expertise in the field of the Genschik’s Lab, and the unique position of Strasbourg at the heart of Europe”.
