Benjamin LaCroix has been awarded a permanent position with the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique.

This year the French national science council “Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique” awarded only 5 permanent positions in the fields of Cell and Developmental Biology this past year. Ben Lacroix was one of the awardees. This position ensures his salary for life, be it in his present post as a postdoc in the lab of Julien Dumont at the Institut Jacques Monod in Paris, or as a lab head himself, anywhere within France.

Ben uses biochemical, cell biological, and developmental biology approaches to understand the regulation of changes to the microtubule cytoskeleton that occur throughout development and differentiation.

Félicitations, Benjamin!!