SUPERVISION
Louna COLAERT-SENTENAC
PhD Student (2023-2026)
Louna studies the impact of seed microbiota on germination and bean seedling metabolism. She also investigates the potential of synthetic communities to limit the impact of damping-off by soil-borne pathogens as part of the SUCSEED project. Co-supervized by Elisabeth Planchet and Béatrice Teulat
Funded by ENS
Funded by ENS
Logan SUTEAU
PhD Student (2023-2026)
Logan studies plant microbiota engineering using synthetic community inoculation on rapeseed flowers, fruits and seeds. He is looking for consortia of bacteria, yeast and filamentous fungi able to limit the seed transmission on fungal pathogen Alternaria brassicicola as part of the SUCSEED project. Co-supervized with Natalia Guschinskaya and Claire Campion
Funded by INRAE Metaprogramme Holoflux and Région Pays de la Loire
Funded by INRAE Metaprogramme Holoflux and Région Pays de la Loire
Tristan LAFONT RAPNOUIL
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Postdoc (2025-2028)
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Tristan studies plant microbial inheritance through seeds across 60 plant species as part of the INHERSEED project. He is looking at phylosymbiosis between plant phylogeny and microbiota assembly of plants and seeds. Using his plant ecophysiology background he is also investigating plant/seed traits involved in microbiota assembly and transgenerational transmission.
Kenji MAURICE
Postdoc (2025-2027)
Kenji studies plant and soil microbiota, ecological networks and ecosystem functions supported by European grasslands across a land use gradient as part of the Grass4Fun project. He also investigates if microbial diversity and network complexity can buffer grasslands against multiple global change stressors using field experiments and microcosms experiments.
Pauline LENFANT
PhD Student (2025-2028)
Pauline aims to develop genetic editing of the native seed microbiota using CRISPR-Cas tools. First, she is searching for candidate pathways to edit using RB-TnSeq and she will implement the editing and assess the consequences on the phenotype of seedlings of common bean. Co-supervized with Florian Lamouche
Funded by INRAE Metaprogramme Holoflux and Région Pays de la Loire
Funded by INRAE Metaprogramme Holoflux and Région Pays de la Loire
Emma SILVESTRE
PhD Student (2025-2028)
Emma studies root procyanidins and the emergence of this important chemical trait in the plant phylogeny. She evaluated the importance of the biological denitrification inhibition (BDI) strategy in plants and its applications to agro-ecosystems. Co-supervized with Florence Piola and Amélie Cantarel.
Funded by ANR Plant MANA
Funded by ANR Plant MANA
ALUMNI
Gontran ARNAULT
PhD Student (2021-2024) - Now Assistant Professor University of Angers
Gontran studied the impact and transmission of seed microbiota to seedlings using synthetic community inoculation on bean as part of the SUCSEED project
Check his publications: Arnault et al. (2024) FEMS Microbiology Ecology,
Joubert, Arnault et al. (2024) Trends in Plant Science,
Mehlferber, Arnault et al. (2024) Nature Microbiology
Funded by INRAE Metaprogramme Holoflux and Région Pays de la Loire
Check his publications: Arnault et al. (2024) FEMS Microbiology Ecology,
Joubert, Arnault et al. (2024) Trends in Plant Science,
Mehlferber, Arnault et al. (2024) Nature Microbiology
Funded by INRAE Metaprogramme Holoflux and Région Pays de la Loire
Gillian BERGMANN
Visiting PhD Student (2024, UC Davis)
Gillian studied the influence of floral transmission to seed microbiota assembly in watermelon (Bergmann et al. 2025 Phytobiomes) and investigated the role of priority effects during pollination using synthetic community inoculations.
