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Anton Crombach collaborates with Dr. Alexander Fleischmann, who moved this year from CIRB, College de France (Paris), to Brown University, USA.
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Carole Knibbe collaborates with Kirsty Spalding and Peter Arner from Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Eric Tannier collaborates with Gergerly Szollosi, Eotvos University, Budapest, Cedric Chauve, SFU, Vancouver, Igor Sharakov, from Virginia Tech, Rob Waterhous, Univ Lausanne, Tom Williams, Univ Bristol, ...
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Eric Tannier has leaded the publication of a collaborative paper on a phylogenetic format co-signed by 27 researchers from 10 nationalities.
Participation in Other International Programs
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Project title: Modeling lateral gene transfer on a new bacterial tree
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Other partners: Eric Tannier (Beagle), LBBE (Lyon), Eotvos University (Budapest), University of Bristol (UK)
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Abstract: Bacteria play a major role in human health and in the functioning of all ecosystems. Most of the genomes available in public databases come from Bacteria. However, we understand little of their evolution: both their phylogeny and their timeline of diversification are highly uncertain. This is due in great part to the difficulty of reconstructing events that happened billions of years ago, and also to the fact that individual genes are often transferred across species and therefore have a history that differs from that of the species that contain them. Recently we have proposed novel methods for dealing with the very problems that make reconstructing the bacterial phylogeny challenging. This proposal aims to support a joint project that will reconstruct and date the bacterial phylogeny by combining novel methods (Boussau, Lyon) with existing skills in microbial phylogenetics, genomics and evolution (Williams, Bristol).