Emmanuelle Renard

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PhD, accreditation to manage researches (French highest universitary diploma)
senior associate professor at Aix-Marseille University

Mediterranean Institute for Biodiversity and ecology
Endoume Marine Station

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Biosketch

Emmanuelle Renard is Senior Associate Professor at the University Aix-Marseille, France. She began her scientific carrier in ML Cariou’s lab (CNRS Gif sur Yvette, France) in 1996, where she specialized in molecular evolution, focusing on the evolution of multigenic families. She obtained her PhD from the University of Tours (France) in February 2000. She was then recruited for two years as assistant lecturer at the University Paris-Sud Orsay, where she teached animal biology and worked in P. Forterre’s team. She obtained an assistant professor position at the University of Aix-Marseille (end 2001). Since then she teaches animal biology, evolutionary biology and developmental biology at different levels. She has positive experience in management: head of a molecular facility lab with3 technicians, head of 4 teaching units, coordination of a PICS project grouping 3 French and 1 Australian labs, co-supervision of >20 undergraduate internships and of 4 PhD students. Her commitment in her research projects was recognized by her university in 2007 (scientific excellence reward) and she won a two-year sabbatical grant from the CNRS which she took in A. le Bivic’s team (IBDM, France, fall 2017- fall 2019) to focus on sponge epithelia. She obtained the highest French universitary diploma (HDR, accreditation to manage researches) from the University of Aix-Marseille (2019). Mainly interested in animal evolution, she develops projects aiming at understanding animal body plan evolution by a comparative study of gene content and gene functions in sponges (evo-devo research field). She co-authored 20 publications in ACLI journals (1441 citations hI 16), 3 online encyclopedia chapters, 3 online protocoles, 3 book chapters (+ 2 in press) and 44 communications in international conferences.

Research thematics

Domain : Molecular Evolution; Evo-Devo; Eco-Evo-Devo


2021- 2025
EvolAJ ANR PROJECT (membre/member)

2020- 2022
JUNE INTERNATIONAL PROJECT: A*MiDEX fundation (membre/member)

2018-2020
STRAS INTERNATIONAL PROJECT: CNRS (porteur/leader)

2020-2021
LiTox : IMBE internal call (co-porteur/co-leader)

2019-2020
POMIERMULTIDISCIPLINAR PROJECT: Labex DRIIHM (co-porteur/co-leader)

2019
IPOMEEMULTIDISCIPLINAR PROJECT: Eccorev (co-porteur/co-leader)

2014-2016
SPONGEXINNOVATION PROJECT: A*Midex fundation (membre/member)

My main research domain is evo-devo.
We are studying sponges, as the most-basal animal lineage, to explore metazoan evolution.
Our current interests mainly focus on:
 origin and evolution of Epithelia; the involvment of wnt signaling in epithelium morphogenesis
 molecular mechanisms involved in cell dissociation-reaggregation and regeneration
 impact of some contaminants on epithelium integrity

[fr] Activités d’enseignement [en] Teaching activities

Main teaching in Biology, diversity and evolution of organisms

undergraduates: organism biology and evolution (1st, 2nd, 3rd year)
graduates: eco-evo-devo

Communications at international events

Année/year Evènement/event Rang/nb auteurs / rank/nb authors

2020 MISTRALS 9*/9
2019 European Developmental Biology Congress 5*/6
2018 22nd Evolutionary Biology meeting 1°/5
2018 22nd Evolutionary Biology meeting 16*/16
2017 International workshop ITMO Cell biology, development and evolution “origins of Metazoans” 1°/5
2017 Sponge World Conference 3°/4
2017 International workshop ITMO Cell biology, development and evolution “origins of Metazoans” 7*/8
2017 International workshop ITMO Cell biology, development and evolution “origins of Metazoans” 5*/5
2017 Evolutionary Biology Meeting 6*/7
2017 Sponge World Conference 6*/7
2016 Congrès international de la Société Française d’Ecologie 1°/3
2016 6th annual meeting of the EFOR network 1°/1
2016 6th annual meeting of the EFOR network. 6*/7
2016 Integrative and comparative biology 5*/6 (avec acte)
2016 Shaping Life - SFBD Meeting 1*/5
2015 International Workshop Spongex ‘The origin of metazoans’ 5*/7
2015 Spongex International workshop. “The origin of metazoans”. 5*/5
2015 Spongex International workshop. “The origin of metazoans”. 5*/6
2014 Euro Evo Devo Meeting 5*/5
2014 Euro Evo Devo Meeting 3*/5
2014 18 th Evolutionary Biology Meeting 3*/5
2014 18 th Evolutionary Biology Meeting 5*/5
2014 Joint meeting SFBD/EFOR 5*/5
2014 14th Swiss conference on organismal biology 5*/5
2013 17th Evolutionary Biology Meeting 3*/4
2013 17th Evolutionary Biology Meeting 5*/5
2013 17th Evolutionary Biology Meeting 3*/4
2012 IV meeting of the European society for Evolutionary Developmental biology (EED) 3*/4
2011 2nd international congress on Invertebrate Morphology 2*/4
2011 International conference “Deep Metazoan Phylogeny 4/7
2011 International conference “Deep Metazoan Phylogeny 5*/6
2010 III meeting of the European society for Evolutionary Developmental biology (EED) 3/5
2010 III meeting of the European society for Evolutionary Developmental biology (EED) 9*/9
2010 VIII world sponge conference 6/7
2010 VIII world sponge conference 6/8
2010 VIII world sponge conference 5*/5
2010 VIII world sponge conference 3/10
2010 VIII world sponge conference 4/6
2010 The EMBO Meeting 2*/4
2008 XX International Congress of Zoology 1°/6
2008 ICREA conference on the Origin and Early Evolution of Metazoans 5*/5
2007 Evo-devo meets Marine Genomics 3/7
2007 Wint signalling in development and disease 4/6
2006 10th Evolutionary Biology Meeting 4/7
2006 10th Evolutionary Biology Meeting 4/7

NB: Les communications sur les travaux de thèse ne sont pas indiqués/ communications on PhD work not written
NB : les communications locales ou nationales ne sont pas mentionnées/
communications at local or national events not written

scientific, administrative and teaching responsabilities

  • Scientific manager of the molecular biology staff
  • Supervisor of 4 PhD
  • Member of 3 PhD committees
  • Leader of 3 scientific projects
  • Manager of 15 teaching units since my recruitment
  • Member of the lab committee
  • member of the institute committee