Frédéric Hamelin

Mathematical Ecologist and Plant Disease Epidemiologist.

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I am Associate Professor in Quantitative Plant Disease Epidemiology at L’Institut Agro in Rennes, France. I work at the interface between Mathematical Ecology and Plant Disease Epidemiology. I am a member of the Institute of Genetics, Environment and Plant Protection (IGEPP).

Short bio: I was first trained as a telecommunications engineer in Brest, Brittany, France. In 2007, I received a PhD in automatic control from the University of Nice, France. During my doctoral thesis and then as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Alberta, Canada, I explored differential games and their applications to behavioral ecology. Back to Brittany, I joined L’Institut Agro in 2008 as a faculty member of the ecology department in Rennes, France. In 2017, I obtained a Habilitation in ecology and evolution from U. Rennes. Since 2022, I have been an editor for the journal Phytopathology. I am currently leading an ANR funded project named BEEP (Behavioural Epidemiology and Evolution of Plant Pathogens).

news

Dec 4, 2023 Welcome to Yves Fotso who is starting a two-year postdoc with us!
Jan 16, 2023 Welcome to Israël Tankam who is starting a two-year postdoc with us!
Dec 16, 2022 Congratulations to Pauline Clin for a great PhD thesis defense!
Sep 1, 2022 Welcome to Hugo Martin who is starting a two-year postdoc with us!

selected publications

  1. Coinfections by noninteracting pathogens are not independent and require new tests of interaction
    Frédéric M Hamelin, Linda JS Allen, Vrushali A Bokil, Louis J Gross, Frank M Hilker, Michael J Jeger, Carrie A Manore, Alison G Power, Megan A Rúa, and Nik J Cunniffe
    PLoS Biology (2019)
  2. Taking advantage of pathogen diversity and immune priming to minimize disease prevalence in host mixtures: a model
    Pauline Clin, Frédéric Grognard, Ludovic Mailleret, Florence Val, Didier Andrivon, and Frédéric M Hamelin
    Phytopathology (2021)