🔭 My primary research interests include:

• Data science and Big Data analysis 💻
• Bioinformatics with specialization in genomics and metagenomics 🧬 🦠
• Horizontal gene transfers 🧬 ➡️ 🪱
• Evolution of plant pathogen genomes 🌱
• Comparative genomics

I am harnessing next-generation sequencing data to explore intricate topics such as the evolution of plant-pathogen genomes, horizontal gene transfer in metazoan genomes, and microbial diversity in environmental and host-associated contexts.

📰 Colinet D., Haon M., Drula E., Boyer M., Grisel S., Belliardo, C., Koutsovoulos G.D., Berrin J.G., Danchin E.G.J. Functional carbohydrate-active enzymes acquired by horizontal gene transfer from plants in the whitefly Bemisia tabaci. bioRxiv (2024). https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.03.597214

Belliardo, C., Koutsovoulos, G.D., Rancurel, C. et al. Improvement of eukaryotic protein predictions from soil metagenomes. Sci Data 9, 311 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01420-4

📰 Belliardo, C., Koutsovoulos, G.D., Rancurel, C. et al. Improvement of eukaryotic protein predictions from soil metagenomes. Sci Data 9, 311 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01420-4

📰 Pienaar, R. D., Gilbert, C., Belliardo, C., Herrero, S. & Herniou, E. A. First Evidence of Past and Present Interactions between Viruses and the Black Soldier Fly, Hermetia illucens. Viruses 14, 1274 (2022). https://doi.org/10.3390/v14061274

📰 Gilbert, C., Belliardo, C. The diversity of endogenous viral elements in insects. Curr Op. in Insect Science, 49, 48-55, (2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2021.11.007

🎙️ International Environmental and Agronomical Genomics symposium 2024, Toulouse, France | feb. 16, 2024 [Link]
Carole Belliardo, Corinne Rancurel, Georgios D. Koutsovoulos, Marc Bailly Bechet, Etienne G.J. Danchin. "Exploring Horizontal Gene Transfers in Phytoparasitic Nematodes through Soil Metagenomes" 20′ oral presentation

🎙️ Journées de l’Ecole Doctorale de Nice | May 23-25, 2022 [Link]
Carole Belliardo, Corinne Rancurel, Georgios D. Koutsovoulos, Marc Bailly Bechet, Etienne G.J. Danchin. "Mining soil metagenomic data improves our understanding of the origin and history of genes acquired by horizontal transfers in plant-parasitic nematodes." 15′ oral presentation

🎙️ 7th International Congress of Nematology, Juan les Pins, France | 1-6 May 2022 [Link]
Carole Belliardo, Adrien Deceneux, Corinne Rancurel, Marc Bailly-Bechet, Etienne G.J. Danchin. "Metagenomics mining improves analysis of horizontal gene transfers involved in parasitic function in plant-parasitic nematodes." 15′ oral presentation

🎙️ ESN’s Virtual Nematology Conference | May 26-28, 2021 [Link]
Carole Belliardo – INRAE (FR). "Mining soil metagenomes improves analysis of horizontal gene transfers involved in parasitic functions of root-knot nematodes." 15′ Oral Presentation

📄 International Environmental and Agronomical Genomics symposium 2024 , Toulouse, France | feb. 14-16, 2024 [Link]
Carole Belliardo, Nicolas Maurice, Clémence Frioux, Claire Lemaitre, Riccardo Vicedomini, Samuel Mondy, Marc Bailly-Bechet and Etienne GJ Danchin. "Unlocking the Soil Microbiome: Unraveling Soil Microbial Complexity using Long-Read Metagenomics."

📄 JOBIM 2021 (Virtual Edition), Institut Pasteur Paris France | July 6-9, 2021 [Link]
Carole Belliardo, Mathilde Clement, Justine Lipuma, Georgios D Koutsovoulos, Corinne Rancurel, Marc Bailly-Bechet and Etienne GJ Danchin. "Improving the quality of public metagenomic data to study soil microorganisms."

📄 Journées de l’Ecole Doctorale de Nice | May 25-26, 2021 [Link)
Carole Belliardo, Adrien Deceneux, Corinne Rancurel, Georgios D. Koutsovoulos, Marc Bailly Bechet, Etienne G.J. Danchin. "Mining soil metagenomes improves analysis of horizontal gene transfers involved in parasitic functions of root knot nematodes."

📄 Evolutionary Biology of Caenorhabditis and Other Nematodes, Virtual Edition | June 24-25, 2020 [Link]
Carole Belliardo, Adrien Deceneux, Corinne Rancurel, Marc Bailly-Bechet, Etienne G.J. Danchin. "Metagenomics mining improves analysis of horizontal gene transfers involved in parasitic function in root-knot nematodes."

📄 19émes Journées Ouvertes Biologie, Informatique et Marthématiques (JOBIM 2018), Marseille France | July 3-6, 2018 [Link]
Bailly-Bechet M, Belliardo C, DanchinEGJ. "An -omics search for viruses infecting the phytoparasitic nematode M. incognita."

📄 18émes Journées Ouvertes Biologie, Informatique et Marthématiques (JOBIM 2017), Lille France | July 3-6, 2017 [Link]
Belliardo C, Rancurel C, Danchin E and Bailly-Bechet M. "Horizontal gene transfer from viruses in the genomes of plant-parasitic nematodes."