Dr Narbonne obtained his PhD from McGill University (Canada) in 2009, under the supervision of Dr Richard Roy. He pursued a first postdoc at the Gurdon Insitute (University of Cambridge, UK) under the supervision of Dr John Gurdon. Then, he made a second postdoc at the IRIC (University of Montreal, Canada). He opened his own lab at the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivieres - UQTR (Canada) in 2017.