Laura Eme
About me
I’m an evolutionary microbiologist and my main research interest revolves around deep evolutionary questions to do with the origin and evolution of eukaryotes (tree of eukaryotes, eukaryotic genome evolution, age of major clades, role of HGT in eukaryotes…). For this I use gemomics, metagenomics and phylogenomics.
In March 2019, I started my group at Paris-Sud University. I previously did a postdoc with Andrew Roger and Ford Doolittle at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada) and with Thijs Ettema at Uppsala University (Sweden).
Selected publications
Eme L, Sharpe SC, Brown MW, Roger AJ. On the age of eukaryotes: evaluating evidence from fossils and molecular clocks. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 2014 Aug 1;6(8):a016139.
Eme L, Spang A, Lombard J, Stairs CW, Ettema TJ. Archaea and the origin of eukaryotes. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 2017 Dec;15(12):711.
Lax* G, Eglit* Y, Eme* L, Bertrand EM, Roger AJ, Simpson AG. Hemimastigophora is a novel supra-kingdom-level lineage of eukaryotes. Nature. 2018 Dec;564(7736):410.
Lecture Material for 2019
I will be discussing protein models and methods for phylogenomics (multi-gene phylogenetics) for deep divergence questions.
version 3 (uploaded Mon 5, at 03:48 pm) (PDF file)
Duration of Stay 2019
Not yet determined.
Reading List
Roger AJ, Kolisko M, Simpson AG. Phylogenomic Analysis. 2012 Jun 6:44-69.
Susko, E. and Roger, A.J. (2007). On reduced amino acid alphabets for phylogenetic inference. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 24:2139-2150.
Software: documentation and source code or windows binary
Contact Info
E-mail: laura.eme@u-psud.fr
Twitter: @eme_laura
Webpage: http://emelaura.com emelaura.com