Prof. Dr. Aurélien Tellier
Academic Career and Research Areas
Professor Tellier’s (b. 1979) area of research explores the evolutionary mechanisms of plant adaptation to their environment, taking into consideration aspects such as different climatic conditions and resistance against parasites (bacteria, fungi, insects). The primary focus of his research is the study of plant-parasite coevolution and long-term seed dormancy in the soil in wild tomato species endemic to South America. He develops population genetics theoretical models to comprehend genome evolution at the population or species level. He also focuses on empirical plant evolutionary genetics, using DNA sequences and laboratory experiments to characterize the genes involved in these adaptations.
Professor Tellier studied agronomy, plant biology, genetics and statistics at ENITA (Bordeaux, France) and population genetics at INAPG (Paris, France). After having obtained his doctorate at the John Innes Centre (Norwich, UK) in 2007, he spent five years as a postdoctoral research fellow at LMU Munich supported by a grant from the Volkswagen Foundation and the German Research Foundation, DFG. In 2012, he assumed the position of associate professor of population genetics at TUM.
Awards
- Ctibor Blattný Medal of the Czech Society for Plant Protection (2022)
- Elected council member of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (2019-2023)
- VW Foundation Fellowship (2007-2010)
Key Publications
Märkle, H., S. John, L. Metzger, STOP-HCV Consortium, MA. Ansari, V. Pedergnana, Tellier, A. Inference of host-pathogen interaction matrices from genome-wide polymorphism data, (2024) Molecular Biology and Evolution, msae176.
AbstractSellinger, T., Johannes, F., Tellier, A. Improved inference of population histories by integrating genomic and epigenomic data (2024) eLife, 12.
AbstractStruett, S., Sellinger, T.P.P., Glémin, S., Tellier*, A., Laurent*, S. Joint inference of evolutionary transitions to self-fertilization and demographic history using whole-genome sequences (2023) eLife, 12, art. no. e82384.
AbstractTellier, A. Persistent seed banking as eco-evolutionary determinant of plant nucleotide diversity: novel population genetics insights (2019) New Phytologist, 221 (2), pp. 725-730.
AbstractTellier A, Laurent SJY, Lainer H, Pavlidis P, Stephan W: “Inference of Seed Bank Parameters in Two Wild Tomato Species Using Ecological and Genetic Data”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A. 2011; 108(41): 17052-17057.
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