Team – Anna-Sophie Fiston-Lavier, PhD

Current members

Océane Mion, PhD candidate (ED GAIA / 2025-).
« Gaining a better understanding of fungal genome evolution in the context of pathogen emergence ». Co-supervised with Sébastien Puechmaille and Sèverine Bérard. Keywords: TE, structural variant, methylation.

Dhara Avelino, PhD candidate (Brazil fellow/2024-).
« Unveiling the Microbial Potential of Sponges with High and Low Microbial Abundance: A Comparative Analysis of Adaptation, Biotechnology, Pharmacology, and Antibiotic Resistance ». Co-supervised by Diogo Antonio Tschoeke and Eduardo Carlos Meduna Hadju. Keywords: Metagenomics, TE, Evolution, adaptation

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Capucine Mayoud, PhD candidate (ED GAIA / 2024-).
« Pangenomic exploration to study the dynamics of transposable elements and their impact on human evolution ». Keywords: TE, pangenome, evolution, human

Alba Marino, PhD candidate (ED GAIA / 2020-).
« Genome size estimation and quantification of transposable elements dynamics ». Co-supervised with Benoit Nabholz (ISEM) and Annabelle Haudry (LBBE). Keywords: Genome size, Ne, TE, population genomics.

VISITING RESEARCHER
Pleuni Pennings, Professor – Department of Biology, San Franscisco State University, USA – PI of the Code lab
Evolutionary Biologist working on Evolution of drug resistance in HIV and Bacteria.

Former members

Laureline Sastre, Master 2 B2E/Darwin.
Titouan Le Perrun, Master 2 B2E/Darwin.
Hugo Bellavoir, Master 2 Bioinformatique.
Meron Tsegaye, Master 2 Eco-Epi/IDL.
Océane Mion, Master 2 – Master Qbio.
Shadi Yacoub, Master 2 – MEME program.
Clothilde Chenal, PhD candidate (ED GAIA / 2019-2023), Post-Doc @ Sanger.
Elyes Braham, Master 2 Bioinformatique.
Marion Varoqui, Master student, currently PhD candidate at IGH of Montpellier.
Ambre Petit, Master student, Master 1 Bioinformatique.
Imogen Dumville, Master student, Master 2 Meme.
Yasmine Mansour, PhD candidate (ED I2S – 2017-2021), Assistant professor class B at the University Farhat Abbas Sétif 1 (UFAS).
Fanny Touchard, Master student, M2 B2E – Darwin, currently PhD candidate.
Emira Cherif, Post-doc, currently Researcher at Morfo.
Jean-Loup Claret, Master student, M2 B2E – Darwin, currently PhD candidate.
Julien Denozi, Master student, M1 BCD/EMA.
Edouard Delanoé, Master student, M1 BCD/EMA, currently PhD candidate at the University of Calgary.
Rémy Costa – Master Student, M1 BCD, currently PhD candidate at IGH of Montpellier.
Livia Langevin – Undergraduate Student.
Mickael Hamouma – Master Student, M1 BCD, currently computer science.
Laura Helou – Master Student, M2 BCD, currently Researcher at the University Hospital of Liège.
Bridlin Barckmann, Post-doc, currently Bioinformatics engineer at the University Hospital of Montpellier.
Pascal Milesi*, EVAS-ISEM PhD candidate – defense in 2016, currently Assistant Professor at Uppsala University.
Benoit Assosgba*, EVAS-ISEM PhD candidate – defense in 2016, currently Post-doc at Abomey-Calavi University, Gambia, since 2017.
Quentin Testard, Master Student, M1 BCD, currently Bioinformatics engineer at the University Hospital of Grenoble.
Timothée Virgoulay, Undergraduate Student, PhD.
Nicolas Pompidor, Undergraduate Student, PhD. Currently bioinformatics project manager at Vilmorin-Mikado.
Rajiv McCoy, Stanford PhD Student – currently Assistant Professor @ The Johns Hopkins University.
Emilie Dumas*, EVAS-ISEM PhD student – defense in 2013.
Dave Tushar, Undergraduate Student.
Mauricio Barentos, Undergraduate Student.
Lokitha Vippala, Undergraduate Student.
Maité Barrón, Barbadilla lab PhD student- visiting Petrov Lab, PhD.
Matthew Carrigan, Undergraduate Student.