Besseiche Margot

Margot

Besseiche

Specialities

Evolutionary biology

Function

PhD Student

Membership Institute

UM

In my thesis, I am studying the spread of date palms in the West using genomics and archaeogenomics. My projects are also in collaboration with researchers from the BioArch laboratory at the MNHN, the Purugganan Lab at NYU, and the BioArCh laboratory at the University of York.

Keywords

<i>Phoenix dactylifera</i>
Population (archaeo)genomics
Evolution
Domestication
Agrobiodiversity

Publications

Besseiche M., Chambraud E., Dabrowski V., Brandstatt E., Sabot F., Bouchaud C., Gros-Balthazard M. 2025. DateBack, an evolving open-access repository of Phoenix archaeobotanical data supporting new perspectives on the history of date palm cultivation. Peer Community Journal. 5. e55.

Fuks D., Schmidt F., Garcia‐Collado M., Besseiche M., Payne N., Bosi G., Bouchaud C., Castiglioni E., Dabrowski V., Frumin S., Fuller D., Hovsepyan R., Muthukumaran S., Pena-Chocarro L., Jorda G., Ros J., Rottoli M., Ryan P., Spengler R., Stevens C., Valamoti S., Weiss E., Alexander M., Gros-Balthazard M. 2024. Orphan crops of archaeology‐based crop history research. Plants, People, Planet. 7(3). 562-589.