Position: Postdoc
Room number: 108
Phone number: +49 4522 763 221
Research interests
My research interest includes coevolution between hosts and pathogens, the domestication of plants, fungi and animals and genome evolution. In my current project, I use bioinformatics tools to better understand the role of recombination in rapid adaptive evolution of Zymoseptoria tritici, a wheat fungal pathogen.
I previously worked as a PhD and master student in Tatiana Giraud’s team in Paris. I was involved in several projects including studying the evolutionary history of apple tree species in Europe and in Asia. I was interested in the role of inter-specific hybridization in the domestication process of apple trees and in the evolution of wild apple trees species in Europe and in Asia (mostly from a conservation perspective). I also studied co-evolution between host and pathogen using two different pairs of species: on the one hand, the apple tree and its fungal pathogen, Venturia inaequalis, and on the other hand, the plant Silene latifolia and its anther-smut pathogen, Microbotryum lychnidis-dioicae.
Short CV
2017-present: Post-doc in Prof. Dr. Eva Stukenbrock’s team at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön (Germany). “The role of recombination In rapid adaptive evolution of fungal plant pathogens: A comparative population genomics study”
2013-2016: Ph.D. in Dr. Tatiana Giraud’s team at the Ecology, Systematic, Evolution laboratory in Paris-Saclay University (France). “Interspecific hybridizations in apple trees and host-pathogen coevolution.”
2011-2013: Master’s degree in Biology, specialized in Variability, Expression and Evolution of Genomes in Paris-Saclay University (at the time Paris-Sud University)
2008-2011: Bachelor’s degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology and Physiology (first rank during the six semesters) in Angers University
Publications
Interspecific Gene Exchange as a Driver of Adaptive Evolution in Fungi. Feurtey A, Stukenbrock EH. Ann. Rev. Microbiol. 2018.
Crop-to-wild gene flow and its fitness consequences for a wild fruit tree: towards a comprehensive conservation strategy of the wild apple in Europe. Feurtey A, Cornille A, Shykoff J, Snirc, A, Giraud T. Evolutionary Applications 2016.
Strong phylogeographic costructure between the anther smut fungus and its white campion host. Feurtey A, Gladieux P, Snirc A, Hood M, Cornille A, Giraud T. New Phytologist 2016.
Biological invasions: lessons from fungi and the case of the anther smut. Gladieux P, Feurtey A, Hood ME, Snirc A, Dutech C, Roy M, Clavel J, Giraud T. Molecular Ecology 2015.
Anthropogenic and natural drivers of gene flow in a temperate wild fruit tree. Cornille A., Feurtey A, Gélin U, Misvanderbrugge K., Gladieux P, Ropars J, Giraud T. Evolutionary Applications 2015.