People

Principal investigator

Assistant Professor, 2025-
Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, CAN

Researcher (PI), 2021-2024
Montreal Botanical Garden, CAN

Postdoc. Fellow, 2020-2021
University of British Columbia, CAN

Ph.D. Biology, 2016-2020
Université du Québec à Montréal, CAN

Geneviève Lajoie (elle/she) is the lab PI. Her main research interests revolve around microbial community ecology and the evolution of plant-microbe symbioses. She likes to integrate various approaches (e.g. genomics, functional ecology, phylogenetics) in conducting research.

Graduate students

Claudine Desroches (elle/she) studies the role of leaf microbe recruitment in plant defense strategies against biotic stresses (herbivory and pathogens).
(PhD – Start: May 2025)

Clémence Pierrard (elle/she) studies how abiotic soil conditions and the availability of root microbial symbionts (specifically mycorrhizae) are impacting northern range expansion of deciduous temperate species into the boreal forest under climate change.
(PhD – Start: Sept 2024)

Former lab members

Mobina Gholamhosseini (elle/she), M.Sc.
(Sep 2022-Aug 2025)

Laurine Dariel (elle/she), M.Sc.
(Jan 2023-Dec 2024)

Amélie Allard (elle/she), B.Sc Honors
(May 2023-May 2024)