Research interest
I’m a microbial ecologist interested in the response of soil microorganisms to the changing climate. Particularly, my work is focused on plant-microbes interactions and tries to understand how one may mediate the response of the other. Using metabarcoding, I’ve been looking at the effect of warming on a microbial community as a whole, but also to specific groups such as mycorrhiza or plant pathogens in high latitude regions. At the Physiological Plant Ecology group, I will be investigating the role of soil microbes in the distinct plant species responses of an alpine grassland to shifted snowmelt timing and summer drought.
Education and Professional Experience
2025-Ongoing: Postdoctoral researcher, Universität Basel | Switzerland
2020-2024: PhD in Biology, PLECO, Universiteit Antwerpen | Belgium
2017-2019: MSc in Plant Biology, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 | France
MSc thesis @ Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto, Argentina
2015-2017: BSc(Hons) in Environmental Protection, University of Edinburgh | Scotland
Honours thesis @ Crop and Soil Systems, Scotland Rural College
2013-2015: HND in Biological and Biotechnological Analyses, EPL St-Genis Laval | France
HND thesis @ Crop & Soil Systems, Scotland Rural College
Publications
Le Noir de Carlan, C., Kaarlejärvi, E., De Tender, C., Heinecke, T., Eskelinen, A., Verbruggen, E. (2024) Shifts in mycorrhizal types of fungi and plants in response to fertilisation, warming and herbivory in a tundra grassland. New Phytologist, 243
Metze, D., Schnecker, J., Le Noir de Carlan, C., Bhattarai, Verbruggen, E., Ostonen, I., Janssens, I.A., Sigurdsson, B.D., Hausmann, B., Kaiser, C., Richter, A. (2024) Soil warming increases the number of growing bacterial taxa but not their growth rates. Science Advances, 10(8)
Söllinger, A., Ahlers, L.S., Borg Dahl, M., Sigurðsson, P., Le Noir de Carlan, C., Bhattarai, B., Gall, C., Martin, V.S., Rottensteiner, C., Motleleng, L.L., Breines, E.M., Verbruggen, E., Ostonen, I., Sigurdsson, B.D., Richter, A., Tveit, A.T. (2024) Microorganisms in subArctic soils are depleted of ribosomes under short-, medium-, and long-term warming. The ISME Journal, 18(1)
Coniglio, A., Larama, G., Molina, R., Mora, V., Torres, D., Marin, A., Avila, A.I., Le Noir de Carlan, C., Erijman, L., Figuerola, E.L., de Souza, E.M., Cassán, F. (2022) Modulation of Maize Rhizosphere Microbiota Composition by Inoculation with Azospirillum argentinense Az39 (Formerly A. brasilense Az39). Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 22
