I am a Microbial Ecologist studying plant-microbiome interactions and the effects of disturbances (pathogens, climate, contaminants) on ecosystem health.
I am developing microbiome engineering approaches for a more sustainable agriculture. 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 |
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September 2024: Two opinion papers accepted: One lead by my Master student Oscar Joubert in Trends in Plant Science and another by Eli Mehlferber in Nature Microbiology! July 2024: With colleagues from LEM and LEHNA lab in Lyon, we received funding of the ANR PRC for the Plant-MANA project (2025-2029): Plant-Driven Microbiome Management through Biological Denitrification Inhibition: a New Strategy to Limit Nitrogen Loss in Agroecosystems. April 2024: New publication of PhD student Gontran Arnault on Seedling microbiota engineering using bacterial synthetic community inoculation on seeds in FEMS Microbiology Ecology February 2024: Kick-off of the European project Grass4Fun (Biodiversa+) to monitor and conserve soil and plant microbiome across Europe in response to multiple stressors (2024-2027) 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 JCJC 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 PhD student 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! 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. 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! |