Catherine BADEL-MELINAND

Assistant Professor

Address:

Université de Strasbourg / CNRS UMR7156
Génétique Moléculaire, Génomique, Microbiologie.
Batiment IPCB, 4 Allée Konrad Roentgen, 67000 Strasbourg, France

 : Cbadel[at]unistra.fr

 : + 33 (0)368851973

Research interests

  • Archaeal genomics and evolution
  • Archaeal organohalide degradation and resistance

Employment

Since 2022: Maître de Conférences (Assistant Professor), Université de Strasbourg and GMGM (UMR 7156), France

2019-2022: Post-doctoral Fellow with Stephen D. Bell, Indiana University, USA.

2016-2019: PhD student with Jacques Oberto, I2BC; France.

Education

2019: PhD in Biology, Université Paris-Saclay, France

2012-2016 - Student “normalien“ at École Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Lyon, France.

2013-2015 - Master “BioSciences“, École Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Lyon, France

2012-2013 - Licence “BioSciences“, École Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Lyon, France

Responsibilities

2021-2023: Organizing committee of Archaea Power Hour (APH) – Europa, a virtual seminar series for the European Archaeal community.

Awards and Honors

2016-2019 : Ph. D. grant from the French Ministry of research.

2012-2016: Scholarship from the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) of Lyon, France.

List of publications

2022

Chromosome organization affects genome evolution in Sulfolobus archaea. C. Badel, R. Y. Samson and and S. D. Bell. Nature Microbiology 7, pages 820–830 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-022-01127-7

2021

Archaeal tyrosine recombinases. C. Badel*, V. Da Cunha*, J. Oberto. FEMS Microbiology Reviews volume 45, Issue 4, fuab004 https://doi.org/10.1093/femsre/fuab004 

2020

Pervasive suicidal integrases in deep-sea archaea. C. Badel, V. Da Cunha, P. Forterre, J. Oberto. Molecular biology and evolution 37 (6), 1727-1743 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaa041

WASPS: web-assisted symbolic plasmid synteny server. Catherine Badel, Violette Da Cunha, Ryan Catchpole, Patrick Forterre, Jacques Oberto. Bioinformatics, btz745 https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btz745 

2019

The global distribution and evolutionary history of the pT26-2 archaeal plasmid family. Catherine Badel, Gaël Erauso, Annika L. Gomez, Ryan Catchpole, Mathieu Gonnet, Jacques Oberto, Patrick Forterre and Violette Da Cunha. Environmental Microbiology (2019) 21(12), 4685–4705 https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.14800

Variation of bacterial biodiversity from saline soils and estuary sediments present near the Mediterranean Sea coast of Camargue (France). Jorge R. Osman, Christophe Regeard, Catherine Badel, Gustavo Fernandes, Michael S. DuBow.. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 112: 351 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-018-1164-z

2017

Flipping chromosomes in deep-sea archaea. Matteo Cossu, Catherine Badel, Ryan Catchpole, Danièle Gadelle, Evelyne Marguet, Valérie Barbe, Patrick Forterre, Jacques Oberto. PLoS Genet 13(6): e1006847. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1006847