“Even if we think that our research is purely fundamental in the moment, it will eventually have an applied interest. This is what makes research interesting and exciting.”
Doctoral candidate : Aurélie Deroy
Research Team : UMR IAM
Aurélie Deroy is a young researcher working in the microbiology unit “Interaction Trees/Micro-organism”. In her research, Aurelie is studying a fungus that decomposes wood. She is interested in certain proteins called enzymes, compounds essential to the life of cells, which allow the fungus to protect themselves against toxic products released when wood is degraded.
Aurélie participated in the training program Experimentarium in Lorraine this last fall, a project providing a framework in which doctoral students with the University of Lorraine prepare to meet and share their experiences as researchers with the non-scientific public. See the fact sheet
Recently, together with Melanie Morel, Aurélie made a short 2 minute video on the theme “Biodiversity of fungi forest lignivors” which will be presented during the debate organized by the Conference of Presidents of University (CPU) on 19 February at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, on the theme “The societal challenge of biodiversity”. See the video
Aurélie is currently working on her thesis in the framework of the SYMWOOD project. The title of her thesis is ‘Local adaptation of saprophytic mushrooms’.
