Supervising:

Valentine Cyriaque (Postdoctoral fellow)

Étienne Grenier (Master student)

Emily Hallett (Ph.D. student)

Alizée Le Moigne (Postdoctoral fellow)

Martial Leroy (Ph.D. student)

Co-supervising:

Camilo Herrera (Master student)

Recent Theses and Dissertations

Marie-Ange Moisan (Master - 2022)
Browning of northern surface waters: Implications on the microbial quality of drinking water

Scientific Communications

Coelho, L.F., Couceiro, J.F., Keller-Costa, T., Martinez Valente, S., Pereirinha Ramalho, T., Carneiro, J., Comte, J., Blais, M.-A., Vincent, W.F., Martins, Z., Canário, J., Costa, R., 2022. Structural shifts in sea ice prokaryotic communities across a salinity gradient in the subarctic. Science of the Total Environment, 827, 154286. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154286.

Ola, A., Fortier, D., Coulombe, S., Comte, J., Domine, F., 2022. The distribution of soil carbon and nitrogen stocks among dominant geomorphological terrain units in Qarlikturvik Valley, Bylot Island, Arctic Canada. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, 127(7), e2021JG006750. DOI: 10.1029/2021JG006750.

Comte, J., 2020. The role of microbial communities in the response of aquatic ecosystems to environmental change. Centre de la Science de la Biodiversité du Québec - Série de séminaires. Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Edge, T.A., Baird, D.J., Bilodeau, G., Gagné, N., Greer, C.W., Konkin, D., Newton, G., Séguin, A., Beaudette, L., Bilkhu, S., Bush, A., Chen, W., Comte, J., Condie, J., Crevecoeur, S., El-Kayssi, N., Emilson, E.J.S., Fancy, D.-L., Kandalaft, I., Khan, I.U.H., King, I., Kreutzweiser, D., Lapen, D., Lawrence, J., Lowe, C., Lung, O., Martineau, C., Meier, M., Odgen, N., Paré, D., Phillips, L., Porter, T.M., Sachs, J., Staley, Z., Steeves, R., Venier, L., Veres, T., Watson, C., Watson, S., Macklin, J., 2020. The Ecobiomics project: Advancing metagenomics assessment of soil health and freshwater quality in Canada. Science of the Total Environment, 710, 135906. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135906.

Comte, J., 2019. Carbon and metal processing. 5th T-MOSAiC Workshop: Microbiomes/Oxygen/Biogeochemical Processes Workshop. Québec, Québec, Canada.

Comte, J., 2019. Les communautés microbiennes: Sentinelles des écosystèmes aquatiques nordique. Pinte Sentinelle Nord: Curiosités de l'Arctique. Québec, Québec, Canada.

Lévesque, A., Vincent, W.F., Comte, J., Lovejoy, C., Culley, A.I., 2019. Chlorovirus and myovirus diversity in permafrost thaw ponds. Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 82(2): 209-224. DOI: 10.3354/ame01893 .

Comte, J., Culley, A.I., Lovejoy, C., Vincent, W.F., 2018. Microbial connectivity and sorting in a High Arctic watershed. ISME Journal, 12: 2988-3000. DOI: 10.1038/s41396-018-0236-4.

Comte, J., 2017. Connectivity and environmental perturbations: Implications for the structure and functioning of aquatic ecosystems. INRS-ETE. Québec, Québec, Canada.

Comte, J., 2017. Diversity and biogeography of microbial communities in changing aquatic ecosystems. Bowling Green State University. Bowling Green, Ohio.

Comte, J., 2017. Diversity and biogeography of microbial communities in changing aquatic ecosystems. Centre Saint-Laurent, Environnement et Changement Climatique Canada. Montréal, Québec.

Comte, J., Berga, M., Severin, I., Logue, J.B., Lindström, E.S., 2017. Contribution of different bacterial dispersal sources to lakes: Population and community effects in different seasons. Environmental Microbiology, 19(6): 2391-2404. DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13749.

Comte, J., Langenheder, S., Berga, M., Lindström, E.S., 2017. Contribution of different dispersal sources to the metabolic response of lake bacterioplankton following a salinity change. Environmental Microbiology, 19(1): 251-260. DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13593.

Crevecoeur, S., Vincent, W.F., Comte, J., Matveev, A., Lovejoy, C., 2017. Diversity and potential activity of methanotrophs in high methane-emitting permafrost thaw ponds. PLoS one, 12(11): e0188223. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0188223.

Comte, J., Culley, A.I., Lovejoy, C., Vincent, W.F., 2016. Étude de l’importance relative de la dispersion pour la diversité des communautés microbiennes des écosystèmes aquatiques du Haut Arctique. Colloque du CEN 2016, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada.

Comte, J., Lovejoy, C., Crevecoeur, S., Vincent, W.F., 2016. Co-occurrence patterns in aquatic bacterial communities across changing permafrost landscapes. Biogeosciences, 13: 175-190. DOI: 10.5194/bg-13-175-2016.

Comte, J., Monier, A., Crevecoeur, S., Lovejoy, C., Vincent, W.F., 2016. Microbial biogeography of permafrost thaw ponds across the changing northern landscape. Ecography, 38(7): 609-618. DOI: 10.1111/ecog.01667.

Przytulska-Bartosiewicz, A., Comte, J., Crevecoeur, S., Lovejoy, C., Laurion, I., Vincent, W.F., 2016. Phototrophic pigment diversity and picophytoplankton in permafrost thaw lakes. Biogeosciences, 13: 13-26. DOI: 10.5194/bg-13-13-2016.

Crevecoeur, S., Vincent, W.F., Comte, J., Lovejoy, C., 2015. Bacterial community structure across environmental gradients in permafrost thaw ponds: methanotroph-rich ecosystems. Frontiers in Microbiology, 6: 192. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00192.

Monier, A., Comte, J., Babin, M., Forest, A., Matsuoka, A., Lovejoy, C., 2015. Oceanographic structure drives the assembly processes of microbial eukaryotic communities. ISME Journal, 9: 990–1002. DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2014.197.