Maitre de conférences / Associate professor
HDR
Institut Diversité Ecologie et Evolution du Vivant (IDEEV)
Laboratoire Evolution, Génomes Comportement, Ecologie
CNRS/Université Paris-Saclay UMR 9191, IRD UMR 247
Bureau 1332, 1er Etage
12 route 128
91190 Gif sur Yvette
France
Tel: +33 (0)1 69 15 49 76
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Complete list of publications : Google Scholar Profile
ORCID 0000-0001-8475-1386
Mots-clé / Keywords
• Coévolution Hôte-Parasite / Host-parasite coevolution
• Génomique des populations / Population genomics
• Génomique comparative / Comparative genomics
• Écologie evolutive / Evolutionary Ecology
Main topic
Gall wasps are insects capable of inducing structures called galls providing shelter against antagonists and varying climatic conditions, as well as food for their progeny, thereby increasing their survival. They do it by manipulating their host plant gene. The genetic basis of the ability to induce or form galls, on different plant species and organs, remains largely unknown and poorly studied. I used a mix of evolutionary approach to tackle this problem : population genomics, phylogenomics and transcriptomics.
Associated funding : ANR JCJC BETAGALL 2020-2024 Principal Investigator
Former/side topics
Cheese is a fermented food product that is the result of the transformation of milk by a
variety of microorganisms. Two Penicillium fungi are used for the maturation of cheese :
* Penicillium roqueforti, the blue mould, used for producing blue cheese
* Penicillium camemberti, the white mold, used for the production of Camembert-type
cheese.
We use comparative genomics to understand the genetic basis of parallel adaptation of these two species to cheese.
We also use population genomics to unravel the history of domestication of Penicillium roqueforti.
Associated funding : ANR RetourPostDoc 2012, ANR FUNGADAPT, ANRT-CIFRE Funding
For media coverage see :
New-York Times https://tinyurl.com/nhy4t8n
Le Monde (in french) https://tinyurl.com/noa6p3e
France Inter (Radio interview in french) https://tinyurl.com/q8ly79y
Since May 2023
Lecturer at Laboraty EGCE, Evolution and Genomes
Sep. 2012 – Apr. 2022
Lecturer at Laboratory ESE / IDEEV, Team GEE
Oct. 2010 – Aug. 2012
Post Doc at the Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, in Münster, Germany in Evolutionary Bioinformatics Group, Prof. Erich Bornberg-Bauer; Research Scientist of the DFG-SPP “Host Parasite Coevolution”Topic: Population genomics of Bacillus thuringiensis/ Caenorhabditis elegans host-parasite experimental coevolution
Jun. 2009 – Aug. 2010
Post Doc at the University of Minnesota, Department of Plant Biology in Saint-Paul in the group of Dr. Peter Tiffin Topic: Analysis of the pattern of diversity of Medicago truncatula and his associated Sinorhizobium symbionts
Feb. 2009
PhD degree at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris Topic: Ecological diversification of the African parasitoid Cotesia sesamiae: Role of symbiotic partners
Sep. 2005 – Feb. 2009
PhD studies under the supervision of Dr. Stéphane Dupas at the Laboratory Evolution, Genome and Speciation in Gif-sur-Yvette
