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Jérôme Comte

Areas of expertise

Microbial diversity and function , Arctic , Environmental genomics , Flow cytometry, , Limnology

  • Associate Professor

Eau Terre Environnement Research Centre

490 de la Couronne Street
Québec City, Quebec  G1K 9A9
CANADA

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Research interests

The main objective of Professor Comte research program is to identify the response mechanisms of microbial communities to environmental disturbances and assess the impacts on the structure, functioning, and services of aquatic ecosystems.

  • Microbial ecology
  • Microbial diversity and function
  • Ecosystem functioning
  • Microbial biogeography
  • Physiology of unicellular organisms
  • Climate change
  • Northern aquatic ecosystems

University education
B.Sc. Cellular Biology and Physiology, Université de Bourgogne (France)
M.Sc. Alpine Ecology, Université de Grenoble I and Université de Savoie (France)
Ph.D. Biology, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

 

Short biography
Before coming to INRS, Dr. Comte has worked as a scientist at the Canada Centre for Inland Waters of Environment and Climate change Canada in Ontario. Previously he had completed two postdoctoral training, one at the Department of Ecology and Genetics – Limnology at Uppsala University in Sweden and the other with Takuvik joint Université Laval (Quebec)/CNRS (France) Laboratory.

Publications

Ola, Anne, Gagnon, Samuel, Fortier, Daniel, Comte, Jérôme & Dominé, Florent (2024). Carbon dynamics in an alluvial fan in the eastern Canadian Arctic. Geoderma Regional, 38: art. e00841.
DOI: 10.1016/j.geodrs.2024.e00841

Crevecoeur, Sophie, Edge, Thomas A., Watson, Linet Cynthia, Watson, Susan B., Greer, Charles W., Ciborowski, Jan J. H., Diep, Ngan, Drouillard, Kenneth G., Frenken, Thijs, McKay, Robert Michael, Zastepa, Arthur & Comte, Jérôme (2023). Spatio-temporal connectivity of the aquatic microbiome associated with cyanobacterial blooms along a Great Lake riverine-lacustrine continuum. Frontiers in Microbiology, 14: Art. 1073753.
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1073753

Potvin, Marianne, Gauthier, Jeff, Langevin, Christophe, Mohit, Vani, Da Costa, Naíla B., Deschênes, Thomas, Pomerleau, Maude, Kukavica-Ibrulj, Irena, Verreault, Daniel, Comte, Jérôme & Lévesque, Roger C. (2023). Rapid on-site detection of harmful algal blooms (RosHAB): real-time cyanobacteria identification using Oxford Nanopore sequencing. Frontiers in Microbiology, 14: Art. 1267652.
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1267652

Reis, Paul C. J., Correa-Garcia, Sara, Tremblay, Julien, Beaulieu-Laliberté, Aurélie, Muench, Douglas G., Ahad, Jason M. E., Yergeau, Étienne, Comte, Jérôme & Martineau, Christine (2023). Microbial degradation of naphthenic acids using constructed wetland treatment systems: metabolic and genomic insights for improved bioremediation of process-affected water. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 99 (12): Art. fiad153.
DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiad153

Saros, Jasmine E., Arp, Christopher D., Bouchard, Frédéric, Comte, Jérôme, Couture, Raoul-Marie, Dean Joshua F., Lafrenière, Melissa, MacIntyre, Sally, McGowan, Suzanne, Rautio, Milla, Prater, Clay, Tank, Suzanne E., Walvoord, Michelle A., Wickland, Kimberly P., Antoniades, Dermot, Ayala-Borda, Paola, Canário, João, Drake, Travis W., Folhas, Diogo, Hazuková, Václava, Kivilä, Henriikka, Klanten, Yohanna, Lamoureux, Scott, Laurion, Isabelle, Pilla, Rachel M., Vonk, Jorien E., Zolkos, Scott & Vincent, Warwick F. (2023). Sentinel responses of Arctic freshwater systems to climate: linkages, evidence, and a roadmap for future research. Arctic Science / Science arctique, 9 (2) : 356-392.
DOI: 10.1139/AS-2022-0021

Saulnier-Talbot, Émilie, Duchesne, Eliane, Antoniades, Dermot, Arseneault, Dominique, Barnard, Christine, Berteaux, Dominique, Bhiry, Najat, Boudreau, Stéphane, Cazelles, Kevin, Comte, Jérôme, Corbeil-Robitaille, Madeline-Zoé, Côté, Steeve, Couture, Raoul-Marie, de la Fontaine, Guillaume, Dominé, Florent, Fauteux, Dominique, Fortier, Daniel, Garneau, Michelle, Gauthier, Gilles, Gravel, Dominique, Laurion, Isabelle, Lavoie, Martin, Lecomte, Nicolas, Legagneux, Pierre, Lévesque, Esther, Naud, Marie-José, Paquette, Michel, Payette, Serge, Pienitz, Reinhard, Rautio, Milla, Roy, Alexandre, Royer, Alain, Simard, Martin, Vincent, Warwick F. & Bety, Joël (2023). State shifts and divergent sensitivities to climate warming across northern ecosystems. Nature Portfolio, ONLINE.
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3026284/v1

Stalwick, Jordyn A., Ratelle, Mylène, Gurney, Kirsty E. B., Drysdale, Mallory, Lazarescu, Calin, Comte, Jérôme, Laird, Brian & Skinner, Kelly (2023). Sources of exposure to lead in Arctic and subarctic regions: a scoping review. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 82 (1): Art. 2208810.
DOI: 10.1080/22423982.2023.2208810

Zastepa, Arthur, Comte, Jérôme & Crevecoeur, Sophie (2023). Prevalence and ecological features of deep chlorophyll layers in Lake of the Woods, a complex hydrological system with strong trophic, physical, and chemical gradients. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 49 (1): 122-133.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jglr.2022.09.007

Fonseca Coelho, Lígia, Couceiro, Joana Fernandes, Keller-Costa, Tina, Martinez Valente, Sara, Pereirinha Ramalho, Tiago, Carneiro, Joana, Comte, Jérôme, Blais, Marie-Amélie, Vincent, Warwick F., Martins, Zina, Canário, João & Costa, Rodrigo (2022). Structural shifts in sea ice prokaryotic communities across a salinity gradient in the subarctic. Science of The Total Environment, 827: Art. 154286.
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154286

Jungblut, Anne, Velazquez, David, Cirés, Samuel, Kleinteich, Julia, Padinchati, Krishnan Kottekkatu, Sattler, Birgit & Comte, Jérôme (2022). Editorial: Digitizing frozen earth-revealing microbial diversity and physiology in the cryobiosphere through “omics” tools, volume II. Frontiers in Microbiology, 13: Art. 1013398.
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.1013398

Lizotte, Martine, Juhls, Bennet, Matsuoka, Atsushi, Massicotte, Philippe, Mével, Gaëlle, Anikina, David Obie James, Antonova, Sofia, Bécu, Guislain, Béguin, Marine, Bélanger, Simon, Bossé-Demers, Thomas, Bröder, Lisa, Bruyant, Flavienne, Chaillou, Gwenaëlle, Comte, Jérôme, Couture, Raoul-Marie, Devred, Emmanuel, Deslongchamps, Gabrièle, Dezutter, Thibaud, Dillon, Miles, Doxaran, David, Flamand, Aude, Fell, Frank, Ferland, Joannie, Forget, Marie-Hélène, Fritz, Michael, Gordon, Thomas J., Guilmette, Caroline, Hilborn, Andrea, Hussherr, Rachel, Irish, Charlotte, Joux, Fabien, Kipp, Lauren, Laberge-Carigan, Audrey, Lantuit, Hugues, Leymarie, Edouard, Mannino, Antonio, Maury, Juliette, Overduin, Paul, Oziel, Laurent, Stedmon, Colin, Thomas, Crystal, Tisserand, Lucas, Tremblay, Jean-Éric, Vonk, Jorien, Whalen, Dustin & Babin, Marcel (2022). Nunataryuk field campaigns: Understanding the origin and fate of terrestrial organic matter in the coastal waters of the Mackenzie Delta region. Earth System Science Data Discussion, ONLINE.
DOI: 10.5194/essd-2022-163

Ola, Anne, Fortier, Daniel, Coulombe, Stéphanie, Comte, Jérôme & Domine, Florent (2022). The distribution of soil carbon and nitrogen stocks among dominant geomorphological terrain units in Qarlikturvik Valley, Bylot Island, Arctic Canada. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 127 (7): Art. e2021JG006750.
DOI: 10.1029/2021JG006750

Bruhn, Anders Dalhoff, Stedmon, Colin A., Comte, Jérôme, Matsuoka, Atsushi, Speetjens, Neik Jesse, Tanski, George, Vonk, Jorien E. & Sjöstedt, Johanna (2021). Terrestrial dissolved organic matter mobilized from eroding permafrost controls microbial community composition and growth in Arctic Coastal zonesFront. Earth Sci., 9: Art. 640580.
DOI: 10.3389/feart.2021.640580

Gutierrez-Villagomez, Juan Manuel, Patey, Géraldine, To, Tuan Anh, Lefebvre-Raine, Molly, Lara-Jacobo, Linda Ramona, Comte, Jérôme, Klein, Bert & Langlois, Valérie S. (2021). Frogs respond to commercial formulations of the biopesticide Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis, especially their intestine microbiotaEnviron. Sci. Technol., 55 (18): 12504-12516.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c02322

Edge, Thomas A.; Baird, Donald J.; Bilodeau, Guillaume; Gagné, Nellie; Greer, Charles; Konkin, David; Newton, Glen; Séguin, Armand; Beaudette, Lee; Bilkhu, Satpal; Bush, Alexander; Chen, Wen; Comte, Jérôme; Condie, Janet; Crevecoeur, Sophie; El-Kayssi, Nazir; Emilson, Erik J. S.; Fancy, Donna-Lee; Kandalaft, Iyad; Khan, Izhar U. H.; King, Ian; Kreutzweiser, David; Lapen, David; Lawrence, John; Lowe, Christine; Lung, Olivier; Martineau, Christine; Meier, Matthew; Ogden, Nicholas; Paré, David; Phillips, Lori; Porter, Teresita M.; Sachs, Joel; Staley, Zachery; Steeves, Royce; Venier, Lisa; Veres, Teodor; Watson, Cynthia & Macklin, James (2020). The Ecobiomics project: Advancing metagenomics assessment of soil health and freshwater quality in Canada. Sci. Total Environ., 710: Art. 135906.
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135906

Comte, Jérôme; Culley, Alexander; Lovejoy, Connie & Vincent, Warwick F. (2018). Microbial connectivity and sorting in a High Arctic watershed. ISME J., 12: 2988-3000.
DOI: 10.1038/s41396-018-0236-4

Lévesque, Alice V.; Vincent, Warwick F.; Comte, Jérôme; Lovejoy, Connie & Culley, Alexander I. (2018). Chlorovirus and myovirus diversity in permafrost thaw ponds. Aquat. Microb. Ecol., 82 (2): 209-224.
DOI: 10.3354/ame01893

Comte J, Berga M, Severin I, Logue JB & Lindström ES (2017) Contribution of different bacterial dispersal sources to lakes: Population and community effects in different seasons. Environ. Microbiol. 19 (6): 2391-2404.
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13749

Comte J, Langenheder S, Berga M & Lindstrom ES (2017) Contribution of different dispersal sources to the metabolic response of lake bacterioplankton following a salinity change. Environ. Microbiol. 19 (1): 251-260.
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13593

Crevecoeur S, Vincent WF, Comte J, Matveev A & Lovejoy C (2017) Diversity and potential activity of methanotrophs in high methane-emitting permafrost thaw ponds. PLoS One 12 (11).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0188223

Comte J, Lovejoy C, Crevecoeur S & Vincent WF (2016) Co-occurrence patterns in aquatic bacterial communities across changing permafrost landscapes. Biogeosciences 13 (1): 175-190.
DOI: 10.5194/bg-13-175-2016

Comte J, Monier A, Crevecoeur S, Lovejoy C & Vincent WF (2016) Microbial biogeography of permafrost thaw ponds across the changing northern landscape. Ecography 39 (7): 609-618.
DOI: 10.1111/ecog.01667

Langenheder S, Comte J, Zha Y, Samad MS, Sinclair L, Eiler A & Lindstrom ES (2016) Remnants of marine bacterial communities can be retrieved from deep sediments in lakes of marine origin. Environ. Microbiol. Rep. 8 (4): 479-485.
DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12392

Przytulska, Anna; Comte, Jérôme; Crevecoeur, Sophie; Lovejoy, Connie; Laurion, Isabelle & Vincent, Warwick F. (2016). Phototrophic pigment diversity and picophytoplankton in permafrost thaw lakes. Biogeosciences, 13 (1): 13-26.
DOI: 10.5194/bg-13-13-2016

Zha Y, Berga M, Comte J & Langenheder S (2016) Effects of dispersal and initial diversity on the composition and functional performance of bacterial communities. PLoS One 11 (5).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0155239

Crevecoeur S, Vincent WF, Comte J & Lovejoy C (2015) Bacterial community structure across environmental gradients in permafrost thaw ponds: Methanotroph-rich ecosystems. Front. Microbiol. 6.
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00192

Logue JB, Findlay SEG & Comte J (2015) Editorial: Microbial responses to environmental changes. Front. Microbiol. 6.
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01364

Monier A, Comte J, Babin M, Forest A, Matsuoka A & Lovejoy C (2015) Oceanographic structure drives the assembly processes of microbial eukaryotic communities. ISME J. 9: 990-1002.
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2014.197