Education

2013 / present – Post-doc in the Alm lab, MIT, Cambridge, USA.
2013 – PhD in Molecular phylogenetics and evolutionary biology. “Resurrecting the past through heterogeneous models of protein sequence evolution”, under the supervision of Manolo Gouy, in the Biometry and Evolutionary Biology Laboratory, University Lyon 1, France.
2010 – MSc “Biosciences” at Ecole Normale Superieure of Lyon, Lyon, France.
2007 – BSc “Fundamental Biology” at Ecole Normale Superieure of Lyon, Lyon, France.

Talks

Talks following abstract submission or by invitation:

2018 – Global evolution of genomes and functions in the human gut microbiome. EMBO|EMBL Symposium: The Human Microbiome. Heidelberg, Germany.
2018 – Global evolution of genomes and functions in the human gut microbiome. Evolution Conference. Montpellier, France.
2018 – The Global Microbiome Conservancy. The Gates Foundation. Seattle, USA.
2018 – The Global Microbiome Conservancy – Conserving and understanding our microbial heritage. 3rd Microbiome Symposium in Cambridge, MA, USA
2017 – The Global Microbiome Conservancy – Advancing human health through the exploration of our global microbial heritage. CSIBD 27th Annual Conference. Boston, USA.
2017 – Unraveling the processes shaping mammalian and human gut microbiomes over evolutionary time. ESEB meeting in Groningen, Netherlands.
2016 – Horizontal and vertical evolution of gut microbiomes. SMBE meeting in Gold Coast, Australia.
2016 – Horizontal and vertical evolution of gut microbiomes. Evolution meeting in Austin, TX, USA.
2015 – Host phylogeny and diet drive the structure of mammalian gut microbiota at different scales. Boston Bacterial Meeting in Cambridge, MA, USA.
2015 – Do origins of major archaeal clades really correspond to massive gene acquisitions from Bacteria? Workshop on ”Eukaryo-/Archaeogenesis: Where Do We Stand?” in Sussex, England.
2013 – The molecular signal for the adaptation to cold temperature during early life on Earth. Alphy meeting in Lyon, France.
2012 – Efficiently modeling the non-homogeneity of protein sequence evolution. Evolution meeting in Ottawa. Selected abstract for the Ernst Mayr award.
2012 – Efficiently modeling the non-homogeneity of protein sequence evolution. SMBE meeting in Dublin.
2011 – The COaLA model: a Time Non-Homogeneous Model of Evolution Based on a Correspondence Analysis. Deep Metazoan Phylogeny meeting in Munich.
2011 – From Extant Molecules To Ancestral Conditions of Life: How the Adaptation to Temperature Drives the Evolution of Archaea. Archaea meeting in Paris.
2010 – Environmental temperature is a major determinant of evolutionary rates in Archaea. SMBE meeting in Lyon.

Talks following invitation:

2012 – From Extant Molecules To Ancestral Conditions of Life: How the Adaptation to Temperature Drives the Evolution of Archaea. Seminar for the Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution course in Geneva. Invited by Juan Ignacio Montoya-burgos.

Awards

2012 – La Recherche 2012 Award. Best work in Biology for the article “Adaptation to Environmental Temperature Is a Major Determinant of Molecular Evolutionary Rates in Archaea”. La Recherche is a French scientific popularizing journal equivalent to Scientific American.

Reviewer

for Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, Nature Methods, ISME Journal, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Environmental Microbiology, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Systematic Biology, BMC Evolutionary Biology, BMC Bioinformatics, Plos One, Bioinformatics.