Cedric Feschotte was born and raised in the city of Toulouse in the Southwest of France, where he also earned his Bachelors’ Degree in Organismal Biology in 1997. His fascination for transposable elements and genome evolution truly begun with his PhD research for the University of Paris VI (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie) during which he worked on mosquitoes with Dr. Claude Mouches who also taught him molecular biology at the bench. He is a professor and a principal investigator of Feschotte Lab at Cornell University.