After undergraduate studies in Biology, I completed my MSc in Bioinformatics at Besançon University in France. I then worked over 2005 at the Quebec Genomics Centre on the Bioinformatics platform, specifically on data management and analysis system for studies on the pathogenic protist “Leishmania”. In September 2006, I had the opportunity to start a PhD combining Marine Biology, Oceanography and Bioinformatics with Connie Lovejoy (Laval University) and Jacques Corbeil (Quebec Genomics Center) as my thesis directors within the International Polar Year program MERGE.
In my research at Laval University, I am currently focused on Eukaryotic Biodiversity in Microbial Mats in the High Arctic. Using molecular techniques, my objective is to analyze and identify eukaryotic phylotypes or lineages specific to the microbial mat ecosystem. The next step will be to compare eukaryotic diversity in microbial mats of several ice shelves from different polar ecosystems (Arctic tundra and the Antarctic).
