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Overview

Lucie Bittner is affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France. Their research spans key areas in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and environmental science, with a notable focus on molecular biology and ecology. Their work also covers oceanography, plant science, and global and planetary change as subfields of study.

The main topics in Lucie Bittner's research include microbial community ecology and physiology, protist diversity and phylogeny, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, genomics and phylogenetic studies, marine biology and ecology research, bioinformatics and genomic networks, and machine learning applications in bioinformatics.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Lucie Bittner include Sakina-Dorothée Ayata, Iris Rizos, Fabrice Not, Pavla Debeljak, and Éric Pelletier.

Their publications have appeared in several scientific venues, with multiple contributions to bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), as well as works published in Limnology and Oceanography, Nature Communications, ISME Communications, and Environmental Microbiology.

Recent papers include:

  • Functional trait-based approaches as a common framework for aquatic ecologists (2020, Limnology and Oceanography)
  • Towards omics-based predictions of planktonic functional composition from environmental data (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Beyond the limits of the unassigned protist microbiome: inferring large-scale spatio-temporal patterns of Syndiniales marine parasites (2023, ISME Communications)
  • Genomic differentiation of three pico-phytoplankton species in the Mediterranean Sea (2022, Environmental Microbiology)
  • Life cycle strategies in free-living unicellular eukaryotes: Diversity, evolution, and current molecular tools to unravel the private life of microorganisms (2024, Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology)

Best Publications

  • The Protist Ribosomal Reference database (PR2): a catalog of unicellular eukaryote Small Sub-Unit rRNA sequences with curated taxonomy

    Laure Guillou;Dipankar Bachar;Stéphane Audic;David Bass

  • Eukaryotic plankton diversity in the sunlit ocean

    Colomban de Vargas;Colomban de Vargas;Stéphane Audic;Stéphane Audic;Nicolas Henry;Nicolas Henry;Johan Decelle;Johan Decelle

  • Determinants of community structure in the global plankton interactome

    Gipsi Lima-Mendez;Karoline Faust;Nicolas Henry;Johan Decelle

  • Plankton networks driving carbon export in the oligotrophic ocean.

    Lionel Guidi;Samuel Chaffron;Lucie Bittner;Damien Eveillard

  • Insights into global diatom distribution and diversity in the world’s ocean

    Shruti Malviya;Eleonora Scalco;Stéphane Audic;Flora Vincent

  • Influence of diatom diversity on the ocean biological carbon pump

    Paul Tréguer;Chris Bowler;Brivaela Moriceau;Stephanie Dutkiewicz

  • Patterns of Rare and Abundant Marine Microbial Eukaryotes

    Ramiro Logares;Stéphane Audic;Stéphane Audic;David Bass;Lucie Bittner;Lucie Bittner;Lucie Bittner

  • Marine protist diversity in European coastal waters and sediments as revealed by high-throughput sequencing

    Ramon Massana;Angélique Gobet;Angélique Gobet;Stéphane Audic;Stéphane Audic;David Bass;David Bass

  • The evolution of diatoms and their biogeochemical functions.

    Anne-Sophie Benoiston;Federico M. Ibarbalz;Lucie Bittner;Lionel Guidi;Lionel Guidi

  • Environmental characteristics of Agulhas rings affect interocean plankton transport

    Emilie Villar;Gregory K. Farrant;Gregory K. Farrant;Michael Follows;Laurence Garczarek;Laurence Garczarek

  • Plankton networks driving carbon export in the oligotrophic ocean

    Lionel Guidi;Samuel Chaffron;Lucie Bittner;Damien Eveillard

  • Functional trait-based approaches as a common framework for aquatic ecologists

    Séverine Martini;Floriane Larras;Aurélien Boyé;Emile Faure

  • An original mode of symbiosis in open ocean plankton

    Johan Decelle;Ian Probert;Lucie Bittner;Yves Desdevises

  • 454 Pyrosequencing to Describe Microbial Eukaryotic Community Composition, Diversity and Relative Abundance: A Test for Marine Haptophytes

    Elianne Sirnæs Egge;Lucie Bittner;Lucie Bittner;Tom Andersen;Stéphane Audic

  • Evolutionary history of the Corallinales (Corallinophycidae, Rhodophyta) inferred from nuclear, plastidial and mitochondrial genomes.

    Lucie Bittner;Claude E. Payri;Gavin W. Maneveldt;Arnaud Couloux

  • Multigene phylogenetic analyses support recognition of the Sporolithales ord. nov.

    Line Le Gall;Claude E. Payri;Lucie Bittner;Gary W. Saunders

  • Molecular phylogeny of the Dictyotales and their position within the Phaeophyceae, based on nuclear, plastid and mitochondrial DNA sequence data.

    L Bittner;C E Payri;A Couloux;C Cruaud

  • Seasonal diversity and dynamics of haptophytes in the Skagerrak, Norway, explored by high-throughput sequencing

    Elianne Sirnæ S Egge;Torill Vik Johannessen;Tom Andersen;Wenche Eikrem;Wenche Eikrem

  • Benthic protists: the under-charted majority.

    Dominik Forster;Micah Dunthorn;Fréderic Mahé;John R. Dolan

  • Community‐Level Responses to Iron Availability in Open Ocean Plankton Ecosystems

    Luigi Caputi;Quentin Carradec;Damien Eveillard;Amos Kirilovsky

  • Article Patterns of Rare and Abundant Marine Microbial Eukaryotes

    Ramiro Logares;David Bass;Lucie Bittner;Christophe Boutte

Frequent Co-Authors

Fabrice Not
Fabrice Not Roscoff Marine Station
Patrick Wincker
Patrick Wincker University of Paris-Saclay
Chris Bowler
Chris Bowler École Normale Supérieure
Lionel Guidi
Lionel Guidi Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Stéphane Audic
Stéphane Audic Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Ian Probert
Ian Probert Université Paris Cité
Hiroyuki Ogata
Hiroyuki Ogata Kyoto University
Adriana Zingone
Adriana Zingone Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Eric Karsenti
Eric Karsenti École Normale Supérieure
Gabriel Gorsky
Gabriel Gorsky Sorbonne University

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