Overview

Dr. Adam Monier is a marine microbiologist interested in the ecology and evolution of microbial eukaryotes and associated viruses and their interplay in oceans. Adam received his MSc and PhD in Bioinformatics from Aix-Marseille Université (France) with Profs. Hiroyuki Ogata and Jean-Michel Claverie (CNRS Structural and Genomic Information Laboratory). His doctoral work was followed by postdoctoral research with Prof. Alexandra Z. Worden (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute MBARI, CA, USA) which focussed on the development of metagenomic tools to study marine microbial eukaryotes and with Prof. Connie Lovejoy (Université Laval and Takuvik CNRS International Lab., QC, Canada) on the effect of sea ice loss on the diversity and function of Arctic Ocean microbial communities.

In 2014, Adam was awarded a Royal Society Newton Fellowship to work at the University of Exeter on the impact of horizontal gene transfer events in phytoplankton-virus interactions. Since 2018, he is a Senior Research Fellow and a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the Living Systems Institute where his group uses 'omics' tools to determine the influence of viral infection on phytoplankton physiology, and its repercussions on marine ecosystems.

Qualifications

2006 – 2009        PhD Bioinformatics (Aix-Marseille Université)

2004 – 2006        MSc Bioinformatics, Structural Biology and Genomics (Aix-Marseille Université)

2001 – 2004        BSc Cell Biology (Aix-Marseille Université)

Career

2018 – Present  Royal Society University Research Fellow 

2018 – Present  Senior Research Fellow (Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter)

2016 – 2018      NERC-funded Research Associate (Biosciences, University of Exeter)

2014 – 2016      Royal Society Newton Fellow (Biosciences, University of Exeter)

2012 – 2014      Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Université Laval (Québec, Canada) and Takuvik CNRS International Laboratory

2009 – 2011      Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute MBARI (Calif., USA)

2006 – 2009      Doctoral Student, CNRS Structural and Genomic Information Laboratory (Marseille, France)

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Research

Research interests

-Marine microbiology and virology

-Microbial/viral ecology and evolution

-Arctic oceanography

-Bioinformatics and phylogenetics

Research grants

• 2020 Royal Society Research Grant
  Nanopore-sequencing for pan-genomics (£20k)
• 2018 Royal Society University Research Fellowship
  Investigation of the ecological role of infected phytoplankton (£580k)
• 2018 Royal Society Research Fellows Enhancement Award
  Viral manipulation of host chromatin and gene transcription in infected phytoplankton (£238k)
• 2017 LabexMer
  Cluster of Excellence LabexMER "Changing Ocean" (France/EU); International Scholar Grant (€2k)
• 2014 Royal Society Newton International Fellowship
  Did horizontal gene transfer ‘rewire’ ocean microbial metabolic networks? (£55k)

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Teaching

I teach a wide range of topics, from bioinformatics, phylogenetics and genomics to microbial ecology, evolution and oceanography.

Drop-in visits from students: my (virtual) office hours are from 1400 to 1600, Tuesdays term-time (contact me by email for the Zoom link).

Modules

• BIO3037—Ecology of Environmental Change
• BIO3046—Frontiers in Plant Biology
• BIO3083—Current Issues in Marine Biology
• BIO3092—Bioinformatics

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Supervision / Group

Postdoctoral researchers

Postgraduate researchers

Alumni

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