Aurélien Tellier
I am interested in the evolution of plants. I focus on combining theoretical approaches of population genetics and ecology with the use of new sequencing technologies, for studying 1) the evolution and consequences of seed banks, 2) plant-pathogen coevolution, 3) plant genome evolution and domestication.
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Awards:
2022: Ctibor Blattný Medal of the Czech Society for Plant Protection
Education:
2003 – 2007: PhD, Department of Disease and Stress Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
2002 - 2003: DEA Plant Adaptation to Environmental Conditions (MSc degree)
Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon (INAPG) - University Paris 11, France
1999 - 2002: Diplôme d’Ingénieur (MSc degree) ENITA de BORDEAUX, France
Engineering Master Degree in Agriculture and Agronomy
Professional experience:
June 2012 – Present: Professor (W2) for Population genetics, Technische Universität München
Nov. 2010- Mai 2012: DFG Post-doctoral Fellowship, University of Munich LMU, Germany
with Prof. Wolfgang Stephan
June 2007- Oct. 2010: VolkswagenStiftung Post-doctoral Fellowship, University of Munich LMU, Germany
with Prof. Wolfgang Stephan
Oct. 2003-March 2007: PhD, Department of Disease and Stress Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
with Prof. James KM Brown
2003: Master Thesis, Dept Ecology, Systematic and Evolution, University Paris 11, France.
with Dr. Tatiana Giraud
2003: Master Thesis short internship, Epidemiology laboratory, INRA Grignon, France
with Dr Jérôme Enjalbert
2002: Master Thesis, Dept Ecology, Systematic and Evolution, University Paris 11, France.
with Dr. Tatiana Giraud
Extramural fundings
2023-2026: DFG grant in TRR356 (together with R. Hückelhoven) “The contribution of transposable elements of Blumeria graminis to cross kingdom compatibility with cereal hosts” (616,000 EUR)
2021-2025: DFG grant TE809/1 “The Cheshire cat reloaded: causes and consequences of the evolution of dormancy/quiescence in parasites” (440,000 EUR)
2020-2023: IGSSE TUM Grant (with Prof Müller) “GENOMic data and Inference of Epidemic routes for Quiescent And DOrmant Parasites” (350,000 EUR)
2018-2025: European ESEB Special topic network “Ecological genomics of coevolutionary interactions” (120,000 EUR)
2015- 2018: DFG grant "Coevolution in action in host and parasite genomes" within SPP1819 on "Rapid adaptations"
2014- 2017: DFG grant "Evolution of seed banks and coevolution".
2013-2014: "Cooperation grant for travels, Bayerisch-Französiches Hochschulszentrum (BFHZ) with Dr Tatiana Giraud (University Paris-Orsay)
2012- 2015: "Population Genetics Independent Research Group S3"
AgroClustEr Synbreed (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF)
2007 - 2010: VolkswagenStiftung Post-doctoral Fellowship
Title: "Adaptation to biotic stress in wild tomato species"
Professional activities
Since October 2022: I am Academic Program Director for BSc/MSc Life Science Biology and Molecular Biotechnology at TUM SoLS
2019 - 2023: Elected council member of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology
Associate Editor
GENETICS (https://academic.oup.com/genetics),
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION (https://academic.oup.com/mbe)
QUANTITATIVE PLANT BIOLOGY (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/quantitative-plant-biology)
Grant Review
Grant review for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), DFG (Germany), Austrian Science foundation, Swiss Science Foundation, European Research Council, and Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR, France)
Peer reviewed journals:
Nature Communications (2020-), PNAS (2013-), New Phytologist (2008–), Molecular Ecology (2008–), Heredity (2010–), PLoS Genetics (2011–), Evolution (2011–), Genetics (2011–), Journal of Evolutionary Biology (2009–), American Naturalist (2011–), Molecular Biology and Evolution (2009),
Proceedings of the Royal Society London Series B (2007 – 2009), Theoretical Population Biology (2008 – 2009), Phytopathology (2010)