Research Interest
My research interest aims at understanding how plant pathogens are able to evolve, develop and feed on their host(s), with a particular focus on biotrophic fungal pathogens. In the frame of a Young Scientist contract of the French National Institute of Agricultural Research, I am interested in the comparative genomics of two rust fungi, two Melampsora spp. of the poplar-poplar rust pathosystem. My postdoctoral project aims at i) investigate transposable elements (TEs) dynamics in three fungal species Zymoseptoria tritici, Melampsora larici-populina and Melampsora allii-populina, ii) determine how TEs play a role in genome organization, and iii) understand the role of TEs in the evolution of gene families (particularly effector gene families).
Short CV
Current situation: Post-doctoral
fellow, Young Scientist contract INRA
Evolutionary genomics department, E.
Stukenbrock’s group, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary biology &
Tree/Microbe Interactions Department (UMR 1136 IAM), Ecogenomics team,
INRA/Lorraine University, INRA Centre Grand Est-Nancy
2018: PhD in plant and
forest biology, Young Scientist contract INRA, Tree/Microbe Interactions
Department (UMR 1136 IAM), Ecogenomics team, INRA/Lorraine University, INRA
Centre Grand Est-Nancy (France)
2014: Master of Science -
Biotechnology, Microbiology, Nutrition and Environment, Lorraine University,
Nancy (France)
Publications
Lorrain C, Petre B, Duplessis S (2018) Show me the way: rust effector targets in heterologous systems, Current Opinion in Microbiology. 46:19-25.
Lorrain C, Marchal C, Hacquard S, Delaruelle C, Pétrowski J, Petre B, Hecker A, Frey P, Duplessis S (2018) The rust fungus Melampsora larici-populina expresses a conserved genetic program and distinct sets of secreted protein genes during infection of its two host plants, larch and poplar. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. Accepted, In Press.
Lorrain C, Gervais J, Petit Y, Plett J (2017) Meeting report: New insights into plant-microbe interactions through advances in fungal genetics. New Phytologist. 215:647-650.
Petre B, Lorrain C, Saunders DGO, Win J, Sklenar J, Duplessis S, Kamoun S (2016) Rust fungal effectors mimic host transit peptides to translocate into chloroplasts. Cellular Microbiology 18: 453-465.
Petre B, Saunders DGO, Sklenar J, Lorrain C, Krasileva KV, Win J, Duplessis S, Kamoun S (2016) Heterologous expression screens in Nicotiana benthamiana identify a candidate effector of the wheat yellow rust pathogen that associates with processing bodies. PloS One 11: e0149035.
Lorrain C, Hecker A, Duplessis S (2015) Effector-mining in the poplar rust fungus Melampsora larici-populina secretome. Mini-review, Frontiers in Plant Science 6: 1051. doi:10.3389/fpls.2015.01051.
Petre B, Saunders DGO, Sklenar J, Lorrain C, Win J, Duplessis S, Kamoun S (2015) Candidate effector proteins of the rust pathogen Melampsora larici-populina target diverse plant cell compartments. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 28: 689-700.