Aude Caizergues, PhD
About me
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Current Postdoc Project (2021-2023): Non-adaptive evolution in urban clover
I recently joined Marc Jonhson's Ecoevo lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow, to study mainly the non-adaptative evolution of the white clover (Trifolium repens) in urban habitats.
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Postdoc 2021: Diversity and prevalence of avian Malaria lineages in urban environment
During my first Postdoc I investigated if the prevalence and diversity of avian malaria lineages found in the Great tit (Parus major) was affected by urbanization, as a part of the "EVOLMALWILD" ANR project, supervised by Sylvain Gandon and Anne Charmantier.
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PhD Thesis (2017-2021): Evolutionary impacts of urbanization in the Great tit (Parus major): from phenotypes to (epi)genomes
During my PhD thesis I studied the evolutionary impacts of urbanization on Great tits (Parus major), supervised by Anne Charmantier and Arnaud Grégoire at the CEFE in Montpellier, France.
In particular I investigated :
- Phenotypic shifts associated with urbanization in various type of traits (life history, behavioural, morphological...)
- Ongoing natural selection in the urban habitat on these trait.
- The epigenomic (methylation shifts) and genomic (footprints of adaptation) impacts of city life.
Main publications
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Caizergues, A. E., Charmantier, A., Lambrechts, M. M., Perret, S., Demeyrier, V., Lucas, A., & Grégoire, A. (2021). An avian urban morphotype: how the city environment shapes great tit morphology at different life stages. Urban Ecosystems, 1-13.
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Perrier, C, Caizergues, A. E., & Charmantier, A. (2020). Adaptation genomics in urban environments, in Urban Evolutionary Biology, Oxford University Press.
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Caizergues, A. E., Grégoire, A., & Charmantier, A. (2018). Urban versus forest ecotypes are not explained by divergent reproductive selection. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285(1882), 20180261.
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Poster | II Joint Congress on Evolutionnary Biology - Montpellier 2018 : Caizergues, A. E., Grégoire, A., & Charmantier, A. (2018). Urban versus forest ecotypes are not explained by divergent reproductive selection.
