Victoria Louis

Victoria did an interdisciplinary PhD between the EcoEvoDevo team (supervised by Laurence Besseau) and the LECOB (supervised by Franck Lartaud) in 2019-2022.

The general aim of her thesis was to determine whether the environment has a direct effect on the shell biomineralisation process or whether a biological clock allows the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis to anticipate environmental variations and regulate shell growth.

After her PhD with us, Victoria became a postdoctoral fellow in the Emery lab at UMass Chan Medical School (Worcester, MA), where she started to work on the interaction between the circadian and circatidal clocks in the marine amphipod Parhyale hawaiensis.