Diversity, Ecology and Evolution of Microbes
Team
Purificación López-García
Research Director, CNRS

I am a biologist interested in very broad questions about the origin and early evolution of life on Earth, with a special focus on microbial lineages, which cover the vast majority of biological diversity.

puri.lopez@u-psud.fr

puri.lopez@universite-paris-saclay.fr

David Moreira
Research Director, CNRS

Many years ago, I had the chance to get an old microscope at home. It opened to me a new world full of wonderful organisms. Since then, I have always been interested in the diversity and evolution of microorganisms from the three domains of Life, trying to reconstruct their phylogeny and to understand how their genomes evolve. More recently, I also became interested in the evolutionary relationship between living (cells) and non-living (viruses) organisms.

david.moreira@u-psud.fr

david.moreira@universite-paris-saclay.fr

Ludwig Jardiller
Professor, Université Paris-Saclay

I am a microbial ecologist. The aim of my research activities is to better appreciate microbial diversity, to understand the processes that structure this diversity and to identify the role played by microorganisms in the functioning of aquatic ecosystems. more information...

Email: ludwig.jardillier@universite-paris-saclay.fr

Phone: 0033 169 157 989

Yvan Zivanovic
Research scientist, CNRS

yvan.zivanovic@universite-paris-saclay.fr

Philippe Deschamps
Research scientist, CNRS

philippe.deschamps@u-psud.fr

philippe.deschamps@universite-paris-saclay.fr

Laura Eme
Research scientist, CNRS

My primary research interests are in evolutionary microbiology. I am particularly interested in the origin and evolution of the eukaryotic cell. My investigations revolve broadly around three topics: (1) Understanding the relationships of eukaryotes with the other two domains of life (Archaea and Bacteria); (2) Characterizing the evolution of key features of the eukaryotic cell ; (3) Investigating the phylogenetic relationships within the Tree of eukaryotes as well as the horizontal exchange of genetic material that might have occurred between distantly related eukaryote lineages. To tackle those, I have mainly used comparative (meta)genomic and molecular phylogenetic approaches, and I have focused on understudied unicellular eukaryotes (protists).

laura.eme@u-psud.fr

laura.eme@universite-paris-saclay.fr

Miguel Iniesto
Associate professor, U. Paris-Saclay

miguel.iniesto@u-psud.fr

Maria Ciobanu
Research assistant, CNRS

maria.ciobanu@universite-paris-saclay.fr

Phone +33 (0)1 69 16 63 42

Paola Bertolino
Technical assistant, CNRS

paola.bertolino@u-psud.fr

paola.bertolino@universite-paris-saclay.fr

Ana Gutiérrez-Preciado
Postdoc

ana.gutierrez@u-psud.fr

ana.gutierrez@universite-paris-saclay.fr

Kristina Prokina
Postdoc

kristina.prokina@universite-paris-saclay.fr

Carolina Cubillos
Postdoc

Postdoc

Bledina Dede
Postdoc

bledina.dede@universite-paris-saclay.fr

Jazmin Blaz
PhD student

jazmin-itzel.blaz-sanchez@u-psud.fr

Brittany Baker
PhD student

brittany.baker@universite-paris-saclay.fr

Feriel Bouderka
PhD student

feriel.bouderka@universite-paris-saclay.fr

Jeanne Caumartin
PhD student

Jeanne is a PhD student co-supervised with our collaborator Karim Benzerara (IMPMC, Sorbonne Université, Paris)

jeanne.caumartin@sorbonne-universite.fr

Romain Leroy
PhD student

romain.leroy@universite-paris-saclay.fr

Arthur Szylit
PhD student

arthur.szylit@univ-littoral.fr

Agathe Struillou
PhD student

agathe.struillou@universite-paris-saclay.fr

Stagiaires
Visitors and interns

2022-2023 Marina Grilo (M2), Agathe Struillo (M2)

2021-2022 Romain Leroy (M2), Juliette Thiébaut (M2)

2020-2021 Pierrick Lenormand (M2), Guillaume Peugnet (M1), Anouk Cohen-Solal (L1), Yannis Arab (L2), Alix Catry (M1 INSA), Chloé Barthalon (L3)

2019-2020 Jeanne Chaumont, David Boulesteix (M2), Dave Edison Rojas (M2 Erasmus), Iris Rizos (M1)


Former members
Anabel López-Archilla
Invited professor 2023

Anabel is a collaborator from the Autonomus University of MAdrid (UAM).

Sergey Karpov
Invited prof., St Petersburg University

Sergey A. Karpov is a collaborator who has visited our lab in different occasions for several months in 2015-2018

sakarpov4@gmail.com

Electra Kotopoulou
Postdoc 2021-2023

Postdoc electra.kotopoulou@universite-paris-saclay

Guillaume Louvel
Postdoc 2021-2023

guillaume.louvel@universite-paris-saclay.fr

Lukas Novak
Postdoc 2021-2023

lukas.novak@u-psud.fr

Jolien van Hooff
Postdoc 2019-2022

jolien.van-hooff@u-psud.fr

Sergio Muñoz
Postdoc 2020-2022

My research interests are focused on understanding the nature of the mitochondrial ancestor, and the early evolution of mitochondria and eukaryotes. I am currently working on analyzing metagenomes from diverse and poorly sampled environments in search of novel alphaproteobacteria. I am also working on inferring robust and artefact-free phylogenies for the Alphaproteobacteria and mitochondria.

sergio.munoz@universite-paris-saclay.fr

Julien Massoni
Postdoc 2020-2022

julien.massoni@u-psud.fr

Luis J. Galindo
PhD student 2017-2020, postdoc 2020-2021

luis-javier.galindo-gonzalez@u-psud.fr

Guifré Torruella
Postdoc 2015-2020

guifré.torruella@u-psud.fr

Naoji Yubuki
Postdoc 2018-2021

My research has focused mainly on the biodiversity and evolution of protists living in aquatic and symbiotic environments. I have paid particular attention to the discovery of novel marine protists, characterization of the ultrastructure (e.g. microtubular cytoskeletons) and phylogenetic relationships and investigation of symbiotic relationships.

naoji.yubuki@u-psud.fr

Fabian van Beveren
PhD student 2018-2022

fabian.van-beveren@u-psud.fr

Thomas Bacchetta
PhD student 2018-2022

thomas.bacchetta@u-psud.fr

Gwendoline David
PhD student 2017-2020

gwendoline.david@u-psud.fr

Jodie Belilla
PhD student 2017-2020

jodie.belilla@u-psud.fr

Guillaume Reboul
PhD student 2017-2020

guillaume.reboul@u-psud.fr

Solenne Irion
PhD student 2017-2019

solene.irion@univ-littoral.fr

Other PhD students and postdocs
Former PhD students and postdocs

PhD students

Marie Ragon (2007-2011), Estelle Couradeau (2008-2012), Charles Bachy (2008-2012), Jonathan Lombard (2009-2012), Céline Petitjean (2009-2013), Marianne Simon (2010-2014), Aurélien Saghaï (2013-2016), Rafael Ponce-Toledo (2014-2018), Jodie Belilla (2017-2020), Guillaume Reboul (2017-2020), Gwendoline David (2017-2020), Luis Javier Galindo (2017-2020), Solène Irion (2017-2020)

Postdocs

Emmanuelle Gérard (2003-2005), Jan Slapeta (2003-2005), Enrique Lara (2007-2008), Ana Belén Martin-Cuadrado (2007), Achim Quaiser (2007-2008), William Marande (2008-2009), Philippe Deschamps (2009-2010), Marie Ragon (2011-2012), Giselle Walker (2014-2015), Kamil Szafranski (2015-2017), Romain Derelle (2015-2016), Magdalena Ruiz (2016-2017), Albert Reñé (2017), Hélène Timpano (2016-2018), Guifré Torruella (2016-2021)