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Tel:

(+01) 581-443-4859

 

Email: 

annelaureferchaud@gmail.com

anne-laure.ferchaud@pc.gc.ca

Personal address:

G1S 1K4 Sillery

Quebec, QC,

CANADA

Professional address:

3 passage du chien d'or

Québec (Québec)

G1R 4V7

CANADA

 

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This website is constantly under construction.

In the meantime, please feel free to contact me for any question or comment, I will be glad to answer you !! 

 

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About

I am currently  working as a genomics specialist for Parks Canada Agency within the  Ecosystem Science Laboratory of the Office of the Chief Ecosystem Scientist. My main role is to support innovative science and promote highest technologies to protect ecological integrity throughout field units.

Since the last two decades, I have acquired a solid background in conservation genomics dedicating my research work in applying genomics tools for species-at-risk as well as exploited vertebrate species.

 

 

Research Interests

I would say I‘m a molecular ecologist, since my research are focus on local and global changes impacts on the genetic/genomic evolution of animal species. In particular, I assess the perturbation influences on the molecular diversity of different vertebrate populations. Throughout my different projects, I am interested by the genetic/genomic responses of organisms going through changing environments (perturbed and/or anthropised habitats) in the scope of biological adaptation and conservation biology.  

I am especially interested in studying the effects of selection, gene flow, demographic history and introgression on the pattern of genomic variation.

Combining my genomics results to other disciplines (CMR, otholites, physiology), I wrote scientific recommandations for conservation plan of endangered species or for management of exploited species.

My main purpose, is to ultimately to participate to a better integration of genetic diversity in policy instruments and conservation efforts and enable countries to monitor, report on and take action or restore genetic diversity, which is one of the three levels of biodiversity.

 

Common used tools

So far, morphological and molecular markers (from mitochondrial sequences, microsatellites data to Single Nucleotide Polymorphims and Structutral Variants defined with different Massive Parallel Sequencing approaches) are the two main tools I have used to perform my research projects.

 

Applications:

Conservation units definition, Phylogeography, Molecular Datation, Population assignment, Genome scan, Demographic inferences

 

 

Featured publications

*equal contribution

Bernatchez L*, Ferchaud, AL.*, Berger C S*, Venney C* & Xuereb A* (2023). Genomics for monitoring and understanding species responses to global climate change. Nature Review Genetics. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41576-023-00657-y

 

Ferchaud A-L (2022) Protéger la diversité génétique pour mieux lutter contre l’adversité. La conversation – 07-07-2022.  (theconversation.com)

Ferchaud A-L, Normandeau E, Babin C, Audet C, Morgan J, Treble M, Walkusz W, Lambert Y & Bernatchez L. (2022) A cold-water fish striving in a warming ocean; insights from Whole Genome Sequencing of the Greenland Halibut in the Northwest Atlantic, Frontiers in Marine Science. (9) 10.3389/fmars.2022.992504.

Ferchaud A-L, Mérot C, Normandeau E, Ragoussis J, Babin C, Djambazian H, Bérubé P, Audet C, Treble M, Walkusz W & Bernatchez L (2021) Chromosome-level assembly reveals a putative Y-autosomal fusion in the sex determination system of the Greenland Halibut (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides)

Ferchaud A-L, Leitwein M, Laporte M, Boivin-Deslisle, Bougas B, Hernandez C, Normandeau E, Thibault I, Bernatchez L (2020) Adaptive and maladaptive genetic diversity in small populations; insights from the Brook Charr (Salvelinus fontinalis) case study. Molecular Ecology (IF = 5.855). 29:3429–3445.

Ferchaud A-L*, Laporte M* Perrier C & Bernatchez L. (2018) Impact of supplementation on deleterious mutations distribution in an exploited salmonid. Evolutionary Applications, 11:1053-1065.

 

Perrier C*, Ferchaud A-L*, Sirois P, Thibault I, Bernatchez L (2017) Do tremendous genetic drift and accumulation of deleterious mutations preclude adaptation to temperature in a northern lacustrine fish? Molecular Ecology (IF =6.494) 26, 6317-6335.

Ferchaud A-L, Moore J-S, Normandeau E, Benestan L, Gosselin T, Bernatchez L, 2016. Roadmap for filtering Massively Parallel Sequencing (MPS) datasets. NIMBioS investigate workshop “Next Generation Genetic Workshop”, Knoxville, TN, USA, 6-9 nov.

Benestan L*, Ferchaud A-L*, Hohenlohe P, Garner B, Naylor G, Baums I, Schwartz M, Kelley J & Luikart G (2016) Conservation genomics of natural and managed populations: building a conceptual and practical framework. Molecular Ecology (IF =6.494), 25 (13):2967-2977.

 

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