SUPERVISION
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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.
​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.
Funded by INRAE Metaprogramme Holoflux and Région Pays de la Loire

Tristan LAFONT RAPNOUIL

Postdoc (2025-2028)
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.
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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.

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