Nicolas Feau

Nicolas is a forest pathologist and mycologist working as a Research Associate in Richard Hamelin’s lab at UBC. He completed his PhD at the Université Laval in Québec and a post-doc at the INRA of Bordeaux in France. He conducted studies in several pathosystems, from poplar rusts and cankers, to blue stain fungi and oak powdery mildews. Nicolas is working on developing bioinformatics tools and resources to compare and analyze genomes of tree pathogens. He also uses population genomics approaches to get a better understanding on the emergence and evolution of tree pathogens.  For more information, please visit his website or find him on twitter @nfeau.