from Coralie Deladriere: Lake Champlain Summer 2015

from Elitza Tocheva: Microcystis colony with its microbiome

RESEARCH VISION

My long-term goal is to develop predictive capability by tracking evolving microbial (especially cyanobacterial) populations in real time, using whole-genome and whole-community DNA sequencing to understand their evolution and predict how they adapt to changing environments.  My objectives are (1) to identify the ecological and evolutionary mechanisms structuring microbial interactions and quantifying the time scales upon which these interactions occur (2) to disentangle microbial interactions (e.g bacterial-phage or host-microbiome) and how these interactions can be impacted by environmental parameters or community dynamics.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

I recently got a position as junior professor chair at CARRTEL (INRAE, https://fr-carrtel.lyon-grenoble.hub.inrae.fr/). With my new team, (1) we are currently characterizing how the composition of cyanobacterial microbiome vary across environmental conditions. Thanks to amazing different collaborations (Canada, UK, Mexico, Brazil, US) we sampled several lakes across the world and developed novel sequencing approaches to determine the composition and function of this microbiome.
(2) In collaboration with McGill University (B.J Shapiro - Microbiology dpt) and Université de Bordeaux (JC Baret, CRPP, UMR5031), we are also using nanoscale approaches to decipher the role of microbiome in Cyanobacteria colony formation.
(3) Finally, in collaboration with Université de Genève (Prof Bastiaan Ibelings), I am also working on benthic Cyanobacteria to better understand their population structure and capacity to produce cyanotoxins.