Demoulin, C., Sforna, M.-C., Lara, Y., Cornet, Y., Somogyi, A., Medjoubi, K., Grolimund, D., Sanchez, D. F., Tachoueres, R. T., Addad, A., Fadel, A., Compère, P., & Javaux, E. (16 February 2024). Polysphaeroides filiformis, a proterozoic cyanobacterial microfossil and implications for cyanobacteria evolution. iScience, 27 (2), 108865. doi:10.1016/j.isci.2024.108865 |
Demoulin, C., Lara, Y., Lambion, A., & Javaux, E. (January 2024). Oldest thylakoids in fossil cells directly evidence oxygenic photosynthesis. Nature, 625 (7995), 529 - 534. doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06896-7 |
Malaterre, C., Ten Kate, I. L., Baqué, M., Debaille, V., Grenfell, J. L., Javaux, E., Khawaja, N., Klenner, F., Lara, Y., McMahon, S., Moore, K., Noack, L., Patty, C. H. L., & Postberg, F. (10 November 2023). Is There Such a Thing as a Biosignature? Astrobiology, 23 (11), 1213 - 1227. doi:10.1089/ast.2023.0042 |
Pessi, I. S., Popin, R. V., Durieu, B., Lara, Y., Tytgat, B., Savaglia, V., Roncero-Ramos, B., Hultman, J., Verleyen, E., Vyverman, W., & Wilmotte, A. (July 2023). Novel diversity of polar Cyanobacteria revealed by genome-resolved metagenomics. Microbial Genomics, 9 (7), 001056. doi:10.1099/mgen.0.001056 |
Lara, Y., Demoulin, C., Vansteenkiste, A., & Javaux, E. (11 May 2023). Cyanobacterial photoprotective pigments as example of robust signatures of life [Poster presentation]. BEACON 2023 Biennal European Astrobiology Conference, Fuencaliente, La Palma, Spain. |
Loes Ten Kate, I., Malaterre, C., Bacqué, M., Debaille, V., Lee Grenfell, J., Javaux, E., Klenner, F., Lara, Y., Mcmahon, S., Moore, K., Noack, L., Khawaja, N., Patty, L., & Postberg, F. (2023). On biosignatures and tracers of life [Paper presentation]. European Astrobiology Institute Beacon 2023, La Palma, Spain. |
Hoff, G., Arias, A. A., Boubsi, F., Prsic, J., Meyer, T., Ibrahim, H. M. M., Steels, S., Luzuriaga, P., Legras, A., Franzil, L., Lequart-Pillon, M., Rayon, C., Osorio, V., De Pauw, E., Lara, Y., Deboever, E., de Coninck, B., Jacques, P., Deleu, M., ... Ongena, M. (2021). Surfactin Stimulated by Pectin Molecular Patterns and Root Exudates Acts as a Key Driver of the Bacillus-Plant Mutualistic Interaction. MBio, 12 (6). doi:10.1128/mBio.01774-21 |
Ahn, A.-C., Cornet, L., Beets, K., Lara, Y., Durieu, B., Javaux, E., Baurain, D., & Wilmotte, A. (18 October 2019). Biodiversity of Cyanobacteria and associated microbiome in the BCCM/ULC Culture Collection [Poster presentation]. 2019 Symposium of the Belgian Society for Microbiology, Bruxelles, Belgium. |
Wilmotte, A., Beets, K., Simons, V., Lara, Y., Durieu, B., Cornet, L., & Baurain, D. (27 August 2019). BCCM/ULC : genomic research on Polar cyanobacteria. European Journal of Phycology, 54 (sup1), 31-117. doi:10.1080/09670262.2019.1626627 |
Ahn, A.-C., Beets, K., Lara, Y., Durieu, B., Simons, V., Cornet, L., Baurain, D., & Wilmotte, A. (13 June 2019). Cyanobacteria of Polar Regions: Focus of the BCCM/ULC Culture Collection [Poster presentation]. ECCO 2019 XXXVIII Annual Meeting of the European Culture Collections' Organisation, Turin, Italy. |
Demoulin, C.* , Lara, Y.* , Cornet, L., François, C., Baurain, D., Wilmotte, A., & Javaux, E. (2019). Cyanobacteria evolution: Insight from the fossil record. Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 140, 206-223. doi:10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2019.05.007 * These authors have contributed equally to this work. |
Pessi, I. S., Puschkareva, E., Lara, Y., Borderie, F., Wilmotte, A., & Elster, J. (January 2019). Marked Succession of Cyanobacterial Communities Following Glacier Retreat in the High Arctic. Microbial Ecology, 77, 136-147. doi:10.1007/s00248-018-1203-3 |
Lara, Y., Durieu, B., Javaux, E., & Wilmotte, A. (18 December 2018). Adaptations to extreme conditions: the strategy of the Antarctic cyanobacterium ULC007 [Paper presentation]. Annual meeting of the FRS-FNRS Contact Group “Astrobiology: from stars and planets to extreme life”, Liège, Belgium. |
Lara, Y., Wilmotte, A., Sivonen, K., De Bellis, G., Kuuppo, P., Ventura, S., Montarani, B., Henderson, P., Hoffmann, L., Zalewski, M., & Komárek, J. (2018). Metadata compilation for the MIDI-CHIP dataset. Freshwater Metadata Journal. doi:10.15504/fmj.2018.37 |
Wilmotte, A., Santoro, M., Beets, K., Lara, Y., Durieu, B., Simons, V., Silva-Stenico, E., De Fiore, M., Cornet, L., & Baurain, D. (October 2018). Ex-situ conservation and exploration of polar cyanobacteria in the BCCM/ULC Collection [Poster presentation]. BSM 2018 Annual Symposium "Microbes in the spotlight", Brussels, Belgium. |
Lara, Y., & Wilmotte, A. (2018). The MIDICHIP database. |
Wilmotte, A., Beets, K., Simons, V., Lara, Y., Durieu, B., Cornet, L., Baurain, D., & Laughinghouse IV, H. (June 2018). Ex-situ Conservation of Polar Cyanobacteria in the BCCM/ULC Collection [Poster presentation]. POLAR 2018 'Where the Poles come together', Davos, Switzerland. |
Santoro, M., Chaerle, P., Lara, Y., Durieu, B., Beets, K., Chepurnova, O., Simons, V., Vyverman, W., & Wilmotte, A. (May 2018). Keeping microalgae safe and available [Poster presentation]. Algal Research for Policy-Making and Biotech Symposium, Oban, United Kingdom. |
Demoulin, C., Lara, Y., François, C., & Javaux, E. (21 March 2018). Biosignatures of modern and fossil cyanobacteria [Poster presentation]. COST Life Origins Workshop 2018, Bertinoro. |
Lara, Y., Beets, K., Simons, V., Durieu, B., Cornet, L., Santoro, M., Laughinghouse IV, H., Javaux, E., Baurain, D., & Wilmotte, A. (March 2018). Polar cyanobacteria in the BCCM/ULC collection : diversity and characterization [Poster presentation]. COST Life Origin Final Workshop, Bertinoro, Italy. |
Lara, Y., Durieu, B., Pessi, I., Cornet, L., Baurain, D., Javaux, E., & Wilmotte, A. (March 2018). The survival toolkit of the Antarctic cyanobacterium Phormidesmis priestleyi ULC007 [Paper presentation]. COST Life Origin Final Workshop, Bertinoro, Italy. |
Cornet, L., Meunier, L., Van Vlierberghe, M., Léonard, R., Durieu, B., Lara, Y., Misztak, A., Sirjacobs, D., Javaux, E., Philippe, H., Wilmotte, A., & Baurain, D. (2018). Consensus assessment of the contamination level of publicly available cyanobacterial genomes. PLoS ONE, 13 (7), 0200323. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0200323 |
Pessi, I. S., Lara, Y., Durieu, B., Maalouf, P., Verleyen, E., & Wilmotte, A. (2018). Community structure and distribution of benthic cyanobacteria in Antarctic lacustrine microbial mats. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 94 (5), 042. doi:10.1093/femsec/fiy042 |
Lara, Y., & Wilmotte, A. (2017). Molecular dataset from the European project MIDI-CHIP ( EVK2-CT-1999-00026). |
Wilmotte, A., Durieu, B., Lara, Y., Obbels, D., Stelmach Pessi, I., Pinseel, E., Sweetlove, M., Tytgat, B., Van De Putte, A., Van De Vijver, B., Verleyen, E., Vyverman, W., & Willems, A. (2017). Diversity and biogeography of microorganisms in microbial mats of Antarctic lakes. In A. Van de Putte (Ed.), Book of abstracts: XIIth SCAR Biology Symposium, Leuven, Belgium, 10-14 July 2017 (pp. 199). SCAR. |
Lara, Y., Durieu, B., Cornet, L., Verlaine, O., Rippka, R., Stelmach Pessi, I., Misztak, A., Joris, B., Javaux, E., Baurain, D., & Wilmotte, A. (2017). Draft genome sequence of the axenic strain Phormidesmis priestleyi ULC007, a cyanobacterium isolated from Lake Bruehwiler (Larsemann Hills, Antarctica). Genome Announcements, 01546-16. doi:10.1128/genomeA.01546-16 |
Lara, Y., De Wever, A., Verniers, G., Pirlot, S., Viroux, L., Leporcq, B., Vanormelingen, P., Van Wichelen, J., Van der Gucht, K., Peretyatko, A., Tessier, S., Lambion, A., Reilly, M., Menzel, D., Wojnicz, A., Codd, G., Triest, L., Vyverman, W., Descy, J.-P., & Wilmotte, A. (2017). Metadata compilation for the B-BLOOMS2 dataset: Cyanobacterial bloom monitoring. Freshwater Metadata Journal, 28, 1-8. doi:10.15504/fmj.2017.28 |
Lara, Y., & Wilmotte, A. (2017). Molecular dataset from BELSPO project B-BLOOMS 2. |
Laughinghouse, H. D., Müller, K., Adey, W., Lara, Y., Young, R., & Jonhson, G. (02 December 2015). Evolution of the Northern Rockweed, Fucus distichus, in a Regime of Glacial Cycling: Implications for Benthic Algal Phylogenetics. PLoS ONE, 10 (12), 0143795. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0143795 |
Lara, Y., Verlaine, O., Kleinteich, J., Stelmach Pessi, I., Rippka, R., Renard, M., Cornet, L., Baurain, D., & Wilmotte, A. (03 August 2015). Genome sequencing of an endemic filamentous Antarctic cyanobacterium [Poster presentation]. 15th International Symposium on Phototrophic Prokaryotes, Tubingen, Germany. |
Wilmotte, A., Renard, M., Lara, Y., Cornet, L., Baurain, D., Waleron, M., & Waleron, K. (03 August 2015). The BCCM/ULC collection : a Biological Ressource Center for polar cyanobacteria [Poster presentation]. 15th International Symposium on Phototrophic Prokaryotes, Tubingen, Germany. |
Wilmotte, A., & Lara, Y. (03 July 2015). Basics on cyanobacterial genetics [Paper presentation]. Advanced course on Cyanobacteria and Cyanotoxins, Madrid, Spain. |
Lara, Y. (2014). MOLECULAR TOOLS APPLIED TO THE STUDY OF MICROCYSTIN-PRODUCING CYANOBACTERIA IN BELGIAN WATERBODIES [Doctoral thesis, ULiège - Université de Liège]. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/172447 |
Wilmotte, A., Renard, M., Ould Amer, Y., Lara, Y., Laughinghouse, H. D., Calusinska, M., Silva-Stenico, M. E., Genuario, D., Fiore, M., Waleron, M., & Waleron, K. (July 2013). Study and conservation of Antarctic cyanobacterial diversity in the BCCM/ULC collection [Poster presentation]. 11th SCAR Biology Symposium (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research), Barcelona, Spain. |
Lara, Y., Lambion, A., Menzel, D., Codd, G., & Wilmotte, A. (28 May 2013). A cultivation-independent approach for the genetic and cyanotoxin characterization of colonial cyanobacteria. Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 69, 135-143. doi:10.3354/ame01628 |
Berlemont, R., Spee, O., Delsaute, M., Lara, Y., Schuldes, J., Simon, C., Power, P., Daniel, R., & Galleni, M. (2013). Novel organic solvent-tolerant esterase isolated by metagenomics: insights into the lipase/esterase classification. Revista Argentina de Microbiologia, (45), 3-12. |
Arguelles Arias, A., Ongena, M., Halimi, B., Lara, Y., Brans, A., Joris, B., & Fickers, P. (26 November 2009). Bacillus amyloliquefaciens GA1 as a source of potent antibiotics and other secondary metabolites for biocontrol of plant pathogens. Microbial Cell Factories, 8 (1), 63. doi:10.1186/1475-2859-8-63 |