Patrice Hamel

Patrice Hamel studies how energy-producing machinery inside mitochondria and chloroplasts is built and maintained, using yeast and the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii as model organisms. Much of the work focuses on how cells assemble large protein complexes involved in respiration (making ATP) and photosynthesis, including cytochrome c oxidase and mitochondrial Complex I, and how genetic engineering approaches (like expressing mitochondrial genes from the nucleus, called 'allotopic expression') can be used to study or bypass mitochondrial dysfunction. Recent work also touches on vitamin B5 metabolism and its role in cellular detoxification in fungi.

Publication output has been relatively steady with modest year-to-year fluctuation, showing a slight increase in output during 2022-2024 compared to earlier in the decade.

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