Charlotte TOLLENAERE
Metapopulation Research Group
Department of Biosciences
PO Box 65 (Viikinkaari 1)
FI-00014 University of Helsinki
FINLAND
Mail: charlotte.tollenaere@helsinki.fi
Web : http://sites.google.com/site/charlottetollenaere/
Age : 29
Date of birth : 19th August, 1982
Place of birth : Toulouse, France
Citizenship : French
PhD in Evolutionary Biology
Education
From 2011: Post-doc at the University of Helsinki with Anna-Liisa Laine
2009-10: One-year fellowship for teaching and research at the University of
Montpellier 2.
2006-09 : PhD Evolutionary Biology. Université Montpellier 2. Supervisor : Jean-Marc
Duplantier and Carine Brouat. Genetics and evolution of the black rat (Rattus rattus),
reservoir of plague in Madagascar
2005-06 : Master 2 (five year university diploma) Evolutionary Biology and Ecology.
Université Montpellier 2. With honors.
2004-05: Agregation preparation (competitive exam to become high school teacher).
Université Montpellier 2. Passed.
2003-04: Master 1 (four year university diploma) Population and Ecosystems Biology.
Université Paris XI, realised in Valencia (Spain) University (European student exchange
program). With honors.
2002-03: Licence (three years university diploma) Biology. Université Paris XI. With
honors.
2000-02: Two year preparation for national competitive national exam. Lycée du Parc
(Lyon). Entered ENS Cachan in September 2002.
Previous research experience
Parasite-mediated balancing selection on the Major Histocompatibility Complex
(MHC): detection and mechanisms in a vole cyclic species. January-June 2006. Centre de
Biologie et de Gestion des Populations (Montferrier sur Lez, France). Supervisors : Nathalie
Charbonnel and Josef Bryja.
Population genetics of a tropical myrmecophyte plant, Leonardoxa africana. JulyAugust 2004. Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (Montpellier, France). Supervisor :
Doyle McKey.
Chemical ecology in a pollination mutualism. July-August 2003. Laboratoire
d’Ecologie Alpine (Grenoble, France). Supervisors : Laurence Desprès and Christiane Gallet.
Publications
C. Tollenaere, S. Jacquet, S. Ivanova, A. Loiseau, J.-M. Duplantier, C. Brouat (in prep)
Towards the identification of immune genes associated with plague resistance in Rattus
rattus in Madagascar.
C. Tollenaere, S. Ivanova, J.-M. Duplantier, A. Loiseau, L. Rahalison, S. Rahelinirina, C.
Brouat (in review for PLoS One) Neutral and Mhc-linked microsatellite genetic structure
reveal contrasted patterns of selection in natural populations of the Malagasy plague
reservoir.
C. Tollenaere, L. Rahalison, J.-M. Duplantier, C. Brouat (2011). AFLP genome scan in the
black rat (Rattus rattus) from Madagascar: detecting genetic markers undergoing plaguemediated selection. Molecular Ecology 20: 1026-1038 IF = 5.325
C. Tollenaere, L. Rahalison, M. Ranjalahy, J.-M. Duplantier, S. Rahelinirina, S. Telfer, C.
Brouat (2010). Susceptibility to Yersinia pestis infection in wild Rattus rattus, reservoir of
plague in Madagascar. EcoHealth 7: 242-247. IF = 2.089
N. Charbonnel, J. Bryja, M. Galan, J. Deter, C. Tollenaere, Y. Chaval, S. Morand, J.-F.
Cosson (2010). A negative relationship between cellular immune response and Mhc class II
heterozygosity potentially driven by ‘good genes’ mate choice in the montane water vole.
Evolutionary Applications. 3: 279-290. IF = 4.744
C. Tollenaere, C. Brouat, J.-M. Duplantier, L. Rahalison, S. Rahelinirina, M. Pascal, H.
Leirs, H. Moné, G. Mouahid, J.-F. Cosson. (2010). Phylogeography of the introduced species
Rattus rattus in the western Indian Ocean, with special emphasis on the colonization history
of Madagascar. Journal of Biogeography. 37: 398-410. IF = 4.566
C.Tollenaere, L. Rahalison, M. Ranjalahy, S. Rahelinirina, J.-M. Duplantier, C. Brouat
(2008). CCR5 polymorphism and plague resistance in natural populations of the black rat in
Madagascar. Infection, Genetics and Evolution. 8: 891-897. IF = 2.792
C. Tollenaere, J. Bryja, M. Galan, J. Deter, Y. Chaval, K. Berthier, A. Ribas Salvador, J.-F.
Cosson, N. Charbonnel (2008). Multiple parasites mediate balancing selection at two MHC
class II genes in the fossorial water vole: insights from multivariate analyses and population
genetics. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 21: 1307-1320. IF = 3.920
Oral presentations
ESEB (European Society for Evolutionary Biology), 2009, Turin (Italy). Detecting genetic
markers associated with plague resistance in natural populations of Rattus rattus though
AFLP genome scan.
MEEGID (Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics of Infectious Diseases),
2008, Irvine (California). Limited evidence for association between CCR5 polymorphism and
plague resistance in Rattus rattus from Madagascar.
Poster presentations
Conférence Jacques Monod, 2011, Roscoff (France). New and Emerging Fungal Diseases
of Animals and Plants: evolutionary aspects in the context of global changes
ESEB (European Society for Evolutionary Biology), 2011, Tuebingen (Germany). Sexual
reproduction of the powdery mildew Podosphaera plantaginis. Consequences for evolution
and epidemiology
Teaching experience
Teacher assistant, Université Montpellier 2, 2009-2010 (192h/year).
Graduate teacher assistant, Université Montpellier 2, 2006-2009 (64h/year).
Undergraduate supervising
Three Master 1 degree students in 2008, 2009 and 2010.
One student from Ecological Training Program in 2011.
Referee activities
For Biological Invasions, Infection, Genetics and Evolution, International Journal of
Immunogenetics, Journal of Biogeography, Molecular Ecology and Wildlife Research