Chloe Zubieta received her PhD in 2002 from the University of California, San Diego and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies where she studied the structure and specificity of enzymes involved in plant secondary metabolism with Dr. Joseph Noel. Zubieta then went on to a postdoc with Dr. Stephen Cusack at the EMBL, Grenoble where she studied the structure of small viral like particles from human adenoviruses, called pentons, for applications in drug design. After her postdoctoral work in France, she returned to the United States and worked with Prof. Tom Alber at UC Berkeley on methods development for semi-high throughput crystallographic characterization of proteins from native sources. She was recruited by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) as a team leader in 2013. Zubieta is currently at the Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire et Végétale in Grenoble, France. 

Her research focuses on structure-function studies of different transcriptional regulators important for plant development and environmental response in Arabidopsis thaliana. In combination with plant genetics, we use different structural techniques, including protein crystallography, small-angle X-ray and neutron scattering, and electron and fluorescence microscopy to study protein-protein and protein-DNA complexes and their function. We are currently addressing how transcriptional regulators assemble into biomolecular condensates and tune temperature response in plants.