Student Grants

My name is Clio Maridakis. I completed my PhD in December 2025 at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, within the Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), under the supervision of Line Le Gall and Florence Rousseau. My research focuses on the diversity and phylogeny of coralline algae (Corallinophycidae), with a particular interest in species delimitation, the taxonomic revision of the genus Jania, and the contribution of genomics to understanding phylogenetic relationships within this group. During my PhD, I worked with the world’s largest collection of coralline algae, held in the herbarium of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, to explore the diversity of these calcified red algae,Read More →

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 →