Pavillon de Médecine dentaire
2420 rue de la Terrasse
Université Laval
Québec
Québec, Canada
G1V 0A6
418.656.2131 poste 408502
alexander.culley.1@ulaval.ca
Amill, Flora (Doctorat - Codirection). Microbiote de l’Omble chevalier (Salvelinus alpinus) en Arctique: Identification des facteurs biotiques et abiotiques qui contrôlent les fonctions microbiennes bénéfiques aux performances énergétiques de l’Omble chevalier en Arctique .
Cadoret, Karel (Maîtrise). La diversité virale et les interactions avec les hôtes dans les trous de cryoconites sur la glace surélevée de Ward Hunt.
Langlois, Valérie (Doctorat). Diversité, saisonnalité et dispersion des virus de mares thermokarst du nord du Québec
Pitot, Thomas (Doctorat). Caractérisation et écologie du Nucleocytoviricota de l’extrême-Arctique.
Provencher, Juliette (Maîtrise). La caractérisation des gènes viraux et bactériens de résistance aux antibiotiques dans les lacs de l'extrême-Arctique.
Rapp, Josephine (Post-Doctorat). Interactions microbes-virus dans les habitats cryosphériques de la dernière zone de glace de l'Arctique.
Lapointe, Anne-Marie , 2022 (Maîtrise). Structure des communautés microbiennes dans les sédiments lacustres du Haut-Arctique .
Labbé, Myriam , 2021 (Doctorat). Diversité virale à travers des gradients de salinité nordiques en évolution .
Marois, Catherine , 2021 (Maîtrise). Caractérisation des communautés microbiennes dans les lacs de la vallée de Stuckberry située dans l'Extrême-Arctique canadien .
Langlois, V., Girard, C., Vincent, W.F., Culley, A.I., 2023. A Tale of Two Seasons: Distinct Seasonal Viral Communities in a Thermokarst Lake. Microorganisms, 11(2), 428. DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms11020428.
Domínguez-Huerta, G., Zayed, A.A., Wainaina, J.M., Guo, J., Tian, F., Adjie Pratama, A., Bolduc, B., Mohssen, M., Zablocki, O., Pelletier, E., Delage, E., Alberti, A., Aury, J.-M., Carradec, Q., da Silva, C., Labadie, K., Poulain, J., Tara Oceans Coordinators,., Bowler, C., Eveillard, D., Guidi, L., Karsenti, E., Kuhn, J.H., Ogata, H., Kubatko, L.S., Culley, A.I., Chaffron, S., Sullivan, M.B,., 2022. Diversity and ecological footprint of global ocean RNA viruses. Science, 376(6598): 1202-1208. DOI: 10.1126/science.abn6358.
Fradette, M.-S., Culley, A.I., Charette, S.J., 2022. Detection of Cryptosporidium spp. and Giardia spp. in environmental water samples: A journey into the past and new perspectives. Microorganisms, 10(6), 1175. DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms10061175 .
George, P.B.L., Rossi, F., St-Germain, M.-W., Amato, P., Badard, T., Bergeron, M.G., Boissinot, M., Charette, S.J., Coleman, B.L., Corbeil, J., Culley, A.I., Gaucher, M.-L., Girard, M., Godbout, S., Kirychuk, S., Marette, A., McGeer, A., O'shaughnessy, P., Parmley, E.J., Simard, S., Reid-Smith, R.J., Topp, E., Trudel, L., Yao, M., Brassard, P., Delort, A.-M., Larios, A.D., Létourneau, V., Paquet, V.E., Pedneau, M.-H., Pic, É., Thompson, B., Veillette, M., Thaler, M., Scapino, I., Lebeuf, M., Baghdadi, M., Castillo Toro, A., Bélanger Cayouette, A., Dubois, M.-J., Durocher, A.F., Girard, S.B., Carranza Diaz, A.K., Khalloufi, A., Leclerc, S., Lemieux, J., Pérez Maldonado, M., Pilon, G., Murphy, C.P., Notling, C.A., Ofori-Darko, D., Provencher, J., Richer-Fortin, A., Turgeon, N., Duchaine, C., 2022. Antimicrobial resistance in the environment: Towards elucidating the roles of bioaerosols in transmission and detection of antibacterial resistance genes. Antibiotics, 11(7), 974. DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics11070974.
Labbé, M., Thaler, M., Pitot, T.M., Rapp, J., Vincent, W.F., Culley, A.I., 2022. Climate-endangered arctic epishelf lake harbors viral assemblages with distinct genetic repertoires. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 88(17), e00228-22. DOI: 10.1128/aem.00228-22.
Marois, C., Girard, C., Klanten, Y., Vincent, W.F., Culley, A.I., Antoniades, D., 2022. Local habitat filtering shapes microbial community structure in four closely spaced lakes in the High Arctic. Frontiers in Microbiology, 13, 779505. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.779505.
Zayed, A.A., Wainaina, J.M., Domínguez-Huerta, G., Pelletier, E., Guo, J., Mohssen, M., Tian, F., Adjie Pratama, A., Bolduc, B., Zablocki, O., Cronin, D., Solden, L., Delage, E., Alberti, A., Aury, J.-M., Carradec, Q., da Silva, C., Labadie, K., Poulain, J., Ruscheweyh, H.-J., Salazar, G., Shatoff, E., Tara Oceans Coordinators,., Bundschuh, R., Kubatko, L.S., Chaffron, S., Culley, A.I., Sunagawa, S., Kuhn, J.H., Wincker, P., Sullivan, M.B,., 2022. Cryptic and abundant marine viruses at the evolutionary origins of Earth’s RNA virome. Science, 376(6589): 156-162. DOI: 10.1126/science.abm5847.
Bégin, P.N., Tanabe, Y., Kumagai, M., Culley, A.I., Paquette, M., Sarrazin, D., Uchida, M., Vincent, W.F., 2021. Extreme warming and regime shift toward amplified variability in a far northern lake. Limnology and Oceanography, 66(S1: Biogeochemistry and ecology across Arctic aquatic ecosystems in the face of change): S17-S29. DOI: 10.1002/lno.11546.
Bégin, P.N., Tanabe, Y., Rautio, M., Wauthy, M., Laurion, I., Uchida, M., Culley, A.I., Vincent, W.F., 2021. Water column gradients beneath the summer ice of a High Arctic freshwater lake as indicators of sensitivity to climate change. Scientific Reports, 11, 2868. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-82234-z.
Jungblut, A.D., Raymond, F., Dion, M.B., Moineau, S., Mohit, V., Nguyen, G.Q.H., Déraspe, M., Francovic‐Fontaine, E., Lovejoy, C., Culley, A.I., Corbeil, J., Vincent, W.F., 2021. Genomic diversity and CRISPR‐Cas systems in the cyanobacterium Nostoc in the High Arctic. Environmental Microbiology, 23(6 - Special Issue on Oxygen Minimum Zone Microbiology): 2955-2968. DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.15481.
Lang, A.S., Vlok, M., Culley, A.I., Suttle, C.A., Takao, Y., Tomaru, Y., ICTV Report Consortium, , 2021. ICTV virus taxonomy profile: Marnaviridae 2021. Journal of General Virology, 102(8), 001633. DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.001633.
Vigneron, A., Cruaud, P., Culley, A.I., Couture, R.-M., Lovejoy, C., Vincent, W.F., 2021. Genomic evidence for sulfur intermediates as new biogeochemical hubs in a model aquatic microbial ecosystem. Microbiome, 9, 46. DOI: 10.1186/s40168-021-00999-x.
Bégin, P.N., Rautio, M., Tanabe, Y., Uchida, M., Culley, A.I., Vincent, W.F., 2020. The littoral zone of polar lakes: inshore-offshore contrasts in an ice-covered High Arctic lake. Arctic Science, 7(1): 158-181. DOI: 10.1139/AS-2020-0026.
Cruaud, P., Vigneron, A., Fradette, M.-S., Dorea, C.C., Culley, A.I., Rodriguez, M.J., Charette, S.J., 2020. Annual bacterial community cycle in a seasonally ice‐covered river reflects environmental and climatic conditions. Limnology and Oceanography, 65(S1 - Special Issue: Linking Metagenomics to Aquatic Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemical Cycles): S21-S37. DOI: 10.1002/lno.11130.
Girard, C., Langlois, V., Vigneron, A., Vincent, W.F., Culley, A.I., 2020. Seasonal regime shift in the viral communities of a permafrost thaw lake. Viruses, 12(11), 1204. DOI: 10.3390/v12111204.
Labbé, M., Girard, C., Vincent, W.F., Culley, A.I., 2020. Extreme viral partitioning in a marine-derived High Arctic lake. mSphere, 5(3), e00334-20. DOI: 10.1128/mSphere.00334-20.
Lévesque, A., Thaler, M., Labrie, S.J., Marois, C., Vincent, A.T., Lapointe, A.-M., Culley, A.I., 2020. Complete genome sequences for two Myoviridae strains infecting cyanobacteria in a subarctic lake. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 9(10), e01339-19. DOI: 10.1128/MRA.01339-19.
Vigneron, A., Cruaud, P., Langlois, V., Lovejoy, C., Culley, A.I., Vincent, W.F., 2020. Ultra‐small and abundant: Candidate phyla radiation bacteria are potential catalysts of carbon transformation in a thermokarst lake ecosystem. Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 5(2): 212-220. DOI: 10.1002/lol2.10132.
Cruaud, P., Vigneron, A., Fradette, M.-S., Dorea, C.C., Culley, A.I., Rodriguez, M.J., Charette, S.J., 2019. Annual protist community dynamics in a freshwater ecosystem undergoing contrasted climatic conditions: The Saint-Charles River (Canada). Frontiers in Microbiology, 10, 2359. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02359.
Gregory, A.C., Zayed, A.A., Conceição-Neto, N., Temperton, B., Ardyna, M., Arkhipova, K., Carmichael, M., Cruaud, C., Dimier, C., Domínguez-Huerta, G., Ferland, J., Kandels, S., Liu, Y., Marec, C., Pesant, S., Picheral, M., Pisarev, S., Poulain, J., Tremblay, J.-É., Dean, V., Babin, M., Bowler, C., Culley, A.I., de Vargas, C., Dutilh, B.E., Iudicone, D., Karp-Boss, L., Roux, S., Sunagawa, S., Wincker, P., Sullivan, M.B., 2019. Marine DNA viral macro- and microdiversity from pole to pole. Cell, 177(5): 1109-1123. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.03.040.
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 .
Vigneron, A., Lovejoy, C., Cruaud, P., Kalenitchenko, D., Culley, A.I., Vincent, W.F., 2019. Contrasting winter versus summer microbial communities and metabolic functions in a permafrost thaw lake. Frontiers in Microbiology, 10, 1656. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.01656.
Brisebois, E., Veillette, M., Dion-Dupont, V., Lavoie, J., Corbeil, J., Culley, A.I., Duchaine, C., 2018. Human viral pathogens are pervasive in wastewater treatment center aerosols. Journal of Environmental Sciences, 67: 45-53. DOI: 10.1016/j.jes.2017.07.015.
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.
Culley, A.I., 2018. New insight into the RNA aquatic virosphere via viromics. Virus Research, 244: 84-89. DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2017.11.008.
Vigneron, A., Cruaud, P., Mohit, V., Martineau, M.-J., Culley, A.I., Lovejoy, C., Vincent, W.F., 2018. Multiple strategies for light-harvesting, photoprotection, and carbon flow in high latitude microbial mats. Frontiers in Microbiology, 9, 2881. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.02881.
Cruaud, P., Vigneron, A., Fradette, M.-S., Charette, S.J., Rodriguez, M.J., Dorea, C.C., Culley, A.I., 2017. Open the SterivexTM casing: An easy and effective way to improve DNA extraction yields. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 15(12): 1015-1020. DOI: 10.1002/lom3.10221.
Déraspe, M., Raymond, F., Boisvert, S., Culley, A.I., Roy, P.H., Laviolette, F., Corbeil, J., 2017. Phenetic comparison of prokaryotic genomes using k-mers. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 34(10): 2716-2729. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msx200.
Mohit, V., Culley, A.I., Lovejoy, C., Bouchard, F., Vincent, W.F., 2017. Hidden biofilms in a far northern lake and implications for the changing Arctic. npj Biofilms and Microbioms, 3: article no. 17. DOI: 10.1038/s41522-017-0024-3.
Vincent, A.T., Derome, N., Boyle, B., Culley, A.I., Charette, S.J., 2017. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) in the microbiological world: How to make the most of your money. Journal of Microbiological Methods, 138: 60-71. DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2016.02.016.
Miranda, J.A., Culley, A.I., Schvarcz, C.R., Steward, G.F., 2016. RNA viruses as major contributors to antarctic virioplankton. Environmental Microbiology, 18(11 - Special Issue on Pathogen and Antibiotic Resistance Ecology): 3714–3727. DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13291.
Trudel, M.V., Vincent, A.T., Attéré, S.A., Labbé, M., Derome, N., Culley, A.I., Charette, S.J., 2016. Diversity of antibiotic-resistance genes in Canadian isolates of Aeromonas salmonicida subsp. salmonicida: dominance of pSN254b and discovery of pAsa8. Scientific Reports, 6: 35617. DOI: 10.1038/srep35617.
Culley, A.I., Shakya, M., Lang, A.S., 2015. Viral evolution at the limits. Pages 209-222 dans Bakermans, C. (Éditeur). Microbial Evolution under Extreme Conditions. Life in Extreme Environments, De Gruyter.
Culley, A.I., Mueller, J.A., Belcaid, M., Wood-Charlson, E.M., Poisson, G., Steward, G.F., 2014. The characterization of RNA viruses in tropical seawater using targeted PCR and metagenomics. mBio, 5(3): e01210-14. DOI: 10.1128/mBio.01210-14.
Mueller, J.A., Culley, A.I., Steward, G.F., 2014. Variables influencing extraction of nucleic acids from microbial plankton (viruses, bacteria, and protists) collected on nanoporous aluminum oxide filters. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 80(13): 3930 –3942. DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00245-14.