


Séverine Vuilleumier, PhD
Publications
2017
Alcala N., Jenkins T., Christe P., Vuilleumier S. 2017. Host shift and cospeciation rate estimation from co-phylogenies. Ecology Letters. doi 10.1111/ele.12799
Chaput-Bardy A., Alcala N., Secondi J., Vuilleumier S., 2017. Network analysis for species management in rivers networks: Application to the Loire River. Biological Conservation. 210: 26-36. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2017.04.003
2016
Irwin KK., Laurent S., Matuszewski S., Vuilleumier S., Ormond L., Shim H., Bank B., and Jensen JD. 2016. On the importance of skewed offspring distributions and background selection in viral population genetics. Heredity. 117(6):393-399. doi:10.1038/hdy.2016.58
Alcala N., Jensen J D., Telenti A. Vuilleumier S., 2016. The genomic signature of population reconnection following isolation: From theory to HIV. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics, 6(1): 107-120.
Büchi L., Vuilleumier S., 2016. Ecological strategies in stable and disturbed environments depend on species specialisation. Oikos 125, (10): 1408–1420
2015
Stoffel C., Dufresnes C., Okello J. BA, Noirard C., Joly P., Nyakaana S., Muwanika V. B, Alcala N., Vuilleumier S., Siegismund H R, Fumagalli L. 2015. Genetic consequences of population expansions and contractions in the common hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) since the Late Pleistocene. Molecular Ecology 24(10) pp. 2507-2520. [DOI] [Pubmed]
Vuilleumier S., Bonhoeffer S. 2015. Contribution of recombination to the evolutionary history of HIV. Current Opinion in HIV & AIDS, Vol 10.
2014
Alcala N., Vuilleumier S., 2014. Turnover and accumulation of genetic diversity across large time-scale cycles of population isolation and connection. Proceedings of the Royal Society. B Biological Sciences pp. 2014 281, 20141369
Alcala N., Goudet J., Vuilleumier S. 2014 Measuring genetic diversity and differentiation: what we can learn from GST and D? Theoretical population Biology 94:74-84
Büchi L. and Vuilleumier S. 2014 Specialists-generalists coexistence in heterogeneous environments. The American Naturalist, 183(5): 612–624
Alcala N., 07-2014. The Measure and Dynamics of Genetic Diversity in Structured Populations. Université de Lausanne, Faculté de biologie et médecine, Vuilleumier S. (dir.).
2013
*Alcala N., Streit D., Goudet J., Vuilleumier S., 2013. Peak and Persistent Excess of Genetic Diversity Following an Abrupt Migration Increase. Genetics 193(3) pp. 953-971.
*Written up in Faculty1000 Biology
Joost S., Vuilleumier S., Jensen J.D., Schoville S., Leempoel K., Stucki S., Widmer I., Melodelima C., Rolland J., Manel S., 2013. Uncovering the genetic basis of adaptive change: on the intersection of landscape genomics and theoretical population genetics. Molecular Ecology 22(14) pp. 3659-3665.
Nieuwenhuis B.P.S., Billiard S., Vuilleumier S., Petit E., Hood M.E., Giraud T., 2013. Evolution of uni- and bifactorial sexual compatibility systems in fungi. Heredity 111(6) pp. 445-455
Vuilleumier S., Alcala N., Niculita-Hirzel H., 2013. Transitions from reproductive systems governed by two self-incompatible loci to one in fungi. Evolution 67(2) pp. 501-516.
2012
Büchi L., Vuilleumier S., 2012. Dispersal Strategies, Few Dominating or Many Coexisting: The Effect of Environmental Spatial Structure and Multiple Sources of Mortality. Plos One 7(4) pp. e34733.
Vuilleumier S. and H.P.Possingham. 2012. Interacting populations in heterogeneous environments. Ecological Modelling 228 96– 105
2011
Vuilleumier S, Buttler A, Perrin N, Yearsley J.M., 2011. Invasion and eradication of a competitively superior species in heterogeneous landscapes. Ecological Modelling 222, 398-406.
2010
**Schwander T., Vuilleumier S., Dubman J., Crespi B.J., 2010. Positive feedback in the transition from sexual reproduction to parthenogenesis. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 277(1686), 1435-1442.
**Selected as Nature Research Highlights
Vuilleumier S., Bolker B.M., Lévêque O., 2010. Effects of colonization asymmetries on metapopulation persistence. Theoretical Population Biology 78(3), 225-238.
Vuilleumier S., Goudet J., Perrin N., 2010. Evolution in heterogeneous populations: from migration models to fixation probabilities. Theoretical Population Biology 78(4), 250-258.
2008
Vuilleumier, S., J. Yearsley, and N. Perrin. 2008. Fixation probability of locally adapted alleles in heterogenous environment. Genetics.178: 467-475.
2007
Vuilleumier S., R. Lande, J. J. M. van Alphen, and O. Seehausen. 2007. Invasion and fixation of sex-reversal genes. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 20:913-920.
Vuilleumier S., C. Wilcox, B. Cairns, and H. P. Possingham. 2007. How patch configuration affects the impact of disturbances on metapopulation persistence. Theoretical Population Biology, 72(1):77-85.
Vuilleumier S. and P. Fontanillas. 2007. Landscape structure affects dispersal in the greater white-toothed shrew: inference between genetic and simulated ecological distances. Ecological Modelling, 201(3-4):369-376.
2006
***Vuilleumier, S. and H. P. Possingham. 2006. Does colonisation asymmetry matter in metapopulations? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 273(1594):167-42.
***Written up in Faculty1000 Biology
Vuilleumier, S. and N. Perrin. 2006. Effects of cognitives abilities on metapopulation connectivity. Oikos 113:139-147.
Vuilleumier, S. and R. Metzger. 2006. Animal dispersal modelling: handling landscape features and related animal choices. Ecological Modelling 190(1-2): 159-170
2002
Vuilleumier, S. and R. Prélaz-Droux. 2002. Map of ecological networks for landscape planning. Landscape and Urban Planning 58(2-4): 157-170.
Media, Press
"Comment étudier les hippopotames sans se faire tuer" Allez Savoir, jan 2016 No 62, 2016 http://wp.unil.ch/allezsavoir/comment-etudier-les-hippopotames-sans-se-faire-tuer/
“Les virus, ces infatigable voyageurs”, in Vivo N° 7 – DÉCEMBRE 2015, www.invivomagazine.com, édité par le CHUV. p. 66-67.
“Comment évolue le virus du sida" Horizons, Fonds national suisse – Académies suisses: Horizons no 103, p. 47. http://www.snf.ch/fr/pointrecherche/magazine-de-recherche-horizons/archives/Pages/horizonte_103.asp
Grants
2014 Swiss National Science Foundation Marie Heim-Vögtlin Grant,
2013 FBM Intedisciplinary Grant, University of Lausanne,
2011 Ambizione - followUp, Swiss National Science Foundation,
2010 Swiss National Science Foundation grant
2008 Swiss National Science Foundation Ambizione,
2006 Competence Center Environment and Sustainability (CCES), project RECORD (RECORD:
where S. Vuilleumier was a principal investigator (http://www.cces.ethz.ch/index).
2003 Swiss National Science Foundation Postoctoral Fellowships .
2001 Nature Conservation Agency of the State of Vaud and Swiss Agency for the
Environment, Forest and Landscape, (written proposal) .
2000 Nature Conservation Agency of the State of Vaud and Swiss Agency for the
Environment, Forest and Landscape, (written proposal) .