Desponts, Mireille
Mireille Desponts is a biology graduate from the University of Montréal (B. Sc., 1982, M. Sc., 1985) and from Laval University (Ph. D., 1990). After graduating, she completed a postdoctoral internship at the Canadian Forest Service, during which she studied the effects of genetic improvement programs on white spruce genetic diversity. In 1995, she became a research professional at the Faculté de foresterie, de géographie et de géomatique [Department of Forestry, Geography and Geomatics] of Laval University. She then coordinated research on the biodiversity of ancient boreal fir forests and the effects of logging on the diversity and composition of plants and animal populations. In 2001, she joined the Direction de la recherche forestière as a researcher in forest genetics. She specializes in the evaluation and selection of genetically improved black spruce and jack pine populations based on growth and adaptation to bioclimatic conditions. She also has developed expertise in genetic selection for wood quality. In addition, she collaborates to research projects on the identification of genomic markers for adaptation and wood quality.
Link to Mireille Desponts’ page on ResearchGate 
Link to the list of Mireille Desponts’s publications in French
