Research Interests

The oldest and thickest ice remaining over the Arctic Ocean, referred to as the Last Ice Area (LIA), is projected to retain perennial ice when summer ice has largely disappeared from the rest of the Arctic Ocean. The earlier onset of photosynthesis in spring due to increased light will affect the timing of nutrient utilisation and the character of linked Nitrogen, Carbon and Sulfur cycles. Under the impact of global change, my project investigates biogeochemical pathways using emerging metagenomics and ecological network techniques to identify key processes that influence the connectivity and future development of microbial communities in ice, ice-covered seas and Arctic open waters.

Education

2016 - 2020
Ph.D in Marine Sciences/Bioinformatics
Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC-ICM), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions SINGEK: Promoting Single Cell Genomics to explore the ecology and evolution of hidden microeukaryotes

2013 - 2015
M.Sc Microbiology / Genomics
Université Laval, Québec, Canada

2010 - 2013
B.Sc Microbiology (Environment & Bioinformatic)
Université Laval, Québec, Canada

Research Experience

Postdoctoral Fellow (2021 - present)
CFREF Sentinel North project "Last Ice Microbiomes and Arctic Ecosystem Health"
Université Laval, Canada

Scientific consultant (2020)
School of Life Science
Arizona State University, USA

Associate Research Fellow (2016)
Research School in Biosystematics
University of Oslo, Norway

Associate Research Fellow (2014 - 2016)
College of Life and Environmental Sciences
University of Exeter, United Kingdom

Research stays (May - Sept 2012)
Integrated and System Biology Institute (IBIS)
Université Laval, Canada

Research stays (May - Sept 2010)
Pasteur Institute of New-Caledonia
Nouméa, New-Caledonia

Awards

2016
H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions SINGEK
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Publications

2021

Labarre, A., López-Escardó, D., Latorre, F., ... Massana, R. (2021). Comparative genomics reveals new functional insights in uncultured MAST species. ISME J 15, 1767-1781. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-020-00885-8

Latorre, F., Deutschmann, I. M., Labarre, A., Obiol, A., Krabberød, A. K., Pelletier, E., Sieracki, M. E., Cruaud, C., Jaillon, O., Massana, R., & Logares, R. (2021). Niche adaptation promoted the evolutionary diversification of tiny ocean predators. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(25), e2020955118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2020955118 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2020955118

Massana, R., Labarre, A., López-Escardó, D., ... Keeling, P.J. (2021). Gene expression during bacterivorous growth of a widespread marine heterotrophic flagellate. ISME J 15, 154-167. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-020-00770-4

2020

de Vargas, C., Pollina, T., Romac, S., Le Bescot, N., Henry, N., Berger, C., Colin, S., Haëntjens, N., Carmichael, M., Le Guen, D., Decelle, J., Mahé, F., Malpot, E., Beaumont, C., Hardy, M., the planktonauts, the P. P. team, … Prakash, M. (2020). Plankton Planet: 'Seatizen' oceanography to assess open ocean life at the planetary scale. BioRxiv, 2020.08.31.263442. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.31.263442

Latorre, F., Deutschmann, I.M., Labarre, A., Obiol, A., Krabberød, A., Pelletier, E., Sieracki, M.E., Cruaud, C., Jaillon, O., Massana, R., Logares, R. (2020). Evolutionary diversification of tiny ocean predators. bioRxiv 2020.10.09.333062. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.09.333062

2019

Labarre, A., Obiol, A., Wilken, S., Forn, I. & Massana, R. (2019). Expression of genes involved in phagocytosis in uncultured heterotrophic flagellates. Limnol Oceanogr, 65: S149-S160. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11379

2018

Leonard, G., Labarre, A., Milner, D.S., Monier, A., ... Richards, T.A. (2018). Comparative genomic analysis of the 'pseudofungus' Hyphochytrium catenoides. Open Biol., 8:170184. 170184. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsob.170184

2017

Raclariu, A.C., Paltinean, R., Vlase, L., Labarre, A. et al. (2017). Comparative authentication of Hypericum perforatum herbal products using DNA metabarcoding, TLC and HPLC-MS. Sci Rep 7, 1291. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01389-w

2015

Lemieux, C., Vincent, A.T., Labarre, A. et al. (2015). Chloroplast phylogenomic analysis of chlorophyte green algae identifies a novel lineage sister to the Sphaeropleales (Chlorophyceae). BMC Evol Biol 15, 264. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-015-0544-5