Dr Christine Strullu-Derrien

Grants

A search for aquatic fungi; understanding the origins of mutualists and parasites
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: Paleontological Association
Dates: 2016 - on going

Origin and Early Evolution of Plant Symbionts
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: FP7 - People
Total value £209,033.40 (to Museum £209,033.40)
Dates: 2012 - 2014

Workshop on "Origins and evolution of plants and their interactions with fungi"
Role: Principal investigatorKenrick P
Role: Co-investigator
Funding: New Phytologist
Total value £10,000 (to Museum £10,000)
Dates: 2013 - 2014

A search for aquatic fungi; understanding the origins of mutualists and parasites
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: Paleontological Association
Dates: 2016 - on going

Fieldwork

Svalbard archipelago
2012 - 2012.

Fellowships

Fellow of the Botanical Society of France, 2013 - on going.

Fellow of the Linnean Society, 2013 - on going.

Memberships

Member, Palaeontological Association, 2013 - on going.

Member, Botanical Society of America, 2007 - on going.

Member, International Organisation of Palaeobotanists, 2007 - on going.

Events

Conference Attendance

Invited speaker, 66th Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association, (Conference), 2022 - 2022.

Oral presentation, 11th European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference, (Congress), 2022 - 2022.

Oral presentation, 11th European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference, (Congress), 2022 - 2022.

Chair, Oral presentation, Organiser, 8th International Conference on Mycorrhiza, (Conference),

Oral presentation, Organiser, Botany 2015, (Congress),

Invited Keynote Address, Invited speaker, Oral presentation, Organiser, Session chair, 9th European Palaeobotany-Palynology Conference, (Conference),

Workshop Attendance

Oral presentation, Organiser, Session chair, Workshop, 10th New Phytologist Workshop: Origins and evolution of plants and their interactions with fungi., (Workshop), 2014 - 2014.

Publications

Perez-Lamarque B, Petrolli R, Strullu-Derrien C, Strasberg D, Morlon H, Selosse M-A, Martos F (2022) Structure and specialization of mycorrhizal networks in phylogenetically diverse tropical communities. Environmental Microbiome, 17 (1) : doi: 10.1186/s40793-022-00434-0

Philippe M, McLoughlin S, Strullu-Derrien C, Bamford M, Kiel S, Nel A, Thévenard F (2022) Life in the woods: Taphonomic evolution of a diverse saproxylic community within fossil woods from Upper Cretaceous submarine mass flow deposits (Mzamba Formation, southeast Africa). Gondwana Research, 109 : 113 - 133. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2022.04.008

Strullu-Derrien C, Spencer ART, Kenrick P, Judd WS, De Franceschi D, Manchester SR (2022) Revisions to the Eocene carpoflora of Anjou, western France, with new data from X-ray tomography. Botany Letters, 169 (4) : 454 - 465. doi: 10.1080/23818107.2022.2101518

Filipiak P, Kenrick P, Wawrzyniak Z, Kondas M, Strullu-Derrien C (2022) Plants and palynomorphs from the Lower Devonian (upper Emsian) of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 302 : 104666 - 104666. doi: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2022.104666

Strullu-Derrien C, Spencer ART, Cleal CJ, Leshyk VO (2022) The 330–320 Million-Year-Old Tranchée des Malécots (Chaudefonds-sur-Layon, South of the Armorican Massif, France): a Rare Geoheritage Site Containing In Situ Palaeobotanical Remains. Geoheritage, 14 (2) : doi: 10.1007/s12371-022-00673-0

Strullu‐Derrien C, Philippe M, Kenrick P, Blanchette RA (2022) Blue stain fungi infecting an 84‐million‐year‐old conifer from South Africa. New Phytologist, 233 (3) : 1032 - 1037. doi: 10.1111/nph.17843

Strullu-Derrien C, Cleal CJ, Ducassou C, Spencer ART, Stolle E, Leshyk VO (2021) A rare late Mississippian flora from Northwestern Europe (Maine-et-Loire Coalfield, Pays de la Loire, France). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 285 : 104359 - 104359. doi: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104359

Berbee ML, Strullu-Derrien C, Delaux P-M, Strother PK, Kenrick P, Selosse M-A, Taylor JW (2020) Genomic and fossil windows into the secret lives of the most ancient fungi. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 18 (12) : 717 - 730. doi: 10.1038/s41579-020-0426-8

Edgecombe GD, Strullu-Derrien C, Góral T, Hetherington AJ, Thompson C, Koch M (2020) Aquatic stem group myriapods close a gap between molecular divergence dates and the terrestrial fossil record. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117 (16) : 8966 - 8972. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1920733117

Hayes PA, Strullu-Derrien C (2020) Curious Collections. 22 - 23.

Strullu-Derrien C, Kenrick P, Knoll AH (2019) The Rhynie chert. Current Biology, 29 (23) : R1218 - R1223. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.10.030

Delaux P-M, Hetherington AJ, Coudert Y, Delwiche C, Dunand C, Gould S, Kenrick P, Li F-W, Philippe H, Rensing SA, Rich M, Strullu-Derrien C, de Vries J (2019) Reconstructing trait evolution in plant evo–devo studies. Current Biology, 29 (21) : R1110 - R1118. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.09.044

Strullu‐Derrien C, Bernard S, Spencer ART, Remusat L, Kenrick P, Derrien D (2019) On the structure and chemistry of fossils of the earliest woody plant. Palaeontology, 62 (6) : 1015 - 1026. doi: 10.1111/pala.12440

Mitchell RL, Strullu-Derrien C, Kenrick P (2019) Biologically mediated weathering in modern cryptogamic ground covers and the early Paleozoic fossil record. Journal of the Geological Society, 176 (3) : 430 - 439. doi: 10.1144/jgs2018-191

Strullu-Derrien C, Kenrick P, Goral T, Knoll AH (2019) Testate Amoebae in the 407-Million-Year-Old Rhynie Chert. Current Biology, 29 (3) : 461 - 467.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.12.009

Strullu-Derrien C (2018) Fossil filamentous microorganisms associated with plants in early terrestrial environments. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 44 : 122 - 128. doi: 10.1016/j.pbi.2018.04.001

Strullu‐Derrien C, Selosse M, Kenrick P, Martin FM (2018) The origin and evolution of mycorrhizal symbioses: from palaeomycology to phylogenomics. New Phytologist, 220 (4) : 1012 - 1030. doi: 10.1111/nph.15076

Honegger R, Edwards D, Axe L, Strullu-Derrien C (2018) FertilePrototaxites taiti: a basal ascomycete with inoperculate, polysporous asci lacking croziers. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373 (1739) : 20170146 - 20170146. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0146

Strullu-Derrien C, Spencer ART, Goral T, Dee J, Honegger R, Kenrick P, Longcore JE, Berbee ML (2018) New insights into the evolutionary history of Fungi from a 407 Ma Blastocladiomycota fossil showing a complex hyphal thallus. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373 (1739) : 20160502 - 20160502. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0502

Fleury R, Polette F, Batten DJ, Durand M, Moreau J-D, Néraudeau D, Strullu-Derrien C, Redois F (2017) Palaeobotanical investigation of a Cenomanian clay lens in Hucheloup Quarry, Maine-et-Loire, NW France: Taxonomic, stratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental implications. Annales de Paléontologie, 103 (4) : 235 - 250. doi: 10.1016/j.annpal.2017.10.003

Berbee ML, James TY, Strullu-Derrien C (2017) Early Diverging Fungi: Diversity and Impact at the Dawn of Terrestrial Life. Annual Review of Microbiology, 71 (1) : 41 - 60. doi: 10.1146/annurev-micro-030117-020324

Strullu-Derrien C, Goral T, Kenrick P, Edgecombe GD (2017) Confocal laser scanning microscopy: a powerful method for the study of Rhynie and Windyfield Chert (ca 407 Ma) microorgansims. Edwards D, Dolan L, Kenrick P (Eds). The Rhynie Chert: our earliest terrestrial ecosystem revisited, 63 3 - 6 3 3

Rimington WR, Pressel S, Field KJ, Strullu-Derrien C, Duckett JG, Bidartondo MI (2016) Reappraising the origin of mycorrhizas, In: Molecular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis, Martin F (Eds). John Wiley & Sons :

Strullu-Derrien C, Goral T, Longcore JE, Olesen J, Kenrick P, Edgecombe GD (null) A New Chytridiomycete Fungus Intermixed with Crustacean Resting Eggs in a 407-Million-Year-Old Continental Freshwater Environment. PLOS ONE, 11 (12) : e0167301 - e0167301. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0167301

Strullu-Derrien C, Kenrick P, Selosse M-A (2016) Origins of the mycorrhizal symbioses, In: Molecular mycorrhizal symbiosis, Martin F (Eds). Wiley, Blackwell : 3 - 20.

Strullu-Derrien C, Goral T, Longcore JE, Olesen J, Kenrick P, Edgecombe GD (2016) Fungal interactions in early fossil freshwater environments. 38th New Phytologist Symposium, 257 7 - 25 7 7Programme, abstracts and participants 44 - 44.

Strullu-Derrien C (2016) Fungal Evolution: Aquatic–Terrestrial Transitions, In: Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology, Elsevier : 97 - 103.

Selosse M-A, Strullu-Derrien C (2015) Origins of the terrestrial flora: A symbiosis with fungi?. BIO Web of Conferences 4 : EDP Sciences : 00009 - 00009. doi: 10.1051/bioconf/20150400009

McLoughlin S, Strullu-Derrien C (2015) Biota and palaeoenvironment of a high middle-latitude Late Triassic peat-forming ecosystem from Hopen, Svalbard archipelago. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, doi: 10.1144/SP434.4

Berbee M, Strullu-Derrien C, Hibbett D (2015) The rise and fall of photosynthate: evolution of plant:/fungus interactions from paleobotanical and phylogenomic perspectives?. Botany 2015, 257 7 - 25 7 7

Strullu-Derrien C, Kenrick P, Rioult JP, Martin F (2015) Combining studies on fossils and genomics to understand mycorrhizal plant relationships. 8th International Conference on Mycorrhiza (ICOM 8), 38 8 - 3 8 8

Strullu-Derrien C, Wawrzyniak Z, Goral T, Kenrick P (2015) Fungal colonization of the rooting system of the early land plant Asteroxylon mackiei from the 407-Myr-old Rhynie Chert (Scotland, UK). BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY, 179 (1) : 201 - 213. doi: 10.1111/boj.12307

Strullu-Derrien C, Kenrick P (2015) Fossil evidence of fungal-plant interactions in early terrestrial environments. Botany 2015, 257 7 - 25 7 7

Selosse M, Strullu‐Derrien C, Martin FM, Kamoun S, Kenrick P (2015) Plants, fungi and oomycetes: a 400‐million year affair that shapes the biosphere. New Phytologist, 206 (2) : 501 - 506. doi: 10.1111/nph.13371

Kenrick P, Strullu-Derrien C (2014) The Origin and Early Evolution of Roots. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, 166 (2) : 570 - 580. doi: 10.1104/pp.114.244517

Strullu-Derrien C, Kenrick P, Cochard H, Badel E (null) The earliest wood and its hydraulic propreties documented in ca 407 million-year-old fossils using synchrotron microtomography. 9th European Paleobotanical and Palynological Conference, 268 8 - 26 8 8

Strullu-Derrien C, Kenrick P, Xu H, Berry CM (2014) The co-evolution of plants and fungi - a foundation for the development of forest ecosystems. 9th European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference, 268 8 - 26 8 8

Strullu-Derrien C, Wawrzyniak Z, Goral T, Kenrick P (2014) A New fungal endobiont in the rooting system of the Rhynie Chert plant Asteroxylon mackiei (ca 407Ma). 9th European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference, 268 8 - 26 8 8263 - 264.

Strullu-Derrien C, Kenrick P, Tafforeau P, Cochard H, Bonnemain J-L, Le Hérissé A, Lardeux H, Badel E (2014) The earliest wood and its hydraulic properties documented inc. 407-million-year-old fossils using synchrotron microtomography. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 175 (3) : 423 - 437. doi: 10.1111/boj.12175

Strullu‐Derrien C, Kenrick P, Pressel S, Duckett JG, Rioult J, Strullu D (2014) Fungal associations in H orneophyton ligneri from the R hynie C hert ( c . 407 million year old) closely resemble those in extant lower land plants: novel insights into ancestral plant–fungus symbioses. New Phytologist, 203 (3) : 964 - 979. doi: 10.1111/nph.12805

Strullu-Derrien C. , Kenrick (2014) Fungal and fungal-like interactions with plants in early terrestrial ecosystems : state of the art and future direction. 58th Palaeontological Association Annual Meeting, 1612 12 - 16 12 1258th Palaeontological Association Annual Meeting The Palaeontological Association : 47 - 48.

Strullu-Derrien C, Kenrick P (2013) Champignons et plantes: une union tres ancienne. La Recherche, 481 : 50 - 53.

Strullu-Derrien C , Kenrick , Trewin N, Goral , Le Hérissé A (2013) Exploring ecological diversity of 407 million-year-old microorganisms from the Rhynie and Windyfield cherts (Scotland) using confocal laser scanning microscopy. Botanical Society of America, 277 7 - 27 7 7Botanical Society of America :

Strullu , kenrick , Pressel , Duckett JG (2013) Mycorrhizas in Horneophyton lignieri from the Rhynie Chert, Scotland (ca. 407 Ma) most closely resemble associations in extant lycophytes, hornworts and early divergent liverworts: a reappraisal of the nature of Palaeozoic fungal associations. The Palaeontological Association Annual Meeting, 1312 12 - 13 12 1257th Annual Meeting Programme and Abstracts The Palaeontological Association :

Strullu-Derrien C, Kenrick P, Badel E, Cochard H, Tafforeau P (2013) An overview of the hydraulic systems in early land plants. IAWA Journal, 34 (4) : 333 - 351. doi: 10.1163/22941932-00000029

Strullu-Derrien C, McLoughlin S, Philippe M, Mørk A, Strullu DG (2012) Arthropod interactions with bennettitalean roots in a Triassic permineralized peat from Hopen, Svalbard Archipelago (Arctic). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 348-349 : 45 - 58. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.06.006

Gerrienne P, Gensel PG, Strullu-Derrien C, Lardeux H, Steemans P, Prestianni C (2011) A Simple Type of Wood in Two Early Devonian Plants. Science, 333 (6044) : 837 - 837. doi: 10.1126/science.1208882

Strullu-Derrien C, Kenrick P, Rioult JP, Strullu DG (2011) Evidence of parasitic Oomycetes (Peronosporomycetes) infecting the stem cortex of the Carboniferous seed fern Lyginopteris oldhamia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 278 (1706) : 675 - 680. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1603

Strullu-Derrien C, KENRICK P, Rioult J, Strullu D (2011) Parasite, saprophyte or symbiont? Plants and their fungal associates in the Palaeozoic. Réunion annuelle de l’Organisation francophone de paléobotanique (O.F.P), 4 - 6 juillet. Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (Jardin des Plantes), Paris

STRULLU-DERRIEN CHRISTINE, DUCASSOU C, BALLÈVRE MICHEL, DABARD MARIE-PIERRE, GERRIENNE PHILIPPE, LARDEUX HUBERT, LE HÉRISSÉ ALAIN, ROBIN C, STEEMANS PHILIPPE, STRULLU D-G (2010) The early land plants from the Armorican Massif: sedimentological and palynological considerations on age and environment. Geological Magazine, 147 (06) : 830 - 843. doi: 10.1017/S001675681000004X

Ducassou C, Strullu-Derrien C, Ballevre M, Dabard M-P, Gerrienne P, Lardeux H, Robin C (2009) Age and depositional environment of the Sainte-Anne Formation (Armorican Massif, France): the oldest (Emsian) evidence for mountain erosion in the Variscan belt. Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France, 180 (6) : 529 - 544. doi: 10.2113/gssgfbull.180.6.529

Strullu‐Derrien C, Rioult J, Strullu D (2009) Mycorrhizas in Upper Carboniferous Radiculites ‐type cordaitalean rootlets. New Phytologist, 182 (3) : 561 - 564. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02805.x

Strullu-Derrien C, Strullu D-G (2007) Mycorrhization of fossil and living plants. Comptes Rendus Palevol, 6 (6-7) : 483 - 494. doi: 10.1016/j.crpv.2007.09.006

Mitchell RL, Strullu‐Derrien C, Sykes D, Pressel S, Duckett JG, Kenrick P (2021) Cryptogamic ground covers as analogues for early terrestrial biospheres: Initiation and evolution of biologically mediated proto‐soils. Geobiology, 19 (3) : 292 - 306. doi: 10.1111/gbi.12431

Strullu-Derrien C, Gèze M, Spencer ART, De Franceschi D, Kenrick P, Selosse M-A, Knoll AH (null) An expanded diversity of oomycetes in Carboniferous forests: Reinterpretation of Oochytrium lepidodendri (Renault 1894) from the Esnost chert, Massif Central, France. PLOS ONE, 16 (3) : e0247849 - e0247849. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0247849

Strullu-Derrien C, kenrick P, Goral T (null) The importance of microenvironment in determining the roles of early diverging Fungi in early terrestrial ecosystems. Palaeontological Association Annual meeting, 1912 12 - 19 12 12

Strullu-Derrien C, Kenrick P (2018) Thomas Norwood Taylor (1938–2016). Mycologia, 110 (2) : 448 - 452. doi: 10.1080/00275514.2018.1462080

Strullu‐Derrien C, Le Hérissé A, Goral T, Spencer ART, Kenrick P (2021) The overlooked aquatic green algal component of early terrestrial environments: Triskelia scotlandica gen. et sp. nov. from the Rhynie cherts. Papers in Palaeontology, 7 (2) : 709 - 719. doi: 10.1002/spp2.1303

Contributed Publications

Fleury R, Polette F, Batten DJ, Durand M, Moreau J-D, Néraudeau D, Strullu-Derrien C, Redois F (2017) Palaeobotanical investigation of a Cenomanian clay lens in Hucheloup Quarry, Maine-et-Loire, NW France: Taxonomic, stratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental implications. Annales de Paléontologie, 103 (4) : 235 - 250. doi: 10.1016/j.annpal.2017.10.003

Courses taught

First year: Geology
9/2014 - 1/2016.

First year: Plant biology
9/2006 - 6/2012.

First year: Evolution
9/2006 - 1/2016.

Awards

Prix de these, 4/2/2012.

Invited and keynote speaker

Invited speaker, Tracheid cell wall structure and chemical composition in the earliest woody plant, XIX International Botanical Congress: 28/7/2017.

Invited speaker, The origin and evolution of plant-fungal interactions, The Rhynie chert; our earliest terrestrial ecosystem revisited: 7/3/2017.

Invited speaker, Bridging paleontology and genomics of mycorrhizal fungi, 8th International Conference on Mycorrhiza: 3/8/2015.

Invited speaker, Evolution of plant/fungus interactions from paleobotanical and phylogenomic perspectives., Botanical Society of America: 28/7/2015.