Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
Function
Scientific staff member
Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
8903 Birmensdorf
Site
WSL Birmensdorf Bi MG C 39
I am passionate about evolutionary biology and how organisms interact with their environment. I have a keen interest in studying local adaptation of populations in forest and alpine ecosystems. How and why the tree of life maintained complex mating systems is also a facet of biology that fascinates me. Using genomic tools and high-resolution environmental descriptors, I dedicate my research activities to improve our understanding of (co-)adaptation processes in plant-fungi symbiotic partners.
Ongoing projects
GitLab page
https://gitlabext.wsl.ch/dauphin/
Scientific Positions
Since 01.2021 | Scientific Staff Member, Ecological Genetics, WSL |
10.2018–12.2020 | Post-Doctoral Researcher, Ecological Genetics, WSL |
01.2018–09.2018 | Post-Doctoral Researcher, Ecological Genetics, WSL |
12.2014–11.2017 | Ph.D. Assistant, Evolutionary Genetics, University of Neuchâtel (CH) |
05.2014–11.2014 | Scientific Collaborator, Forest and Landscape Service, Canton of Valais (CH) |
02.2013–07.2013 | Internship at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (CH) |
Education
12.2014–11.2017 | Ph.D. in Evolutionary Biology, University of Neuchâtel (CH) |
11.2015–05.2016 | Visiting Ph.D. Student, Carl Rothfels’ lab, University of California (US) |
01.2013–01.2014 | Certificate of Advanced Studies in Geomatics, University of Geneva (CH) |
09.2011–12.2012 | Master of Science in Plant Ecology and Physiology, University of Neuchâtel (CH) |
08.2010–06.2011 | Visiting BSc. Student, University of Montréal (CA) |
09.2008–05.2011 | Bachelor of General Biology and Earth Sciences, University of Cergy-Pontoise (FR) |
Funding
Amount (CHF) | Funding Agency | Project Title |
17’100 | Swiss National Science Foundation – WSL Biodiversity Center | EctoMycoAdapt Symposium |
377’826 | Swiss National Science Foundation (PI) | PhytOakmeter |
180’000 | SwissForestLab – LabEx ARBRE (PI) | MAGIC |
63'176 | WSL internal project (co-PI) | GenDiB |
10’000 | Overhead Fund from the University of Neuchâtel (co-PI) | Fern transcriptome project |
16’000 | Ph.D. Grant Mobility from the SNSF (PI) | Allopolyploidy |
5’000 | Fund of Donations of the University of Neuchâtel (PI) | Fern phylogenetics |
1’800 | Fund Marguerite Wüthrich and A. Matthey-Dupraz (PI) | Botanical trip in Sweden |
4’500 | Fund Dr. Joachim of Giacomi (PI) | Fern systematics |
Selected ISI Publications
Dauphin, B., & Peter, M. (2023). Advancing ectomycorrhizal fungal adaptation research with landscape genomics. Trends in Microbiology, 31(5), 439–443. doi: 10.1016/j.tim.2023.02.002
Dauphin, B., Rellstab, C., Wüest, R., Karger, D., Holderegger, R., Gugerli, F., & Manel, S. (2023). Re-thinking the environment in landscape genomics. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 38(3), 261–274. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2022.10.010
Dauphin, B., de Freitas Pereira, M., Kohler, A., Grigoriev, I., Barry, K., Na, H., Amirebrahimi, M., Lipzen, A., Martin, F., Peter, M., & Croll, D. (2021) Cryptic genetic structure and copy‐number variation in the ubiquitous forest symbiotic fungus Cenococcum geophilum. Environmental Microbiology, 23(11), 6536–6556. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.15752
Rellstab, C., Dauphin, B., & Exposito-Alonso, M. (2021). Prospects and limitations of genomic offset in conservation management. Evolutionary Applications, 14(5), 1202–1212. doi: 10.1111/eva.13205
Dauphin, B., Rellstab, C., Schmid, M., Zoller, S., Karger, D., Brodbeck, S., Guillaume, F., & Gugerli, F. (2021). Genomic vulnerability to rapid climate warming in a tree species with a long generation time. Global Change Biology, 27(6), 1181–1195. doi: 10.1111/gcb.15469
Dauphin, B., Wüest, R., Brodbeck, S., Zoller, S., Gugerli, F., & Rellstab, C. (2020). Disentangling the effects of geographic peripherality and habitat suitability on neutral and adaptive genetic variation in Swiss stone pine. Molecular Ecology, 29(11), 1972–1989. doi: 10.1111/mec.15467.
Selected Outreach Publications
Gugerli, F., Brodbeck, S., Bebi, P., Bollmann, K., Dauphin, B., ..., & Zweifel, R. (2022). Die Arve – Portrait eines Gebirgswaldbaums. Merkblatt für die Praxis, WSL. 16 p. doi:10.55419/wsl:31959
Dauphin, B., & Gugerli, F. (2021). Fiche des caractéristiques générales de l’arolle. Ministère de l'Agriculture Français, Paris. 5 p. https://agriculture.gouv.fr/
