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Agnès Bouchez is affiliated with Université Savoie Mont Blanc in France. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with an extensive body of work in Ecology, Molecular Biology, and Biomaterials. Other areas of interest include Pollution and Ecological Modeling.

The main topics that characterize their work comprise Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, and Diatoms and Algae Research. Additional areas they cover include Protist diversity and phylogeny, Identification and Quantification in Food, Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies.

The scientist has co-authored publications frequently with several researchers, notably Frédéric Rimet (35 publications), Valentin Vasselon (26 publications), Teofana Chonova (15 publications), Jan Pawłowski (12 publications), and François Keck (9 publications).

Agnès Bouchez has published in multiple venues, with recurrent contributions to The Science of The Total Environment and ARPHA Conference Abstracts, each with 9 publications. Other common publication venues include Metabarcoding and Metagenomics (6 publications), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (5 publications), and Molecular Ecology (3 publications).

Several recent papers by Bouchez and collaborators highlight their research trajectory:

  • Ecosystems monitoring powered by environmental genomics: A review of current strategies with an implementation roadmap, 2020, Molecular Ecology
  • Expanding ecological assessment by integrating microorganisms into routine freshwater biomonitoring, 2020, Water Research
  • Environmental DNA metabarcoding for benthic monitoring: A review of sediment sampling and DNA extraction methods, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Key Questions for Next-Generation Biomonitoring, 2020, Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • Monitoring the ecological status of rivers with diatom eDNA metabarcoding: A comparison of taxonomic markers and analytical approaches for the inference of a molecular diatom index, 2020, Molecular Ecology

They have authored books published by Pensoft Publishers and Frontiers Media. Notable titles include A practical guide to DNA-based methods for biodiversity assessment (2021) and A Next-Generation of Biomonitoring to Detect Global Ecosystem Change (2020).

Best Publications

  • The future of biotic indices in the ecogenomic era: Integrating (e)DNA metabarcoding in biological assessment of aquatic ecosystems

    Jan Pawlowski;Mary Kelly-Quinn;Florian Altermatt;Laure Apothéloz-Perret-Gentil

  • DNA barcode reference libraries for the monitoring of aquatic biota in Europe: Gap-analysis and recommendations for future work.

    Hannah Weigand;Arne J Beermann;Fedor Čiampor;Filipe O. Costa

  • phylosignal: an R package to measure, test, and explore the phylogenetic signal.

    François Keck;Frédéric Rimet;Frédéric Rimet;Agnès Bouchez;Agnès Bouchez;Alain Franc

  • Implementation options for DNA-based identification into ecological status assessment under the European Water Framework Directive.

    Daniel Hering;Angel Borja;J.Iwan Jones;Didier Pont

  • Life-forms, cell-sizes and ecological guilds of diatoms in European rivers

    Frederic Rimet;Frederic Rimet;Agnès Bouchez;Agnès Bouchez

  • Using diatom life-forms and ecological guilds to assess organic pollution and trophic level in rivers: a case study of rivers in south-eastern France

    Vincent Berthon;Agnès Bouchez;Frédéric Rimet

  • Ecosystems monitoring powered by environmental genomics: a review of current strategies with an implementation roadmap

    Tristan Cordier;Laura Alonso-Sáez;Laure Apothéloz-Perret-Gentil;Eva Aylagas

  • Next-generation sequencing to inventory taxonomic diversity in eukaryotic communities: a test for freshwater diatoms.

    L. Kermarrec;A. Franc;A. Franc;F. Rimet;P. Chaumeil;P. Chaumeil

  • Assessing ecological status with diatoms DNA metabarcoding: Scaling-up on a WFD monitoring network (Mayotte island, France)

    Valentin Vasselon;Frédéric Rimet;Kálmán Tapolczai;Agnès Bouchez

  • Expanding ecological assessment by integrating microorganisms into routine freshwater biomonitoring

    M. Sagova-Mareckova;J. Boenigk;A. Bouchez;K. Cermakova

  • DNAqua-Net: Developing new genetic tools for bioassessment and monitoring of aquatic ecosystems in Europe

    Florian Leese;Florian Altermatt;Agnès Bouchez;Torbjørn Ekrem

  • Marker-assisted introgression of favorable alleles at quantitative trait loci between maize elite lines.

    Agnès Bouchez;Mathilde Causse;André Gallais

  • Environmental DNA metabarcoding for benthic monitoring: A review of sediment sampling and DNA extraction methods.

    J. Pawlowski;J. Pawlowski;K. Bruce;K. Panksep;K. Panksep;F.I. Aguirre

  • Why We Need Sustainable Networks Bridging Countries, Disciplines, Cultures and Generations for Aquatic Biomonitoring 2.0: A Perspective Derived From the DNAqua-Net COST Action

    Florian Leese;Agnes Bouchez;Kessy Abarenkov;Florian Altermatt

  • A practical guide to DNA-based methods for biodiversity assessment

    Kat Bruce;Rosetta Blackman;Sarah J. Bourlat;Ann Micaela Hellstrom

  • Use of diatom life-forms and ecological guilds to assess pesticide contamination in rivers: Lotic mesocosm approaches

    Frédéric Rimet;Agnès Bouchez

  • A next-generation sequencing approach to river biomonitoring using benthic diatoms

    Lenaïg Kermarrec;Alain Franc;Alain Franc;Frédéric Rimet;Philippe Chaumeil;Philippe Chaumeil

  • Diat.barcode, an open-access curated barcode library for diatoms

    Frédéric Rimet;Evgenuy Gusev;Maria Kahlert;Martyn G. Kelly

  • Freshwater biomonitoring in the Information Age

    François Keck;François Keck;Valentin Vasselon;Kálmán Tapolczai;Frédéric Rimet

  • Biomonitoring river diatoms: Implications of taxonomic resolution

    Frédéric Rimet;Agnès Bouchez

  • Pioneer marine biofilms on artificial surfaces including antifouling coatings immersed in two contrasting French Mediterranean coast sites

    Jean-François Briand;Ikram Djeridi;Dominique Jamet;Stéphane Coupé

  • Responses of chronically contaminated biofilms to short pulses of diuron. An experimental study simulating flooding events in a small river.

    Ahmed Tlili;Ursula Dorigo;Bernard Montuelle;Christelle Margoum

  • Ecosystems Monitoring Powered by Environmental Genomics: A Review of Current Strategies with An Implementation Roadmap

    Tristan Cordier;Laura Alonso Sáez;Laure Apotheloz-Perret-Gentil;Eva Aylagas

Frequent Co-Authors

Frédéric Rimet
Frédéric Rimet Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Bernard Montuelle
Bernard Montuelle INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Jan Pawlowski
Jan Pawlowski Heidelberg University
Florian Leese
Florian Leese University of Duisburg-Essen
Martyn Kelly
Martyn Kelly Durham University
David G. Mann
David G. Mann Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Jean-François Humbert
Jean-François Humbert INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Gábor Várbíró
Gábor Várbíró Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Daniel Hering
Daniel Hering University of Duisburg-Essen

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