Cell scientist to watch – Géraldine Laloux

ABSTRACT Géraldine Laloux is an Associate Professor of bacterial cell biology at the de Duve Institute, UCLouvain, Belgium. After studying host–pathogen interactions during her PhD at the University of Namur, Belgium, Géraldine focused more on the cell biology of bacteria when she joined the Jacobs-Wagner lab at Yale University, USA. In 2017, she then returned to Belgium to set up her lab at UCLouvain, where she works with predatory bacteria to study their unusual cell cycle mechanisms and underlying cellular organisation. We caught up with Géraldine over Zoom to find out more about the interesting lifestyle of these predatory bacteria, as well as her approaches to mentoring and starting a new lab.