Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe

Financement

• Subvention. Integrating root-to-shoot signalling in studies of plant-microbe interactions with synthetic communities. Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Nature et Technologies (Québec, Canada). 225 000 $. (2024-2027).
• Subvention. Utilisation d'analyses génomiques et phylogénétiques pour mesurer l'impact des pratiques agricoles sur les communautés bactériennes et fongiques du sol et des racines des plantes. Réseau Québécois de Recherche en Agriculture Durable (Montréal, Canada). 15 000 $. (2024).
• Subvention. Centre SÈVE. Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Nature et Technologies (Montreal, Canada). 3 000 000 $. (2024-2030).
  Numéro de subvention : 341040. Voir plus
• Subvention. Combining Innovative Genomic and Bioinformatic Solutions to Identify Novel Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Environmental Resistomes. Génome Québec (QC, Canada). 800 000 $. (2023-2026).
• Subvention. Étude de la coévolution entre plantes et mycobiomes. Centre Sève (QC, Canada). 15 000 $. (2023-2024).
• Subvention. Microbiote et interactions des bactéries dans la rhizosphère du soya: élaboration de communautés synthétiques à partir de sols québécois. Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Nature et Technologies (Québec, Canada). 150 000 $. (2023-2026).
• Subvention. Centre d'Étude de la Forêt(CEF). Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Nature et Technologies (Québec, Canada). 3 000 000 $. (2023-2026).
• Subvention. There's something in the air: disentangling the role of airborne microbes and pollutants in the inflammatory response of asthma along a latitudinal gradient in Canada. Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Nature et Technologies (Québec, Canada). 225 000 $. (2022-2025).
• Subvention. Nouvelles initiatives recherche CEF. Centre d'Étude de la Forêt (Québec, Canada). 15 000 $. (2022).
• Subvention. Emerging COVID-19 Research Gaps and Priorities. Canadian Institutes of Health Research (ON, Canada). 999 810 $. (2021-2022).
• Subvention. Urban pollen: sampling, identification, and forecasting. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, Canada). 307 000 $. (2021-2024).
• Subvention. Impact des interactions plante-microbes sur les fonctions des écosystèmes terrestres. Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Nature et Technologies (Québec, Canada). 126 200 $. (2021-2023).
• Subvention. Étude des végétaux rustiques de la Fosse du Labrador pour adresser l'érosion éolienne et établir un couvert végétal sur les parcs à résidus nordiques. Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Nature et Technologies (Québec, Canada). 381 000 $. (2021-2024).
• Subvention. Do urban trees affect human respiratory health and autoimmune diseases through microbiomes, air contaminants, and allergens?. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (ON, Canada). 250 000 $. (2021-2023).
• Subvention. Metabolic and genetic elements controlling plant-microbe interactions. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, Canada). 30 000 $. (2021-2022).
• Subvention. Optimisation de la détection des pollens en milieu urbain. Ministère de la Santé et des Services Sociaux (Québec, Canada). 145 927 $. (2020-2021).
• Subvention. Acquisition of a focused-ultrasonicator system. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 124 105 $. (2020-2021).
  Numéro de subvention : RTI-2021-00702. Voir plus
• Subvention. Manipulation du microenvironnement par des agents phytopathogènes et contre-défense par les plantes. Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Nature et Technologies (Québec, Canada). 150 000 $. (2020-2023).
• Subvention. Startup. Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Sherbrooke Inc (Sherbrooke, Canada). 50 000 $. (2020).
• Subvention. Applied Microbial Ecology. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Sherbrooke, Canada). Canada Research Chair Tier II. 1 100 000 $. (2020-2030).
• Subvention. John R. Evans Leaders Fund - Infrastructure for Applied Microbial Ecology of Plant-Microbe Interactions. Canada Foundation for Innovation (Ottawa, Canada). 324 950 $. (2020-2021).
• Subvention. Startup. Université de Sherbrooke (Sherbrooke, Canada). 146 000 $. (2020).
• Subvention salariée. Early-life infant gut dysbiosis: characterizing the role of the fungal community on pediatric asthma development. Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation (AB, Canada). Fellowship for Postdoctoral Research. 50 000 $. (2017-2018).
• Subvention salariée. Cumming School of Medicine Excellence Fellowship. University of Calgary (AB, Canada). Fellowship. 25 000 $. (2017-2018).
• Subvention. Linking sugar maple root microbiome structure with seedling establishment across a species range. Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science (Montreal, Canada). QCBS Seed Grant R2. 5 000 $. (2016).

Publications

Articles

• Charles Roussin‐Léveillée, Méliane St‐Amand, Philippe Desbiens‐Fortin, Rosaëlle Perreault, Antoine Pelletier, Sabrina Gauthier, Faye Gaudreault‐Lafleur, Isabelle Laforest‐Lapointe, Peter Moffett. (2025). Co‐occurrence of chloroplastic ROS production and salicylic acid induction in plant immunity. New Phytologist. DOI
• Sophie Boutin, Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe. (2025). Reproducing plant microbiome research reveals site and time as key drivers of apple tree phyllosphere bacterial communities. Scientific Reports. DOI
• Sarah Ishak, Jonathan Rondeau-Leclaire, Maria Faticov, Sébastien Roy, Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe. (2024). Boreal moss-microbe interactions are revealed through metagenome assembly of novel bacterial species. Scientific Reports. DOI
• Sophie Boutin, Ema Lussier, Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe. (2024). Investigating the spatiotemporal dynamics of apple tree phyllosphere bacterial and fungal communities across cultivars in orchards. Canadian Journal of Microbiology. DOI
• Joey Chamard, Maria Faticov, F. Guillaume Blanchet, Pierre-Luc Chagnon, Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe. (2024). Interplay of biotic and abiotic factors shapes tree seedling growth and root-associated microbial communities. Communications Biology. DOI
• Abdonaser Poursalavati, Vahid J. Javaran, Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe, Mamadou L. Fall. (2023). Soil Metatranscriptomics: An Improved RNA Extraction Method Toward Functional Analysis Using Nanopore Direct RNA Sequencing. Phytobiomes Journal. DOI
• Gaële Lajeunesse, Charles Roussin-Léveillée, Sophie Boutin, Élodie Fortin, Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe, Peter Moffett. (2023). Light prevents pathogen-induced aqueous microenvironments via potentiation of salicylic acid signaling. Nature Communications. DOI
• Marie Renaudin, Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe, Jean-Philippe Bellenger. (2022). Unraveling global and diazotrophic bacteriomes of boreal forest floor feather mosses and their environmental drivers at the ecosystem and at the plant scale in North America. Science of The Total Environment. DOI
• Tonia De Bellis, Isabelle Laforest‐Lapointe, Kevin A. Solarik, Dominique Gravel, Steven W. Kembel. (2022). Regional variation drives differences in microbial communities associated with sugar maple across a latitudinal range. Ecology. DOI
• Rosaëlle Perreault, Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe. (2021). Plant-microbe interactions in the phyllosphere: facing challenges of the anthropocene. The ISME Journal. DOI
• Manijeh Mahdavi, Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe, Eric Massé. (2021). Preventing Colorectal Cancer through Prebiotics. Microorganisms. DOI
• Teja Klancic, Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe, Jolene Wong, Ashley Choo, Jodi E. Nettleton, Faye Chleilat, Marie-Claire Arrieta, Raylene A. Reimer. (2021). Concurrent Prebiotic Intake Reverses Insulin Resistance Induced by Early-Life Pulsed Antibiotic in Rats. Biomedicines. DOI
• Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe, Allan B. Becker, Piushkumar J. Mandhane, Stuart E. Turvey, Theo J. Moraes, Malcolm R. Sears, Padmaja Subbarao, Laura K. Sycuro, Meghan B. Azad, Marie-Claire Arrieta. (2021). Maternal consumption of artificially sweetened beverages during pregnancy is associated with infant gut microbiota and metabolic modifications and increased infant body mass index. Gut Microbes. DOI
• Alya Heirali, Christina Thornton, Nicole Acosta, Ranjani Somayaji, Isabelle Laforest Lapointe, Douglas Storey, Harvey Rabin, Barbara Waddell, Laura Rossi, Marie Claire Arrieta, Michael Surette, Michael D Parkins. (2020). Sputum microbiota in adults with CF associates with response to inhaled tobramycin. Thorax. DOI
• Klancic T, Laforest-Lapointe I, Choo A, Nettleton JE, Chleilat F, Noye Tuplin EW, Alukic E, Cho NA, Nicolucci AC, Arrieta MC, Reimer RA. (2020). Prebiotic Oligofructose Prevents Antibiotic-Induced Obesity Risk and Improves Metabolic and Gut Microbiota Profiles in Rat Dams and Offspring. Molecular nutrition & food research. DOI
• van Tilburg Bernardes, E., Pettersen, V.K., Gutierrez, M.W., Laforest-Lapointe, I., Jendzjowsky, N.G., Cavin, J.-B., Vicentini, F.A., Keenan, C.M., Ramay, H.R., Samara, J., MacNaughton, W.K., Wilson, R.J.A., Kelly, M.M., McCoy, K.D., Sharkey, K.A., Arrieta, M.-C. (2020). Intestinal fungi are causally implicated in microbiome assembly and immune development in mice. Nature Communications. DOI
• Isabelle Laforest‐Lapointe, Briana K. Whitaker. (2019). Decrypting the phyllosphere microbiota: progress and challenges. American Journal of Botany. DOI
• Heirali, A.A., Acosta, N., Storey, D.G., Workentine, M.L., Somayaji, R., Laforest-Lapointe, I., Leung, W., Quon, B.S., Berthiaume, Y., Rabin, H.R., Waddell, B.J., Rossi, L., Surette, M.G., Parkins, M.D. (2019). The effects of cycled inhaled aztreonam on the cystic fibrosis (CF) lung microbiome. Journal of Cystic Fibrosis. DOI
• Jessica Wallace, Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe, Steven W. Kembel. (2018). Variation in the leaf and root microbiome of sugar maple (Acer saccharum) at an elevational range limit. PeerJ. DOI
• Clara Ruiz-González, Esther Archambault, Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe, Paul A del Giorgio, Steven W Kembel, Christian Messier, Charles A Nock, Beatrix E Beisner. (2018). Soils associated to different tree communities do not elicit predictable responses in lake bacterial community structure and function. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. DOI
• Nieves-Ramírez ME, Partida-Rodríguez O, Laforest-Lapointe I, Reynolds LA, Brown EM, Valdez-Salazar A, Morán-Silva P, Rojas-Velázquez L, Morien E, Finlay BB. (2018). Asymptomatic Intestinal Colonization with Protist Blastocystis Is Strongly Associated with Distinct Microbiome Ecological Patterns. mSystems. DOI
• Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe, Marie-Claire Arrieta. (2018). Microbial Eukaryotes: a Missing Link in Gut Microbiome Studies. mSystems. DOI
• Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe, Marie-Claire Arrieta. (2017). Patterns of Early-Life Gut Microbial Colonization during Human Immune Development: An Ecological Perspective. Frontiers in Immunology. DOI
• Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe, Alain Paquette, Christian Messier, Steven W. Kembel. (2017). Leaf bacterial diversity mediates plant diversity and ecosystem function relationships. Nature. DOI
• St-Denis, A., Kneeshaw, D., Bélanger, N., Simard, S., Laforest-Lapointe, I., Messier, C. (2017). Species-specific responses to forest soil inoculum in planted trees in an abandoned agricultural field. Applied Soil Ecology. DOI
• Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe, Christian Messier, Steven W. Kembel. (2017). Tree Leaf Bacterial Community Structure and Diversity Differ along a Gradient of Urban Intensity. mSystems. DOI
• Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe, Christian Messier, Steven W. Kembel. (2016). Tree phyllosphere bacterial communities: exploring the magnitude of intra- and inter-individual variation among host species. PeerJ. DOI
• Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe, Christian Messier, Steven W. Kembel. (2016). Host species identity, site and time drive temperate tree phyllosphere bacterial community structure. Microbiome. DOI
• (2015). Present forest management structures and policies in temperate forests of Mexico: Challenges and prospects for unique tree species assemblages. The Forestry Chronicle.
• Laforest-Lapointe, I., Martínez-Vilalta, J., Retana, J. (2014). Intraspecific variability in functional traits matters: Case study of Scots pine. Oecologia. DOI

Autres contributions

Cours enseignés à l'UdeS

• BIO106 - Biostatistiques. (2024-2025). (3CR).

Divers

• Laforest-Lapointe I, Becker AB, Mandhane PJ, Turvey SE, Moraes TJ, Sears MR, Subbarao P, Sycuro LK, Azad MB, Arrieta M. (2020). Consumption of artificially sweetened beverages during pregnancy impacts infant gut microbiota and body mass index.
• van Tilburg Bernardes E, Pettersen VK, Gutierrez MW, Laforest-Lapointe I, Jendzjowsky NG, Cavin J, Vicentini FA, Keenan CM, Ramay HR, Samara J, Arrieta M. (2019). Contribution of fungal microbiome to intestinal physiology, early-life immune development and mucosal inflammation in mice.
• Partida-Rodriguez O, Nieves-Ramirez M, Laforest-Lapointe I, Brown E, Parfrey L, Reynolds L, Valadez-Salazar A, Thorson L, Morán P, Gonzalez E, Finlay B. (2019). Exposure to parasitic protists and helminths changes the intestinal community structure of bacterial microbiota but not of eukaryotes in a cohort of mother-child binomial from a semi-rural setting in Mexico.
• Gaële Lajeunesse, Charles Roussin-Léveillée, Sophie Boutin, Élodie Fortin, Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe, Peter Moffett. Light prevents pathogen-induced aqueous microenvironments via potentiation of salicylic acid signaling.