Dr Adam Monier
Senior Research Fellow
Biosciences
University of Exeter
Living Systems Institute
Stocker Road
Exeter EX4 4QD
About me:
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.
Interests:
-Marine microbiology and virology
-Microbial/viral ecology and evolution
-Arctic oceanography
-Bioinformatics and phylogenetics
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)
