Nicolas Tromas

CPJ at INRAE-CARRTEL (Thonon les Bains) Adjunct professor McGill University
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Présentation

My research interests focus on using biotic information to improve our understanding of bloom dynamics and the impact of these blooms on microbial communities.


Compétences

Environmental metagenomics, Cyanobacterial ecology, microbial genomics

Publications

Publications

Metagenomic insights into cyanotoxin dynamics in a Mexican subtropical lake

Nicolas Tromas , Dana Simon , Nathalie Fortin , Miriam Hernández-Zamora , Autumn Pereira et al.

Chemosphere, 2025, 376, pp.144285. ⟨10.1016/j.chemosphere.2025.144285⟩

Article dans une revue hal-05182032v1

Shifts in bacterioplankton during cyanobacterial blooms reflect bloom toxicity and lake trophic state

Lara Jansen , Nicolas Tromas , Angela Strecker , Jesse Shapiro

Harmful Algae, 2025, 149, pp.102937. ⟨10.1016/j.hal.2025.102937⟩

Article dans une revue hal-05508654v1

Deciphering the dynamics of Cyanobacteria-Phage in a natural lake: Insights from a decade-long investigation

Kiri Stern , Jin Vincent , Zofia Taranu , Nathalie Fortin , Alexis Martel et al. Article dans une revue hal-05182095v1

Omics to Study and Manage Aquatic Environments: A Snapshot From the A qua E c O mics Meeting (Evian‐les‐Bains, 2025)

Frédéric Rimet , Clarisse Lemonnier , Benjamin Alric , Pedro Beja , Lucie Bittner et al.

Molecular Ecology, 2025, 34 (17), ⟨10.1111/mec.70041⟩

Article dans une revue hal-05273477v1

Genetic Diversity and Anatoxin Profiles of Freshwater Benthic Cyanobacteria From Nova Scotia (Canada)

Cecilio Valadez-Cano , Nicolas Tromas , Adrian Reyes-Prieto , Lindsay Johnston , Yannan Huang et al.

Environmental Microbiology, 2025, 27 (3), pp.e70067. ⟨10.1111/1462-2920.70067⟩

Article dans une revue hal-05182087v1

An experimental test of cyanotoxins as a potential driver of microbial community structure

Uzma Batool , Linda Lawton , B. Jesse Shapiro , Nicolas Tromas

Chemosphere, 2025, 384, pp.144518. ⟨10.1016/j.chemosphere.2025.144518⟩

Article dans une revue hal-05182028v1

Impact of grazing by multiple Daphnia species on wastewater bacterial communities

Nicolas Tromas , Eyerusalem Goitom , Tiffany Chin , Quoc Tuc Dinh , Sarah Dorner et al.

Science of the Total Environment, 2025, 962, pp.178364. ⟨10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.178364⟩

Article dans une revue hal-05182105v1

Cell-associated viral community composition and its functional potential in a dimictic lake on the Canadian Shield

Cody Collis , Nicolas Tromas , Jozef Nissimov Article dans une revue hal-05182072v1
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Pseudogymnoascus destructans invasion stage impacts the skin microbial functions of highly vulnerable Myotis lucifugus

Virginie Lemieux-Labonté , Jananan Pathmanathan , Yves Terrat , Nicolas Tromas , Anouk Simard et al.

FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 2024, 100 (11), ⟨10.1093/femsec/fiae138⟩

Article dans une revue hal-05182126v1

Snapshot of cyanobacterial toxins in Pakistani freshwater bodies

Uzma Batool , Nicolas Tromas , Dana Simon , Sébastien Sauvé , B. Jesse Shapiro et al.

Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2024, 31 (16), pp.24648-24661. ⟨10.1007/s11356-024-32744-w⟩

Article dans une revue hal-05181983v1

Improving water quality in a hypereutrophic lake and tributary through agricultural nutrient mitigation: A Multi-year monitoring analysis

Barry Husk , Paul Julian , Dana Simon , Nicolas Tromas , Dawson Phan et al.

Journal of Environmental Management, 2024, 354, pp.120411. ⟨10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.120411⟩

Article dans une revue hal-05181995v1

Beneath the ice: exploring winter's impact on nutrient and phytoplankton dynamics in a shallow eutrophic lake

Paul Julian , Barry Husk , Helen Baulch , Dana Simon , Nicolas Tromas et al.

Hydrobiologia, 2024, 852 (6), pp.1463-1480. ⟨10.1007/s10750-024-05739-4⟩

Article dans une revue hal-05182037v1

Sedimentary DNA and pigments show increasing abundance and toxicity of cyanoHABs during the Anthropocene

Adam Heathcote , Zofia Taranu , Nicolas Tromas , Meaghan Macintyre-Newell , Peter Leavitt et al.

Freshwater Biology, 2023, 68 (11), pp.1859-1874. ⟨10.1111/fwb.14069⟩

Article dans une revue hal-05182000v1

Occurrence of BMAA Isomers in Bloom-Impacted Lakes and Reservoirs of Brazil, Canada, France, Mexico, and the United Kingdom

Safa Abbes , Sung Vo Duy , Gabriel Munoz , Quoc Tuc Dinh , Dana Simon et al.

Toxins, 2022, 14 (4), pp.251. ⟨10.3390/toxins14040251⟩

Article dans une revue hal-03960940v1

Selection of Anabaena sp. PCC 7938 as a Cyanobacterium Model for Biological ISRU on Mars

Tiago Ramalho , Guillaume Chopin , Olga Pérez-Carrascal , Nicolas Tromas , Cyprien Verseux

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2022, 88 (15), ⟨10.1128/aem.00594-22⟩

Article dans une revue hal-05182012v1

Single-colony sequencing reveals microbe-by-microbiome phylosymbiosis between the cyanobacterium Microcystis and its associated bacteria

Olga Pérez-Carrascal , Nicolas Tromas , Yves Terrat , Elisa Moreno , Alessandra Giani et al.

Microbiome, 2021, 9 (1), pp.194. ⟨10.1186/s40168-021-01140-8⟩

Article dans une revue hal-05182163v1
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Bioavailable Nutrients (N and P) and Precipitation Patterns Drive Cyanobacterial Blooms in Missisquoi Bay, Lake Champlain

Sukriye Celikkol , Nathalie Fortin , Nicolas Tromas , Herinandrianina Andriananjamanantsoa , Charles Greer

Microorganisms, 2021, 9 (10), pp.2097. ⟨10.3390/microorganisms9102097⟩

Article dans une revue hal-05182046v1

The evolution of realized niches within freshwater Synechococcus

Nicolas Tromas , Zofia Taranu , Mathieu Castelli , Juliana Pimentel , Daniel Pereira et al.

Environmental Microbiology, 2020, 22 (4), pp.1238-1250. ⟨10.1111/1462-2920.14930⟩

Article dans une revue hal-05183776v1
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Two cases of type-a Haemophilus influenzae meningitis within the same week in the same hospital are phylogenetically unrelated but recently exchanged capsule genes

Yves Terrat , Lauge Farnaes , John Bradley , Nicolas Tromas , B. Jesse Shapiro

Microbial Genomics, 2020, 6 (4), ⟨10.1099/mgen.0.000348⟩

Article dans une revue hal-05183778v1

Coherence of Microcystis species revealed through population genomics

Olga Pérez-Carrascal , Yves Terrat , Alessandra Giani , Nathalie Fortin , Charles Greer et al.

The International Society of Microbiologial Ecology Journal, 2019, 13 (12), pp.2887-2900. ⟨10.1038/s41396-019-0481-1⟩

Article dans une revue hal-05183782v1

Niche Separation Increases With Genetic Distance Among Bloom-Forming Cyanobacteria

Nicolas Tromas , Zofia Taranu , Bryan Martin , Amy Willis , Nathalie Fortin et al.

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018, 9, ⟨10.3389/fmicb.2018.00438⟩

Article dans une revue hal-05183818v1

Gut Microbiome of the Canadian Arctic Inuit

Catherine Girard , Nicolas Tromas , Marc Amyot , B. Jesse Shapiro

MSphere, 2017, 2 (1), ⟨10.1128/msphere.00297-16⟩

Article dans une revue hal-05183836v1

Characterising and predicting cyanobacterial blooms in an 8-year amplicon sequencing time course

Nicolas Tromas , Nathalie Fortin , Larbi Bedrani , Yves Terrat , Pedro Cardoso et al.

The International Society of Microbiologial Ecology Journal, 2017, 11 (8), pp.1746-1763. ⟨10.1038/ismej.2017.58⟩

Article dans une revue hal-05183829v1

Ecological selection of siderophore‐producing microbial taxa in response to heavy metal contamination

Elze Hesse , Siobhán O'Brien , Nicolas Tromas , Florian Bayer , Adela Luján et al.

Ecology Letters, 2017, 21 (1), pp.117-127. ⟨10.1111/ele.12878⟩

Article dans une revue hal-05183822v1

Environment and host species shape the skin microbiome of captive neotropical bats

Virginie Lemieux-Labonté , Nicolas Tromas , B. Jesse Shapiro , François-Joseph Lapointe

PeerJ, 2016, 4, pp.e2430. ⟨10.7717/peerj.2430⟩

Article dans une revue hal-05183840v1

Multiple Barriers to the Evolution of Alternative Gene Orders in a Positive-Strand RNA Virus

Anouk Willemsen , Mark Zwart , Nicolas Tromas , Eszter Majer , José-Antonio Daròs et al.

Genetics, 2016, 202 (4), pp.1503-1521. ⟨10.1534/genetics.115.185017⟩

Article dans une revue hal-05183848v1

Estimation of the in vivo recombination rate for a plant RNA virus

Nicolas Tromas , Mark Zwart , Maïté Poulain , Santiago Elena

Journal of General Virology, 2014, 95 (3), pp.724-732. ⟨10.1099/vir.0.060822-0⟩

Article dans une revue hal-05183873v1
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Within-host spatiotemporal dynamics of plant virus infection at the cellular level.

Nicolas Tromas , Mark P Zwart , Guillaume Lafforgue , Santiago F. Elena

PLoS Genetics, 2014, 10 (2), pp.e1004186. ⟨10.1371/journal.pgen.1004186⟩

Article dans une revue hal-02629906v1

Shrinkage of Genome Size in a Plant RNA Virus upon Transfer of an Essential Viral Gene into the Host Genome

Nicolas Tromas , Mark Zwart , Javier Forment , Santiago Elena

Genome Biology and Evolution, 2014, 6 (3), pp.538-550. ⟨10.1093/gbe/evu036⟩

Article dans une revue hal-05183866v1

Model-Selection-Based Approach for Calculating Cellular Multiplicity of Infection during Virus Colonization of Multi-Cellular Hosts

Mark Zwart , Nicolas Tromas , Santiago Elena

PLoS ONE, 2013, 8 (5), pp.e64657. ⟨10.1371/journal.pone.0064657⟩

Article dans une revue hal-05183878v1

Dynamics of the establishment of systemic Potyvirus infection: independent yet cumulative action of primary infection sites.

Guillaume Lafforgue , Nicolas Tromas , Santiago F Elena , Mark P Zwart

Journal of Virology, 2012, 86 (23), pp.12912-22. ⟨10.1128/JVI.02207-12⟩

Article dans une revue hal-02645738v1
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The evolutionary genetics of emerging plant RNA viruses.

Santiago F Elena , Stéphanie Bedhomme , Purificación Carrasco , José M Cuevas , Francisca de La Iglesia et al.

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 2011, 24 (3), pp.287-93. ⟨10.1094/MPMI-09-10-0214⟩

Article dans une revue hal-02644252v1

The Rate and Spectrum of Spontaneous Mutations in a Plant RNA Virus

Nicolas Tromas , Santiago Elena

Genetics, 2010, 185 (3), pp.983-989. ⟨10.1534/genetics.110.115915⟩

Article dans une revue hal-05183909v1