Biography
Hi! I am currently a junior group leader at the ETH. I work on genomics and evolution. I’ve recently started using machine learning and deep learning, in particular, to answer long standing questions in biology. I use fungi and plants as model organisms.
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Interests
- Evolution of plants and plant pathogens
- Genomics
- Bioinformatics and data analysis
Education
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PhD in Biology, 2016
Paris-Saclay University
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Master's of Biology -, 2013
Paris-Saclay University
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Bachelor, 2011
Angers University
Experience
Junior Group Leader
ETHZ
Research themes:
- Adaptation of Zymoseptoria tritici, a wheat pathogen, to its host and environment: genome-environment association (GEA) and phenotype-based genome-wide association study (GWAS)
- Worldwide scale population genomics and phylogeography of Z.tritici
- Evolution of transposable elements and of the defenses against them in fungi
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Max Planck Institute
- Pangenomics in several species of plant pathogens, influence of life-history traits and machine-learning predictions
- Comparative genome evolution and epigenomic architecture in the Zymoseptoria genus
- Interspecific hybridizations in fungal pathogens
- Population genetic and genomic of Pyrenophora teres, a barley pathogen
Ph.D. student
Paris-Saclay University
- Crop-to-wild gene flow in apple trees
- Plant-pathogen co-evolution
- Threats and conservation of wild apple tree species
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