Supervise :

Karel Cadoret (Étudiante 2è cycle)

Valérie Langlois (Étudiante 3è cycle)

Thomas Pitot (Étudiant 3è cycle)

Juliette Provencher (Étudiante 2è cycle)

Josephine Rapp (Chercheure post-doctorale)

Co-supervise :

Flora Amill (Étudiante 3è cycle)

Thèses et mémoires récentes

Anne-Marie Lapointe (Maîtrise - 2022)
Structure des communautés microbiennes dans les sédiments lacustres du Haut-Arctique

Catherine Marois (Maîtrise - 2021)
Caractérisation des communautés microbiennes dans les lacs de la vallée de Stuckberry située dans l'Extrême-Arctique canadien

Myriam Labbé (Doctorat - 2021)
Diversité virale à travers des gradients de salinité nordiques en évolution

Communications scientifiques

Langlois, V., Girard, C., Vincent, W.F., Culley, A.I., 2023. A Tale of Two Seasons: Distinct Seasonal Viral Communities in a Thermokarst Lake. Microorganisms, 11(2), 428. DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms11020428.

Domínguez-Huerta, G., Zayed, A.A., Wainaina, J.M., Guo, J., Tian, F., Adjie Pratama, A., Bolduc, B., Mohssen, M., Zablocki, O., Pelletier, E., Delage, E., Alberti, A., Aury, J.-M., Carradec, Q., da Silva, C., Labadie, K., Poulain, J., Tara Oceans Coordinators,., Bowler, C., Eveillard, D., Guidi, L., Karsenti, E., Kuhn, J.H., Ogata, H., Kubatko, L.S., Culley, A.I., Chaffron, S., Sullivan, M.B,, 2022. Diversity and ecological footprint of global ocean RNA viruses. Science, 376(6598): 1202-1208. DOI: 10.1126/science.abn6358.

Fradette, M.-S., Culley, A.I., Charette, S.J., 2022. Detection of Cryptosporidium spp. and Giardia spp. in environmental water samples: A journey into the past and new perspectives. Microorganisms, 10(6), 1175. DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms10061175 .

George, P.B.L., Rossi, F., St-Germain, M.-W., Amato, P., Badard, T., Bergeron, M.G., Boissinot, M., Charette, S.J., Coleman, B.L., Corbeil, J., Culley, A.I., Gaucher, M.-L., Girard, M., Godbout, S., Kirychuk, S., Marette, A., McGeer, A., O'shaughnessy, P., Parmley, E.J., Simard, S., Reid-Smith, R.J., Topp, E., Trudel, L., Yao, M., Brassard, P., Delort, A.-M., Larios, A.D., Létourneau, V., Paquet, V.E., Pedneau, M.-H., Pic, É., Thompson, B., Veillette, M., Thaler, M., Scapino, I., Lebeuf, M., Baghdadi, M., Castillo Toro, A., Bélanger Cayouette, A., Dubois, M.-J., Durocher, A.F., Girard, S.B., Carranza Diaz, A.K., Khalloufi, A., Leclerc, S., Lemieux, J., Pérez Maldonado, M., Pilon, G., Murphy, C.P., Notling, C.A., Ofori-Darko, D., Provencher, J., Richer-Fortin, A., Turgeon, N., Duchaine, C., 2022. Antimicrobial resistance in the environment: Towards elucidating the roles of bioaerosols in transmission and detection of antibacterial resistance genes. Antibiotics, 11(7), 974. DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics11070974.

Labbé, M., Thaler, M., Pitot, T.M., Rapp, J., Vincent, W.F., Culley, A.I., 2022. Climate-endangered arctic epishelf lake harbors viral assemblages with distinct genetic repertoires. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 88(17), e00228-22. DOI: 10.1128/aem.00228-22.

Marois, C., Girard, C., Klanten, Y., Vincent, W.F., Culley, A.I., Antoniades, D., 2022. Local habitat filtering shapes microbial community structure in four closely spaced lakes in the High Arctic. Frontiers in Microbiology, 13, 779505. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.779505.

Zayed, A.A., Wainaina, J.M., Domínguez-Huerta, G., Pelletier, E., Guo, J., Mohssen, M., Tian, F., Adjie Pratama, A., Bolduc, B., Zablocki, O., Cronin, D., Solden, L., Delage, E., Alberti, A., Aury, J.-M., Carradec, Q., da Silva, C., Labadie, K., Poulain, J., Ruscheweyh, H.-J., Salazar, G., Shatoff, E., Tara Oceans Coordinators,., Bundschuh, R., Kubatko, L.S., Chaffron, S., Culley, A.I., Sunagawa, S., Kuhn, J.H., Wincker, P., Sullivan, M.B,, 2022. Cryptic and abundant marine viruses at the evolutionary origins of Earth’s RNA virome. Science, 376(6589): 156-162. DOI: 10.1126/science.abm5847.

Bégin, P.N., Tanabe, Y., Kumagai, M., Culley, A.I., Paquette, M., Sarrazin, D., Uchida, M., Vincent, W.F., 2021. Extreme warming and regime shift toward amplified variability in a far northern lake. Limnology and Oceanography, 66(S1: Biogeochemistry and ecology across Arctic aquatic ecosystems in the face of change): S17-S29. DOI: 10.1002/lno.11546.

Bégin, P.N., Tanabe, Y., Rautio, M., Wauthy, M., Laurion, I., Uchida, M., Culley, A.I., Vincent, W.F., 2021. Water column gradients beneath the summer ice of a High Arctic freshwater lake as indicators of sensitivity to climate change. Scientific Reports, 11, 2868. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-82234-z.

Jungblut, A.D., Raymond, F., Dion, M.B., Moineau, S., Mohit, V., Nguyen, G.Q.H., Déraspe, M., Francovic‐Fontaine, E., Lovejoy, C., Culley, A.I., Corbeil, J., Vincent, W.F., 2021. Genomic diversity and CRISPR‐Cas systems in the cyanobacterium Nostoc in the High Arctic. Environmental Microbiology, 23(6 - Special Issue on Oxygen Minimum Zone Microbiology): 2955-2968. DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.15481.

Lang, A.S., Vlok, M., Culley, A.I., Suttle, C.A., Takao, Y., Tomaru, Y., ICTV Report Consortium, , 2021. ICTV virus taxonomy profile: Marnaviridae 2021. Journal of General Virology, 102(8), 001633. DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.001633.

Vigneron, A., Cruaud, P., Culley, A.I., Couture, R.-M., Lovejoy, C., Vincent, W.F., 2021. Genomic evidence for sulfur intermediates as new biogeochemical hubs in a model aquatic microbial ecosystem. Microbiome, 9, 46. DOI: 10.1186/s40168-021-00999-x.

Bégin, P.N., Rautio, M., Tanabe, Y., Uchida, M., Culley, A.I., Vincent, W.F., 2020. The littoral zone of polar lakes: inshore-offshore contrasts in an ice-covered High Arctic lake. Arctic Science, 7(1): 158-181. DOI: 10.1139/AS-2020-0026.

Cruaud, P., Vigneron, A., Fradette, M.-S., Dorea, C.C., Culley, A.I., Rodriguez, M.J., Charette, S.J., 2020. Annual bacterial community cycle in a seasonally ice‐covered river reflects environmental and climatic conditions. Limnology and Oceanography, 65(S1 - Special Issue: Linking Metagenomics to Aquatic Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemical Cycles): S21-S37. DOI: 10.1002/lno.11130.

Girard, C., Langlois, V., Vigneron, A., Vincent, W.F., Culley, A.I., 2020. Seasonal regime shift in the viral communities of a permafrost thaw lake. Viruses, 12(11), 1204. DOI: 10.3390/v12111204.

Labbé, M., Girard, C., Vincent, W.F., Culley, A.I., 2020. Extreme viral partitioning in a marine-derived High Arctic lake. mSphere, 5(3), e00334-20. DOI: 10.1128/mSphere.00334-20.

Lévesque, A., Thaler, M., Labrie, S.J., Marois, C., Vincent, A.T., Lapointe, A.-M., Culley, A.I., 2020. Complete genome sequences for two Myoviridae strains infecting cyanobacteria in a subarctic lake. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 9(10), e01339-19. DOI: 10.1128/MRA.01339-19.

Vigneron, A., Cruaud, P., Langlois, V., Lovejoy, C., Culley, A.I., Vincent, W.F., 2020. Ultra‐small and abundant: Candidate phyla radiation bacteria are potential catalysts of carbon transformation in a thermokarst lake ecosystem. Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 5(2): 212-220. DOI: 10.1002/lol2.10132.

Cruaud, P., Vigneron, A., Fradette, M.-S., Dorea, C.C., Culley, A.I., Rodriguez, M.J., Charette, S.J., 2019. Annual protist community dynamics in a freshwater ecosystem undergoing contrasted climatic conditions: The Saint-Charles River (Canada). Frontiers in Microbiology, 10, 2359. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02359.

Culley, A.I., 2019. New insight into the virosphere via metaviromics. University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Microbiologyseminar series. Honolulu, Hawaï.

Culley, A.I., 2019. The wild viruses of the High Arctic. University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Oceanography seminar series. Honolulu, Hawaï.

Gregory, A.C., Zayed, A.A., Conceição-Neto, N., Temperton, B., Ardyna, M., Arkhipova, K., Carmichael, M., Cruaud, C., Dimier, C., Domínguez-Huerta, G., Ferland, J., Kandels, S., Liu, Y., Marec, C., Pesant, S., Picheral, M., Pisarev, S., Poulain, J., Tremblay, J.-É., Dean, V., Babin, M., Bowler, C., Culley, A.I., de Vargas, C., Dutilh, B.E., Iudicone, D., Karp-Boss, L., Roux, S., Sunagawa, S., Wincker, P., Sullivan, M.B., 2019. Marine DNA viral macro- and microdiversity from pole to pole. Cell, 177(5): 1109-1123. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.03.040.

Lapointe, A.-M., Klanten, Y., Antoniades, D., Culley, A.I., 2019. Structure des communautés microbiennes dans les sédiments lacustres du Haut-Arctique. Journée de la recherche en sciences et en génie, Université Laval. Québec, Québec, Canada.

Lévesque, A., Vincent, W.F., Comte, J., Lovejoy, C., Culley, A.I., 2019. Chlorovirus and myovirus diversity in permafrost thaw ponds. Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 82(2): 209-224. DOI: 10.3354/ame01893 .

Vigneron, A., Lovejoy, C., Cruaud, P., Kalenitchenko, D., Culley, A.I., Vincent, W.F., 2019. Contrasting winter versus summer microbial communities and metabolic functions in a permafrost thaw lake. Frontiers in Microbiology, 10, 1656. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.01656.

Brisebois, E., Veillette, M., Dion-Dupont, V., Lavoie, J., Corbeil, J., Culley, A.I., Duchaine, C., 2018. Human viral pathogens are pervasive in wastewater treatment center aerosols. Journal of Environmental Sciences, 67: 45-53. DOI: 10.1016/j.jes.2017.07.015.

Comte, J., Culley, A.I., Lovejoy, C., Vincent, W.F., 2018. Microbial connectivity and sorting in a High Arctic watershed. ISME Journal, 12: 2988-3000. DOI: 10.1038/s41396-018-0236-4.

Culley, A.I., 2018. New insight into the RNA aquatic virosphere via viromics. Virus Research, 244: 84-89. DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2017.11.008.

Marois, C., Klanten, Y., Triglav, K., Antoniades, D., Culley, A.I., 2018. Diversity of microbial populations in Stuckberry Valley lakes (Nunavut, Canada) in a context of climate change. Journée de la Recherche en Sciences et Génie, Université Laval. Québec, Québec, Canada.

Vigneron, A., Cruaud, P., Mohit, V., Martineau, M.-J., Culley, A.I., Lovejoy, C., Vincent, W.F., 2018. Multiple strategies for light-harvesting, photoprotection, and carbon flow in high latitude microbial mats. Frontiers in Microbiology, 9, 2881. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.02881.

Cruaud, P., Vigneron, A., Fradette, M.-S., Charette, S.J., Rodriguez, M.J., Dorea, C.C., Culley, A.I., 2017. Open the SterivexTM casing: An easy and effective way to improve DNA extraction yields. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 15(12): 1015-1020. DOI: 10.1002/lom3.10221.

Déraspe, M., Raymond, F., Boisvert, S., Culley, A.I., Roy, P.H., Laviolette, F., Corbeil, J., 2017. Phenetic comparison of prokaryotic genomes using k-mers. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 34(10): 2716-2729. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msx200.

Labbé, M., Vincent, W.F., Culley, A.I., 2017. Diversité et dynamiques des virus aquatiques du Haut-Arctique Canadien dans un contexte de changements climatiques. 1e réunion annuelle de Sentinelle Nord. Québec, Québec, Canada.

Marois, C., Culley, A.I., 2017. Dynamique hôte-cyanophage provenant du subarctique. Groupe de recherche en écologie buccale, Faculté de médecine dentaire, Université Laval. Québec, Québec, Canada.

Mohit, V., Culley, A.I., Lovejoy, C., Bouchard, F., Vincent, W.F., 2017. Hidden biofilms in a far northern lake and implications for the changing Arctic. npj Biofilms and Microbioms, 3: article no. 17. DOI: 10.1038/s41522-017-0024-3.

Vincent, A.T., Derome, N., Boyle, B., Culley, A.I., Charette, S.J., 2017. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) in the microbiological world: How to make the most of your money. Journal of Microbiological Methods, 138: 60-71. DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2016.02.016.

Comte, J., Culley, A.I., Lovejoy, C., Vincent, W.F., 2016. Étude de l’importance relative de la dispersion pour la diversité des communautés microbiennes des écosystèmes aquatiques du Haut Arctique. Colloque du CEN 2016, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada.

Labbé, M., Culley, A.I., Vincent, W.F., 2016. Diversité et dynamique des virus aquatiques du Grand Nord canadien dans un contexte de changements climatiques. Colloque du CEN 2016, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada.

Lévesque, A., Vincent, W.F., Culley, A.I., 2016. Étude de la diversité virale des mares de thermokarst subarctiques. Colloque du CEN 2016, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada.

Miranda, J.A., Culley, A.I., Schvarcz, C.R., Steward, G.F., 2016. RNA viruses as major contributors to antarctic virioplankton. Environmental Microbiology, 18(11 - Special Issue on Pathogen and Antibiotic Resistance Ecology): 3714–3727. DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13291.

Trudel, M.V., Vincent, A.T., Attéré, S.A., Labbé, M., Derome, N., Culley, A.I., Charette, S.J., 2016. Diversity of antibiotic-resistance genes in Canadian isolates of Aeromonas salmonicida subsp. salmonicida: dominance of pSN254b and discovery of pAsa8. Scientific Reports, 6: 35617. DOI: 10.1038/srep35617.

Culley, A.I., Shakya, M., Lang, A.S., 2015. Viral evolution at the limits. Pages 209-222 dans Microbial Evolution under Extreme Conditions. Life in Extreme Environments, De Gruyter.