Alice Feurtey is a junior group leader at the ETH, working with Bruce McDonald in the Phytophatology group.
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PhD in Biology, 2016
Paris-Saclay University
Master's of Biology -, 2013
Paris-Saclay University
Bachelor, 2011
Angers University
Research themes:
Using several fully assembled Zymoseptoria genomes, we describe here a high level of conservation in genomic, epigenomic and transcriptomic composition and structure across the genus Zymoseptoria, despite previous reports of high genomic plasticity in Z. tritici. The compartmentalized genome allows the maintenance of a functional core genome co-occurring with a highly variable accessory genome.
We demonstrated a significant and particularly strong level of host-pathogen costructure between the anther-smut pathogen Microbotryum lychnidis-dioicae and its host plant Silene latifolia. his, together with the inoculation results, suggests that coevolutionary and competitive processes are involved in the evolution of these two species.