Professional experience
2023- present Independent researcher
2021- 2023 Marie-Curie fellow. MIVEGEC – CNRS, Montpellier, France
2016 – 2021 Postdoctoral fellow (independent). Evolutionary Biology group of G.J. Velicer, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland. Ecology and evolution of bacterial communities and bacteriophages
2012 – 2015 PhD student. Evolutionary ecology group, Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution – University of Montpellier, France. Advisor: M.E. Hochberg. Evolutionary ecology of social bacterial populations under antibiotic and bacteriophage pressure
Mar – Sep 2012 MSc student. Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Montpellier, France. Advisors: M.A. Selosse, D. McKey and R. Blatrix. Multilocus phylogeny of fungi involved in ant-plant symbioses
Nov 2011 – Jan 2012 Pregraduate fellow. Agrocampus Ouest, Rennes, France. Advisor: M. Plantegenest. Interplay of parasitic pressure and bacterial symbionts on aphid offspring phenotypes
Mar – Aug 2011 Pregraduate fellow. Laval University, Québec, Canada. Advisor: R.R. Bélanger. Functional genomics of the fungus Pseudozyma flocculosa
Oct 2010 – Feb 2011 Pregraduate fellow. AgResearch Ruakura Research Centre, Hamilton, New Zealand. Advisor: P. J. Gerard. Behavioural interactions between two Microctonus parasitoid wasps
Jan – Feb 2010 Pregraduate fellow. James Hutton Institute, Dundee, Scotland UK. Advisor: S. N. Johnson. Predatory functional response of Coccinella septempunctata to Amphorophora idaei
Educational background
2012 – 2015 PhD. Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution – University of Montpellier, France.
2008 – 2012 Ingénieure agronome in Ecology and Evolution. Agrocampus Ouest centre de Rennes, France’s top graduate engineering school for agricultural and life sciences (Grande école). Valedictorian
2009 Semester student at Laval University, Québec, Canada. Coursework in Ecology and Evolution
2006 – 2008 Classes Préparatoires BCPST. Lycée Montaigne, Bordeaux, France. Mathematics and Biology preparatory classes leading to selective entrance by examination into the French Grandes écoles
Communications
Invited speaker
2021 (forthcoming) Seminar – Département de Microbiologie Fondamentale, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
2021 Conference – Crowdfight Symposium on the Science of Collaboration (video)
2019 Seminar – Ecology and Evolution seminar series (SEEM), Montpellier, France
2018 Conference – 22nd Evolutionary Biology Meeting, Marseille, France
2016 Seminar – Erasmus MEME Winter School, Montpellier, France
2015 Seminar – Institute of Integrative Biology at ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
Oral communications
2021 Virtual Evolution 2021
2020 ERC-Idem virtual meeting on Holobionts, Microbiota and Biological Individuality (video)
2019 Phage.fr Phage Network Conference, Grenoble, France
2018 French Society of Ecology and Evolution Conference (SFE2), Rennes, France
2017 ESEB Conference, Groningen, Netherlands
2016 International Conference on the Biology of the Myxobacteria, Interlaken, Switzerland
2015 ESEB Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland
2014 Seminar – Institute of Evolution Science (ISEM), Montpellier, France
2014 MICOM Conference, Jena, Germany
2011 Seminar – Agrocampus Ouest, Rennes, France
2011 Seminar – AgResearch Ruakura Research Centre, Hamilton, New Zealand
Poster presentations
2019 Jacques Monod Conference, Roscoff, France
2019 ESEB Conference, Turku, Finland
2018 Evolution-ESEB Conference, Montpellier, France
2017 Winter School “Ecological genomics of coevolutionary interactions”, Weggis, Switzerland
2014 Summer school “Understanding Microbial Communities; Function, Structure and Dynamics”, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK
2011 Conférence Internationale sur les ravageurs en Agriculture, Montpellier, France
2010 Journées scientifiques, Agrocampus Ouest, Rennes, France
Public outreach
Vasse M. 2017 Quand les antibiotiques entravent la coopération bactérienne. Planet-Vie. {in French}
Funding and grants
2020 Marie Curie Independent Fellowship €184 708
2019 ETH Independent Career Seed grant CHF30 000
2019 French Medical Research Foundation Individual fellowship (declined) €134 400
2017 Marie Curie – ETH CONFUND Fellowship CHF225 700
2014 Grant from Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (Cambridge) £450
2013 Teaching position (monitorat) at the University of Montpellier €7 920
2012 Doctoral grant from the French Research Ministry €60 660
2011 Grant from the Laval University (Quebec, Canada) for a research project $7 500
2010 Grant from Agrocampus Ouest (France) for a research project in Scotland €550
2009 Scholarship from the Brittany region (France) to study in Canada €1 200
Memberships
2017 – present Society for the Study of Evolution
2016 – present Complex Systems Society
2015 – present Member of the French Bacteriophage network
2014 – present European Society for Evolutionary Biology
2013 – present French Society of Ecology and Evolution (Société Française d’Ecologie et d’Evolution)