Stefani, Franck, Ph.D.
Research scientists – Molecular systematics of fungi
Contact Information:
960, Carling Avenue
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0C6
Telephone: 613-759-1575
Email: franck.stefani@canada.ca
Areas of Expertise:
- Molecular systematics of fungi
- Numerical ecology
- Molecular detection and quantification tools
- Metagenomics
- Phylogeny
- Microbiology
Current Projects:
- Molecular systematics and genomics of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
- Taxono-genomics of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
- In vivo and in vitro collection of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
- Interactions between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and soil microorganisms
- Nanotechnology and microfluidics applied to arbuscular mycorrhuzal fungi
- Molecular ecology applied to fungal communities
- Soil microbiome and mycobiome
- DNA barcoding of fungi
Affiliations:
- Mycological Society of America
- American chestnut foundation
Research publications
2018
- Stefani, F., Isabel, N., Morency, M.J., Lamothe, M., Nadeau, S., Lachance, D., Li, E.H.Y., Greer, C., Yergeau, É., Pinno, B.D., Séguin, A. (2018). The impact of reconstructed soils following oil sands exploitation on aspen and its associated belowground microbiome, 8(1), http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-20783-6
2017
- Junjie Yu, Bahram Baninasab, Shuhui Xu, Mirko Tabori, Yuxue Zhang, Xuelian Wang, Ian DeSchiffart, Yolande Dalpé, Franck Stefani , Sylvie Séguin, Baoluo Ma, Chenwu Xu, & Shahrokh Khanizadeh, 2017. Effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on tolerance and growth of selected spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) lines under salinity stress. Journal of Food, Agriculture & Environment (JFAE) Vol.15 (3&4):40- 47
- Klopfenstein, N.B., Stewart, J.E., Ota, Y., Hanna, J.W., Richardson, B.A., Ross-Davis, A.L., Elías-Román, R.D., Korhonen, K., Keča, N., Iturritxa, E., Alvarado-Rosales, D., Solheim, H., Brazee, N.J., Łakomy, P., Cleary, M.R., Hasegawa, E., Kikuchi, T., Garza-Ocañas, F., Tsopelas, P., Rigling, D., Prospero, S., Tsykun, T., Bérubé, J.A., Stefani, F.O.P., Jafarpour, S., Antonín, V., Tomšovský, M., McDonald, G.I., Woodward, S., Kim, M.S. (2017). Insights into the phylogeny of northern hemisphere Armillaria: Neighbor-net and bayesian analyses of translation elongation factor 1-α gene sequences, 109(1), 75-91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00275514.2017.1286572
Other science related publications
2018
- Stefani, F. 2018. Soil and plant microbiome in the context of the Biodiversity and Bioresources Science Strategy. 3rd ed. AgriScience Day.
2017
- Stefani, F. 2017. The twisted world of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. 2017 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Botanical Association. Waterloo University.
- Stefani, F., Banchini, C., Dalpé, Y., Cayouette, J., Redhead, S. A. 2017. Exploration of the fungal diversity at ᑕᒥᐅᔭᖅ (Umiujaq, Quebec) through DNA barcoding. Poster and abstract. Canada's Arctic Biodiversity: The Next 150 Years, Museum of Nature Ottawa 2017/01/26 - 2017/01/27.
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