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I am a Microbial Ecologist studying plant-microbiome interactions and the effects of disturbances (pathogens, climate, contaminants) on ecosystem health.
For more information, check out the following sections: Marie Simonin, Ph.D INRAE Researcher - Team EmerSys Emergence, Systematics and Ecology of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria IRHS Lab - Research Institute in Horticulture and Seeds |
Credit: Katherine G. Stember
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Contact Information
Email: marie.simonin[at] inrae.fr Links to my: ResearchGate Google Scholar ORCID page
Email: marie.simonin[at] inrae.fr Links to my: ResearchGate Google Scholar ORCID page
Massive greenhouse experiment led by PhD student Gontran Arnault and Master student Louna Colaert-Sentenac. We study the transmission of SynComs from seed to seed
Figure from Simonin et al. 2023 PCI Microbiology - showing the effect of single bacterial strains and SynComs on seedling phenotypes
Cover of our Conversation article on our research using environmental DNA to uncover the impact of coal mining on aquatic biodiversity
Graphical abstract from Carley et al. 2020 ES&T.
Graphical abstract of our wheat microbiome study (Simonin et al. 2020 FEMS Microbiology Ecology)
Rice mesocosms inoculated with different bacterial bio-pesticides to control nematode infections (Cambodia)
Sampling in the Outer Banks (NC) along a salinity gradient to study microbial community coalescence with Jenny Rocca
eDNA biodiversity survey in 100 streams in WV to study the impact of surface coal mining - Panther Creek - WV with Jenny Rocca
Sampling day at the CEINT wetland mesocosms.
Credit: Nick Geitner
Sampling day at the terrestrial mesocosms in the Duke Forest (soil and plant biomass collection)
Fishing spider! A spider eating a mosquito fish in the CEINT wetland mesocosm experiment
Outreach with High school students from the North Carolina School of Science and Maths. Mini-Term "Stress and Microbes"(March 2017). Credit: Jenny Rocca
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NEWS
November 2023: Check our new paper in PCI Microbiology on synthetic community inoculation on seeds and their impact on seedling microbiota and phenotype. Simonin et al. 2023 October 2023: I'm happy to welcome 2 new PhD students! Louna Colaert-Sentenac and Logan Suteau both working on plant microbiome engineering using SynComs, as part of the SUCSEED project August 2023: New paper in Ecology Letters led by Frederik De Leander on species coexistence under environmental change. De Leander et al. 2023 July 2023: Really happy to be awarded an ANR Young Researcher grant for 4 years. the INHERSEED project will investigate the contribution of vertical transmission to plant microbiome assembly across 50 crops. December 2022: New paper on single seed microbiota: from parental plant to seedlings: Chesneau et al. mBio September 2022: 3 new papers on the plant microbiome: - Barro et al. FEMS Rice microbiota in Burkina Faso - Masson et al AEE Conservation agriculture to control phytoparasitic nematodes in Cambodia - Mofini et al. Sci Rep Root mycobiome of pearl millet in Senegal March 2022: Our Seed Microbiome meta-analysis is out in New Phytologist ! October 2021: Happy to welcome Gontran Arnault as my first official INRAE PhD student as part of the SUCSEED project. September 2021: Two new papers on our work at Duke University on the impact of surface coal mining on biodiversity in Appalachia: - Simonin et al. 2021 Eco Apps - Biodiversity loss across the tree of life see the associated The Conversation article - Jin et al. 2022 STOTEN - Impact on sediment microbiome August 2021: Our perspective paper on how we can use community coalescence for microbiome engineering is out in mSystems (Rocca et al. 2021)! June 2021: 1 paper in MSystems and 2 BioRxiv preprints on our seed microbiota research in the EmerSys team! Rochefort et al. Msystems: seed and soil coalescence Chesneau et al. BioRxiv single seed microbiota Simonin et al BioRxiv Seed Microbiota meta-analysis April 2021: A new paper in Science of the Total Environment from my PhD on the transport of nanomaterials in agricultural soils February 2021: A new review paper accepted in Frontiers in Microbiology on the role of microbiomes for aquatic vertebrates health and an opinion paper presenting a generalizable framework for disturbance ecology in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution July 2020: Check our new paper in FEMS led by Anne-Sophie Masson (IPME-IRD) on the impact of parasitic nematodes on the rice microbiome June 2020: A new paper published in ES&T about the long-term effects of Cu nanopestides on soil and sediment microbiomes. This paper is the result student project realized during the interdisciplinary graduate training program IBIEM at Duke. April 2020: Two new papers accepted! - Our study in FEMS on the wheat microbiome four countries and the identification of a shared core microbiome - A review paper in the Plant Journal on the rhizosphere as an extended phenotype of plants February 2020: Finishing our SynCom (Synthetic Community) experiment manipulating the seed microbiome to try to limit the invasion of pathogenic Xanthomonas bacteria! January 2020: I was at the Plant-Bacteria meeting in Aussois to talk about how we can move from individual studies to generalizable patterns in plant microbiome research. September 2019: Check out our new preprint on the characterization of the wheat microbiome in 4 countries (Cameroon, France, Italy, Senegal)! August 2019: I will start a research scientist position at INRA in Angers, France in October! I will join the EmerSys team in the IRHS research institute to work on plant microbiome assembly processes. May 2019: A new paper published in Environmental Microbiology on the impact of urbanization on river microbiomes and the identification of indicator taxa. - I was in Cambodia for the kick-off meeting of the JEAI HealthyRice project and to start mesocosm and field trials to study rice microbiomes and biocontrol of phytoparasitic nematodes. -Also I was at SETAC Europe in Helsinki as the chairman of a session on the impact of chemicals on environmental microbiomes. April 2019: A new paper in ES&T on the fate of coal combustion residuals in lake food webs with Jess Brandt. Also I presented a talk at EGU 2019 in Vienna about the impact of surface coal mining on biodiversity (using eDNA). January 2019: Goodbye Duke! After 3 awesome years in the Bernhardt Lab, I will start a new postdoc at IPME (IRD, Montpellier, France) on plant-microbiome interactions with Lionel Moulin, Laurent Laplaze (DIADE) and Laurent Cournac (Eco&Sols). January 2019: The paper presenting the methodology and a preliminary meta-analysis of the Microbiome Stress Project is out in Frontiers in Microbiology! December 2018: New paper in Frontiers in Microbiology on the effects of copper oxide nanomaterials on soil microbial activities. August 2018: New paper published in Nature Nanotechnology on the fate of gold nanomaterials in wetlands and their biodissolution by plant periphyton! I will be at the ISME meeting in Leipzig to present a poster on the Microbiome Stress Project July 2018: New paper in Frontiers in Microbiology on the effects of nanopesticides on plant and soil microorganisms in an agro-ecosystem + 2 papers accepted on the wetland mesocosm experiment! 1 in Nature Nanotechnology and the other in ES&T! June 2018: New paper in Ecological Applications! Nanomaterials + Nutrient pollution intensify eutrophication and cause algal blooms. See press release here. Our article featured as top story on NSF Science news! May 2018: SETAC Europe meeting in Rome to present our results on the identification of bacterial indicator taxa along an urbanization gradient March 2018: Field work in West Virginia to perform eDNA survey in 100 streams to assess the impact of mountain-top mining on biodiversity November 2017: Going to the 1st Microbial Ecotoxicology Conference (EcotoxicoMic) in Lyon France ! August 2017: Talk at ESA 2017 (Portland) on the results of both the wetland and terrestrial mesocosm experiments! June 2017 : At the SFS meeting 2017 (Raleigh, NC)! Co-chair of the special session "Stressing the Eco in Freshwater Ecotoxicology". June 2017 : Final sampling (Day 365) of our terrestrial mesocosm experiment looking at the impact of nanopesticides on agro-ecosystems! May 2017: A new paper in FEMS Microbiology Letters! Short-term responses and resistance of soil microbial community structure to elevated CO2 and N addition in grassland mesocosms (pdf). April 2017: Seminar at Baylor University thanks to the award of the CEINT Scholar Steering committee. See here the CEINT news! February 2017: A new paper in Nanotoxicology! Titanium dioxide nanoparticles cause non-classical dose-response on soil nitrification (pdf). January 2017: Take a look at the NSF video of Science Nation that highlights our work at the CEINT Mesocosm experiment facility! October 2016: Final sampling of the CEINT wetland mesocosm experiment! See here the CEINT news September 2016: 2 papers accepted on the same day! One in ES&T: Transport and toxicity of repeated TiO2 exposures in soil (pdf) The second in Scientific Reports: TiO2-NPs cause a disruption of the soil N cycle. May 2016: Talk at SETAC Europe (Nantes, France) about unlinear dose-response curves associated to nanomaterials January 2016: Starting a new postdoc at Duke University with Emily Bernhardt and Ben Colman (University of Montana) October 2015: PhD defense at the University of Lyon (France) |
