Collaborators
Eduardo Rocha
Eduardo Rocha’s team is at the cutting edge of microbial genomics and evolution. He produced bioinformatics tools to identify several types of mobile genetic elements and played a key role in the study of their abundance in bacterial genomes and their effects on bacterial evolution. Professor Le Roux is currently engaged in a project funded by the National Research Agency (ANR) (“RESISTE” 2021-25).
Didier Mazel
Professor Le Roux led a small research group in Didier Mazel’s laboratory from 2004-2008. This laboratory explores off-zonal transfers in bacteria, their mechanisms and their evolutionary impact. Professor Le Roux is now co-supervising a doctoral student (Baptiste Darracq, 2022-25) with Dr Céline Loot, on a subject aimed at characterizing the defense elements against phages in the chromosomal integron of V. cholerae.
Marc Monot
Marc Monot heads the Biomics platform at the Institut Pasteur, a structure dedicated to next-generation sequencing which offers long-read and short-read sequencing technologies. The optimization of the sequencing of a large collection of vibriophages was carried out by them.
Zoë Chaplain
Zoë helps us with outreach and promotion of events by using her graphic designer skills.
Alexander Harms
https://ifnh.ethz.ch/research/molecular-phage-biology.html
We are collaborating with Alexander’s group, in particular with Damien Piel (postdoctoral fellow in the Harms lab), using the marvellous Basel collection to further explore the mechanisms of our anti-phage systems in a more naïve genetic background.
Jose Penades
https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/j.penades/about
We collaborate with José and members of his group, including Wang Jinlong and Liu Mei, on multiple aspects related to the genetics and structure of phages and their satellites. His pioneering work and passion for phage satellites continue to inspire much of our research.
Tiago Dias Da Costa
https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/t.costa
In collaboration with Tiago, we explore the world of cryo-EM, gaining a fascinating close-up view of our tiny phages.
Melanie Blokesch
https://www.epfl.ch/labs/blokesch-lab
We have a long-standing collaboration with Mélanie on environmental Vibrio and, more recently, their phages a partnership strengthened by F. Le Roux’s highly enjoyable mini-sabbatical at EPFL (summer 2018) and by Mélanie’s visits to Roscoff and Montréal.