Fungi

Francis Martin received a bachelors degree from the Plant Biology Department of Nancy University (France), a Ph.D. from this University and a Science Doctorat from Paris XI-Orsay University. He spent one year as a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Department of Biochemistry at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). He worked at the CSIRO Forestry Research Department in Perth (Western Australia) and at USDA Plant-Soil Biophysics Department at Wyndmoor (PA).He joined the INRA Forestry Center in 1981 where he built up a research group on the physiology and molecular biology of the ectomycorrhizal symbiosis. He headed the Tree-Microbes Interactions Department and is now heading the Cluster of Excellence ARBRE (Advanced Research on Tree Biology and Forest Ecology).His main research projects are currently dealing with (1) comparative genomics of lifestyles in Fungi and (2) signalling pathways/effectors in ectomycorrhizal interactions. In 2012, he was awarded the INRA Laurel Wreath of Excellence Award for my work on tree-microbe interactions and fungal genomics.

1. Fungal Genomics: Sequencing and Annotation2. Exploring the Transcriptome of Mycorrhizal interactions3. Evolutionary and Adaptive Role of Transposable Elements in Fungal Genomes4. The Genomics of Powdery Mildew Fungi: Past Achievements, present Status and Future Prospects 5. Functional Genomics of Smut Fungi – From Genome Sequencing to Protein Function 6. Advancing Knowledge on Biology of Rust Fungi Through Genomics 7. Truffle Phylogenomics: New Insights into Truffle Evolution and Truffle Life Cycle8. The Natural Histories of Species and Their Genomes: Asymbiotic and Ectomycorrhizal Amanita Fungi9. Genomics of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi: Out of the Shadows10. Genomes of Plant-Associated Clavicipitaceae11. Genomics, Life-Styles and Future Prospects of Wood-Decaying and Litter-Decomposing Basidiomycota12. Heterobasidion annosum s.l. genomics13. Speciation Genomics of Fungal Plant Pathogens