Postdocs
Georgios D Koutsovoulos
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ANR PRC ‘ADMIRE’ fellow: 04/05/2021 — 31/12/2021
UCA JEDI fellow: May the 4th 2019 — ongoing
AgreensKills+ fellow: 01 Nov. 2016 — 03 May 2019
Main topic: Evolutionary trajectory of the root-knot nematodes, emergence and evolution of plant parasitism
Comparative genomics, phylogenetics and bioinformatics
Romain Blanc-Mathieu
ANR JCJC ‘ASEXEVOL’ fellow: 01/01/2015 — 30/04/2015
University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis fellow: 01/01/2014 — 31/12/2014
Origin and consequences of the duplicated genome structures of tropical root-knot nematodes.
Now research scientist at the Cell & Plant Physiology Laboratory (CEA, Link), Grenoble, France.
Celine Vens
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FWO fellow: 01/10/2009 — 31/07/2010
Bioinformatics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence. Prediction of motifs in effectors, prediction of effector proteins using AI.
Now Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine at KULAK, a KU Leuven campus in Kortrijk, Belgium.
Engineers
Amandine Campan-Fournier
ANR NEMATARGETS Fellow
Identification of genes and proteins conserved in plant-parasitic nematodes but absent from non-parasitic species.
PhD Students
Carole Belliardo (2019-2022)
Co-funded by Plant Health and Environment Dept of INRAE and Mycophyto
“Mining soil metagenomes to improve our knowledge on the origin of horizontal gene transfers in plant-parasitic nematodes.”
Djampa K. Kozlowski (2017-2020)
Funded by the French Ministry for higher education, research and innovation
“Contribution of transposable elements to the genome plasticity and adaptation of root-knot nematodes.”
Defended November 13 2020
Fabricio Arraes
“Genome assembly and annotation of the genome of the cotton boll weevil Anthonomus grandis“
Ana Zotta Mota
Master Students
Mélanie Masson(2021)
Master II, Life Sciences, “Biology Informatics Mathematics”, University Côte d’Azur (6 months)
“Study of de novo gene birth events in the genomes of root-knot nematodes”
Co-supervisor: Dominique Collinet
Alyssia Mari(2021)
Master II, Life Sciences, “Biology Informatics Mathematics”, University Côte d’Azur (6 months)
“Neo-functionalization and protein subcellular relocalization after whole genome duplications in root-knot nematodes”
Co-supervisor: Dominique Collinet
ALEXIA KUNTZ (2020)
Master II bioinformatics, Univerisity of Bordeaux (6 months)
“Gene loss and pseudogenisation after whole genome duplications in root-knot nematodes”
Adrien Deceneux (2019)
Master II, Life Sciences, University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis (6 months)
Co-supervisor: Marc Bailly-Bechet
“Mining soil metagenomes to identify horizontal gene transfers in root-knot nematodes”
Marine Poullet (2018)
Master II, Life Sciences, “Biology Informatics Mathematics”, University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis (6 months)
Co-supervisor: Georgios D Koutsovoulos
“Exploring the genome structure of the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne enterolobii“
Now PhD student in the lab of Dr. Ludovic Orlando (Toulouse, France)
Julie Dazeniere (2018)
Master II, Life Sciences, “Biology Informatics Mathematics”, University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis (6 months)
Co-supervisor: Marc Bailly-Bechet
“Spatial organization and expression of parasitism genes in the nematode pest Meloidogyne incognita“
Now PhD student in the lab of Dr. Bousios, University of Sussex, UK
Carole Belliardo (2017)
Master II, Life Sciences, “Biology Informatics Mathematics”, University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis (6 months)
Co-supervisor: Marc Bailly-Bechet
“Horizontal gene transfers of viral origin in the genomes of root-knot nematodes”
Now PhD student in our lab.
David Pratella (2016)
Master I, Life Sciences, “Biology Informatics Mathematics”, University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis (5 months)
Co-supervisor: Martine Da Rocha
“Detecting functional impact of the duplicated genome structure of the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita at the homeologous gene copy expression level”
Now engineer in the lab of Dr. Silvia Bottini.
Djampa K Kozlowski (2015)
Master I, Life Sciences, “Biology Informatics Mathematics”, University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis (5 months)
“Deciphering the phylogenetic relationship of the major root-knot nematode species using concatenated mitochondrial markers”
Now PhD student in our lab.
Morgane Demeocq (2014)
Master I, Life Sciences, “Biology Informatics Mathematics”, University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis (5 months)
Co-supervisors: Etienne Danchin, Laetitia Zurletto, Martine Da Rocha
“Annotation of transposable elements in root-knot nematode genomes”
Nicolas Nottet (2013)
Master II, Life Sciences, “Biology Informatics Mathematics”, University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis (6 months)
Co-supervisor: Laetita Zurletto
“Analysis of gene expression patterns during the developmenta life cycle of the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita“
Lauriane Massardier (2012)
Master I, Life Sciences, “Biology Informatics Mathematics”, University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis (5 months)
Co-supervisor: Laetita Zurletto
“Identification of functional divergence at the expression level between gene copies resulting from whole genome duplication in the root-knot nematode Meloidoyne incognita”
Now postdoc at I3S laboratory
Vivien Deshaies (2011)
Master I, Bioinformatics, modeling and statistics, University of Rouen (4 months)
Co-supervisor: Laetita Zurletto
“Reconstruction of the mitochondrial genomes of the root-knot nematodes M. incognita and M. hapla and phylognetic analysis”
Now bioinformatics engineer in Institut Curie
Martine Da Rocha (2010)
Master II, Bioinformatics, modeling and statistics, University of Rouen (12 months)
“Development of a web server ‘NEMESIS (Nematode Electronic Sequence Information and Services )’, to mine, compare and retrieve sequences in root-knot nematode genomes and transcriptomes”
Now bioinformatics engineer at INRA in the bioinformatics and genomics platform of Agrobiotech Institute
Other Students
Mathilde Boyer
DUT Génie Biologique option bioinfirmatique (4 months)
“Detections and analysis of horizontal gene transfers of non-metazoan origin in the genome of the white fly Bemisia tabaci“
Etienne GJ Danchin 