Curriculum Vitae

Since 2007

2006

Senior Researcher. Chargé de Recherche 2ème classe CNRS (Lille, France).

Post-doc. University of Chicago (Chicago, USA). Supervisor : Joy Bergelson

2004-2005

Junior Lecturer (ATER). Laboratoire de Génétique et Evolution des Populations Végétales, Université des Sciences et Technologies (Lille, France).

2001-2004

PhD Thesis in Plant Population Biology. Laboratoire de Biologie et Gestion des Adventices, INRA (Dijon, France). Supervisors: Dr. Xavier Reboud and Dr. Jacques Gasquez.

2000-2001

Master (DSER) in Plant Population Genetics. Université de Bourgogne (Dijon, France).

1999-2000

Master (DEA) in Evolutionary Biology and Ecology. Université de Montpellier II (Montpellier, France).

 

Selected Publications

Roux F., J. Gasquez and X. Reboud. 2007. Herbicide resistance dynamics in a spatially heterogeneous environment. Crop Protection (in press).

Roux F., P. Touzet, J. Cuguen and V. Le Corre. 2006. How to be early-flowering: an evolutionary perspective. Trends in Plant Science 11, 375-381.

Roux F., S. Giancola, S. Durand and X. Reboud. 2006. Building of an experimental cline with Arabidopsis thaliana to estimate herbicide fitness cost. Genetics 173, 1023-1031.

Giancola S., H.I. McKhann, A. Bérard, C. Camilleri, S. Durand, P. Libeau, F. Roux, X. Reboud, I.G. Gut and D. Brunel. 2006. Utilization of the three high-througput SNP genotyping, the GOOD assay, Amplifluor and TaqMan, in diploid and polyploid plants. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 112, 1115-1124.

Roux F., C. Camilleri, A. Bérard and X. Reboud. 2005. Multigenerational vs. single generation studies to estimate herbicide resistance fitness cost in Arabidopsis thaliana. Evolution 59, 2264-2269.

Roux F., C. Camilleri, S. Giancola, D. Brunel and X. Reboud. 2005. Epistatics interactions among herbicide resistances in Arabidopsis thaliana: the fitness cost of multi-resistance. Genetics 171, 1277-12788.

Roux F., A. Matéjicek, J. Gasquez and X. Reboud. 2005. Dominance variation across six herbicides of the Arabidopsis thaliana csr1-1 and csr1-2 resistance alleles. Pest Management Science 61, 1089-1095.

Roux F. and X. Reboud. 2005. Is the cost of herbicide resistance expressed in the breakdown of the relationships between characters? A case study using synthetic auxin resistant Arabidopsis thaliana mutants. Genetical Research 85, 101-110.

Roux F., A. Matéjicek and X. Reboud. 2005. Response of Arabidopsis thaliana to 22 ALS-inhibitors: baseline toxicity and cross-resistance of csr1-1 and csr1-2 mutants. Weed Research 45, 220-227.

Roux F., J. Gasquez and X. Reboud, 2004. The dominance of the herbicide resistant cost in several Arabidopsis thaliana mutant lines. Genetics 166, 449-460.

Le Corre, V., F. Roux and X. Reboud, 2002. DNA polymorphism at the FRIGIDA gene in Arabidopsis thaliana: extensive non-synonymous variation is consistent with local selection for flowering time. Molecular Biology and Evolution 19, 1261-1271.

Lavigne, C., X. Reboud, M. Lefranc, E. Porcher, F. Roux, I. Olivieri and B. Godelle, 2001. Evolution of genetic diversity in metapopulations: Arabidopsis thaliana as an experimental model. Genetics, Selection, Evolution 33 (Suppl.1), S399-S423.

Research Interests

 

My research interest focuses on genetics of adaptation in plant populations, using Arabidopsis thaliana as an experimental model.

1. Flowering time and other life-history traits :

   a. Experimental building of the first step of the adaptive walk to early-flowering: mass selection of spontaneous early-flowering mutants.

   b. Molecular genetic basis for flowering-time and other life-history traits

   c. Genetics of adaptation in French populations.

 

2. Pathogens resistance (coll. Joy Bergelson, University of Chicago) :

   a. Molecular genetic basis for quantitative resistance

   b. Co-evolution in the host-pathogen system A. thalianaPseudomonas viridiflava.

 

3. Herbicide resistance (PhD) :

   a. Cost-benefit balance associated to herbicide resistance genes (experimentation)

   b. Impact of environmental heterogeneity (spatial and temporal) on herbicide resistance propagation (theory)

 

Key words: Arabidopsis thaliana, adaptation, adaptive walk, flowering-time, pathogens resistance, herbicide resistance, selection, experimental evolution, spatial and temporal heterogeneity, model organism.

 

CR2, CNRS

 

UMR CNRS 8198

Laboratoire de Génétique et Evolution des Populations Végétales

Bâtiment SN2

Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille 1

F-59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex

FRANCE

 

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