My name is Coralie Rousseau and I am currently an Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow, working closely with Dr Cathy Pfister (Ecology and Evolution department) and Dr Claire Donnat (Statistics department) at the University of Chicago. I received my Ph.D in microbiology (March 2025), supervised by Dr Simon Dittami and Dr Catherine Leblanc, at the Biological Station of Roscoff (Brittany, France) by studying ecological and functional roles of the microbial communities associated with the brown seaweed Ascophyllum nodosum. Seaweeds harbor a rich microbial community, including bacteria, archaea, viruses, fungi, and other eukaryotes on their surfaces and within their tissues. The associationRead More →

One of the objectives of the SPF is to help young phycologists to participate in international conferences. The French Phycological Society offers a financial grant of a maximum of 400 euros to PhD students or early Post-Doc who have recently defended their PhD to participate in international scientific conferences.  To be eligible for this financial grant, you must: The SPF Board generally meets in October/November to examine the applications; it may occasionally call on experts who are not members of the SPF Board if it does not feel able to evaluate all the applications. The results will be presented at the SPF annual meeting inRead More →