Antoine Simon
About me
Antoine successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled 'The multi-organismal nature of lobarioid lichens: phylogenetic and transcriptomic studies on photomorphs' in October 2020. He then pursued with a BAEF post-doctoral fellow at UConn in Bernard Goffinet's lab (2021-2022), then got awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship to work with Prof. Einar Timdal (Natural History Museum, University of Oslo) on genomic approaches applied to historical herbarium specimens (2022-2024).
Publications
High species richness in the lichen genus Peltigera (Ascomycota, Lecanoromycetes): 34 species in the dolichorhizoid and scabrosoid clades of sect. Polydactylon, including 24 new to science.
2023. Magain, N.; Miadlikowska, J.; Goffinet, B.; Goward, T.; Pardo-De la Hoz, C.J.; Jüriado, I.; Simon, A.; Mercado-Díaz, J.A.; Barlow, T.; Moncada, B.; Lücking, R.; Spielmann, A.; Canez, L.; Wang, L.S.; Nelson, P.; Wheeler, T.; Lutzoni, F.; Sérusiaux, E. PersooniaORBI Journal Website
Global phylogeny and taxonomic reassessment of the lichen genus Dendriscosticta (Ascomycota: Peltigerales)
2021. Simon A., Goffinet B., Wang L.-S., Spribille T., Goward T., Pystina T., Semenova N.,Stepanov N.V., Moncada B., Lücking R., Magain N., Sérusiaux E. TaxonJournal Website
Peltigera serusiauxii (Lecanoromycetes, Ascomycota), a new species from Papua New Guinea and Malaysia.
2020. Magain, N., Goffinet, B., Simon, A., Seelan Sathiya Seelan, J., Medeiros, I.D., Lutzoni, F. and Miadlikowska, J. Plant and Fungal Systematics 65(1)ORBI Journal Website
The fruticose genera in the Ramalinaceae (Ascomycota, Lecanoromycetes): their diversity and evolutionary history
2020. Spjut R., Simon A., Guissard M., Magain N. & Sérusiaux E. Mycokeys 73: 1-68ORBI Journal Website
Cophylogenetic patterns in algal symbionts correlate with repeated symbiont switches during diversification and geographic expansion of lichen-forming fungi in the genus Sticta (Ascomycota: Peltigeraceae)
2020. Lindgren, H., Moncada, B., Lücking, R., Magain, N., Simon, A., Goffinet, B., Sérusiaux, E., Nelsen, M.P., Mercado-Díaz, J.A., Widhelm, T.J. and Lumbsch, H.T. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 150 (2020): 106860.ORBI Journal Website
High diversity, high insular endemism and recent origin in the lichen genus Sticta (lichenized Ascomycota, Peltigerales) in Madagascar and the Mascarenes.
2018. Simon, A., Magain, N., Goffinet, B. & Sérusiaux, E. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 122, 15-28.ORBI Journal Website