Tournebize Rémi – Diade

Rémi

Tournebize

Specialities

Population genetics

Function

Research Scientist

Team(s)

DYNADIV

Membership Institute

IRD

I use population genetics tools to study the history of domestication, examining both the human and plant components of the evolutionary process. The questions that interest me include: When, how, and under what population models were plants domesticated? When, where, and how did they spread? Were human migrations aligned with the dispersal of plants? Did domestication involve phenotypic and genetic changes in both the plants and the human populations that use them?

Keywords

Demographic inference
Evolutionary bioloogy
Population genomics
Ethnobotany
Domestication

Publications

Vishwakarma R., Sgarlata G. M., Soriano-Panos D., Rasteiro R., Maie T., Paixao T., Tournebize R., Chikhi L. 2025. Life history traits influence the dynamics of genetic diversity in a refugium population undergoing expansion and contraction. Molecular Ecology. 34(1). e17597.

Tournebize R., Chikhi L. 2024. Ignoring population structure in hominin evolutionary models can lead to the inference of spurious admixture events. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 9. 225-236.

Tournebize R., Borner L., Manel S., Meynard C., Vigouroux Y., Crouzillat D., Fournier C., Kassam M., Descombes P., Tranchant-Dubreuil C., Parrinello H., Kiwuka C., Sumirat U., Legnate H., Kambale J., Sonké B., Mahinga J. C., Musoli P., Janssens S. B., Stoffelen P., De Kochko A., Poncet V. 2022. Ecological and genomic vulnerability to climate change across native populations of Robusta coffee (Coffea canephora). Global Change Biology. 28(13). 4124-4142.

De Aquino Oliveira S., Kiwuka C., Tournebize R., Gain C., Marraccini P., Mariac C., Bethune K., Couderc M., Cubry P., Andrade A., Lepelley M., Darracq O., Crouzillat D., Anten N., Musoli P., Vigouroux Y., De Kochko A., Manel S., François O., Poncet V. 2022. Adaptive potential of Coffea canephora from Uganda in response to climate change. Molecular Ecology. 31(6). 1800-1819.

Kiwuka C., Goudsmit E., Tournebize R., De Aquino Oliveira S., Douma J. C., Bellanger L., Crouzillat D., Stoffelen P., Sumirat U., Legnate H., Marraccini P., De Kochko A., Carvalho Andrade A., Wasswa Mulumba J., Musoli P., Anten N. P. R., Poncet V. 2021. Genetic diversity of native and cultivated Ugandan Robusta coffee (Coffea canephora Pierre ex A. Froehner): Climate influences, breeding potential and diversity conservation. PLOS ONE. 16(2). e0245965.

Merot‐L'anthoene V., Tournebize R., Darracq O., Rattina V., Lepelley M., Bellanger L., Tranchant-Dubreuil C., Coulee M., Pegard M., Metairon S., Fournier C., Stoffelen P., Janssens S., Kiwuka C., Musoli P., Sumirat U., Legnate H., Kambale J., Ferreira Da Costa Neto J., Revel C., De Kochko A., Descombes P., Crouzillat D., Poncet V. 2019. Development and evaluation of a genome-wide Coffee 8.5K SNP array and its application for high-density genetic mapping and for investigating the origin of Coffea arabica L.. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 17(7). 1418-1430.

Poncet V., Birnbaum P., Burtet-Sarramegna V., De Kochko A., Fogliani B., Gateble G., Isnard S., Jaffre T., Job D., Munoz F., Munzinger J., Scutt C.P., Tournebize R., Trueba S., Pillon Y. 2019. Amborella – Bearing witness to the past?. Annual Plant Reviews Online. 2(3). 1-41.

Tournebize R., Poncet V., Jakobsson M., Vigouroux Y., Manel S. 2019. McSwan: A joint site frequency spectrum method to detect and date selective sweeps across multiple population genomes. Molecular Ecology Resources. 19(1). 283-295.