Raphaël Leblois E-mail : raphael.leblois@inrae.fr
Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations (CBGP)
UMR 1062 INRA-IRD-CIRAD-SupAgro
755 avenue du campus Agropolis,
Campus International de Baillarguet CS 30016
34980 Montferrier-sur-Lez cedex, France
tél : +33 (0)4 99 62 33 31 fax : +33 (0)4 99 62 33 45
ORCHID : 0000-0002-3051-4497 idHAL : raphael-leblois
Present Position
Sept 2010 – TodayResearcher (CRCN) at the Center for Biology and Management of Populations, National Institute for Agronomical Research (CBGP - INRA), Montpellier, France
Education & Research Trainings & Past Positions
2012 – 2017
Member of the "Institut de Biologie Computationnelle" IBC a multidisciplinary project center supported by the "Investissements d'Avenir" call from the French National Research Agency (ANR), Montpellier, France
2006-2010
Assistant Professor (« Maitre de conférence »)at the National Museum of Natural History of Paris (MNHN).
2005-2006
PostDoc (6 months):« Multilocus genetic analyses and demographic inferences with applications to human populations from Central Asia» with Pr. Evelyne Heyer et Dr. Renaud Vitalis, Musée de l’Homme - MNHN, Paris, France.
2004-2005
PostDoc, Lavoisier grant (1 year):« Bottleneck detection and inference of the number of founding individuals from SNPs markers », with Pr. Montgomery Slatkin, University of California, Berkeley, United-States.
2000-2004
PhD in Integrative Biology (3 ½ years): « Inference of dispersal parameters from genetic data in subdivided populations » under the supervision of Dr. François Rousset and Dr. Arnaud Estoup. Montpellier Supagro – University of Montpellier II, France.
1999-2000
MSc in Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, 6 months project: « Simulation study of the influence of mutational and demographic factors on the inference of demographic parameters from individual microsatellite genotypes » under the supervision of Dr. François Rousset et Dr. Arnaud Estoup. Montpellier Supagro – University of Montpellier II.
FRENCH: Mother language
English: Read, written and spoken.
Regular referee for: Cladistic, Conservation Biology, Ecography, Ecology Letters, eLife, Evolutionnary Applications, Evolutionary Ecology Research, Forest Ecology and Management, Genetics, Heredity, Human Biology, Mitochondrial DNA, Molecular Ecology, and Molecular Ecology Resources, New Phytologist, Plant Ecology, PLosOne, Proceedings of the Royal Society London. Member of the Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology.
My strategy is to review with application between 3 and 5 publications per year, which roughly corresponds to my scientific production. In the current scientific context, with a strong increase of publication number, I prefer to do it that way and put quality ahead of quantity!
Expertise in theoretical and applied population genetics, conservation genetics, inference of dispersal, modelling in population genetics, coalescent theory.
· 2020-2024: ANR, with P.-A. Crochet et al., “INTROSPEC: Genomic consequences and evolutionary causes of introgression in the late stages of speciation”. 517 k€
· 2020-2022: LabEx CeMEB, with M.-P. Chapuis, “proLag: Proof of concept in Landscape genomics: from NGS data production to demographic inferences”. 20 k€
· 2018-2021: LabEx CeMEB, with C. Brouat & C. Smadja, “SPEED: DoeS PErsonality Explain spatial spreaD of invasive wild mice in Senegal? Behavioral ecology and population genomics approaches”. 26 k€
· 2017-2020: LabEx CeMEB, with g. Ganem & C. Brouat, “D‐RANGE: Environmental and evolutionary Drivers of species distributions and RANGE limits”. 26 k€
· 2017-2021: ANR, with S. Guindon, “GenoSpace: Improved statistical approaches for the analysis of biodiversity using genetic and spatial data”. 140 k€
· 2014: Young researcher project, funding from the IBC (Institute of Computational Biology, see below), with P. Pudlo, “Using haplotype lengths and linkage disequilibrium to infer the demographic history of populations from genomic data.”. 10 k€
· 2013: First Funding for exploratory projects (PROJET EXPLORATOIRE PREMIER SOUTIEN: PEPS), University of Montpellier, with P. Pudlo, “Understanding emerging diseases and epidemics: models, evolution, history and society”, 10 k€
· 2012-2017: participant to the PIA “IBC” with O. Gascuel (Projet Investissement d’Avenir “Institut de Biologie Computationelle”). Around 2-5 k€ per year for Master students, publication fees and Missions.
· 2010-2014: ANR, with S. Planes et al., “IM-MODEL@CORALFISH: An isolation-migration model of the history of coral reef fish communities: theory and data”. 500 k€
· 2010-2014: ANR, with C. Denys et al., “MOHMIE: Modern Human installation in Morocco Influence on the small terrestrial vertebrate biodiversity and its Evolution”. 809 k€
· 2009-2013: ANR, with J. -M. Cornuet et al., “EMILE: Inference methods and software’s for Evolution”. 372 k€
· 2008-2011: CNRS Amazonia, with H. Fréville and C. Scotti-Saintagne, “CLIPS: Past climate change and ecological specialization in tropical species: input from population genetic approaches”. 100 k€
· 2008-2010: ANR, with P. Grandcolas et al., “BioNeoCal: Endemism in New Caledonia: phylogenetic and population study of its emergence”.940 k€
· 2007: MNHN - Bonus Qualité Recherche, R. Leblois : « Computer station for the development of inference methods from genetic data ». 4k€
· 2007-2009: MNHN - Bonus Qualité Recherche, with E. Porcher et al. : « Using DNA Barcode data to measure phylogenetic biodiversity in plant communities ». 32k€
2006-Today: between 30 and 50h per year of population genetic teaching in various modules for 1st and 2d year Master students: population genetic data analysis, inference of demographic parameters, coalescent theory and DNA Barcoding.
2013-Today: co-organisation, with F. Rousset, of one week course for Master students in Biostatistics: “Population genetic models” (Master Biostatistique, University Montpellier).
2010-2018: co-organisation, with R. Vitalis, of one week course for Masters (2d year) and PhD students: “Data analyses in population genetics” (Master B2E - Parcours Darwin, University Montpellier).
2010-Today: co-organisation, with R. Vitalis, of one week course for Masters (1st year): “Data analyses in population genetics” (European Master MEME, University Montpellier).
Participation to the MEME cohort selection with Y. Michalakis, R. Vitalis & O. Katz.
2006-2010: co-organisation, with R. Vitalis and E. Heyer, of one week course for Master students (Ecole Doctorale ParisVI-ParisVII-MNHN): “Molecular population genetics and coalescent theory”
2013-Today: Member of the scientific and organizing comity of MCEB congresses (Mathematical and Computational Evolutionary Biology).
2014-2019: Member of the user scientific comity of Migale (INRAe national computing and bio-informatic platform).
2014-2015: Member of the GAS "Groupe d'Animation Scientifique" of the CBGP.
2014-2016 and 2018-2020: Member of the "conseil d'unité CU" of the CBGP.
2011-2015: Scientific manager of the CBGP computer cluster (132 nodes, CBGP technical platform).
2008-2010: Internal seminar organisations at the “Origine, Structure and Evolution of biodiversity” lab (OSEB, MNHN, UMR 7205).
2008-2010: Scientific manager of the Museum computer cluster (76 nodes, MNHN, UMS 2700).
2007-2010: Member of the "conseil d'unité CU" of the “Origine, Structure and Evolution of biodiversity” lab (OSEB, MNHN, UMR 7205).