Research Interests

• Écologie microbienne
• Rivières et eaux côtières subarctiques

Education

2018 - present
Ph.D. Biologie
Université Laval, Canada
Structure spatio-temporelle du microbiome fluvial subarctique le long d'un gradient de pergélisol et de salinité.

2014 - 2017
M.Sc. Biologie
Université Laval, Canada
Étude en mésocosmes des impacts de l'acidification et du réchauffement sur la composition élémentaire de la biomasse planctonique et le cycle de l'azote dans l'estuaire maritime du Saint-Laurent

2011 - 2014
B.Sc Biologie
Université Laval, Canada

Publications

2022

Fonseca Coelho, L., Fernandes Couceiro, J., Keller-Costa, T., Martinez Valente, S., Pereirinha Ramalho, T., Carneiro, J., Comte, J., Blais, M. A., Vincent, W.F., Martins, Z., Canário, J. & Costa, R., (2022). Structural shifts in sea ice prokaryotic communities across a salinity gradient in the subarctic. Science of the Total Environment, 827, 154286. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154286

Blais, M. A., Matveev, A., Lovejoy, C., & Vincent, W. F. (2022). Size-fractionated microbiome structure in subarctic rivers and a coastal plume across DOC and salinity gradients. Frontiers in Microbiology, 12:760282. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.760282

2021

Nozais, C., Vincent, W. F., Belzile, C., Gosselin, M., Blais, M. A., Canário, J., & Archambault, P. (2021). The Great Whale River ecosystem: ecology of a subarctic river and its receiving waters in coastal Hudson Bay, Canada. Écoscience, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/11956860.2021.1926137

2020

Tessin, A., März, C., Blais, M. A., Brumsack, H. J., Matthiessen, J., O'Regan, M., & Schnetger, B. (2020). Arctic continental margin sediments as possible Fe and Mn sources to seawater as sea ice retreats: Insights from the Eurasian Margin. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 34(8), e2020GB006581. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GB006581

2018

Bénard, R., Levasseur, M., Scarratt, M., Blais, M. A., Mucci, A., Ferreyra, G., Starr, M., Gosselin, M., Tremblay, J. É., & Lizotte, M. (2018). Experimental assessment of the sensitivity of an estuarine phytoplankton fall bloom to acidification and warming. Biogeosciences, 15(16), 4883-4904. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-4883-2018