Dr. Emmanuelle Botte

Biography

Emmanuelle Botte is a marine microbial ecologist specializing in the characterization of microbiomes in marine invertebrates within ecological contexts. Born and raised in France, specifically in the Overseas French Territories such as Guadeloupe and Reunion Island, she has developed a passion for environmental issues, particularly concerning the threats to tropical marine ecosystems. Emmanuelle graduated with a Bachelor of Biochemistry from the University of Pau and Adour in France in 2004, and spent a semester at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales. She furthered her studies at the University Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, completing a Master's year focused on functional analysis of genomes. Additionally, she specialized in functional molecular ecology at the University of Perpignan via Domitia. Emmanuelle obtained her PhD in Tropical Marine Ecotoxicology from James Cook University in Townsville, Queensland. Following her graduation in 2010, she worked as a Technical Officer and Experimental Scientist in Marine Molecular Biology and Microbiology at the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) under the supervision of Professor Nicole Webster. In 2021, she resigned from AIMS to take a position as a Research Officer at the Centre for Marine Science Innovation at UNSW, working on a project funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

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