Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe

Prix et distinctions

• (2021) Prix Publication en français Gisèle-Lamoureux. Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT). (Prize / Award).
• (2021) Early Career Award. Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution. (Prize / Award).
• Best post-doctoral presentation. Snyder Institute. (Prize / Award).
• PhD Diversity and Excellence in Research Award. Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution. (Prize / Award).
• Prix Tremplin. Université de Sherbrooke. (Prize / Award).
• Research Award for best student publication. Université du Québec à Montréal. (Prize / Award).
• Top 10 Scientific Discoveries from Quebec of 2017. Quebec Science. (Prize / Award).

Financement

• Grant. (Under Review). Co-applicant. Microbiote et interactions des bactéries dans la rhizosphère du soya: élaboration de communauté synthétiques à partir de sol québécois. Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT). FRQ-NT Équipe. 150 000 $. (2023-2026)
• Grant. (Awarded). Principal Investigator. Impact of plant-microbe interactions in the phyllosphere on terrestrial ecosystem functions. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Discovery. 180 500 $. (2020-2026)
• Grant. (Awarded). Co-applicant. Système d'observation et de prédiction des changements de biodiversité. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Alliance. 926 570 $. (2020-2025)
• Grant. (Under Review). Co-applicant. Cascade trophique en forêt urbaine. Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT). Samuel de Champlain. 55 000 $. (2023-2025)
• Grant. (Awarded). Co-applicant. There’s something in the air: disentangling the role of airborne microbes and pollutants in the inflammatory response of asthma along a latitudinal gradient in Canada. Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT). NOVA. 150 000 $. (2022-2025)
• Research Chair. (Awarded). Principal Investigator. Canada Research Chair in Applied Microbial Ecology. Canada Research Chairs (CRC). CRC Tier 2. 600 000 $. (2020-2025)
• Grant. (Awarded). Co-applicant. Urban pollen: sampling, identification, and forecasting. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Alliance. 307 000 $. (2021-2024)
• Grant. (Awarded). Co-applicant. Développement d'une approche intégrative de restauration minière valorisant le patrimoine vivant du Territoire Eeyou Istchee. Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT). Projets de recherche orientée en partenariat/ Développement durable du secteur minier - II. 300 000 $. (2021-2024)
• Grant. (Under Review). Co-applicant. Integrated platform for high-throughput genetic and biochemical screening. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). OIR. 150 000 $. (2023-2024)
• Grant. (Under Review). Co-applicant. Écosystème numérique DESIIR. Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). 3 469 424 $. (2023-2024)
• Grant. (Awarded). Co-applicant. Étude des végétaux rustiques de la Fosse du Labrador pour adresser l'érosion éolienne et établir un couvert végétal sur les parcs à résidus nordiques. Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT). Partenariat Secteur Minier II. 381 000 $. (2021-2024)
• Grant. (Awarded). Principal Investigator. Impacts des interactions plante-microbes sur les fonctions des écosystèmes terrestres. Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT). Nouveau Chercheur. 126 200 $. (2021-2023)
• Grant. (Awarded). Principal Investigator. Do urban trees affect human respiratory health and autoimmune diseases through microbiomes, air contaminants, and allergens?. Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC). New Frontiers: Exploration. 250 000 $. (2021-2023)
• Grant. (Awarded). Co-applicant. Manipulation du microenvironnement par des agents phytopathogènes et contre-défense par les plantes. Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT). Équipe. 150 000 $. (2020-2023)
• Grant. (Awarded). Co-applicant. Nouvelles initiatives recherche CEF. Centre d'étude de la forêt. Nouvelles initiatives. 15 000 $. (2022-2022)
• Grant. (Completed). Co-applicant. Emerging COVID-19 Research Gaps & Priorities. Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). IRSC Nouveaux besoins COVID19. 1 055 008 $. (2021-2022)
• Grant. (Completed). Co-applicant. Emerging COVID-19 Research Gaps & Priorities. Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). IRSC Nouveaux besoins COVID19. 997 273 $. (2021-2022)
• Grant. (Completed). Co-applicant. Acquisition of a focused-ultrasonicator system. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Research Tools and Instruments. 124 105 $. (2021-2022)
• Grant. (Completed). Co-applicant. Metabolic and genetic elements controlling plant-microbe interactions. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). NOVA: NSERC-FRQNT. 30 000 $. (2021-2022)
• Grant. (Completed). Principal Investigator. John R. Evans Leaders Fund - Infrastructure for Applied Microbial Ecology of Plant-Microbe Interactions. Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). John R. Evans Leaders Fund. 324 950 $. (2020-2021)
• Grant. (Completed). Co-applicant. Optimisation de la détection des pollens en milieu urbain. Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux (Québec). Aide financière. 145 927 $. (2020-2021)
• Grant. (Completed). Principal Investigator. Startup. Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Sherbrooke Inc. (CRCHUS) (Sherbrooke, QC). Startup. 50 000 $. (2020)
• Grant. (Completed). Principal Investigator. Startup. Université de Sherbrooke. Startup. 146 000 $. (2020)
• Fellowship. (Completed). Principal Investigator. Alberta Children Hospital Research Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship. The Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute for Child and Maternal Health (ACHRI). Postdoctoral Fellowship. 25 000 $. (2018-2019)
• Fellowship. (Completed). Principal Investigator. Alberta Children Hospital Research Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship. The Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute for Child and Maternal Health (ACHRI). Postdoctoral Fellowship. 25 000 $. (2017-2018)
• Fellowship. (Completed). Principal Investigator. Cumming School of Medicine Excellence Fellowship. University of Calgary. Cumming School of Medicine. 25 000 $. (2017-2018)

Publications

Articles de revue

• DeBellis, T, Laforest-Lapointe, I, Solarik, K, Gravel, D & Kembel, S. (2022). Acer saccharumRegional variation drives differences in bacterial and fungal communities associated with sugar maple () leaves and roots across a latitudinal range. Ecology (Published).
• ^*Lajeunesse, G., ^*Roussin-Léveillée, C., *Boutin, S., *Fortin, É., †Laforest-Lapointe, I., & †Moffett, P. (^ denotes co-first authorship; † denotes co-senior authorship). (2022). Light prevents pathogen-induced aqueous microenvironments via potentiation of salicylic acid signaling. Nature Communications (Accepted).
• *Gutierrez, MW, *Mercer, EM, Moossavi, S, Laforest-Lapointe, I, Becker, AB, Simmons, E, Mandhane PJ, Turvey, SE, Moraes, TJ, Sears, MR, Subbarao, P., Azad, MB & Arrieta, MC. (2022). Maturational patterns of the infant gut mycobiome are associated with early-life body mass index. Cell Reports Medicine (Accepted).
• *Poirier, S. & †Laforest-Lapointe, I. († denotes senior authorship). (2022). Pollen et microbes: les défis de la vie urbaine face au changement global. Le Climatoscope (Published).
• *Poursalavati, A, *Jalalijavaran, V, †Laforest-Lapointe, I, & †Fall, M († denotes co-senior authorship). (2022). Soil metatranscriptomics: An improved RNA extraction method toward functional analysis using nanopore direct RNA sequencing. Phytobiomes (Accepted).
• *Renaudin, M, †Laforest-Lapointe, I & †Bellenger, JP († denotes co-senior authorship). (2022). Unraveling global and diazotrophic microbiomes of dominant feather mosses in the North American boreal forest. Science of the total environment (Published).
• *Partida-Rodríguez O, *Nieves-Ramírez M, Laforest-Lapointe I, [...] & Finlay BB. (2021). Exposure to parasitic protists and helminths changes the intestinal community structure of bacterial microbiota but not of eukaryotes in a cohort of mother-child binomial from a semi-rural setting in Mexico. mSphere 6 (4), e00083-21. DOI. (Published).
• *Perreault, R & †Laforest-Lapointe, I († denotes senior authorship). (2021). Plant-microbe interactions in the phyllosphere: Facing Challenges of the Anthropocene. ISME Journal (Published).
• *Mahdavi, M., †Laforest-Lapointe, I. & †Massé, E († denotes co-senior authorship). (2021). Preventing colorectal cancer through prebiotics. Microorganisms (Published).
• *Klancic T, Laforest-Lapointe I, Wonga J, Choo A, Nettletona JE, Chleilat F, Arrieta MC & Reimer RA. (2020). Concurrent prebiotic intake reverses insulin resistance induced by early-life pulsed antibiotic in rats. Biomedicines NA NA. (Published).
• *van Tilburg Bernardes E, Pettersen VK, *Gutierrez MW, Laforest-Lapointe I, [...] & Arrieta MC. (2020). Intestinal fungi are causally implicated in microbiome assembly and immune development in mice. Nature Communications NA NA. (Published).
• Laforest-Lapointe I, Becker AB, Mandhane PJ, Turvey SE, Moraes TJ, Sears MR, Subbarao P, Sycuro LK, Azad MB & Arrieta MC. (2020). Maternal consumption of artificially sweetened beverages during pregnancy is associated with infant gut microbiota modifications and increased infant body mass index. Gut Microbes NA NA. (Published).
• *Klancic, T, Laforest-Lapointe I, Choo A, Nettleton JE, Chleilat F, Cho NA, Nicolucci AC, Arrieta MC & Reimer RA. (2020). Prebiotic Oligofructose Prevents Antibiotic‐Induced Obesity Risk and Improves Metabolic and Gut Microbiota Profiles in Rat Dams and Offspring. Molecular Nutrition and Food Research NA NA. (Published).
• *Heirali A, Thornton CS, Acosta N, Somayaji R, Laforest-Lapointe I, Storey DG, Rabin HR, Waddell B, Rossi L, Arrieta MC, Surette MG & Parkins MD. (2020). Sputum microbiota in adults with CF associates with response to inhaled tobramycin. Thorax (Published).
• Perreault, R & Laforest-Lapointe, I. (2020). Un rôle de taille pour les microorganismes. Le Climatoscope (Published).
• Laforest-Lapointe I & Whitaker B K. (2019). Decrypting the phyllosphere microbiota: progress and challenges. American journal of botany NA NA. (Published).
• *Heirali A, Acosta N, Storey DG, Workentine ML, Somayaji R, Laforest-Lapointe I, Leung W, Quon BS, Berthiaume Y, Rabin HR, Waddell BJ, Rossi L, Surette MG & Parkins MD. (2019). The effects of cycled inhaled aztreonam on the cystic fibrosis (CF) lung microbiome. Journal of Cystic Fibrosis NA 1-1. (Published).
• *Wallace J, *Laforest-Lapointe I & Kembel S W (*co-first author). (2018). Acer saccharumVariation in the leaf and root microbiome of sugar maple () at an elevational range limit. PeerJ 6 6:e5293. (Published).
• *Nieves-Ramírez M, *Partida-Rodríguez O, Laforest-Lapointe I, Reynolds L, Brown E, Valdez-Salazar A, Morán Silva P, Rojas-Velázquez L, Morien E, Wegener-Parfrey L, Minglian J, Walter J, Torres J, Arrieta MC, Ximénez-García C & Finlay B B. (2018). Blastocystis Asymptomatic intestinal colonization with protozoan sp. is strongly associated with distinct microbiome ecological patterns. mSystems 3 (Published).
• Laforest-Lapointe I & Arrieta MC. (2018). Microbial eukaryotes: A missing link in gut microbiome studies. mSystems 3 3:e00201-17. (Published).
• Ruiz-Gonzalez C, Lapierre E, Laforest-Lapointe I, del Giorgio P, Kembel S, Messier C, Nock C & Beisner B. (2018). Soils associated to different tree communities do not elicit predictable responses in lake bacterial community structure and function. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 94 (8), (Published).
• Laforest-Lapointe I, Paquette A, Messier C & Kembel S W. (2017). Leaf bacterial diversity mediates plant diversity and ecosystem function relationships. Nature 546 145. (Published).
• Laforest-Lapointe I & Arrieta M-C. (2017). Patterns of early life gut microbial colonization during human immune development. Frontiers in Immunology 8 1664-3224. (Published).
• St-Denis A, Kneeshaw D, Bélanger N, Simard S, Laforest-Lapointe I & Messier C. (2017). Species-specific responses to forest soil inoculum in planted trees in an abandoned agricultural field. Applied Soil Ecology 112 1-10. (Published).
• Laforest-Lapointe I, Messier C & Kembel S W. (2017). Tree leaf bacterial community structure and diversity differ along a gradient of urban intensity. mSystems 2 2(6):e00087-17. (Published).

Articles de magazine

• Laforest-Lapointe I. (2018). Microbiomes : des cités sur les feuilles. Découvrir.

Articles de conférence

• *Mac Si Hone, KG, Massé, E & Laforest-Lapointe, I. (2022). Colorectal cancer provincial screening optimization using gut microbiome as biomarker. Journal of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology, 122. DOI. (Published).
• *Marie Renaudin, Robert Bradley, †Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe, †Jean-Philippe Bellenger († denotes co-senior authorship). (2022). New insights into moss nitrogen fixation and associated N2 fixer communities from a 1000 Km latitudinal transect in Eastern Canada. European Geosciences Union (EGU). (Published).
• *M Renaudin, †I Laforest-Lapointe, †R Bradley, †JP Bellenger († denotes co-senior authorship). (2021). Unraveling the Potential Environmental Drivers of the Feather Moss Microbiome and its Nitrogen Fixation in the Boreal Forest. American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting. (Published).
• *A Heirali, C Thornton, N Acosta, R Somayaji, I Laforest-Lapointe, DG Storey, H Rabin, L Rossi, M Arrieta, MG Surette, & M Parkins. (2019). Inhaled tobramycin's effect on the respiratory microbiome and association with clinical response in adults with cystic fibrosis. Pediatric Pulmonology, S305. (Published).
• Laforest-Lapointe, I, Messier, C & Kembel SW. (2018). Dynamics of the tree leaf microbiome along a gradient of increasing anthropogenic stresses. Ecological Society of America (ESA) Annual Meeting. United States of America, (Published).
• Laforest-Lapointe, I, Whitaker BK & Kembel SW. (2018). Host-Microbe Interactions on Leaves: Contributions to Plant and Ecosystem Resilience to Extreme Events and Stress Tolerance. Ecological Society of America(ESA) Annual Meeting. (Published).

Autres contributions

Cours enseignés

• Biométrie/Biostatistics. BIO101. (2021-01-11 à 2021-04-23).(3CR).
• Field Work Training for Ecology. (2015-09-01).
• Methodology for Ecologist. (2015-09-01).
• Biological Data Treatment. (2013-09-03).
• Teaching Notions for High-School Biology. (2013-09-03).
• General Ecology. (2012-09-04).

Gestion d'évènements

• Organizer and instructor. (2022) Getting started with R - Coding for all: A free two-day workshop to introduce grad students and professors to R for statistics and graphics. (Workshop).
• Local Organizing Committee Member. (2022) ESA/CSEE Joint annual meeting. (Conference).
• Organizer. (2022) Moss Ecology in a Changing World (ESA-CSEE joint meeting). (Conference).
• Organizer. (2022) Mycorrhizal associations and climate change (ESA-CSEE joint meeting). (Conference).
• Scientific reviewer and organizer. (2022) Microbiome Data Congress. (Conference).
• Scientific reviewer and organizer. (2021) Microbiome Data Congress. (Conference).
• Scientific reviewer and organizer. (2020) Microbiome Data Congress. (Conference).
• Lead Organizer. (2020) ACFAS 2020 Colloque Interactions plante-microorganismes : défis, politiques et opportunités. (Conference).
• Organizer and lead instructor. (2019) Microbiome Workshop. (Workshop).
• Organizer and presenter. (2019) Integrating urban ecology across scales & trophic levels. (CSEE Annual Conference). (Conference).
• Organizer and presenter. (2018) Host-Microbe Interactions on Leaves: Contributions to Plant and Ecosystem Resilience to Extreme Events and Stress Tolerance (ESA Annual Meeting). (Conference).

Activités de collaboration internationale

• Co-Researcher. Mexico. Scientific collaboration on the research projects of Dr. Cecilia Ximenez from the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico.
• Chair and Organizer of a Symposium at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. United States of America. I organized and chaired a 10-researcher session on microbial ecology at the Ecological Society of America. I had to contact around 15 researchers to participate in the session and co-ordinate the abstract application to the annual meeting committee.
• Invited participant. United States of America. Microbial Ecology and Evolution in the Phyllosphere I was invited to participated and speak at the symposium organized by Dr. Britt Koskella and Dr. Steven Lindow from UC Berkeley in Santa Barbara.

Présentations

• (poster) *S Boutin. (2022). Biological Control Of Erwinia Amylovora: Malus Domestica’s Phyllosphere Under The Microscope. UdeS En Vert Et Contre Les Changements Climatiques. Sherbrooke, Canada
• (poster) *KG Mac Si Hone. (2022). Colorectal cancer provincial screening optimization using gut microbiome as biomarker. Canadian Digestive Diseases Week (CDDW). ONLINE, Canada
• *J Chamard. (2022). Disentangling the drivers of sugar maple's root-associated microbial communities. Ecological Society of America (ESA) and Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution (CSEE) Annual Meeting. Montreal, Canada
• (poster) *G Lajeunesse. (2022). Diurnal light cycles impact bacterial induction of an aqueous living space in the phyllosphere. Canadian Society of Microbiologists (CSM) Annual Conference. Guelph, Canada
• (2022). Effets des édulcorants artificiels dans la diète de la mère sur le microbiome de l’enfant et son indice de masse corporelle à 1 an. 22e Journée de la recherche du département d'obstétrique-gynécologie de la Faculté de Médecine de l'Université de Sherbrooke. Sherbrooke, Canada
• *S Ishak. (2022). Exploring the functional and taxonomical diversity of boreal moss microbiomes from northern Quebec. Ecological Society of America (ESA) and Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution (CSEE) Annual Meeting. Montreal, Canada
• (2022). Friend of foe: the roles of microbes for Sugar maple facing climate change. Canadian Society of Microbiology (CSM) Annual Meeting. Guelph, Ontario, Canada
• (2022). Host-microbe interactions: who runs the show?. Ottawa-Carleton Institute of Biology Symposium. ONLINE, Canada
• (2022). Host-microbe interactions: who runs the show?. CREAF-TALK, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain
• (2022). Impact des édulcorants artificiels sur le microbiome humain. CRCHUS Annual Retreat. Sherbrooke, Canada
• (2022). L'évolution de la recherche. ACFAS Colloque 100 ans de recherche. ONLINE, Canada
• (2022). Le changement global et les microorganismes. Le Climatoscope outreach journal 4th edition launch. Sherbrooke, Canada
• (2022). Le microbiome: 10 ans de découverte. Graduate students Kaféfak annual conference, U de Sherbrooke. Sherbrooke, Canada
• (2022). Le microbiome: 10 ans de découvertes. U Moncton. ONLINE, Canada
• (2022). Le microbiome: 10 ans de découvertes. INRS. Montreal, Canada
• (2022). Le microbiome de la forêt québécoise. Centre d'étude de la forêt (CEF). ONLINE, Canada
• (2022). Les défis de l'écologie microbienne. U Laval. Québec, Canada
• *M Renaudin. (2022). New insights into moss nitrogen fixation and associated N2 fixer communities from a 1000 Km latitudinal transect in Eastern Canada. European Geophysical Union (EGU). Vienna, Austria
• *S Ishak. (2022). Of Microbiomes and Mosses: Exploring the functional diversity of the boreal moss microbiome from the Eeyou Istchee region of Québec. ABC-CBA Annual Meeting. Rouyn-Noranda, Canada
• (2022). PROVID: Testing the impact of probiotics on COVID-19 symptoms. International Scientific Association for Pro- and Pre-biotics (ISAPP). Barcelona, Spain
• (2022). Partenaires microbiens de l’érable à sucre (Acer saccharum), un frein ou un accélérateur de l’adaptation aux changements climatiques?. Journées du Centre SEVE. Bromont, Canada
• (2022). Phyllosphere in the Anthropocene. 11th International Symposium on Leaf Surface Microbiology (ISME subsection). California, United States of America
• *R Perreault. (2022). Plant-microbe interactions in the phyllosphere: facing challenges of the anthropocene. UdeS En Vert Et Contre Les Changements Climatiques. Sherbrooke, Canada
• *Renaudin, M, ^Laforest-Lapointe, I, & Bellenger, JP (^denotes presenter). (2022). Unraveling the environmental drivers of the feather moss bacteriome and its nitrogen fixation in the Canadian boreal forest. Ecological Society of America (ESA) and Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution (CSEE) Annual Meeting. Montreal, Canada
• *S Poirier. (2022). Urban Bioaerosols along socioeconomic and plant diversity gradients. ABC-CBA Annual Meeting. Rouyn-Noranda, Canada
• (poster) *S Poirier. (2022). Urban bioaerosols along socio-economic and plant diversity gradients. UdeS En Vert Et Contre Les Changements Climatiques. Sherbrooke, Canada
• (poster) *J Fraysse. (2022). Urbanisation And Insects: Can Cities Be Sites Of Refuge?. UdeS En Vert Et Contre Les Changements Climatiques. Sherbrooke, Canada
• *J Fraysse. (2022). Using Plants to Evaluate Urban Insect Communities. ABC-CBA Annual Meeting. Rouyn-Noranda, Canada
• (2021). Challenges of microbial ecology. Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution (CSEE) Annual Meeting. ONLINE, Canada
• Laforest-Lapointe, I, Azad, M & Arrieta, MC. (2021). Consumption of artificial sweeteners during pregnancy is associated with infant gut microbiota, metabolic alterations, and increased BMI. Canadian Society of Microbiology (CSM). ONLINE, Canada
• *G Lajeunesse. (2021). Diurnal light cycles impact pathogen adaptation in the apoplast. Journées du centre SÈVE. Sherbrooke, Canada
• (2021). Host-microbe interactions: who runs the show?. U Guelph. Guelph, Canada
• (2021). Impact of host-microbe interactions on ecosystem functions. Stockholm University seminar. ONLINE, Canada
• Laforest-Lapointe, I. Beauregard, P & Moffett, P. (2021). Interactions plantes-microorganismes: défis, politiques et opportunités. ACFAS. Sherbrooke, Canada
• *G Lajeunesse. (2021). La lumière induit une résistance contre la prolifération du pathogène Pseudomonas syringae chez Arabidopsis thaliana. ACFAS. Sherbrooke, Canada
• *KG Mac Si Hone. (2021). Optimization of a Mass Colorectal Cancer Screening Using Gut Microbiome as Biomarker. World Microbe Forum. ONLINE, Canada
• (2021). Round table: Challenges of a massive transition, Colloque 31 Thinking the after COVID-19. ACFAS. ONLINE, Canada
• (2020). How has science lived and adapted to the pandemic?. Comité de Partenariat du Centre SÈVE. ONLINE, Canada
• (2020). Impact of host-microbe interactions on ecosystem functions. byteMAL. Canada
• (2020). Impact of host-microbe interactions on ecosystem functions. CREATE Technomise. ONLINE, Canada
• (2020). Impact of host-microbe interactions on ecosystem functions. 6th Phyllosphere Symposium (cancelled due to Covid-19). Davis, United States of America
• (2020). Impact of host-microbe interactions on ecosystem functions. Canadian Society of Microbiology (cancelled due to Covid-19). Guelph, Canada
• (2020). Impact of host-microbe interactions on ecosystem functions. Microbiome Data Congress (remote due to COVID-19). Toronto, Canada
• (2020). Interactions hôte-microorganismes : Qui mène le bal?. U du Québec à Trois-Rivières. Trois-Rivières, Canada
• (2020). Interactions plante-microorganismes : défis, politiques et opportunités. Association canadienne-française pour l’avancement des sciences (ACFAS; cancelled due to Covid-19). Sherbrooke, Canada
• (2020). La multidisciplinarité pour démystifier les interactions hôte-microbes. U de Sherbrooke. Sherbrooke, Canada
• (2020). Les “omiques” pour inférer l’écologie microbienne de l’intestin: défis et opportunités. Centre de Recherche du CHUS (UdeS medical research center). Sherbrooke, Canada
• (2020). Microbial ecology: a framework for understanding pro- & pre-biotics . International Scientific Association for Pro- & Pre-biotics (ISAPP). ONLINE, Canada
• (2020). Using microbial ecology as a framework to understand host-microbe interactions. Centre SÈVE. ONLINE, Canada
• (2020). Using omics to infer gut microbial ecology. International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP; cancelled due to Covid-19). Banff, Canada
• (2020). Using omics to infer gut microbial ecology. Canadian Digestive Disease Week (CDDW). Montreal, Canada
• (2019). Dynamics of the tree leaf microbiome along a gradient of increasing anthropogenic stresses. Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution (CSEE). Fredericton, Canada
• (2019). Variation in the Leaf and Root Microbiome of Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum) at an Elevational Range Limit. Annual Symposium of the Quebec Center for Biodiversity Science (QCBS). Montreal, Canada
• (2018). Blastocystis sp.: An Agent of Complexity for the Early-Life Gut Microbiota. Keystone Symposia Conference: Manipulation of the Gut Microbiota for Metabolic Health. Banff, Canada
• Messier, C & Kembel, SW. (2018). Dynamics of the tree leaf microbiome along a gradient of increasing anthropogenic stresses. Ecological Society of America (ESA) Annual Meeting. New Orleans, United States of America
• (2018). Host-microorganism interactions: Who runs the show?. Microbial Ecology Speaker Series. Montréal, Canada
• (2018). Interactions hôte-microorganismes : Qui mène le bal?. U Laval. Québec, Canada
• (2018). Interactions plante-microbiome: Qui mène le bal?. U de Sherbrooke. Sherbrooke, Canada
• (2018). Intestinal fungi impact the gut bacterial microbiome and elicit host immune changes related to atopy. Snyder Research Day at the University of Calgary. Calgary, Canada
• (2018). Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up: Which Are the Rules of Early-life Inter-Kingdom Interactions in the Gut Microbial Community?. Core Microbiome Group Seminar at the University of Calgary. Calgary, Canada
• (2018). Using applied microbial ecology to link plant-microbe interactions to ecosystem function. Microbial Ecology and Evolution in the Phyllosphere. Santa Barbara, United States of America
• (2017). From Plants to Microbes to Humans: A Graduate Student’s Tale. Dawson College. Montreal, Canada
• (2017). Leaf Bacterial Diversity Mediates Plant Diversity - Ecosystem Function Relationships. Ecological Society of America (ESA) Annual Meeting. Portland, Canada
• (2017). Leaf Bacterial Diversity Mediates Plant Diversity – Ecosystem Function Relationships. Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution (CSEE) Annual Meeting. Victoria, Canada
• (2017). Microbiome Diversity and Ecosystem Functions: Why Diversity Matters!. Core Microbiome Group Seminar at the University of Calgary. Calgary, Canada