My personal research project aims to understand the links between microbial taxonomic diversity and function in aquatic environments, with special interest for the eukaryotic community (i.e., protists) and its heterotrophic component. I am deeply interested to understand the patterns of temporal and spatial variation of these colorless microbes in freshwater, coastal and marine systems and exploring their ecological role in aquatic food webs as bacterial grazers, nutrient remineralizers or parasites. This exploration is conducted by applying a combination of standard molecular tools (amplicon sequencing of environmental rDNA genes, FISH specific countings) with state-of-the-art approaches (metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, single cell genomics) on a wide range of environments as different as rivers, lakes, soils, estuaries and oceans. Overall, my
research attends to expand our understanding of microbial community diversity, lifestyles and interactions, and their role in the biogeochemical cycles.
Currently, as a Postdoctoral Associate, I am investigating the microbial communities involved in the cycling processes of biogenic trace gases and marine sulfur, through the study of their taxonomic diversity and the identification and quantification of functional genes in the marine planktonic communities from various marine surveys.

Biogeography
Bioinformatics
Biology of interactions
Cellular Biology
Ecology
Evolutionary Biology
Genomics
Hydrobiology
Marine Biology
Microbiology
Parasitology
Phylogenetics
Population Biology
Population Genetics
Systematics
Taxonomy

I'll be thrilled to be part of a project that would be interested in investigating the links between microbial biodiversity and function in aquatic environments. I'll be interested to join any broad or very focus proposal that would like to explore the ecological role of microbes in aquatic food webs and more generally in the ecosystem functioning. Finally, I will also be deeply interested to be part of a project that consider microbes for determining the health of aquatic ecosystems by considering their composition and interactions and the development of adapted tools for their investigation.

microbiology, microbes, bacteria, protist, (meta-)genomics, aquatic environments, microbial interactions, ecosystem functioning, microbial ecology, evolutionary dynamics

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