Basile Pajot
About me
Hi, I am Basile Pajot, a second-year PhD student at the
Station Biologique de
Roscoff in the
DiSEEM
team.
In 2024, I obtained a double degree in agricultural engineering from the Institut Agro Montpellier and a
master's degree in Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution from the University of Montpellier (master DARWIN).
In 2024, I did my master's thesis in the DiSEEM team working on speciation genomics and local
adpatation. I am currently a second-year PhD student in the same team, working on speciation genomics and the
evolution of sexual isolation on the complex of marine isopods Jaera albifrons.
The questions that interest me are the following:
- How do barriers to reproduction appear and become associatied to form reproductively isolated species?
- How does reproductive isolation evolve between closely-related species?
- How do phenotypic traits involved in barriers to reproduction evolve?
- What role do structural variants play in the speciation process?
- How is the speciation process translated at the genomic level?
Second-Year PhD Student
- Phone: +33 7 85 60 66 29
- City: Roscoff, Britanny, France
- Permanent e-mail: baspajot@gmail.com
- Age: 25
- Degree: Master
- Institutional e-mail: basile.pajot@sb-roscoff.fr
Projects .
Publications
Conferences attended
Skills
Skills aquired during my education and projects in which I participated.
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R 90%
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Bash 90%
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Python 80%
Resume
Second-year PhD student working on the evolution of sexual isolation in the complex of marine isopods Jaera albifrons. I am particularly interested in genomic data analysis, methodological developments and bioinformatic protocol automation to look more in detail into the speciation processes, the genomic bases of barriers to reproduction and the evolution of these barriers. I am looking to continue in research with a post-doc on the evolution of barriers to reproduction on marine organisms.
Contact detail
Basile Pajot
- Place Georges Teissier, 29680 Roscoff
- Yves Delage Building, Office 201-2
- Institutional e-mail: basile.pajot@sb-roscoff.fr
Education
Agronomy Engineering School
2020 - 2024
L'Institut Agro Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- September 2023 - June 2024: Double diploma in ecology, evolution and population genetics at the University of Montpellier.
- February 2022 - April 2022: Specialisation in genetics and plant-environment interactions.
- September 2021 - January 2022: Specialisation towards research with a research project on interactions between rice, a nematode and a bacteria in suppressive soils.
- September 2020 - June 2021: First year of general classes of agronomy engineering.
Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Siences of the Earth Prep School
September 2017 - July 2020
Lycée Montaigne, Bordeaux, France
Prep school for an admission into an engineering school. General teachings in Math, Biology, Geology, Physics and Chemistry.
Professional Experience
PhD on speciation genomics and behavioural analyses
October 2024 - Today
Station Biologique de Roscoff, Sorbonne University, Roscoff, France
Three year PhD working on the evolution of sexual isolation in the complex of marine isopods Jaera albifrons. See project detail.
Speciation genomics internship
July 2024 - September 2024
Centro de investigação em biodiversidade e recusos genéticos, University of Porto, Vairão, Portugal
Update of an existing pipeline into snakemake.
Bioinformatics/Speciation genomics master's thesis
January 2024 - July 2024
Station Biologique de Roscoff, Sorbonne University, Roscoff, France
Comparative genomic analysis of 300 Littorina fabalis individuals across two wave-exposure gradients in Sweden and France. See project detail.
Internship Year Abroad
September 2022 - June 2023
Tjärnö Marine Laboratory, Gothenburg University, Tjärnö, Sweden
Experimental setup and carrying out the experiment to study the impact of climate change on the physiology of flat oysters (Ostrea edulis)
EvolutionsGenetiks, Max Planck Institute, Plön, Germany
Construction of a database of protein sequences and 3D structures to identify largely-spread substitutions.
Projects
Publications & Preprints
- Pajot B., Broquet T., Choo L. Q., Barry P., Faria R., Butlin K. R., Johannesson K., Le Moan A. (in prep). Inversions support both parallel and location-specific adaptations in snail ecotypes.
- Reeve J., Ghane A., Barry P., Balmori de la Puente A., Butlin K. R., Choo L. Q., Le Moan A., Garcia Castillo D., Peris Tamayo A.-M., Kingston S., Leder E., Stankowski S., Pajot B., 2024. A Standard Pipeline for Processing Short-Read sequencing data from Littorina snails V.3. protocols.io. https://doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.dm6gp3m21vzp/v3
- Dutheil J., Hamidi D., Pajot B. (2024). The Site/Group Extended Data Format and Tools. Genome Biology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evae011