McGill University
Postdoctoral fellow candidate
Supervisor: Irene Gregory-Eaves
Lars Lonsmann Iversen
Start: 2024-06-03

Project

Detection of exotic invasive aquatic plants through environmental DNA
Early detection of exotic invasive species is crucial to limit the negative impacts on biodiversity and human activities. The MELCCFP along with local organisations such as the St. Lawrence ZIP committees, RAPPEL - Coopérative de solidarité en protection de l’eau, Société des établissements de plein air du Québec, and other riparian associations and municipalities, has set up strategies meant to detect, identify and report observations of aquatic exotic invasive plants. Part of it is focused on developing robust detection tools based on environmental DNA (eDNA) that would allow for early detection without requiring direct observation and identification. My post-doctoral project aims to develop the molecular tools and sampling protocols to detect and distinguish invasive macrophytes such as Myriophyllum spicatum in freshwater systems in the province of Quebec.

Keywords

ADN environnemental, Espèces exotiques invasives

Publications

1- Meeting report: The first soil viral workshop 2022
Buivydaitė, Živilė, Laxman Aryal, Felipe Borim Corrêa, Tingting Chen, Valérie Langlois, Christine Lorenzen Elberg, Tarquin Netherway, Ruiqi Wang, Tianci Zhao, Basistha Acharya, Joanne B. Emerson, Luke Hillary, Ram B. Khadka, Kyle Mason-Jones, Rumakanta Sapkota, Suvi Sutela, Gareth Trubl, Richard Allen White, Anne Winding, Cátia Carreira
2023 Virus Research

2- A Tale of Two Seasons: Distinct Seasonal Viral Communities in a Thermokarst Lake
Langlois, Valérie, Catherine Girard, Warwick F. Vincent, Alexander I. Culley
2023 Microorganisms

3- Seasonal Regime Shift in the Viral Communities of a Permafrost Thaw Lake
Girard, Catherine, Valérie Langlois, Adrien Vigneron, Warwick F. Vincent, Alexander I. Culley
2020 Viruses

4- Ultra‐small and abundant: Candidate phyla radiation bacteria are potential catalysts of carbon transformation in a thermokarst lake ecosystem
Vigneron, Adrien, Perrine Cruaud, Valérie Langlois, Connie Lovejoy, Alexander I. Culley, Warwick F. Vincent
2019 Limnology and Oceanography Letters

5- Integrating viruses into soil food web biogeochemistry
Carreira, Cátia, Christian Lønborg, Basistha Acharya, Laxman Aryal, Zivile Buivydaite, Felipe Borim Corrêa, Tingting Chen, Christine Lorenzen Elberg, Joanne B. Emerson, Luke Hillary, Ram B. Khadka, Valérie Langlois, Kyle Mason-Jones, Tarquin Netherway, Suvi Sutela, Gareth Trubl, Arno wa Kang’eri, Ruiqi Wang, Richard Allen White, Anne Winding, Tianci Zhao, Rumakanta Sapkota
2024 Nature Microbiology