Gaëlle Legube did her undergraduate studies in Life Sciences at the University of Poitiers. She then obtained her PhD in Molecular Biology and Genetics at the University Paul Sabatier (Toulouse, France) in the team of Didier Trouche on histone modifications in human cells. She joined Asifa Akhtar's lab at the EMBL (Germany) for her first post-doc, to work on dosage compensation in Drosophila (2003-2006). In 2006 she came back to France as a staff scientist in the team of Didier Trouche, and and started her own lab at the CBI, in Toulouse in 2011. Gaëlle was awarded the bronze medal of the CNRS in 2012, the Coup d'Elan from the Fondation Bettencourt as well as the Fondation Simone et Cino Del Duca prize in cancerology from the French Science Academy in 2019, the CNRS Silver medal in 2020, the prize Raymond Rosen de la FRM in 2022, and the Prix de la fondation Allianz-Institut de France, in 2024. She is an EMBO member since 2023.