Aurélien Tellier
I am interested in the evolution of plants. I focus on combining theoretical approaches of population genetics and ecology with the use of new sequencing technologies, for studying 1) the evolution and consequences of seed banks, 2) plant-pathogen coevolution, 3) plant genome evolution and domestication.
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Education:
2003 – 2007: PhD, Department of Disease and Stress Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
2002 - 2003: DEA Plant Adaptation to Environmental Conditions (MSc degree)
Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon (INAPG) - University Paris 11, France
1999 - 2002: Diplôme d’Ingénieur (MSc degree) ENITA de BORDEAUX, France
Engineering Master Degree in Agriculture and Agronomy
Professional experience:
June 2012 – Present: Professor (W2) for Population genetics, Technische Universität München
Nov. 2010- Mai 2012: DFG Post-doctoral Fellowship, University of Munich LMU, Germany
with Prof. Wolfgang Stephan
June 2007- Oct. 2010: VolkswagenStiftung Post-doctoral Fellowship, University of Munich LMU, Germany
with Prof. Wolfgang Stephan
Oct. 2003-March 2007: PhD, Department of Disease and Stress Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
with Prof. James KM Brown
2003: Master Thesis, Dept Ecology, Systematic and Evolution, University Paris 11, France.
with Dr. Tatiana Giraud
2003: Master Thesis short internship, Epidemiology laboratory, INRA Grignon, France
with Dr Jérôme Enjalbert
2002: Master Thesis, Dept Ecology, Systematic and Evolution, University Paris 11, France.
with Dr. Tatiana Giraud
Extramural fundings
2015- 2018: DFG grant "Coevolution in action in host and parasite genomes" within SPP1819 on "Rapid adaptations"
2014- 2017: DFG grant "Evolution of seed banks and coevolution".
2013-2014: "Cooperation grant for travels, Bayerisch-Französiches Hochschulszentrum (BFHZ) with Dr Tatiana Giraud (University Paris-Orsay)
2012- 2015: "Population Genetics Independent Research Group S3"
AgroClustEr Synbreed (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF)
2007 - 2010: VolkswagenStiftung Post-doctoral Fellowship
Title: "Adaptation to biotic stress in wild tomato species"
Professional activities
Grant review for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), DFG (Germany) and Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR, France)
Peer reviewed journals:
PNAS (2013-), New Phytologist (2008–), Molecular Ecology (2008–), Heredity (2010–), PLoS Genetics (2011–), Evolution (2011–), Genetics (2011–), Journal of Evolutionary Biology (2009–), American Naturalist (2011–), Molecular Biology and Evolution (2009), Proceedings of the Royal Society London Series B (2007 – 2009), Theoretical Population Biology (2008 – 2009), Phytopathology (2010)
Selected talks
Nov 2013: "A biologist’s guide to the Multiple Merger Coalescent: suggestions for possible applications". Workshop Multiple merger coalescent in population genetics, Department of Mathematics, University of Mainz (Germany)
July 2013: "Plant ecology influences population genetics: the role of seed banks in structuring genetic diversity". Workshop Coalescent, Department of Mathematics, University of Zürich (Switzerland)
Dec 2012: "Costs in plant-parasite coevolution: bridging the gap between ecology and population genetics", Invited speaker at the British Society for Plant Pathology Meeting (Norwich, UK)
July 2012: "Mind the gaps: Theoretical and empirical aspects of plant ecology and population genetics"
Invited lecture at the Synbreed Status Symposium, TUM (Freising, Germany)
Mai 2011: "Signature of balancing selection at resistance genes in two closely related wild tomato species"
DFG meeting of the SPP 1399 (Berlin, Germany).
July 2010: "Demography vs selection: Evolutionary history of wild tomatoes"
Invited speaker at the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution meeting (Lyon, France)
October 2009: "Demography vs selection: Evolutionary history of wild tomatoes"
Meeting “Mind the Gap” of Theoretical Population Genetics (Freiburg, Germany)
March 2009: "Maintenance of polymorphism in host-parasite interactions: role of ecological, epidemiological and genetic factors"
Invited speaker at Workshop on Models/Methododological problems in Botanical epidemiology (Rutgers University, USA)
Feb 2009: "Demography and population history of wild tomato species"
First status symposium on Evolutionary Biology of the VolkswagenStiftung (Muenster, Germany)