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Overview

Christian Sardet is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research predominantly spans the fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Ecology and Molecular Biology as leading subfields. Additional subfield interests include Environmental Chemistry, History and Philosophy of Science, and Plant Science.

The main topics of their research encompass:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Protist Diversity and Phylogeny
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Polar Research and Ecology
  • Bacteriophages and Microbial Interactions

Christian Sardet has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed articles published in diverse scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Arts et sciences
  • ISME Communications
  • Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • Science
  • Cell Genomics

Significant recent publications include:

  • "Tara Oceans: towards global ocean ecosystems biology," 2020, Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • "Cryptic and abundant marine viruses at the evolutionary origins of Earth's RNA virome," 2022, Science
  • "Functional repertoire convergence of distantly related eukaryotic plankton lineages abundant in the sunlit ocean," 2022, Cell Genomics
  • "Compendium of 530 metagenome-assembled bacterial and archaeal genomes from the polar Arctic Ocean," 2021, Nature Microbiology
  • "Predicting global distributions of eukaryotic plankton communities from satellite data," 2023, ISME Communications

Research collaboration is a notable part of Christian Sardet's work, with frequent coauthors including Colomban de Vargas, Chris Bowler, Patrick Wincker, Shinichi Sunagawa, and Silvia G. Acinas. These collaborations reflect interdisciplinary connections within the wider marine and environmental biology research community.

Best Publications

  • Marine DNA Viral Macro- and Microdiversity from Pole to Pole.

    Ann C. Gregory;Ahmed A. Zayed;Nádia Conceição-Neto;Ben Temperton

  • A Holistic Approach to Marine Eco-Systems Biology

    Eric Karsenti;Silvia G. Acinas;Peer Bork;Chris Bowler;Chris Bowler

  • Tara Oceans: towards global ocean ecosystems biology.

    Shinichi Sunagawa;Silvia G Acinas;Peer Bork;Peer Bork;Chris Bowler

  • Global Trends in Marine Plankton Diversity across Kingdoms of Life.

    Federico M. Ibarbalz;Nicolas Henry;Manoela C. Brandão;Séverine Martini

  • Gene Expression Changes and Community Turnover Differentially Shape the Global Ocean Metatranscriptome

    Guillem Salazar;Lucas Paoli;Adriana Alberti;Jaime Huerta-Cepas

  • Polymerization of actin. IV. Role of Ca++ and H+ in the assembly of actin and in membrane fusion in the acrosomal reaction of echinoderm sperm.

    LG Tilney;DP Kiehart;C Sardet;M Tilney

  • Viral to metazoan marine plankton nucleotide sequences from the Tara Oceans expedition

    Adriana Alberti;Julie Poulain;Stefan Engelen;Karine Labadie

  • Free calcium pulses following fertilization in the ascidian egg

    Speksnijder Je;Corson Dw;Sardet C;Jaffe Lf

  • Calcium signals and mitochondria at fertilisation

    Remi Dumollard;Michael Duchen;Christian Sardet

  • Fertilization and ooplasmic movements in the ascidian egg

    C Sardet;J Speksnijder;S Inoue;L Jaffe

  • Function and characteristics of repetitive calcium waves associated with meiosis

    Alex McDougall;Christian Sardet

  • Phases of cytoplasmic and cortical reorganizations of the ascidian zygote between fertilization and first division.

    Fabrice Roegiers;Chakib Djediat;Rémi Dumollard;Christian Rouvière

  • Structure of human serum lipoproteins in solution. II. Small-angle x-ray scattering study of HDL3 and LDL.

    A. Tardieu;L. Mateu;C. Sardet;B. Weiss

  • The sperm entry point defines the orientation of the calcium-induced contraction wave that directs the first phase of cytoplasmic reorganization in the ascidian egg.

    F Roegiers;A McDougall;C Sardet

  • Tracing of cell lineage in embryonic development of Phallusia mammillata (Ascidia) by vital staining of mitochondria.

    Marko Zalokar;Christian Sardet

  • Association of the Membrane-Penetrating Polypeptide Segment of the Human Erythrocyte MN-Glycoprotein with Phospholipid Bilayers. I. Formation of Freeze-Etch Intramembranous Particles

    Jere P. Segrest;T. Gulik-Krzywicki;Christian Sardet

  • Demonstration of calcium uptake and release by sea urchin egg cortical endoplasmic reticulum.

    M Terasaki;C Sardet

  • Exocytosis of sea urchin egg cortical vesicles in vitro is retarded by hyperosmotic sucrose: kinetics of fusion monitored by quantitative light-scattering microscopy.

    Joshua Zimmerberg;Christian Sardet;David Epel

  • Open science resources for the discovery and analysis of Tara Oceans data

    Stéphane Pesant;Fabrice Not;Marc Picheral;Stefanie Kandels-Lewis

  • A global ocean atlas of eukaryotic genes

    Quentin Carradec;Eric Pelletier;Corinne Da Silva;Adriana Alberti

Frequent Co-Authors

Fabrice Not
Fabrice Not Roscoff Marine Station
Lars Stemmann
Lars Stemmann Sorbonne University
Hiroyuki Ogata
Hiroyuki Ogata Kyoto University
Chris Bowler
Chris Bowler École Normale Supérieure
Olivier Jaillon
Olivier Jaillon University of Paris-Saclay
Eric Karsenti
Eric Karsenti École Normale Supérieure
Daniele Iudicone
Daniele Iudicone Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Jeroen Raes
Jeroen Raes KU Leuven
Sabrina Speich
Sabrina Speich École Normale Supérieure
Stephane Pesant
Stephane Pesant University of Bremen

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