Dr. Romain Scalone
Koordination ICIPS
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
Institut für Botanik
AG Entwicklungsbiologie der Pflanzen
Heinrich-Buff-Ring 38
35392 Gießen
Tel. +49 641 99-35202
Romain.Scalone@bot1.bio.uni-giessen.de
Wissenschaftliche Laufbahn
1999 – 2005 studied Natural Sciences & Biology in Paris (Paris Diderot & Paris-Sud Universities) – France
2001 2-year Diploma “D.E.U.G.” in Nature and Life Sciences, 1-year Diploma “Licence” in Natural Sciences, 1-year Diploma “Maîtrise” in Natural Sciences (Paris Diderot University, Paris - France) & 1-year Diploma “Maîtrise” in Populations and Ecosystems Sciences (Paris-Sud University, Orsay – France)
2005 Master of Sciences in Evolutionary Biology and Genetics (Paris-Sud University, Orsay – France)
2011 PhD in Natural Sciences (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz JGU- Germany)
2012 – 2016 Postdoc in Plant Biology (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU, Uppsala - Sweden)
2019 – 2025 Postdoc in Plant Breeding (Hochschule Geisenheim University, Geisenheim HGU – Germany) – part-time
2021 – 2025 Scientific Coordinator (Justus-Liebig University JLU, Gießen – Germany) – part-time
Publications (since 2014)
- Battlay P, Wilson J, Bieber V, Lee C, Prapas D, Petersen B, Craig S, Van Boheemen L, Scalone R, de Silva N, Sharma A, Konstantinović B, Nurkowski L, Rieseberg L, Connallon T, Martin M, Hodgins K 2023 Large haploblocks underlie rapid adaptation in the invasive weed Ambrosia artemisiifolia. Nature Communications 14 (1): 1717. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37303-4
- Prapas D, Scalone R, Lee J, Nurkowski K, Bou-assi S, Rieseberg L, Battlay P & Hodgins K 2022 Quantitative trait loci mapping reveals an oligogenic architecture of a rapidly adapting trait during the European invasion of common ragweed. Evolutionary Applications 15 (8): 1249-1263. DOI: 10.1111/eva.13453
- Markovic D, Colzi I, Taiti C, Ray S, Scalone R, Ali J, Mancuso S & Ninkovic V 2019 Airbone signals synchronize the defenses of neighboring plants in response to touch. Journal of Experimental Botany 70(2): 691–700. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/ery375
- Kralemann L*, Scalone R*, Andersson L & Hennig L 2018 North European invasion by common ragweed is associated with early flowering and dominant changes in FT/TFL1 Journal of Experimental Botany 69(10): 2647–2658. – * first co-authors – https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/ery100
- Meyer L, Causse R, Pernin F, Scalone R, Bailly G, Chauvel B, Délye C & Le Corre V 2017 New gSSR and EST-SSR markers reveal high genetic diversity in the invasive plant Ambrosia artemisiifolia and can be transferred to other invasive Ambrosia species. PLoS ONE 12(5): e0176197. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176197
- Chapman D, Scalone R, Štefanić E, Bullock J 2017 Mechanistic species distribution modeling reveals a niche shift during invasion. Ecology, 98 (6): 1671-1680. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.1835
- Hasani R, Mehregan I, Larijani K, Nejadsattari T & Scalone R 2017 Survey of the impacts of soil and climatic variations on the production of essential oils in Heracleum persicum. Biodiversitas, 18 (1): 365-377. DOI: 10.13057/biodiv/d180148
- Scalone R, Lemke A, Štefanić E, Kolseth A-K, Rasic S, Andersson L 2016 Phenological variation in Ambrosia artemisiifolia facilitates near-future establishment at northern latitudes. PLoS ONE 11(11): e0166510. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0166510
- Scalone R & Albach D 2014 Cytological evidence for gametophytic self-incompatibility in the genus Veronica. Turkish Journal of Botany, 38(1): 197-201. https://doi.org/10.3906/bot-1302-2