PhD students

Name ABDALRAHEM Ammar
ammar.abdalrahem@inrae.fr
Team Ecology of Forest Pathogenic Fungi team
Supervisors Pascal FREY, Fabien HALKETT and Sébastien DUPLESSIS
Subject Evolutionary and functional studies of the variability of reproductive modes in the poplar rust fungus, Melampsora larici-populina.
Period 11/2022 – 10/2025
Name AOUDACHE Yanis
yanis.adouache@univ-lorraine.fr
 
Team Stress response and redox regulation team
Supervisors Nicolas ROUHIER / Claire REMACLE
Subject Use of synthetical biology in metabolic engineering for mitochondrial hydrogen production in microalgae
Period 11/2022 – 10/2025
Name BLANCO-NOUCHE Cintia
cintia.blanco-nouche@inrae.fr
Team Ecogenomics of interactions team
Supervisors S. UROZ and MP TURPAULT (BEF)
Subject of thesis Characterisation of the molecular and mineralogical mechanisms involved in the mineral weathering ability of Caballeronia mineralivorans
Period 10/2021 – 09/2024
Name BOUCHE Ségolène
segolene.bouche@inrae.fr
Team Ecogenomics of interactions team
Supervisors S. UROZ and MP TURPAULT (BEF)
Subject of thesis Ecology and mineral weathering ability of mycorrhizosphere Pseudomonas
Period 10/2023 – 09/2026
Name CORRE Emma
emma.corre@inrae.fr
Team Ecogenomics of interactions team
Supervisors Sébastien DUPLESSIS and Cécile LORRAIN (ETH Zurich)
Subject Impact of transposable elements invasion on genomes of Pucciniales (fungi causing rust diseases).
Period 11/2022 – 10/2025
Name DAS NEVES Benjamin
benjamin.das-neves@univ-lorraine.fr
Team Stress response and redox regulation team
Supervisors Nicolas ROUHIER and Jérémy COUTURIER
Subject Molecular mechanisms of the assembly and transfer of iron-sulfur clusters by the SUF machinery in chloroplasts.
Period 09/2023 – 08/2026
Name DONNAY Natacha
natacha.donnay@univ-lorraine.fr
Team Stress response and redox regulation team
Supervisors N. ROUHIER and Linda de BONT
Subject of thesis Functional analysis of candidate proteins with oxidoreductase activity in plant organelles
Period 10/2021 – 09/2024
Name HILAIRE Elsa
elsa.hilaire@inrae.fr
Team Ecogenomics of interactions team
Supervisors Marc BUÉE and Bernd ZELLER (BEF)
Subject of thesis The role of microorganisms in the decomposition of organic matter in forest soils: focus on fungal necromass
Period 09/2023 – 08/2026
Name LIU Zhichao
zhichao.liu@univ-lorraine.fr
Team Stress Redox team
Supervisors J. COUTURIER and N. ROUHIER
Subject of thesis Study of the molecular mechanisms of protein persulfidation in plants
Period 09/2022 – 08/2025
Name LOPEZ Alicia
alicia.lopez-lopez@univ-lorraine.fr
Teams Stress response and redox regulation team
Supervisors N. ROUHIER and O. KEECH
Subject of thesis Assembly of the respiratory complex I in plants/ Assemblage du complexe respiratoire I chez les plantes
Period 10/2021 – 09/2024
Name MORETTE Laura
laura.morette@univ-lorraine.fr
Teams Stress response and redox regulation team
Supervisors A. HECKER and C. DIDIERJEAN
Subject of thesis Biochemical and structural characterisation of the catalytic and ligandine properties of glutathione transferases from photosynthetic organisms
Period 10/2021 – 09/2024
Name MULLER Elodie
elodie.muller@inrae.fr
Teams Ecology of forest pathogenic fungi team
Supervisors Mireia GOMEZ-GALLEGO, Jaime AGUAYO and Benoit MARCAIS
Subject of thesis Study of the conditions for the emergence of an invasive pathogen : Cryptostroma corticale on sycamore maple
Period 12/2022 – 11/2025
Name VANDEKERKHOVE Carla
carla.vandekerkhove@univ-lorraine.fr
Team Stress response and redox regulation team
Supervisor S. DARNET and M. MOREL-ROUHIER
Subject of thesis Ecological lipidomics: the role of fungal sterol metabolism in the proliferation of bark beetles in conifers
Period 10/2023 – 09/2026
Name WANG Huayong
huayong.wang@inrae.fr
Team Ecogenomics of interactions team
Supervisors F. MARTIN / A. KOHLER
Subject of thesis Comparative genomics and population genomics of the ectomycorrhizal fungus Cenococcum geophilum
Period 10/2021 – 09/2024