Daniel Vaulot

Emeritus Senior Scientist (CNRS)

After attending the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, the Ecole Nationale du Génie Rural and working as an engineer for a few years, I completed a PhD on the cell cycle regulation of phytoplankton under the guidance of Penny Chisholm at MIT, Cambridge, US. From 1985 to 2019, I have been a researcher at CNRS, working at the Station Biologique of Roscoff (France). I developed initially applications of flow cytometry to measure picoplankton abundance in the Ocean. Around 1995, I began to focus on the diversity and ecology of eukaryotic picophytoplankton developing molecular approaches such as gene cloning, metabarcoding and metagenomics. Currently my interests revolve around green algae, bolidophytes and haptophytes involved in symbioses with cyanobacteria. I have also a keen interest in processing and analysis of large metabarcoding datasets, using in particular the R language. I created in 1998 the Roscoff Culture Collection, which is now the biggest collection in the world for marine phytoplankton. I am also maintaining the PR2 databases, a large repository of curated eukaryotic 18S rRNA sequences and metabarcodes.

I have served as an editor for the Journal of Phycology and Aquatic Environmental Microbiology and am currently on the editorial board of Scientific Reports and a senior editor of the ISME Journal.

I am an Emeritus Senior Scientist at CNRS affiliated with the UMR 7144, ECOMAP team at the Station Biologique of Roscoff]. From 2018 to 2022 a Visiting Professor at the Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore where I worked within the GEEK Lab. Since August 2023, I am a guest researcher at the University of Oslo in Norway in the Department of Biosciences, AQUA division.

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Interests

Marine Phytoplankton
Microbial Ecology
Polar ecosystems

Education

Ingénieur, 1975

Ecole Polytechnique
Ingénieur, 1977

Ecole du Génie Rural et des Eaux et Forêts
PhD in Oceanography, 1985

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research

Major research topics

Analysis of marine eukaryotic communities using metabarcoding (nuclear 18S rRNA, plastid 16S rRNA genes).
Diversity and oceanic distribution of marine phytoplankton, in particular green algae and pelagophytes.
Polar ohytoplankton communities and their adaptation to the long winter polar night.
Development of databases for the analysis of eukaryotic metabarcodes: PR2, pr2-primers and metaPR2 (in progress)

Current Collaborations

Bente Edvardsen and Wenche Eikrem, Oslo, Norway
Nicole Trefaut and Catherine Ribeiro-Gerikas, Santiago, Chile
Adriana Lopes dos Santos, Singapore
Andres Gutierrez Rodriguez, New Zealand

Projects

PhenoMap (2020-2023)

Characterize unknown phytoplankton species

Phytopol (2015-2021)

Phytoplankton survival in the polar night

TaxMarc (2018-2021)

Marine protists in a changing Arctic

Green Edge (2015-2016)

The Arctic Spring Bloom.

Collaborations (2017-2019)

International collaborative projects (2017-2019).

RCC

Roscoff Culture Collection

PR2

18S rRNA sequence database

metaPR2

18S rRNA metabarcode database

Micro B3 (2012-2015)

Marine Microbial Biodiversity, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology

MaCuMBA (2012-2016)

Marine Microorganisms: Cultivation Methods for Improving their Biotechnological Applications

Malina (2008-2011)

The Beaufort Sea ecosystem.

Recent Publications

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Culturing Diatoms

A review on diatom culture.

Daniel Vaulot, Gust Bilcke, Peter Chaerle, Angela Falcatiore, Priscillia Gourvil, Michael W. Lomas, Ian Probert, Wim Vyverman

In Goessling, J., Serodio, J. & Lavaud, J. [Eds.] Diatom Photosynthesis: From Primary Production to High-Value Molecules. Wiley-Scrivener, pp. 409–48., 2024

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Arctic phytoplankton microdiversity across the marginal ice zone: Subspecies vulnerability to sea-ice loss

We investigated the phytoplankton community structure across the marginal ice zone between the ice-free, Atlantic-influenced, east and the ice-covered, Arctic-influenced, west Baffin Bay using 18S rRNA high-throughput amplicon sequencing.

Catherine Ribeiro Gerikas, Adriana Lopes dos Santos, Nicole Trefault, Dominique Marie, Connie Lovejoy, Daniel Vaulot

Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 2024

PDF Project Source Document Supplementary material

A brief and personal history of plankton research in Roscoff

I retrace the growth of the Roscoff Plankton Group and present some of the key scientific advances made during the last four decades.

Daniel Vaulot

Cahiers de Biologie Marine 64:53-63, 2023

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metaPR2: a database of eukaryotic 18S rRNA metabarcodes with an emphasis on protists

This paper presents a newly-assembled database of processed 18S rRNA metabarcodes that are annotated with the PR2 reference sequence database. This database, called metaPR2, contains 41 datasets corresponding to more than 4,000 samples and 73,000 ASVs.

Daniel Vaulot, Clarence Wei Hung Sim, Denise Ong, Bryan Teo, Charlie Biwer, Mahwash Jamy, Adriana Lopes dos Santos

Molecular Ecology Resources. DOI: 10.¹¹¹¹⁄₁₇₅₅-0998.13674, 2022

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Contact

vaulot@gmail.com
+33 6 75 54 20 41
University of Oslo, Blindern, Norway

Daniel Vaulot

Emeritus Senior Scientist (CNRS)

Station Biologique de Roscoff

CNRS

Sorbonne Université

University of Oslo

Interests

Education

Research

Major research topics

Current Collaborations

Projects

PhenoMap (2020-2023)

Phytopol (2015-2021)

TaxMarc (2018-2021)

Green Edge (2015-2016)

Collaborations (2017-2019)

RCC

PR2

metaPR2

Micro B3 (2012-2015)

MaCuMBA (2012-2016)

Malina (2008-2011)

Recent Publications

Culturing Diatoms

Arctic phytoplankton microdiversity across the marginal ice zone: Subspecies vulnerability to sea-ice loss

A brief and personal history of plankton research in Roscoff

metaPR2: a database of eukaryotic 18S rRNA metabarcodes with an emphasis on protists

Submitted Publications

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