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Simonetta Gribaldo

Simonetta Gribaldo

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
67
Citations
14790
World Ranking
8275
National Ranking
277

Overview

Simonetta Gribaldo is affiliated with the Institut Pasteur in France. Their research contributions mainly focus on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant portion of work also spanning Environmental Science.

Within these broad fields, the scientist's work is further specialized in subfields such as Molecular Biology, Ecology, Genetics, Infectious Diseases, and Materials Chemistry. The main topics of their research involve:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny

Simonetta Gribaldo has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • The host-associated archaeome, 2020, Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • A catalogue of 1,167 genomes from the human gut archaeome, 2021, Nature Microbiology
  • Roadmap for naming uncultivated Archaea and Bacteria, 2020, Nature Microbiology
  • One or two membranes? Diderm Firmicutes challenge the Gram-positive/Gram-negative divide, 2020, Molecular Microbiology
  • The cell biology of archaea, 2022, Nature Microbiology

They frequently collaborate with several researchers, including:

  • Najwa Taïb
  • Guillaume Borrel
  • Christophe Beloin
  • Jerzy Witwinowski
  • Pierre Garcia

Their work appears regularly in scholarly venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Microbiology
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution

Best Publications

  • Mesophilic crenarchaeota: proposal for a third archaeal phylum, the Thaumarchaeota

    Céline Brochier-Armanet;Bastien Boussau;Simonetta Gribaldo;Patrick Forterre;Patrick Forterre

  • BMGE (Block Mapping and Gathering with Entropy): a new software for selection of phylogenetic informative regions from multiple sequence alignments

    Alexis Criscuolo;Simonetta Gribaldo

  • Origin and evolution of DNA topoisomerases.

    Patrick Forterre;Simonetta Gribaldo;Danièle Gadelle;Marie-Claude Serre

  • The Growing Tree of Archaea: New Perspectives on Their Diversity, Evolution and Ecology

    Panagiotis S Adam;Guillaume Borrel;Céline Brochier-Armanet;Simonetta Gribaldo

  • The two-domain tree of life is linked to a new root for the Archaea

    Kasie Raymann;Céline Brochier-Armanet;Simonetta Gribaldo

  • The origin and evolution of Archaea: a state of the art

    Simonetta Gribaldo;Celine Brochier-Armanet

  • Comparative genomics highlights the unique biology of Methanomassiliicoccales, a Thermoplasmatales-related seventh order of methanogenic archaea that encodes pyrrolysine

    Guillaume Borrel;Guillaume Borrel;Nicolas Parisot;Nicolas Parisot;Hugh Michael B. Harris;Eric Peyretaillade

  • Phylogenomics of sterol synthesis: insights into the origin, evolution, and diversity of a key eukaryotic feature.

    Elie Desmond;Simonetta Gribaldo

  • Ancient Phylogenetic Relationships

    Simonetta Gribaldo;Hervé Philippe

  • Phylogenomic Data Support a Seventh Order of Methylotrophic Methanogens and Provide Insights into the Evolution of Methanogenesis

    Guillaume Borrel;Paul W. O’Toole;Hugh M.B. Harris;Pierre Peyret

  • Phylogeny and evolution of the Archaea: one hundred genomes later

    Celine Brochier-Armanet;Patrick Forterre;Patrick Forterre;Simonetta Gribaldo

  • Highly plastic genome of Microcystis aeruginosa PCC 7806, a ubiquitous toxic freshwater cyanobacterium

    Lionel Frangeul;Philippe Quillardet;Anne Marie Castets;Jean-François Humbert;Jean-François Humbert

  • Wide diversity of methane and short-chain alkane metabolisms in uncultured archaea.

    Guillaume Borrel;Panagiotis S. Adam;Panagiotis S. Adam;Luke J. McKay;Lin-Xing Chen

  • Nanoarchaea: representatives of a novel archaeal phylum or a fast-evolving euryarchaeal lineage related to Thermococcales?

    Celine Brochier;Simonetta Gribaldo;Yvan Zivanovic;Fabrice Confalonieri

  • Evolutionary history of carbon monoxide dehydrogenase/acetyl-CoA synthase, one of the oldest enzymatic complexes.

    Panagiotis S. Adam;Guillaume Borrel;Simonetta Gribaldo

  • A horizontal gene transfer at the origin of phenylpropanoid metabolism: a key adaptation of plants to land

    Giovanni Emiliani;Marco Fondi;Renato Fani;Simonetta Gribaldo

  • Methanogenesis and the Wood–Ljungdahl Pathway: An Ancient, Versatile, and Fragile Association

    Guillaume Borrel;Panagiotis S. Adam;Simonetta Gribaldo

  • The origin of eukaryotes and their relationship with the Archaea: are we at a phylogenomic impasse?

    Simonetta Gribaldo;Anthony M. Poole;Vincent Daubin;Patrick Forterre;Patrick Forterre

  • The host-associated archaeome.

    Guillaume Borrel;Jean-François Brugère;Simonetta Gribaldo;Ruth A. Schmitz

  • Genome Sequence of “Candidatus Methanomethylophilus alvus” Mx1201, a Methanogenic Archaeon from the Human Gut Belonging to a Seventh Order of Methanogens

    Guillaume Borrel;Hugh M. B. Harris;William Tottey;Agnès Mihajlovski

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick Forterre
Patrick Forterre University of Paris-Saclay
Céline Brochier-Armanet
Céline Brochier-Armanet Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Christophe Beloin
Christophe Beloin Institut Pasteur
Paul W. O'Toole
Paul W. O'Toole University College Cork
Ruth A. Schmitz
Ruth A. Schmitz Kiel University
Frank E. Löffler
Frank E. Löffler University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Jillian F. Banfield
Jillian F. Banfield University of California, Berkeley
Manolo Gouy
Manolo Gouy Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Patrick S. G. Chain
Patrick S. G. Chain Los Alamos National Laboratory
Mart Krupovic
Mart Krupovic Université Paris Cité

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