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Curriculum vitae Daniel Croll

Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.ch/citations?user=82WR4DYAAAAJ&hl=en ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2072-380X

Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics Institute of Biology University of Neuchâtel Rue Emile-Argand 11 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Email: daniel.croll at unine dot ch - Phone: +41 (0) 32 718 23 30 Twitter: @danielcroll - Web: http://www.pathogen-genomics.org

Education 2009 PhD supervised by Prof. Ian R. Sanders

Dept. of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne

2003 MSc Biology, University of Lausanne

Employment history

01.2017 - Assistant Professor Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel

08.2015 - 12.2016 Dozent (Lecturer) D-USYS, ETH Zurich

01.2015 - 12.2016 Oberassistent (Group leader) Plant Pathology, Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich

08.2014 - 12.2014 Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Bruce McDonald Plant Pathology, Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich

02.2013 - 07.2014 SNSF Advanced Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. James Kronstad Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British-Columbia, Canada

05.2010 - 12.2012 Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Bruce McDonald Plant Pathology, Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich

09.2009 - 03.2010 Research assistant with Dr. Katia Gindro (civil service) Federal Research station Agroscope in Changins

02.2003 - 08.2003 Research assistant with Prof. Jérôme Goudet (civil service) Dept of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne

Funding history

2016 NAP-PGREL-Nutzungsprojekt PGREL-NN-0034: “Charakterisierung von Krankheitsresistenz gegen ‘wheat blast‘: wie Schweizer Genbankmaterial zur nach- haltigen Lösung eines globalen Problems beitragen kann“ (249’917 CHF) Co-PI with Simon Krattinger and Bruce McDonald

2014 URPP Evolution in Action project grant from the University of Zurich: “Genomic signature and mechanisms of introgression in Alpine ibex” (20’000 CHF) Co-applicant with Christine Grossen, Thomas Wicker and Lukas Keller

2012 Research Grant from the ETH Zurich “Population genomics of adaptation in the wheat pathogen Mycosphaerella graminicola” (196’000 CHF) Co-applicant with Bruce McDonald

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Supervision of junior researchers

Postdoctoral Dr. Clémence Plissonneau (2016-2017)

PhD students Norfarhan Mohd Assa’ad (2013-), Simone Fouché (2015-), Ursula Oggenfuss (2017-), Nikhil Kumar Singh (2017-)

PhD students (previous)

Mark Lendenmann (2010-2015), Ethan Stewart (2011-2016), Fanny Hartmann (2013-2017)

Undergraduates Alessandra Stüchler (MSc, 2015-2016), Sandra Wenger (BSc, 2016), Tiziana Vonlanthen (MSc, 2016-2017)

Thesis committees Mark Lendenmann (ETH Zurich, 2015), Ethan Stewart (ETH Zurich, 2016), Ivan Dario Mateus Gonzalez (University of Lausanne, 2016), Eli Thynne (Australian National University, 2016), Marion Müller (2016-, University of Zurich), Ursina Messmer (2016-, ETH Zurich), Fanny Hartmann (2017, ETH Zurich)

Teaching activities

2017 “Evolutionary Ecology” (University of Neuchâtel, 30h) “Apprentissage par problème” Student research projects (University of Neuchâtel, 4 weeks) “Experimental Parasitology Student research projects (University of Neuchâtel, 2 weeks)

2015 - 2016 “Seminar in Evolutionary Ecology of Infectious Diseases” (ETH Zurich, 701-0263-01L, 28h).

2012 Examiner and student advisor for “Experimental Plant Pathology” (ETH Zurich, 751-4510-00L).

2010 - 2012 Lecturer and student advisor for the yearly “Block course in Phytopathology” (ETH Zurich, 551-0355-00L).

Membership in panels, reviewer activities

Manuscripts reviewed: >50 (including Current Biology, Molecular Biology & Evolution, Molecular Ecology, Nature Microbiology, New Phytologist, PLOS Genetics, PLOS Pathogens) Grants reviewed: AgreenSkills (EU Research program), BARD (United States - Israel Binational Agricultural Research & Development Fund) COST SUSTAIN (FA1208) Management Committee Substitute for Switzerland (2016 - 2017) COST HUPLANTcontrol (CA16110) Management Committee Member for Switzerland (2017-)

Organisation of conferences and workshops 1.2017 ETH Zurich Winter School “Concepts and methods in ecological genomics of

coevolutionary interactions: bridging the gap between theory and empirical studies”. Weggis, Switzerland. (Senior organizer with Amandine Cornille and Alex Widmer) Funded by a SNSF International Exploratory Workshop grant (8500 CHF)

12.2015 “Zurich Host-Microbes Genomics Workshop”. Zurich, December 2015 (Organizer)

9.2015 COST SUSTAIN Action (FA1208) on "Evolutionary genomics of plant pathogens”, University of Kiel, Germany (Scientific committee member)

3.2015 Asilomar Fungal Genetics conference, Pacific Grove CA. (Session organizer “Dynamics of Genome Evolution”)

Fellowships 2.2013 – 7.2014 SNSF Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowship

“Role of genomic plasticity in virulence and drug resistance of the human pathogenic fungi Cryptococcus neoformans and C. gattii”. University of British Columbia, Vancouver Canada (18 months, 71’250 CAD)

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Fellowships hosted INRA Contrat Jeune Scientifique to Dr. Clémence Plissonneau (Postdoctoral fellowship, 24 months)

São Paulo Research Foundation FAPESP research internship to Juliana Benevenuto (6-month research internship; co-host with Bruce McDonald)

COST SUSTAIN Action (FA1208) Short Term Scientific Mission grant to Dr. Thierry Marcel (INRA, Versailles)

PhD scholarship to Norfarhan Mohd Assa’ad funded by the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia (co-host with Bruce McDonald)

Invited seminars

11.2016 University of Neuchâtel, Institute of Biology

3.2016 University of Basel, Department of Environmental Sciences

11.2015 WSL, Naturschutzbiologie, Birmensdorf

6.2015 INRA-BIOGER, Versailles Grignon, France

5.2015 University of Zurich, Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology

9.2006 University of Basel, Botanical Institute

Invited oral presentations at meetings

5.2017 "Population genomics of new and emerging fungal and oomycete diseases of animals and plants" Meeting. Monte Verità, Switzerland (scheduled)

12.2016 Stromlo Molecular Plant Pathology Meeting. Canberra, Australia. (Keynote lecture)

10.2016 Syngenta Omics Workshop. Jeallot’s Hill, UK

9.2016 Genetic Diversity Center Symposium. ETH Zurich, Switzerland

7.2016 SFB924 Symposium “Durable Genetic and Chemical Control of Plant Diseases”, Munich, Germany

4.2016 9th International Symposium on Septoria Diseases of Cereals, Paris, France

1.2016 JJC meeting - French Phytopathological Society, Aussois, France

8.2015 COST SUSTAIN Action Workshop on "Evolutionary genomics of plant pathogens”, University of Kiel, Germany

3.2015 Asilomar Fungal Genetics conference, Pacific Grove CA

8.2014 American Phytopathological Society meeting. Genotyping-by-Sequencing special session

3.2014 European Conference on Fungal Genetics (ECFG12), Sevilla, Spain

8.2011 Mycological Society of America meeting in Fairbanks, Alaska

6.2010 Gordon Research Conference on Cellular & Molecular Fungal Biology. Holderness, N.H

Media coverage Multiple news items covering mycorrhizal research e.g. in Science "Better Rice Through Fungi" (10 June 2010) http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2010/06/better-rice-through-fungi Contribution to rapid identification of major disease outbreak in Bangladesh highlighted in Nature News "Devastating wheat fungus appears in Asia for first time" (27 April 2016) http://www.nature.com/news/devastating-wheat-fungus-appears-in-asia-for-first-time-1.19820