Sandrine Pavoine
PhD students​ and post-doctoral researchers
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Helwan Hareski (2023-; co-sup: Julien Pétillon Université de Rennes)
Subject: Multiscale factors influencing different aspects of terrestrial arthropod diversity in the Massif Armoricain.
Gabriella Leal Santos (International supervising 2020-2022; PhD supervisor: Dr. Marcio Martins, Sao Paulo University, Brazil)
Subject: Landscape moderation of taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic beta diversity of snakes
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gabriella-Leal-Santos
Gabriella planned to spend 1 year of her doctoral studies with my research group in Paris. Unfortunately her scholarship was cancelled due to the pandemic. Despite this, we continued to work together from a distance.
Gabriella is a serious, hard-working, resourceful student. I wish her the best for her thesis defense and hope to welcome her in Paris to the group on another occasion.
Laurène Mérillet (2017-2020) (co-sup: Dr. Maud Mouchet, Dr. Dorothée Kopp, Dr. Marianne Robert)
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Subject: Integration of community functional and trophic approaches for better management of ecosystems exploited in the Celtic Sea.
The position is funded by the French Research Institute for the Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER) and the French doctoral school 227.
Laurene defended her thesis in Nov. 2020. Congratulations Laurene for the excellent defense! She then had a post-doctoral position at the Institute of Marine Research in Bergen in Norway with Morten Skogen, Lis Lindal Jørgensen and Frode Vikebø (3-year fellowship). Laurène has now obtained a permanent position in the CLS group on satellite locations. There she works on the prediction of the distribution of plankton and pelagic predators.
Anna Kondratyeva (PhD student; Nov. 2016-Dec. 2020) (co-sup: Dr. Philippe Grandcolas)
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The contribution of each species to phylogenetic diversity and to functional diversity can be measured by its originality. A species is original if it has few close relatives (phylogenetic originality) or if it has unique or rare trait states (functional originality). Despite its use in the last two decades in conservation biology (Isaac et al. 2007), the concept of originality is still rarely studied in community ecology. The role original species have in their community and in their region still has to be determined. In this context, the objective of Anna’s thesis is to analyse potential connections between the phylogenetic and functional originalities of species and ecological, evolutionary and historical processes that shape assemblages.
This position is funded by the French State through the Research National Agency under the LabEx BCDiv.
Anna defended her thesis in Dec. 2019 and keep on working on this subject as a post-doctoral researcher until the end of Jan. 2020. She is now post-doctoral researcher at at the Institute of Systematics, Evolution, Biodiversity (ISYEB), Paris, France.
Dr. Marine Robuchon (Postdoctoral researcher; Sept. 2017-Aug. 2019) (co-sup: Dr. Boris Leroy)
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Research subject: Study of new international biodiversity indicators based on phylogenetic originality and the probability of extinction of species: identification of HEDGE and LEDGE species.
This position was funded by the French State through the Research National Agency under the LabEx BCDiv.
Marine now has a new position in the research center of the European commission in Ispra, Italy.
The objective of the scholarship is to analyze the functional diversity of helminth parasites of three phylogenetically close fish species. The scholarship is funded by the Valencian Government, Spain.
Cristina is now working at ETHZürich, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Dübendorf, Switzerland
Cristina Llopis-Belenguer (International scholarship; Sep. - Nov. 2017) (PhD supervisors: Dr. Juan Antonio Balbuena, Dr. lsabel Blasco-Costa)
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Dr. Ioana-Cristina Chintauan-Marquier (2015-2017) (main supervisor: Dr. Laure Desutter)
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Research subject: Phylogenomics of New Caledonia crickets in a context of environmental pressures. This position is funded by the French State through the Research National Agency under the LabEx BCDiv.
Simon Veron (PhD student, 2013-2016) (co-sup: Philippe Clergeau)
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During his PhD position, Simon developed an interest in the consequences of species extinctions on biodiversity, especially on the amount of evolutionary history that extant species represent. He dedicated his research to threatened diversity at global, regional and local scales, to the identification of key sites and species for conservation priority and assessed the efficiency of conservation measures. He also proposed methodological improvements to better integrate phylogenetic diversity and originality in conservation actions, to analyse the consequences of co-extinctions (mutualistic networks) and possible extinctions of poorly known species on evolutionary history (missing data handling).​
This position was funded by the French State through the Research National Agency under the LabEx ANR-10-LABX-0003-BCDiv, within the framework of the program “Investing for the future” (ANR-11-IDEX-0004-02)
Simon successfully passed his thesis defense in November 2016. Congratulations Simon!
Simon was then postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Systematics, Evolution, Biodiversity (ISYEB) in Paris and is now working for IUCN France.
Victor Saito (International scholarship: 10 months in 2015-2016)
Unraveling the drivers of community assembly: the interaction between predation and competition. Victor and I worked on simulations and modeling to better understand how competition may leave signatures in the trait diversity of communities.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Victor_Saito
The scholarship was funded by São Paulo Research Foundation.
Victor successfully passed his thesis defense in November 2016
Victor is now Assistant Professor at Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil.
Congratulations Victor!
Amandine Gasc (PhD Student, 2009-2012) (co-sup: Jérôme Sueur, Philippe Grandcolas)
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Alongside conventional methods of inventories, which require a high level of taxonomic expertise, several methods known as rapid measurements of biodiversity have been proposed. Among these methods, an acoustic method, designated as Rapid Acoustic Survey (RAS), was developed in 2008 (Sueur et al. 2008 PloS One). The general objective of Amandine’s thesis has been to provide a better definition of RAS approach from a methodological point of view, in order to evaluate the possible applications of RAS for estimating, tracking and analyzing the spatial and temporal distributions of animal biodiversity.
This position was funded by the CNRS.
Amandine then integrated a dynamic team in acoustic landscape research in the United States for a post-doc position.
http://ltm.agriculture.purdue.edu/perso_page/amandine_gasc_2.html
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Amandine_Gasc
Amandine has been admitted as research scientist in the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD). Congratulations Amandine!
MSc students: G. Yang; R. Arnold; L. Le Moller; D. Bechtel; C. Vickridge (co-supervisor: C. Kerbiriou); S. Clappe (co-sup: C. Kerbiriou); B. Dechant (main supervisors: A. Gasc, J. Sueur); L. Lellouch (co-sup: J. Sueur); C. Jono; L. Landais; C. Burrow (co-sup: A. Gasc, J. Sueur); C. Barbot (main supervisor: I. Le Viol); M. Depraetere (main supervisor: J. Sueur); F. Roussel (co-sup: E. Pocher).
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Undergraduate student: A. Dupaix
Visitors
In 2012, Norman Mason (Researcher, Landcare Research, Hamilton, New-Zealand) has visited the lab for a week. We worked on the links between phylogenetic diversity patterns, functional diversity patterns and underlying ecological processes. https://scholar.google.co.nz/citations?user=rYoNgLMAAAAJ&hl=en
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In 2015, Catherine Head, Dphil candidate at that time at the University of Oxford & Zoological Society of London (United Kingdom), visited the lab for a week. We worked on phylogenetic and trait diversity of Pontoniinae shrimps from the Chagos archipelago. Catherine is now a postdoctoral researcher at Linacre College, Oxford. https://oxfordoceanresearch.org/people/dr-catherine-head/
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In 2016, Dan Faith (Senior Principal Research Scientist, Australian Museum, Sidney, Australia) has visited the lab for 5 weeks in March and 1 week in December for a project led by Roseli Pellens (ISYEB, MNHN), as PI, and I, as a co-PI. We worked on the measurement of phylogenetic diversity and distinctiveness. http://australianmuseum.net.au/staff/dan-faith. This visit has been supported by the French State through the Research National Agency under the LabEx ANR-10-LABX-0003-BCDiv, within the framework of the program "Investing for the future" (ANR-11-IDEX-0004-02)
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In 2019, Elisa Thouverai (Master student in internship at the University of Trieste, Italy) has visited the lab for 3 months to learn about R package building.