Publications

Peer-reviewed articles (12 past years)

(pre-prints at the bottom of the page)

(Authors from our group are shown in bold)

• Boscq S., Theodorou I., Milstein R., Le Bail A., Chenivesse S., Billoud B., Charrier B. Longitudinal growth of the Saccharina kelp embryo depends on actin filaments that control the formation of a corset-like structure composed of alginate. Sci Rep, 15, 1178, 2025.

• Lanoizelet M., Michel L., Lagadec R., Mayeur H., Guichard L., Logeux V., Séverax D., Martin K., Klopp C., Marcellini S., Castillo H., Pollet N., Candal E., Debiais-Thibaud M., Boisvert C., Billoud B., Schubert M., Blader P., Mazan S. Analysis of a shark reveals ancient, Wnt-dependent, habenular asymmetries in vertebrates. Nat Comm 15, 10194,  2024.

• Boscq S., Billoud B., Theodorou I., Joemmanbaks T., Dufourt T., Charrier B. MUM, a maternal unknown message, inhibits early establishmanbaks ent of the medio-lateral axis in the embryo of the kelp Saccharina latissima. Development, 151(20): dev202732, 2024

• Boscq S., Billoud B., Charrier B. Cell-Autonomous and Non-Cell-Autonomous Mechanisms Concomitantly Regulate the Early Developmental Pattern in the Kelp Saccharina latissima Embryo. Plants, 13, 1341, 2024

• Theodorou I., Charrier B. The shift to 3D growth during embryogenesis of kelp species, atlas of cell division and differentiation of Saccharina latissima. Development, 150 (21): dev201519. 2023
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• Clerc T., Boscq S., Attia R., Kaminski Schierle G.S., Charrier B., Näubli N.F. Cultivation and imaging of S. latissima embryo monolayered cell sheets inside microfluidic devices. Bioengineering, 9(11), 718; 2022

• Boscq S, Dutertre S, Theodorou I, Charrier B. Targeted Laser Ablation in the Embryo of Saccharina latissima. J. Vis. Exp., (181), e63518, 2022

• Boutet I, Alves Monteiro HJ, Baudry L, Takeuchi T, Bonnivard E, Billoud B, Farhat S, Gonzales-Araya R, Salaun B, Andersen AC, Toullec JY, Lallier FH, Flot JF, Guiglielmoni N, Guo X, Li C, Allam B, Pales-Espinosa E, Hemmer-Hansen J, Moreau P, Marbouty M, Koszul R, Tanguy A. Chromosomal assembly of the flat oyster (Ostrea edulis L.) genome as a new genetic resource for aquaculture. Evol Appl., 15(11):1730-1748, 2022. PMID: 36426129; PMCID: PMC9679248.

• Charrier B, Boscq S, Nelson B J, Läubli N F. Growth and Labelling of Cell Wall Components of the Brown Alga Ectocarpus in Microfluidic Chips. Front. Mar. Sci. 8:745654. 2021

• Theodorou I, Opsahl-Sorteberg H, Charrier B. Preparation of Zygotes and Embryos of the Kelp Saccharina latissima for Cell Biology Approaches. Bio-101: e4132. 2021

• Barbier M, Araujo R. Holdt S L, Jacquemin B, Rebours C, Charrier B. Development and objectives of the PHYCOMORPH European Guidelines for the Sustainable Aquaculture of Seaweeds (PEGASUS), Special issue: Seaweed resources of the world: a 2020 vision. Issue editors: Alan T. Critchley, Anicia Hurtado, Leonel Pereira, Melania Cornish, Danilo Largo and Nicholas Paul. Bot Mar, 63(1): 5-16, 2020

• Coudert Y, Harris S, Charrier B. Design Principles of Branching Morphogenesis in Filamentous Organisms. Curr Biol, 29(21): R1149–R1162, 2019

• Rabillé H, Torode T, Tesson B, Le Bail A, Billoud B, Rolland E, Le Panse S, Jam M, Charrier B. Alginates along the filament of the brown alga Ectocarpus help cells cope with stress, Sci Rep, 9:12956, 2019

• Rabillé H, Billoud B, Tesson B, Le Panse S, Rolland É, Charrier B. The brown algal mode of tip growth: Keeping stress under control. PLoS Biol, 17(1): e2005258, 2019

• Charrier B, Rabillé H, Billoud B. Gazing at Cell Wall Expansion under a Golden Light. Trends Plant Sci. 24(2), 130-141, 2019

• De Clerck O, Kao SM, Bogaert KA, Blomme J, Foflonker F, Kwantes M, Vancaester E, Vanderstraeten L, Aydogdu E, Boesger J, Califano G, Charrier B, Clewes R, Del Cortona A, D'Hondt S, Fernandez-Pozo N, Gachon CM, Hanikenne M, Lattermann L, Leliaert F, Liu X, Maggs CA, Popper ZA, Raven JA, Van Bel M, Wilhelmsson PKI, Bhattacharya D, Coates JC, Rensing SA, Van Der Straeten D, Vardi A, Sterck L, Vandepoele K, Van de Peer Y, Wichard T, Bothwell JH. Insights into the Evolution of Multicellularity from the Sea Lettuce Genome. Curr Biol, 28(18):2921-2933.e5, 2018

• Lagadec R, Lanoizelet M, Sánchez-Farías N, Hérard F, Menuet A, Mayeur H, Billoud B, Rodriguez-Moldes I, Candal E, Mazan S. Neurogenetic asymmetries in the catshark developing habenulae: mechanistic and evolutionary implications. Sci Rep, 8(1):4616, 2018

• Boccara M, Sarazin A, Billoud B, Bulski A, Chapell L, Baulcombe D, Colot V. Analysis of Small RNA Populations Using Hybridization to DNA Tiling Arrays. Methods Mol Biol.;1456:127-139, 2017. PMID: 27770363.

• Charrier B, Abreu MH, Araujo R, Bruhn A, Coates JC, De Clerck O, Katsaros C, Robaina RR, Wichard T. Furthering knowledge on seaweed growth and development to facilitate sustainable aquaculture. New Phytol, 216(4):967-975, 2017

• Jia F, Ben Amar M, Billoud B, Charrier B. Morphoelasticity in the development of brown alga Ectocarpus siliculosus: from cell rounding to branching. J. R. Soc. Interface 14 : 20160596, 2017

• Charrier B, Coates J.C., Stavridou I. Surfing amongst oil-tankers: Developing under-represented fields in the current landscape. Trends Plant Sci, 22(1) : 1-3, 2017

• Charrier B, Rolland E, Gupta V and Reddy CRK. Production of genetically and developmentally modified seaweeds: Exploiting the potential of artificial selection techniques. Front. Plant Sci. 6:127, 2015

• Wichard T, Charrier B, Mineur F, Bothwell JH, De Clerck O and Coates JC. The green seaweed Ulva: A model system to study morphogenesis. Front. Plant Sci. 6:72, 2015

• Billoud B, Jouanno É, Nehr Z, Carton B, Rolland É, Chenivesse S and Charrier B. Localization of causal locus in the genome of the brown macroalga Ectocarpus: NGS-based mapping and positional cloning approaches. Front. Plant Sci. 6:68, 2015

• Saint-Marcoux D, Billoud B, Langdale JA and Charrier B. Laser capture microdissection in Ectocarpus siliculosus: the pathway to cell-specific transcriptomics in brown algae. Front. Plant Sci. 6:54, 2015

• Coates J , Umm- E-Aiman, Charrier B. Understanding “green” multicellularity: do seaweeds hold the key? Front. Plant Sci. 5:737, 2015

• Tesson B, Charrier B. Brown algal morphogenesis: Atomic Force Microscopy as a tool to study the role of mechanical forces. Front. Plant Sci. 5:471, 2014

• Billoud B, Nehr Z, Le Bail A, Charrier B. Computational prediction and experimental validation of microRNAs in the brown alga Ectocarpus siliculosus. Nucleic Acids Res, 42(1):417-29, 2014

• Collén J, Porcel B, Carré W, Ball SG, Chaparro C, Tonon T, Barbeyron T, Michel G, Noel B, Valentin K, Elias M, Artiguenave F, Arun A, Aury JM, Barbosa-Neto JF, Bothwell JH, Bouget FY, Brillet L, Cabello-Hurtado F, Capella-Gutiérrez S, Charrier B, Cladière L, Cock JM, Coelho SM, Colleoni C, Czjzek M, Da Silva C, Delage L, Denoeud F, Deschamps P, Dittami SM, Gabaldón T, Gachon CM, Groisillier A, Hervé C, Jabbari K, Katinka M, Kloareg B, Kowalczyk N, Labadie K, Leblanc C, Lopez PJ, McLachlan DH, Meslet-Cladiere L, Moustafa A, Nehr Z, Nyvall Collén P, Panaud O, Partensky F, Poulain J, Rensing SA, Rousvoal S, Samson G, Symeonidi A, Weissenbach J, Zambounis A, Wincker P, Boyen C. Genome structure and metabolic features in the red seaweed Chondrus crispus shed light on evolution of the Archaeplastida. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 110(13):5247-52, 2013

• Charrier B, Le Bail A, de Reviers B. Plant Proteus: Brown algae morphological plasticity and underlying developmental mechanisms. Trends Plant Sci, 17(8): 468-477, 2012

pre-prints

• M. Zilliox, M. Collot, B. Charrier: SBIS, a new orange fluorescent vital probe for the 4D imaging of brown algal cells. BioRXiv 2025 DOI: 10.1101/2025.02.02.636089
• M. Besten, M. Hendriksz, L. Michels, B. Charrier, E. Smakowska-Luzan, D. Weijers, J. W. Borst, J. Sprakel: CarboTag: a modular approach for live and functional imaging of plant cell walls. BioRXiv 2024 DOI: 10.1101/2024.07.05.597952v1
• Billoud B, Saint-Marcoux D, Chenivesse S, Duchêne C, Noûs C, Langdale J A, Charrier B. Acquisition of cell identity in the brown alga Ectocarpus: which of time, cell shape or position matters most? BioRxiv, 2021, DOI: 10.1101/2021.08.21.457218
• Nehr Z, Chenivesse S, Billoud B, Genicot S, Desban N, Theodorou I, Nasir A, Le Bail A, Rabillé H, Godfroy O, Katsaros C, Charrier B. Tip growth in the brown alga Ectocarpus is controlled by a RHO-GAP-BAR domain protein independently from F-actin organisation. BioRxiv. 2021 DOI: 10.1101/2021.08.28.458042

Recent thesis

• Samuel Boscq (2020-2023): Establishment of the apico-basal and medio-lateral axes during the embryogenesis of the brown alga Saccharina latissima https://theses.hal.science/tel-04621626v1
• Ioannis Theodorou (2019-2023): Cell fate and blade patterning during the early growth of Saccharina latissima sporophytes https://theses.hal.science/tel-04158205