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 |
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NEWS
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 ! 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) |