Funding & Honors
Funding
2022 ANR grant DArchFolds. French national agency for research (ANR). Lead PI: Anne Lopes.
2022 LivingMachines@Work grant. Université Paris-Saclay. Co-PI: Joana Santos.
€ 10,000.
2020-2023 Simons Foundation grant (“Origin of the eukaryotic cell” joint call Moore-Simons Foundations). Lead PI: Andrew Roger.
€ 181,407 for L.E. ($690,000 total for 4 partners).
2019-2023 ERC Starting grant (803151 – Macro-EpiK). European Commission.
€ 1,500,000.
2018 CENTURI PI Starting grant (declined). Aix-Marseille University, France.
€ 900,000.
2016: Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015 Gap2bridge). European Commission.
€ 175,000
2007 – 2010 : PhD scholarship from the French Ministry of Research (“bourse MRT”).
€ 90,000.
2006 – 2007: Merit scholarship from the French Ministry of Research (“bourse au mérite CROUS”).
€ 6,000.
Awards
2023 Hutner Prize from the International Society of Protistologists. This prize is presented annually to one Society member within 15 years of their PhD who has made outstanding contributions in areas of protistology. Recipients are given a cash prize provided by the endowed Hutner Fund and are invited to present a keynote at an annual meeting of the Society.
2020 Annual Prize of the French Society of Exobiology.
2019 Annual recipient of the Jacques Monod Prize. €16,000. Fondation Jacques Monod.
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2017 Holz-Conner Travel Award, International Society of Protistology (ISOP) (Prague, Czech republic).
2015 Recipient of the 2015 Schnare-Spencer Prize for “Research excellence, intellectual creativity and willingness to assist others”. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
2015 : Recipient of the 2015 Beth Gourley Travel Award for Research Excellence from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology to attend the SMBE 2015 Conference (Vienna, Austria).
2015 : Recipient of the Holz-Conner Travel Award from ISOP to attend the ECOP 2015 Conference (Seville, Spain).
2014 : Recipient of the Holz-Conner Travel Award from ISOP to attend the Protist 2014 Conference (Banff, Canada).
2013 : Recipient of the Holz-Conner Travel Award from ISOP to attend the ICOP 2013 Conference (Vancouver, Canada).
2013 : Recipient of the SMBE Travel Award to attend the SMBE Satellite Meeting Eukaryotic -Omics (UC Davis, California).
2012 : Recipient of the Holz-Conner Travel Award from ISOP to attend the Protist2012 Conference (Oslo, Norway).
2009 : Eukaryotic Cell Journal Outstanding Young Investigator Award at the EMBO 2009 Comparative Genomics of Eukaryotic Microorganisms conference (San Feliu de Guixols, Spain)
2009 : Best Poster Award at the Graduate School Seminar (Marseille, France)
Invited talks at International conferences
2024 – Plenary speaker. PSA-ISEP-ISOP* joint meeting. University of Washington, WA.
*Phycological Society of America, International Society for Evolutionary Protistology, and International Society of Protistologists.
2024 – Early Microbial Life Colloquium. American Society of Microbiology (ASM), Washington DC.
2024 – EMBO Molecular Biology of Archaea. Paris, France.
2024 – Diversity and Evolution in Cell Biology. Barcelona, Spain.
2024 – Evolution and Biodiversity symposium. Pasteur Institute, Paris, France.
2023 – Gordon Research Conference (GRC) Archaea. Mount Snow, USA.
2022 – Company of Biologists: Genotype to phenotype. East Sussex, UK.
2022 – Keynote. International Society for Molecular Ecology (Lausanne, Switzerland).
2022 – EMBO Comparative Genomics of Microbial Eukaryotes (San Feliu, Spain)
2021 – NeLLi Symposium – Origin of the Eukaryotic Cell (JGI, online).
2019 – Microbiology Society conference (Belfast, UK).
2019 – “Archaea: Ecology, Metabolism and Molecular Biology” Gordon Research Seminar (Les diablerets, Switzerland).
2018 – International Society of Protistologists meeting (Vancouver, Canada).
2018 – “Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor” meeting. Organized by Thomas Richards (Chicheley Hall, UK).
2017 – Gordon Research Conference Archaea (Waterville, US). Archaea and the origin of eukaryotes.
2016 – ASM (American Society of Microbiology) meeting – Growing the Tree of Life symposium (Boston, USA). Rooting the Tree of Eukaryotes.
2015 – Company of Biologists Workshop « Eukaryo-/Archaeogenesis: Where Do We Stand? ». Pinpointing the root of extant eukaryotic diversity: advances, challenges and consequences.
2014 – Microbe Evolution 2014 (Tsukuba, Japan). The role of Lateral Gene Transfer in adaptation of protists to new environments.
2009 – International Meeting « Archaea and the universal tree of life » (Fondation des Treilles, France). Phylogenomics of eukaryotic systems: tracing back the nature of the last eukaryotic common ancestor
Invited seminars
2024 – Biology department. Smith College (MA, USA).
2024 – Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit. EMBL (Heidelberg, Germany).
2023 – Department of Biology. Lund University (Sweden).
2023 – Biozentrum. Basel (Switzerland).
2022 – School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham (UK).
2020 – Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany).
2019 – Institute of Zoology. University of Göttingen (Germany).