Equipe Le Cocon
Membres

Directeur de recherche
CNRS
Tél : 33 04 26 23 44 74

Chargé de recherche
CNRS
Tél : 04 72 43 29 09

Maîtresse de conférences
UCBL
Tél : 33 04 72 43 29 18

Ingénieure de recherche CDD
INRIA
Doctorant
UCBL
Tél : 04 72 44 81 42

Directeur de recherche
INRIA
Tél : 33 04 26 23 44 74
Le Cocon is both a research team and a think tank.
Research in “Le Cocon” team focuses on two main topics: multiscale evolution on one hand (i.e., studying the evolution of genetic systems while considering different levels -nucleotides, transposable elements, genes, genomes, microbiomes, organisms, populations, species, geography-), and environmental issues on the other hand. In both cases, we rely on modeling and data analysis, using a combination of statistics and computer science.
Le Cocon is also a place to think about the responsibilities of research and researchers in the anthropocene era, and about the role of non-researcher citizens in orienting and conducting research.
Multiscale evolution
- We have a long history of working on gene transfers. We develop new methods to detect these events in complex systems involving more than two levels (host, symbiont and parasites for example) and
- We use horizontal transfer detection to date species trees and to infer yet unknown biodiversity (extinct and unsampled) (Sthoriz (ANR, 2018)) .
- We have a lasting interest into convergent genomic evolution (Convergenomics - ANR, 2015)
- We question the usual way of testing bioinformatic methods (Evoluthon - ANR, 2019)
- We study the interaction between human populations, their lifestyles, and their gut microbiota (Microregal - ANR, 2015). We are notably interested in identifying cases of host-microbe coevolution and in better understanding transmission dynamics.
Environmental issues
- We develop computational methods to support an agriculture that relies on ecosystemic relationships between crops, the soil, its microbiota, and wild plants and animals (Community Garden Book - Inria, 2019)
- We develop statistical approaches to understand and predict crop yield variability with respect to meteorological conditions
Research in the anthropocene
- We participate to the science shop (UdL), the ethics platform (UdL), Labo1.5, the open science committee, Sciences Citoyennes, the shift project
- We organize a series of seminars to help us think about the position of scientific research in the history of the anthropocene, and about the position of scientists in the future of the anthropocene.
- We assemble committees of citizens to investigate to what extent scientific research can be democratized.
Teaching and outreach
- We teach at University of Lyon, University Lyon 1, INSA, Inria, ENS Lyon, we organize bioinformatics internships
- We regularly participate in the Fête de la Science, have contributed videos in the public transportation system in Lyon, give conferences at Université Populaire and contribute articles in general public journals.
- We develop the software Lifemap to explore the tree of life on computers and smartphones.
Prospective students and postdocs are invited to apply, as we often welcome visitors for internships or research projects.
Publications
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The transposable element environment of human genes is associated with histone and expression changes in cancer
BMC Genomics . 17 ( 1 )
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voir la publicationThe inference of gene trees with species trees
Systematic Biology . 64 ( 1 ) : e42-e62
Article dans une revue
voir la publicationReconstruction of an ancestral Yersinia pestis genome and comparison with an ancient sequence
BMC Genomics . 16 ( Suppl 10 ) : S9
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voir la publicationMoments of genome evolution by Double Cut-and-Join
BMC Bioinformatics . 16 ( Suppl 14 ) : S7
Article dans une revue
voir la publicationSex and evolution
Handbook of Evolutionary Thinking in the Sciences . 978-94-017-9013-0 : 499--507
Chapitre d'ouvrage
voir la publicationDegeneration of the Nonrecombining Regions in the Mating-Type Chromosomes of the Anther-Smut Fungi
Molecular Biology and Evolution . 32 ( 4 ) : 928-943
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voir la publicationGC-Content evolution in bacterial genomes: The biased gene conversion hypothesis expands
PLoS Genetics . 11 ( 2 ) : 1-20
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voir la publicationKaryotype and Gene Order Evolution from ReconstructedExtinct Ancestors Highlight Contrasts in Genome Plasticity ofModern Rosid Crops
Genome Biology and Evolution . 7 ( 3 ) : 735-749
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evv014
Article dans une revue
voir la publicationFoundations of Coding: Compression, Encryption, Error-Correction
978-1-118-88144-6 : 376
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voir la publicationAncestral gene synteny reconstruction improves extant species scaffolding
BMC Genomics . 16 ( Suppl 10 ) : S11
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voir la publicationProbabilistic modeling of the evolution of gene synteny within reconciled phylogenies
BMC Bioinformatics . 16 ( Suppl 14 ) : S5
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voir la publicationGenome-scale phylogenetic analysis finds extensive gene transfer among fungi
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences (1934–1990) . 370 : 20140335 (11 pages)
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voir la publicationPhylogeny of the class Actinobacteria revisited in the light of complete genomes. The orders 'Frankiales' and Micrococcales should be split into coherent entities: proposal of Frankiales ord. nov., Geodermatophilales ord. nov., Acidothermales ord. nov. an
International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology . 64 ( Pt 11 ) : 3821-32
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voir la publicationCounting and sampling SCJ small parsimony solutions
Theoretical Computer Science . 552 : 83-98
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voir la publicationFungal evolutionary genomics provides insight into the mechanisms of adaptive divergence in eukaryotes
Molecular Ecology . 23 ( 4 ) : 753-773
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12631
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voir la publicationMassive gene swamping among cheese-making Penicillium fungi
Microbial Cell .
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voir la publicationHigh Variability of Mitochondrial Gene Order among Fungi
Genome Biology and Evolution . 6 ( 2 ) : 451-465
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evu028
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voir la publicationReductive genome evolution at both ends of bacterial population size spectrum
Nature Reviews Microbiology . 12 ( 12 ) : 841-850
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro3331
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voir la publicationRibosomal proteins: Toward a next generation standard for prokaryotic systematics?
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 75 : 103 - 117
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voir la publicationSingle acquisition of protelomerase gave rise to speciation of a large and diverse clade within the Agrobacterium/Rhizobium supercluster characterized by the presence of a linear chromid
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 73 : 202-207
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voir la publicationA Bayesian Method for Analyzing Lateral Gene Transfer
Systematic Biology . 63 ( 3 ) : 409 - 420
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voir la publicationEvidence for Widespread Positive and Negative Selection in Coding and Conserved Noncoding Regions of Capsella grandiflora
PLoS Genetics . 10 ( 9 )
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voir la publication“One code to find them all”: a perl tool to conveniently parse RepeatMasker output files
Mobile DNA . 5 : 13
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voir la publicationIdentification de complexes protéine-protéine par combinaison de classifieurs. Application à Escherichia coli
EGC 2013 - 13eme conférence Francophone sur l'Extraction et la Gestion des Connaissances . E.24 : 419-430
Acte de congrès
voir la publicationL'ADN, mémoire numérique du vivant
Pour la science . : 102-108
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voir la publicationLateral Gene Transfer from the Dead.
Systematic Biology . 62 ( 3 ) : 386-397
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voir la publicationContrasted evolutionary constraints on secreted and non-secreted proteomes of selected Actinobacteria
BMC Genomics . 14 ( 1 )
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voir la publicationLateral gene transfer, rearrangement, reconciliation
BMC Bioinformatics . 14 ( Suppl 15 ) : S4
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voir la publicationThéorie des Codes : compression, cryptage, correction, 2e edition
9782100599110 : 384
Ouvrage
voir la publicationThe genome of the medieval Black Death agent (extended abstract)
Pré-publication
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