Welcome

I am an evolutionary biologist working with genomes. I try to make biological sense of genomic singularities observed through comparative genomics. I have a special focus on host-parasite interactions and I use bioinformatics as a tool to perform this research.

My main topics of interest are:

• The impact of non tree-like evolution such as horizontal gene transfers and hybridization on species biology
• Evolution and adaptation of animals in the absence of sexual reproduction and the underlying mechanisms
• Genomic signatures of adaptation to a parasitic life-style

I am an INRA (French National Institute for Agronomic Research) senior scientist (DR2) and I perform my research at Institut Sophia Agrobiotech, in Sophia-Antipolis, in the French Riviera. Institut Sophia Agrobiotech is a joint laboratory combining staff and facilities from INRA, the University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis and the CNRS. I work in the team “plants-nematodes interactions” and I mainly study the emergence and evolution of plant parasitism in nematodes.

I am also the scientific director of the bioinformatics and genomics platform of our institute where I provide scientific and technological watch as well as helping in sharing the development made for our scientific project to a broader range of users.