My past research has been focused on extracting information from genomes to better understand how they encode phenotypes. Extant living organisms are the result of an historical process that has unfolded over billions of years. Their genomes have accumulated footprints of past episodes of selection in response to interactions with their environment or with other species. I have developed computational methods based on probabilistic models to detect these footprints and interpret genomic data on a large scale.

In particular, I have used ancestral sequence reconstruction to study the lifestyles of organisms that lived billions of years ago, I have developed methods for reconstructing gene trees and species trees to better understand genome evolution, and I have developed and assessed methods to find examples of convergent genomic evolution.

My research in genomics these days mainly focuses on

I have recently broadened my interests in a variety of directions, which led me to study

 

In terms of teaching, I have been involved in teaching Bayesian statistics, Computational Molecular Evolution, Genomics.

I also taught about the environmental footprint of our food systems as part of the course "Climat et transitions" taught at Université Lyon 1.

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