Morgane Monteil

Morgane Monteil

DC-Doctoring

NEMO

Biodiversity, Ecosystems, Global Change

Interested in functional marine ecology, I started a PhD on October 2024 in which I am studying long-term effects of climate change on marine biodiversity, especially sponges.

My research focuses on 4 sponge' species (Spongia officinalisOscarella tuberculata, Aplysina cavernicola and Paraleucilla magna) in NW Mediterranean sea and involves embryology, histology and cytology approaches.

My thesis is splitted into three axes:

  1. Long-term changes of marine warming on phenology and reproduction of sponges: by describing and comparing over 20 years the sexual reproductive cycles and the reproductive effort
  2. Evolutive trend of sponge's population in the face of thermal stress: by studying reproductive success of these sponges and the invasive feature of Paraleucilla magna
  3. Consequences of an extreme event on sponge populations: by studying population monitoring of Spongia officinalis and its resiliency capability after several marine heat wavesas the one in summer 2022.
  • 2024-2027 - PhD student in Marine Ecology and Embryology - Mediterranean Institute of Marine Biology and Ecology (IMBE, CNRS UMR 7263)
  • 2023 - Master degree in Evolutionary and Functional Ecology - National Museum of Natural History (MNHN, Paris, France)
  • 2021 - Bachelor degree in Life Sciences specially Biology - Bordeaux University (Bordeaux, France)
  • 2017 - Scientific baccalaureate - Gustave Eiffel high-school (Bordeaux, France)
  • Marine ecology
  • Mediterranean sponges
  • Embryology
  • Reproduction & Phenology

Currently, I am working on my PhD entitled " Impact of thermal variation of Mediterranean sea on sponge's reproduction and phenology"supervised by Thierry Pérez and Alexander Ereskovsky.

This PhD is part of MARRIO programme (MARseille to RIO: MARine biodiversity under global change scenaRIOs), coordinated by Thierry Pérez and Michelle Klautau.