Jessy Labbe

Biosciences Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Telephone : (865) 574-5887
Email : labbejj@ornl.gov
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Jessy L. Labbé

Staff Researcher

  • Ph.D., Forest Biology, Genetics & Microbiology, Nancy-University, France, 2009
  • M.S., Agronomy, Forest Ecosystems & Environment, Nancy-University, France, 2006
  • M.S., Molecular & Cellular Genetics, Nancy-University, France, 2005
  • B.S., Cellular Biology and Physiology, Nancy-University, France, 2004

Field of expertise:

System biology of plant-microbes interactions, Microbiology, Molecular genetics and genomics, Plant-fungal quantitative and population genetics, Fungal molecular ecology and Functional diversity of ectomycorrhizal fungi

Research Interests:

  • Deciphering mutualistic interactions between plants and microbes using Populus-Laccaria model
  • Genetic basis of the ectomycorrhizal symbiosis development
  • Understanding at molecular level, mycorrhiza helper mechanisms and trophic communications between bacteria and fungi in the Populus microbiome
  • Understanding impact of bacterial communities on mycorrhiza formation and function
  • Fungal diversity of the Populus microbiome
  • Genome organization and evolution of mycorrhizal fungi
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Recent Publications:

  • J Guo, JL Morrell-Falvey, JL Labbé, W Muchero, UC Kalluri, GA Tuskan, JG Chen. Populus protoplast transient expression system, in review to Plant Methods
  • J Labbé, C Murat, E Morin, GA Tuskan, F Le Tacon and F Martin. Characterization of Transposable Elements in the Laccaria bicolor Genome, (2012) PLoS ONE in press
  • GA Tuskan & S DiFazio & P Faivre-Rampant & M Gaudet & A Harfouche & V Jorge & JL Labbé & P Ranjan & M Sabatti & G Slavov & N Street & TJ Tschaplinski & T Yin. The obscure events contributing to the evolution of an incipient sex chromosome in Populus: a retrospective working hypothesis (2012) Tree Genome and Genetics: DOI 10.1007/s11295–012–0495–6
  • L Vincenot, K Nara, C Sthultz, J Labbé, MP Dubois, L Tedersoo, F Martin and MA Selosse. Extensive gene flow over Europe and possible speciation over Eurasia in the ectomycorrhizal basidiomycete Laccaria amethystina complex (2012) Molecular Ecology 21(2): 281–299
  • J Labbé, V Jorge, A Kohler, P Vion, B Marçais, C Bastien, GA Tuskan, F Martin and F Le Tacon. Identification of quantitative trait loci affecting ectomycorrhizal symbiosis in an interspecific F1 poplar cross and differential expression of genes in ectomycorrhizas of the two parents: Populus deltoides and Populus trichocarpa (2011) Tree Genetics and Genomes 7(3): 617–627
  • J Labbé, C Murat, E Morin, F Le Tacon and F Martin. Survey and analysis of simple sequence repeats in the Laccaria bicolor genome, with development of microsatellite markers (2011) Current Genetics 57(2): 75–88
  • C Murat, C Riccioni, B Belfiori, N Cichocki, J Labbé, E Morin, E Tisserant, F Paolocci, A Rubini, F Martin. Distribution and localization of microsatellites in the Perigord black truffle genome and identification of new molecular markers (2011) Fungal Genetics and Biology 48(6): 592–601
  • PE Courty*, J Labbé*, A Kohler, B Marçais, C Bastien, JL Churin, J Garbaye and F Le Tacon. Effect of poplar genotypes on mycorrhizal infection and secreted enzyme activities in mycorrhizal and non-mycorrhizal roots (2011) Journal of Experimental Botany 62 (1): 249–260 * these authors contributed equally.
  • H Niculita-Hirzel, J Labbé, A Kohler, F Le Tacon, F Martin, I Sanders and U Kües. Gene organization of the mating type regions in the ectomycorrhizal fungus Laccaria bicolor reveals distinct evolution between the two mating type loci (2008) New Phytologist 180: 329–342
  • J Labbé, X Zhang, T Yin, J Schmutz, J Grimwood, F Martin, G A Tuskan and F Le Tacon. A genetic linkage map for the ectomycorrhizal fungus Laccaria bicolor and its alignment to the whole-genome sequence assemblies (2008) New Phytologist 180: 316–328
  • F Martin, A Aerts, D Ahrén, A Brun, E G J Danchin, F Duchaussoy, J Gibon, A Kohler, E Lindquist,V Pereda, A Salamov, H J Shapiro, J Wuyts, D Blaudez, M Buée, P Brokstein, B Canback, D Cohen, P E Courty, P M Coutinho, C Delaruelle, J CDetter, A Deveau, S DiFazio, S Duplessis, L Fraissinet-Tachet, E Lucic, P Frey-Klett, CFourrey, I Feussner, G Gay, J Grimwood, P J Hoegger, P Jain, S Kilaru, J Labbé, Y C Lin, V Legué, F Le Tacon, R Marmeisse, D Melayah, B Montanini, M Muratet, U Nehls, H Niculita-Hirzel, M P Oudot-Le Secq, M Peter, H Quesneville, B Rajashekar, M Reich, N Rouhier, J Schmutz, T Yin, M Chalot, B Henrissat, U Kües, S Lucas, Y Van de Peer, G K Podila, A Polle, P J Pukkila, P M Richardson, P Rouzé, I R Sanders, J E Stajich, A Tunlid, GA Tuskan & IV Grigoriev Symbiosis Insights from the Genome of the Mycorrhizal Basidiomycete Laccaria bicolor (2008) Nature 452: 88–92

Book and book chapter

  • Yang X, Li T, Weston D, Karve AA, Labbé JL, Gunter LE, Sukumar P, Borland A, Chen J-G, Wullschleger SD, Tschaplinski TJ, Tuskan GA. Innovative biological solutions to challenges in sustainable biofuels production. In Biofuel/Book 2, InTech, ISBN 978–953–307–478–8 (2011)
  • J Labbé. Book: Structure et polymorphisme du génome de Laccaria bicolor, Editions Universitaires Européennes, ISBN 978–613–1–51892–8 (2010)

My Curriculum Vitae