Citizenship: France / US (since 2022)
Position: Assistant Professor of Research
Department of Biology, Temple University
University of Littoral, UMR 8187 Laboratory of Oceanography and Geosciences, Wimereux, FRANCE
Graduate School of Sciences of Materials, Radiation and Environment ED SMRE 104, Graduate College Lille Nord de FRANCE
Trophodynamism of microzooplanktonic protozoans in the eastern English Channel.
Advisor: Pr. Urania CHRISTAKI.
University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille, FRANCE.
University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille, FRANCE.
PhD jury members: M. ZUBKOV, JM BRYLINSKI, U. CHRISTAKI, T. SIME-NGANDO,
JD. GRATTEPANCHE, J. DOLAN, D. VINCENT and K. KORMAS
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DNA extraction, PCR, clone libraries, DGGE, FISH, Immunology and High-Throughput Sequencing (454 and Illumina) for amplicon, (meta)transcriptomics, genomics
Computational Ecology including Ampliconics, Transcriptomics, and Genomics
tools: Python, bioPython, QIIME, Mothur, R, Matlab
Inverted, epifluorescence and confocal (micro- to nanoplankton identification); Phytoplankton and microzooplankton culture
Micro- and mesocosm experiments, dilution experiments (Phytoplankton growth rate and microzooplankton grazing rate), and prey-predator incubation with labeled prey (specific grazing rate / BrdU)
Analyze inorganic nutrients by Alliance® autoanalyzer
2023: NSF ANT Diversity and function of microbial eukaryotic populations across depths in the Southern Ocean Pending
(10 ≥good of 13 reviews)
2023: NSF DMS Transport Processes in Microbial Sea Ice Pending
2020: US Antarctica Service Medal
2018-2019: EC2CO France-PLANKTONic Eukaryotic PARasites: the parTicular case of PhaeocYstis blooms PLANKTON-PARTY. PI Urania CHRISTAKI.
€30,000
2016: EMBL meeting Travel award.
$1,500
2016: Sloan microbiology of the Built Environment Meeting Travel award
$1,500
2015: GRS-GRC Applied & Environmental Microbiology Travel award
$1,000
2013: SMBE Eukaryotic -Omics meeting Travel award
$1,050
2014-2017: NSF postdoctoral researcher at Smith College (OCE1129734;co-author)
$421,638
2007-2011: Ministry of Higher Education and Research PhD student fellowship (FRANCE)
€60,000
2008: ERASMUS fellowship (EUROPE)
€2,500
2005-2007: Ministry of Higher Education and Research Master student fellowship (FRANCE)
€30,000
Sigma Xi (Smith College chapter)
2013-present.
International Society of Protistologists (ISOP)
2016-present.
Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO)
2018.
Webmaster of the biology department at Temple University.
Point of contact between the biology department, the institute for genomics and evolutionary medicine (iGEM), the genomic facility at Fox Chase Cancer Center (FCCC) at Temple University.
Team leader in the laboratory of Professor Laura A. Katz at Smith College (composed of 5-6 undergraduate students per semester and a research assistant; 2012-present).
Member of search committee for hiring postdoctoral fellow and research assistant for the laboratory of the professor Laura A. Katz (3 research assistants since 2014 and 6 postdoctoral fellows since 2013).
Crew chief during research cruises on board of the R/V Cape Hatteras (7/2012) and R/V Connecticut (7/2015).
Elected member (PhD student – postdoc) of the laboratory council for the Laboratory of Oceanography and Geosciences at University of Littoral-Cote d’Opale, University of Lille and CNRS (2010-2011).
Undergraduate student representative for the biology department at University of Lille (2002-2005).
Phagotrophic Dinoflagellates
©JD Grattepanche
Associate editor for Frontiers in Microbiology (since 2023).
Guest editor for Frontiers in Marine Science and Frontiers in Microbiology (2020-22).
Aquatic Microbial Ecology; Microbial Ecology; Molecular Ecology; Continental Shelf Research; Protist; Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology; Journal of Plankton Research; Environmental microbiology; Estuaries and Coasts; Estuarine, Coasts and Shelf Science; The ISME journal; Oceanologia; Limnology and Oceanography; Deep Sea Research Part I and II; Polar Research; Systematic Biology; Progress in Oceanography; Genomes Biology and Evolution; Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Hydrobiologia; Frontiers in Marine Science; Frontiers in Microbiology
May-August 2008 Department of Ichthyology and Aquatic Environment in University of Thessaly, Greece / (ERASMUS visit) Supervisor: Pr. K. Ar. Kormas
January-September 2007 FRE 2816 ELICO Wimereux, FRANCE Supervisor: Pr U. CHRISTAKI
March-July 2006 FRE 2816 ELICO Wimereux, FRANCE Supervisors: Dr V. GENTILHOMME and Dr F. GOULART