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  • 1993 - Médaille Lavoisier (Lavoisier Medal), Société chimique de France,

Overview

Eric Maréchal is affiliated with Grenoble Alpes University in France and specializes in research that intersects biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and energy. Their work extends into notable subfields including molecular biology, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, ecology, biochemistry, and oceanography.

Their research focuses primarily on algal biology and biofuel production, photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, lipid metabolism and biosynthesis, microbial community ecology and physiology, marine and coastal ecosystems, protist diversity and phylogeny, and microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction.

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Juliette Jouhet
  • Alberto Amato
  • Hanhua Hu
  • Grégory Si Larbi
  • Yangmin Gong

Eric Maréchal has published extensively in several scientific venues. Key publication outlets where they have multiple works include:

  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • Methods in Molecular Biology
  • New Phytologist

Notable recent papers authored by or associated with Eric Maréchal include:

  • "Live single-cell transcriptional dynamics via RNA labelling during the phosphate response in plants," 2021, Nature Plants
  • "Characterization of the Bubblegum acyl-CoA synthetase of Microchloropsis gaditana," 2021, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • "Multiplexed CRISPR/Cas9 editing of the long-chain acyl-CoA synthetase family in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum reveals that mitochondrial ptACSL3 is involved in the synthesis of storage lipids," 2021, New Phytologist
  • "PDAT regulates PE as transient carbon sink alternative to triacylglycerol in Nannochloropsis," 2022, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • "LARP6C orchestrates posttranscriptional reprogramming of gene expression during hydration to promote pollen tube guidance," 2021, The Plant Cell

Eric Maréchal was awarded the Médaille Lavoisier (Lavoisier Medal) by the Société chimique de France in 1993.

Best Publications

  • Abscisic acid signaling through cyclic ADP-ribose in plants

    Yan Wu;Jennifer Kuzma;Jennifer Kuzma;Eric Maréchal;Eric Maréchal;Richard M Graeff;Richard M Graeff

  • The Response of Nannochloropsis gaditana to Nitrogen Starvation Includes De Novo Biosynthesis of Triacylglycerols, a Decrease of Chloroplast Galactolipids, and Reorganization of the Photosynthetic Apparatus

    Diana Simionato;Maryse A. Block;Nicoletta La Rocca;Juliette Jouhet

  • Two types of MGDG synthase genes, found widely in both 16:3 and 18:3 plants, differentially mediate galactolipid syntheses in photosynthetic and nonphotosynthetic tissues in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Koichiro Awai;Eric Maréchal;Maryse A. Block;Delphine Brun

  • Membrane Glycerolipid Remodeling Triggered by Nitrogen and Phosphorus Starvation in Phaeodactylum tricornutum

    Heni Abida;Lina-Juana Dolch;Coline Meï;Valeria Villanova

  • Glycerolipids in photosynthesis: Composition, synthesis and trafficking

    Laurence Boudière;Morgane Michaud;Dimitris Petroutsos;Fabrice Rébeillé

  • Phosphate deprivation induces transfer of DGDG galactolipid from chloroplast to mitochondria

    Juliette Jouhet;Eric Maréchal;Barbara Baldan;Richard Bligny

  • The Biochemical Machinery of Plastid Envelope Membranes

    Jacques Joyard;Emeline Teyssier;Christine Miège;Daphné Berny-Seigneurin

  • Contribution of galactoglycerolipids to the 3-dimensional architecture of thylakoids

    Bruno Demé;Céline Cataye;Maryse A. Block;Eric Maréchal

  • Oil Accumulation by the Oleaginous Diatom Fistulifera solaris as Revealed by the Genome and Transcriptome

    Tsuyoshi Tanaka;Yoshiaki Maeda;Alaguraj Veluchamy;Michihiro Tanaka;Michihiro Tanaka

  • Glycerolipid transfer for the building of membranes in plant cells.

    Juliette Jouhet;Eric Maréchal;Maryse A. Block

  • Plant lipid-associated fibrillin proteins condition jasmonate production under photosynthetic stress

    Abir Youssef;Yec’han Laizet;Maryse A. Block;Eric Maréchal

  • The Biosynthetic Capacities of the Plastids and Integration Between Cytoplasmic and Chloroplast Processes

    Norbert Rolland;Gilles Curien;Giovanni Finazzi;Marcel Kuntz

  • Evolution of galactoglycerolipid biosynthetic pathways--from cyanobacteria to primary plastids and from primary to secondary plastids.

    Dimitris Petroutsos;Souad Amiar;Heni Abida;Lina-Juana Dolch

  • Biochemical and topological properties of type A MGDG synthase, a spinach chloroplast envelope enzyme catalyzing the synthesis of both prokaryotic and eukaryotic MGDG

    Christine Miège;Eric Maréchal;Mie Shimojima;Koichiro Awai

  • Atypical lipid composition in the purified relict plastid (apicoplast) of malaria parasites

    Cyrille Y. Botté;Yoshiki Yamaryo-Botté;Yoshiki Yamaryo-Botté;Thusitha W. T. Rupasinghe;Kylie A. Mullin

  • The lipid metabolism in thraustochytrids.

    Christian Morabito;Caroline Bournaud;Cécile Maës;Martin Schuler

  • Transient increase of phosphatidylcholine in plant cells in response to phosphate deprivation

    Juliette Jouhet;Eric Maréchal;Richard Bligny;Jacques Joyard

  • The apicoplast: a new member of the plastid family.

    Eric Maréchal;Marie-France Cesbron-Delauw

  • Plastid thylakoid architecture optimizes photosynthesis in diatoms.

    Serena Flori;Pierre-Henri Jouneau;Benjamin Bailleul;Benoit Gallet

  • The plant S-adenosyl-L-methionine:Mg-protoporphyrin IX methyltransferase is located in both envelope and thylakoid chloroplast membranes.

    Maryse A. Block;Arun Kumar Tewari;Catherine Albrieux;Eric Maréchal

Frequent Co-Authors

Maryse A. Block
Maryse A. Block Grenoble Alpes University
Juliette Jouhet
Juliette Jouhet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jacques Joyard
Jacques Joyard Grenoble Alpes University
Fabrice Rébeillé
Fabrice Rébeillé Grenoble Alpes University
Giovanni Finazzi
Giovanni Finazzi Grenoble Alpes University
Roland Douce
Roland Douce Joseph Fourier University
Henri Vial
Henri Vial University of Montpellier
Marie-France Cesbron-Delauw
Marie-France Cesbron-Delauw Grenoble Alpes University
Laurent Nussaume
Laurent Nussaume Aix-Marseille University
Hiroyuki Ohta
Hiroyuki Ohta Tokyo Institute of Technology

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