Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

MSc Alexis Beaurepaire

Alexis Beaurepaire

Alexis Beaurepaire

Research Interests:

  • Evolutionary Parasitology
  • Population genetics
  • Conservation of biodiversity

Curriculum vitae

Personal Information:

  • Birth: Roubaix, 04.07.1988
  • Languages: French: native speaker, English: Advanced level (B2-C1), Spanish: Intermadiate level (A2-B1), German: Beginner level (on progress...)

Education:

  • 2011 - 2014: Current Ph.D student at the Martin-Luther-University, Halle-Wittenberg,  Germany on the population genetics of Asian honeybees
  • 2010-2011:  M.Sc (2nd year) in Biology of Organisms and Populations at the University of Burgundy, Dijon, France
  • 2009-2010: M.Sc (1st year) in  at the University of Sciences and Technology of Lille, France
  • 2008-2009 Erasmus exchange in the University of Oulu, Finland
  • 2006-2009: B.Sc in Biology of Organisms and Populations at the University of Sciences and Technology of Lille

Publications:

  • Alexis L. Beaurepaire, Bernard F. Kraus, Gudrun Koeniger, Nikolaus Koeniger, Herbert Lim and Robin F. A. Moritz (2014). Extensive population admixture on drone congregation areas of the giant honeybee, Apis dorsata (Fabricius, 1793). Ecology and Evolution 4 (24)
  • Alexis L. Beaurepaire,  Tuan A. Truong, Alejandro C. Fajardo, Tam Q. Dinh, Cleofas Cervancia,  Robin F. A. Moritz (2015). Host Specificity in the Honeybee Parasitic  Mite, Varroa spp. in Apis mellifera and Apis cerana. Plos One

Presentations:

  • December 2014: “Extensive Population Admixture at Drone Congegation Areas of the giant honeybee, Apis dorsata”, BES and SFE meeting in Lille, France [Anne Keymer Student Talk Prize: highly commended]
  • September 2014: “Extensive Population Admixture at Drone Congegation Areas of the giant honeybee, Apis dorsata” Sixth EurBee Congress, Murcia, Spain
  • September 2014: “Genetic diversity of the Varroa mite in Northern Vietnam” Sixth EurBee Congress, Murcia, Spain
  • March 2014: “Extensive Population Admixture at Drone Congegation Areas of the giant honeybee, Apis dorsata” Bienentagung, Marburg, Germany

Posters:

  • March 2012: Poster “Impacts of intensive land-use systems on the populations of Asian honeybees”. Bienentagung, Bonn, Germany.

Courses, Internships, Research Visits and Conferences:

  • December 2014: BES and SFE meeting in Lille, France
  • September 2014: Sixth EurBee Congress, Murcia, Spain
  • March 2014: LEGATO annual meeting in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
  • March 2014: Bienentagung, Marburg, Germany
  • April 2013: LEGATO annual meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam
  • November 2012: LEGATO workshop on Agriculture and pollination, Göttingen, Germany
  • September 2012: Eurbee Conference in Halle, Germany
  • March 2012: Conference Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Institute für Bienenforschung, Bonn, Germany
  • February 2012: Workshop in “Honey bee genetics” in the University of Murcia (Spain), organised by Dr. Pilar De la Rúa
  • 2011: 5 months training in the Biogeoscience laboratory of the University of Burgundy, Dijon, on the “Population Genetics of the acanthocephalan parasite, Pomphorhynchus laevis” with Thierry Rigaud and Lucile Dianne
  • 2010: 3 months training in the GEPV (Genetics and Evolution of Plant Populations) laboratory, university of Lille 1, on the “study of life history traits across several geographic scales in Arabidopsis thaliana” with Fabrice Roux and Benjamin Brachi
  • 2009: Summer field courses with the University of Oulu in Oulanka and Oulu, Finland, on freshwater ecology and bird identification, respectively

Other activities:

  • June 2014: Teaching Introduction courses for population genetics softwares (Excel MS-toolkit, Genepop, Fstat, Structure) in Martin-Luther Universität, Halle/Saale, Germany
  • June 2013: Teaching Introduction courses for population genetics softwares (Fstat, structure) in Martin-Luther Universität, Halle/Saale, Germany

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