Rate My Professor Alexandre Fournier-Level

Fournier-Level completed his PhD at SupAgro Montpellier, examining the genetic basis of grape berry color using quantitative and population genetics. He then carried out postdoctoral research in the Schmitt Lab at Brown University on local adaptation to climate in plants, developing expertise in structural equation modeling of correlated traits and life-history modeling. Awarded a Human Frontier Science Program Long-Term Fellowship, he investigated the costs of climate adaptation on the evolution of insecticide resistance in Drosophila in the Robin Lab at the University of Melbourne. He subsequently launched his independent research program at the University of Melbourne's School of BioSciences. His scholarly impact is evidenced by over 3,300 citations on Google Scholar. Key publications include "Predicting the Evolutionary Dynamics of Seasonal Adaptation to Temperature Across a Latitudinal Gradient in Arabidopsis thaliana" (Current Biology, 2016), "Genomic and Transcriptomic Associations Identify a New Insecticide Resistance Trait in the California Mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus" (G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics, 2016), "Multiple P450s and Variation in Neuronal Genes Underpins the Evolution of Resistance to Naphthoquinones in Drosophila" (Scientific Reports, 2017), "Rounding up the annual ryegrass genome: high-quality reference genome assembly for an agriculturally important weed" (Frontiers in Genetics, 2022), and "GWAS on multiple traits identifies mitochondrial ACONITASE3 as a candidate gene for the cold-induced inhibition of germination in Arabidopsis thaliana" (Plant Physiology, 2022).