Title: Professor, Research Chair
Affiliation: University of Ottawa - Department of Biology
Email: ncorradi@uottawa.ca
Phone: 613-5625800-6563
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Nicolas Corradi started his scientific career studying biology at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He then went on to do a PhD, studying genome evolution on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Following his PhD, Nicolas received two consecutive postdoctoral fellowships from the Swiss National Foundation to work at the University of British Columbia, Canada, on the evolutionary genomics of intracellular parasites of animals called Microsporidia. It was here that Nicolas further developed his interest in genome analysis, which he applied to understand the biology of AMF and Microsporidia in his first academic PI position at the University of Ottawa, Canada. During 13 successful years as PI, Nicolas helped establish an internationally renowned research team studying microbial genomics and evolution of prominent plant symbionts and ubiquitous animal pathogens, receiving a Fellowship from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) and a University Chair in Microbial Genomics.