Marlène Vayssières, 32, completed a master's degree in "Structural and functional biology" at the Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, obtained in 2016. She then completed her PhD entitled "Structural and functional studies of the biogenesis of the small subunit of the ribosome" within the team of Prof. Nicolas Leulliot, in the crystallography and biological NMR laboratory, which she defended in October 2019.