Lucas Bonometti

Research Interests
​I developed a deep curiosity for fungi and their genomes. I am particularly interested in deciphering how fungal populations evolve on short- and long-term scales, with a focus on plant pathogenic fungi. Likewise, fungal immune mechanisms and the associated host-pathogen coevolution processes have been central to my research in the past years. During my PhD, I worked on identifying and describing Nod-Like Receptors in the Sordariales order. In Prof. Eva Stukenbrock’s group, I am now using a population genomics approach to determine the main factors underlying speciation and diversification within the plant-pathogenic genus Zymoseptoria. In particular, we aim to characterize when and how speciation events occurred within the Zymoseptoria triticii species complex and what are the levels of incomplete lineage sorting and introgressions between the different species.

ORCID : https://orcid.org/0009-0000-6584-216X
X : @bonospora



Short CV
2024 – Present : Postdoc in Fungal Population Genomics, with Profs. Eva Stukenbrock and Julien Dutheil, Environmental Genomics, Christian-Albrechts University (Kiel, Germany).

2020 – 2023: PhD in Fungal Comparative Genomics, with Drs. Pierre Gladieux and Elisabeth Fournier, Plant Health Institute of Montpellier (PHIM), Institut Agro (Montpellier, France).

2016 – 2020:  Agricultural Engineer Master degree, specialization in Plant Protection and Environment, Institut Agro (Montpellier, France).

2020: Master Thesis in Fungal Genomics, with Pierre Gladieux, Plant Health Institute of Montpellier (PHIM), INRAE (Montpellier, France).

2019: Internship in Fungal Population Genetics, with Prof. Claire Neema, Plant Health Institute of Montpellier (PHIM), Institut Agro (Montpellier, France).

2018 : Internship in Entomology, with Prof. Alberto Pozzebon, Padua University (Italy).

2018: Master 1 in Forest Science, Erasmus program, Padua University (Italy).
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2014 – 2016: Preparatory Class BCPST (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Sciences), Lycée jean Rostand (Strasbourg, France).