Samuel Plante, PhD
Postdoctoral fellow / Molecular ecology
e-mail: samuel.plante.9 [at] ulaval.ca
Biography
I am from Sherbrooke (Québec) where I completed my academic courses. First, I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry. In 2012, I joined Simon Labbé’s lab for my master and PhD. There, I worked with fission yeast as a model to study essential metals homeostasis (copper and iron). My interest was focused on the implication of those metals in developmental programs in fungal life cycle: sporulation and germination. I finished my PhD in 2019. Finally, I moved to Québec City in August 2019 to start a postdoctoral fellowship in Christian Landry’s team.
Research interests
During my work on spore germination, I became interested in fungal ecology. The variety of molecular signals that trigger spore germination reflects the diversity of natural habitat of fungi. Most fungal species develop spores for survival and dispersal. Yet, we do not understand how the mechanisms that drive germination affects fungal adaptation to different conditions. That is precisely what I am interested to explore.
Publications
Plante S, Moon KM, Lemieux P, Foster LJ, and Landry CR (2023). Breaking spore dormancy in budding yeast transforms the cytoplasm and the solubility of the proteome. PLOS Biology 21(4): e3002042
Samuel Plante and Christian R Landry (2020). Closely related budding yeast species respond to different ecological signals for spore activation. Yeast 38.1 (2021): 81-89.
Samuel Plante and Christian R Landry (2020). Purification of yeast spores to investigate their dynamic of activation. Current Protocols in Microbiology 59 (1), e123
Samuel Plante and Simon Labbé (2019), Spore Germination Requires Ferrichrome Biosynthesis and the Siderophore Transporter Str1 in Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Genetics 211, 893-911
Samuel Plante, Vincent Normant, Karla M. Ramos-Torres, and Simon Labbé (2017), Cell-surface copper transporters and Superoxide Dismutase 1 are essential for outgrowth during fungal spore germination, Journal of Biological Chemistry 292, 11896 – 11914
Samuel Plante, Raphaël Ioannoni, Jude Beaudoin and Simon Labbé (2014), Characterization of Schizosaccharomyces pombe Copper Transporter proteins in Meiotic and Sporulating Cells, Journal of Biological Chemistry 289, 10168 – 10181
Jude Beaudoin, Raphaël Ioannoni, Stéphane Mailloux, Samuel Plante, and Simon Labbé (2013), Transcriptional Regulation of the Copper Transporter Mfc1 in Meiotic Cells, Eukaryotic Cell 12: 575-590