Curriculum vitae - Systematic Botany and Mycology

Curriculum vitae
Name: Sidonie Bellot
Date of birth and nationality: 1987-02-17, French
Address: LMU Department für Biologie, Systematische Botanik und Mykologie, Menzinger Straße
67, 80638 München
E-mail: sido.bellot@neuf.fr
EDUCATION
2005 Baccalauréat, specializing in Biology, Lycée Majorelle - Toul (France)
2005-2008 Bachelor of Life Sciences, specializing in cellular biology and ecology,
ethology and botany, University Nancy 1 (France)
2008-2009 First year of Master’s degree: “Integrative Plant Biology: Genes, Plant,
Agrosystem”, University of Rennes 1 (France)
2009-2010 Second year of Master’s degree: “Biodiversity, Ecology, Evolution”,
University of Montpellier 2 (France)
RESEARCH EXPERIENCES: INTERNSHIPS
August 2007
April 2008
August 2008
April-June 2009
Voluntary training
Topic: Installation of a “Biologic Integral Reserve” in the forest of Parroy (54,
France)
Methods, tasks: Plant species inventories and dendrometric measurements
Organisation: National Office of Forestry (ONF Meurthe-et-Moselle) –
Nancy, France
Voluntary training
Topic: Relationship between stomatal density and water-use efficiency
Methods, tasks: Stomates counting from photos of leaves of different
European trees
Organisation: “Forest Ecology and Ecophysiology” (Research unit depending
on the National Institute of Agronomic Research – INRA –and the University
of Nancy 1) – Nancy, France
Voluntary research training
Topic: Physiological responses of Eucalyptus globulus, E. cladocalyx and
Acacia mangium to drought. Relationship between physiological state and
carbon isotopic composition of phloem sap. Variations of carbon allocation
between saccharose and cyclic hexitols pools.
Methods, tasks: 13 C marking, gas fluxes measurements, collecting of phloem
and xylem saps. Organisation: “Forest Ecology and Ecophysiology” (Research
unit depending on the National Institute of Agronomic Research – INRA –and
the university of Nancy 1) – Nancy, France
First year of Master’s degree’s research training
Topic: Phylogeny of the genus Ulex (Fabaceae) inferred from chloroplast
DNA polymorphism. Origin of the chloroplast genome of the allohexaploïd
invasive European gorse (U. europaeus europaeus).

January -June 2010
December 2010 –
Methods, tasks: PCR, sequences alignments, phylogeny (maximum of
parsimony)
Tutor: Abdelkader Aïnouche, “ECOBIO”, research unit belonging to the
“Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique – CNRS – and the university
of Rennes.
Second year of Master’s degree’s research training
Topic: Reconstruction from mass sequencing data (454 GS-FLX) of the
complete chloroplast genome of the hexaploïd Spartina maritima
(Chloridoideae, Poaceae). Study of chloroplast genome evolution in Poaceae.
Use of chloroplast markers to date speciation events inside the Spartina clade.
Methods, tasks: Local and global alignments, PCR, phylogeny by maximum
of parcimony and maximum likelihood, dating by bayesian inference
Tutor: Malika Aïnouche, also at ECOBIO.
Ph.D. student in Systematic botany at the LMU Munich
Topic : “Using next-generation-sequencing to study the organellar genomes of
holoparasitic Pilostyles (Apodanthaceae) and to investigate horizontal gene
exchange with its legume hosts”
Advisor : Prof. S. S. Renner
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
Bellot, S.: Evolution of chloroplast genome in Spartina (Poaceae). Cytology and Polyploïdy meeting –
INRA, Versailles, France, 18 May 2010