Marc-André Selosse, biologist, a specialist in botany and mycology, reveals the secrets of the invisible world that connects us all–the world of microbes. The mutual dependency inherent to all living things also invites us to question the way the sciences are organised and calls for a new approach, somewhere at the junction between the different fields of science.
Marc-André Selosse is Professor at the National Museum of Natural History and is Visiting Professor at the Universities of Gdansk (Poland) and Kunming (China.) His research focuses on ecology and the evolution of mutually beneficial associations (symbioses), and in particular the mycorrhizal symbioses, that is, the interaction between the fungi in the earth and the roots of plants. Vice-President of the French Botanical Society and Corresponding Member of the Academy of Agriculture, he is also the editor of four international scientific reviews. He has published more than 150 research papers and as many articles of scientific vulgarisation, all freely downloadable on line on his institutional site. He has published a work on the place of microbes in the world around us (Actes Sud) , “Never Alone: the microbes that build plants, animals and civilisations” (2017), and another on the tannins that are with us throughout our lives, “The Tastes and Colours of the World. A natural history of tannins, ecology and health”. (2019)
