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Aislinn Estoppey

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Doctorante
 

Office A225


Phone: +41 32 718 22 64

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Research Interests

 

I am mainly interested by biocontrol strategies against pathogenic fungi and by bacterial-fungal interactions (BFI). My main interest is to play with the environment with the addition of beneficial microbes, in order to make it improper for fungal growth and thus protecting the host plant. I am also interested in knowing more about fungal pathogenicity and microbial metabolisms, as they are key elements in biocontrol strategies development.

 

Education

 

  • July 2018 – present: PhD in Sciences, Laboratory of Microbiology, University of Neuchâtel. “Oxalotrophy as a biocontrol strategy” Supervision: Prof. Pilar Junier

 

  • September 2016 – June 2018: Master of Science in Biogeoscience, Universities of Neuchâtel and Lausanne

 

  • Master Thesis, Laboratory of Microbiology, University of Neuchâtel. “Oxalotrophy as a biocontrol strategy” Supervision: Prof. Pilar Junier, Fabio Palmieri

 

  • September 2013 – January 2015: Master of Science in Medical Biology, University of Lausanne

 

  • Master thesis, Department of Pharmacology and toxicology, University of Lausanne. “Regulation of EGFR endocytosis” Supervision: Dr. Vladimir Katanaev, Gonzalo Solis

 

  • Pre-master thesis, Urology Research Unit, CHUV. "Expression of inhibitory molecules on dendritic cells” Supervision: Dr. Denise Nardelli-Haefliger, PD

 

  • September 2010 – June 2013: Bachelor of Science in Biology, University of Neuchâtel  

 

Teaching experience

 

  • September – December 2019: Assistant for the practicals in Microbiology for the 2nd year Bachelor students, Laboratory of Microbiology, University of Neuchâtel

 

  • February – March 2019: Assistant for the APP in Microbiology for the 3rd year Bachelor students, Laboratory of Microbiology, University of Neuchâtel

 

  • Sept. 2018 – Dec. 2018: Assistant for the practicals in Microbiology for the 2nd year Bachelor students, Laboratory of Microbiology, University of Neuchâtel

 

  • May 2018: Student-Assistant for the course “Méthodes d’étude de la vegetation” for master students in BGS, Functional Ecology Laboratory, University of Neuchâtel 

 

  • September – December 2017: Student-Assistant for the practicals in molecular biology for the 3rd year bachelor biology students, Laboratory of Microbiology, University of Neuchâtel

 

Publications

 

  •  Kuhn T. Mamin M, Bindschedler S, Bshary R, Estoppey A, Gonzalez D, Junier P, Li Richter XY. Spatial scales of competition and a growth-motility tradeoff interact to determine bacterial coexistence. doi: 10.1101/2022.01.05.474435. Preprint
  • Estoppey A, Weisskopf L, Di Francesco E, Vallat-Michel A, Bindschedler S, Chain PSG, Junier Pilar. Improved methods to assess the effect of bacteria on germination of fungal spores. FEMS Microbiol Lett. 2022 Apr 21;369(1):fnac034. doi: 10.1093/femsle/fnac034. PMID: 35325127.
  • Robinson AJ, House GL, Morales DP, Kelliher JM, Gallegos-Graves LV, LeBrun ES, Davenport KW, Palmieri F, Lohberger A, Bregnard D, Estoppey A, Buffi M, Paul C, Junier T, Hervé V, Cailleau G, Lupini S, Nguyen HN, Zheng AO, Gimenes LJ, Bindschedler S, Rodrigues DF, Werner JH, Young JD, Junier P, Chain PSG. Widespread bacterial diversity within the bacteriome of fungi. Communications Biology (2021) 4:1168, https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02693-y
  • Junier P, Cailleau G, Palmieri I, Valloton C, Trautschold OC, Junier T, Paul C, Bregnard D, Palmieri F, Estoppey A, Buffi M, Lohberger A, Robinson A, Kelliher JM, Davenport K, House GL, Morales D, Gallegos-Graves V, Dichosa AEK, Lupini S, Nguyen HN, Young JD, Rodrigues DF, Parra-Vasquez ANG, Bindschedler S, Chain PSG. Democratization of fungal highway columns as a tool to investigate bacteria associated with soil fungi. FEMS Microbiol Ecol. 2021 Jan 13:fiab003. doi: 10.1093/femsec/fiab003. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33440006.
  • Palmieri F, Palmieri I, Noormamode N, Estoppey A, M. Ishak O, Kelliher JM, Vallat A, Iyer R, Bindschedler S, Davenport K, Chain PSG, Foster Harris J, Junier P. 2020. Biocontrol of Aspergillus niger in 3D-LungCell Tissues by Oxalotrophic Bacteria. BioRxiv. doi:10.1101/2020.08.20.259929. Preprint
  • Christophe Paul, Sevasti Filippidou, Isha Jamil, Wafa Kooli, Geoffrey House, Aislinn Estoppey, Mathilda Hayoz, Thomas Junier, Fabio Palmieri, Tina Wunderlin, Anael Lehmann, Saskia Bindschedler, Torsten Vennemann, Patrick S. G. Chain, Pilar Junier. 2019. "Bacterial Spores, from Ecology to Biotechnology."  Advances in Applied Microbiology. Vol. 106. 79-111. doi:10.1016/bs.aambs.2018.10.002
  • Fabio Palmieri*, Aislinn Estoppey*, Geoffrey L. House, Andrea Lohberger, Saskia Bindschedler, Patrick S. G. Chain, Pilar Junier. 2019. "Oxalic Acid, a Molecule at the Crossroads of Bacterial-Fungal Interactions."  Advances in Applied Microbiology. Vol. 106. 49-77. doi:10.1016/bs.aambs.2018.10.001.

(* equal contributions of the authors)