Contact
12-16 rue Buffon
CP39
75005 Paris
Responsibilities outside unit
From 2023 on: Elected for 3 years at the Administration Board of the MNHN (permanent member)
From 2022 on: Elected for 4 years at the Board of the Département Origines et Evolution, Collège 2
From 2022 on: Representative for the Doctoral School ED227 MNHN-SU
From 2020 on: Member of the Administration Board of the Société Botanique de France
From 2019 on: Co-Editor-in-Chief of Botany Letters
Collections
Curator in paleobotany.
Curator at P herbarium.
Curator of Amborellales, Nymphaeales, Austrobaileyales, Chloranthales, Magnoliales, Laurales, Canellales, Piperales, Ceratophyllales, Ranunculales, Sabiales, Proteales, Trochodendrales, Buxales, Gunnerales, Dilleniales, Saxifragales, Vitales, Zygophyllales.
Presentation
Research interests
My research focuses on the evolution of plant taxa and plant shapes, in relation to geographical and other physical or biotic conditions.
I have a special interest in the study of flower ontogeny and evolution, in a phylogenetic framework.
Keywords
- Evolution and genetic bases of floral traits
- Flower development
- Systematics, taxonomy, and biogeography
Education and position
- 2024 Professor, National Museum of Natural History, Paris
- 2017-24 Associate Professor, National Museum of Natural History, Paris
- 2013-17 Assistant Professor, National Museum of Natural History, Paris
- 2010-12 Postdoctoral fellow, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich
- 2006-09 PhD, Paris-Saclay University, and Génétique Quantitative et Evolution - Le Moulon
- 2005-06 MSc, Paris-Saclay University
- 2003-06 AgroParisTech
- 2001-03 Classes préparatoires BCPST
Current PhD students
- Lantotiana Randriamanana (2022-, main supervisor)
- Fabio Meraihi (2023-, main supervisor)
- Nathan Fouéré-Klein (2024-, main supervisor)
Former PhD students
- Chhavarath Dary (2013-2016)
- Felipe Espinosa (2016-19)
- Julie Zalko (2018-22)
- Pierre Galipot (2019-21)
- Pauline Delpeuch (2020-23)
Documents
Publications
- August 2024 — Phylogenetic evidence clarifies the history of the extrusion of Indochina. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences vol. 121, n° 35, e2322527121,ISSN0027-8424, 1091-6490
- May 2024 — « Enhancing YOLOv7 for Plant Organs Detection Using Attention-Gate Mechanism » in PAKDD2024.. vol. 14646, , p. 223-234 Type: 10.1007/978-981-97-2253-2_18,
- March 2024 — Eurasian drylands are both evolutionary cradles and museums of Nitrariaceae diversity. Journal of Biogeography , , Publisher: Wiley tex.hal_id: hal-04519767 tex.hal_version: v1,
- 2024 — A cornucopia of diversity - Ranunculales as a model lineage. Journal of Experimental Botany , , Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP) tex.hal_id: hal-04373833 tex.hal_version: v1,
- 2024 — Bayesian tip-dated phylogeny and biogeography of Cissampelideae (Menispermaceae): Mitigating the effects of homoplastic morphological characters. Cladistics : the international journal of the Willi Hennig Society , , Publisher: Wiley tex.hal_id: hal-04519759 tex.hal_version: v1,
- 2024 — Editorial. Botany Letters vol. 171, n° 1, p. 1-2,ISSN2381-8107, 2381-8115
- 2024 — A revised tribal classification of Papaveraceae (poppy family) based on molecular and morphological data. TAXON vol. 73, n° 3, p. 762-783,ISSN0040-0262, 1996-8175
- 2024 — The world checklist of Saldinia (Lasiantheae, Rubiaceae), four lectotypifications, and notes about nomenclature and distribution. Botany Letters , , p. 1-8,ISSN2381-8107, 2381-8115
- 2024 — Jean-Baptiste Payer (1818–1860), prolific botanist and enlightened French citizen: his legacy in flower development and a need for a new, global compendium. Botany Letters , , p. 1-23,ISSN2381-8107, 2381-8115
- 2024 — The mechanism underlying asymmetric bending of lateral petals in Delphinium (Ranunculaceae). Current Biology - CB vol. 34, n° 4, 755 – 768.e4 Publisher: Elsevier tex.hal_id: hal-04519754 tex.hal_version: v1,ISSN09609822